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...I’ve always had a bit of a crush on Damon [Albarn]. In my fridge you won’t find a lot, but I have vodka in the freezer....
...(Damon Galgut’s 2014 novel Arctic Summer, which fictionalised Forster’s life during his period as a secretary to a maharaja in the state of Dewas Senior in 1921, had the same constraint.)...
...August 8 to 25; further information and tickets here September Performance ‘Topdog/Underdog’, Southbank Theatre Suzan-Lori Parks’ prizewinning tragicomedy, starring Damon Manns and Ras-Samuel as impoverished...
...This is also the typical length of an exam in many British university finals, a rhyme with early scenes of the fragile young Oppenheimer at Cambridge....
...Then, in 1984, Nike made an audacious gamble to endorse a young basketball player who would go on to change more than just the game. That player? Michael Jordan....
...Early scenes sketch out the grim, exhausting poverty from which the couple came and we see the young Bonnie and Clyde daydreaming of escape....
...Strike rules prevent members of Oppenheimer’s all-star cast — which includes Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr and Florence Pugh — from promoting the film....
...And, on paper, Emma Thompson looked to have the best role of the festival, playing a sixtysomething widow who hires a young male escort in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande....
...Sarr’s plot sends a young writer in search of a mysterious predecessor, TC Elimane, who dazzled prewar literary Paris but vanished under a cloud after a plagiarism scandal....
...Kingsolver has been surprised that her early works are still read by young readers, or are remembered by older ones....
...Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel The Promise, a vivid and searing account of family decline in South Africa during the transition from apartheid....
...Both McCarthy and Damon defend that choice....
...Instead we follow Bill as he butts heads with bureaucracy and trudges heavily into the banlieues looking for the young French-Arab who may have killed his daughter’s girlfriend....
...Sean Baker had a very good Cannes in 2017 with his Directors’ Fortnight entry The Florida Project, about a young single mother and her pre-teen daughter living on benefits in a motel on the outskirts of...
...In last year’s Stillwater she played an actress who generously helps Matt Damon navigate the streets of Marseille — a role she says was “much closer” to her own personality than Killing Eve’s Hélène....
...I paid just £7.99: Adam Driver’s Latin recital and Matt Damon’s mullet were worth every penny. It’s a medieval #MeToo story, based on real events in 1380s France. It has long rape scenes....
...The Promiseby Damon Galgut, Chatto & Windus £16.99/Europa Editions $25 This year’s Booker Prize winner plots the tragic fate of a white South African family across four decades, beginning in the era of...
...One of the great strengths of the film is this feeling of being alive and being young, especially at this point in history . . ....
...They wholly overshadowed Damon Albarn, on before them as “special guest”, despite his closing with a gorgeous version of Blur’s “This Is a Low”....
...If the young scriptwriter Federico Fellini gave the film a dash of melodrama, it also changed the role of truth in movies forever....
...This year had far fewer A-list stars but the quality of films remained high, as typified by CODA, the story of a young girl’s relationship with her deaf parents, which sold to Apple Studios for a record...
...He expresses some relief that the Booker baton has since been passed to South African author Damon Galgut. “I’ve missed that place of solitude....
...Inevitably, it was their biggest hit “Alright”, an ode to being young and free, that sparked the most joy in the audience. It was a hard act to follow....
...In La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men), Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese author — Mbougar Sarr’s alter-ego, we suspect — is warned by a Parisian friend: “African writers...
...The Promiseby Damon Galgut, Chatto & Windus £16.99/Europa Editions $25 A white South African family’s blinkered life and tragic fate unspools over four decades, beginning in the late 1980s, in this magnificent...
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