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...“Children heard wailing in fear at Willy Wonka-inspired attraction” might have been a dream headline for Roald Dahl, the dark and commercially savvy author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory....
...Roald Dahl’s The Witches features a plucky kid, sinister strangers, sudden loss and a giant battle of good versus evil. Like many fairy tales it deals with deep fears — death, abandonment, betrayal....
...She remembers one suggestion that they present Roald Dahl shorts using Dahl’s own handwriting: “Dahl’s handwriting was illegible at times....
...Starring Timothée Chalamet, it follows the life of a young Willy Wonka as he struggles to set up his first chocolate shop. Does it work? Can Chalamet sing? Do we need another Roald Dahl adaptation?...
...Until now, Willy Wonka has always been a middle-aged magnate, as per Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and two film adaptations. King gives us Young Wonka: the origin story....
...Were you a fan? Yeah. What were your thoughts on Roald Dahl as a kid? Nathan Brooker Oh, well, I’ll. I’ll build up to my defining portrait of Mike Teavee. I absolutely loved Dahl....
...Deeply Andersonian this Dahl is too: a pipe-cleaner figure of strict routine....
...The Bacon, once in the collection of author Roald Dahl, was reportedly sold last week by the hedge funder Pierre Lagrange, also believed to be the seller of Frank Auerbach’s “Head of EOW II” (1964), which...
...Now a set of posthumous changes to the work of Fleming and Dahl has triggered a howl of rage. Lucas, a living artist, correctly retains the right to make changes to his work....
...Dahl’s French publishers Gallimard said in a statement: “We have never changed Roald Dahl’s writings before, and we have no plans to do so today.”...
...It can’t be fair for a publisher, having decided on behalf of today’s readers that they are both fragile and helpless, to edit Dahl’s original work when he can neither object nor concur from beyond the grave...
...Salman Rushdie said that “Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed”....
...Spencer cites George Orwell’s and Roald Dahl’s memoirs of their boarding school days from a couple of generations earlier; the genre has continued to grow, recently including Musa Okwonga’s One of Them:...
...Matthew Dennison, author of a biography of Dahl, said that Puffin’s announcement of a new edition of the unedited texts was “an unanticipated U-turn”....
...A classic keeper, no doubt about it. £39.95, foliosociety.com Madame Badobedah and the Old Bones by Sophie Dahl and Lauren O’Hara Sophie, granddaughter of Roald, made her children’s book debut with Madame...
...This is never a good idea.”...
...It’s what together all of that represents that becomes important”, says Alice Dorman, a superforecaster who says she’s not a crypto-savvy person....
...Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, director-general for DigitalEurope, which represents the continent’s technology sector, said: “We have a deal, but at what cost?...
...In Sweden, which has a longstanding system of sectoral collective bargaining, Mattias Dahl of the employer body the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise believes it is better for businesses to negotiate pay...
...The collection of vintage prints spans 20th-century pioneers such as Louise Dahl-Wolfe, who brought her naturalistic style to the cover of Harper’s Bazaar from 1936 into the 1950s, and Lee Miller, as well...
...Written by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, directed by Matthew Warchus for the RSC, has been a West End favourite for the past 11 years....
...like Richard Avedon and Louise Dahl-Wolfe, goes on show at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris....
...In 1960, he photographed Tāq Kasrā from the air, replicating a shot that Roald Dahl had taken 20 years before, while piloting solo across the desert during the second world war....
...The implications of the special feature are preposterous, yet philosophically very resonant, making for the classic simplicity of an uncanny short story — something between Roald Dahl and Julio Cortázar....
...In 2022, which singer had the longest-ever running number one US single by a British act?...
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