Hints and tips:
...Tucked down the cast list in last year’s sequinned biopic Elvis was actor Alton Mason, playing the wildcat rock’n’roller whose example shaped the young Presley....
...Along with head chef Kwok Keung Tung and barbecue chef Andy Ching Ho, Yip seeks ideas in neglected ingredients and traditional comfort foods....
...It’s a load of old nothing (and Danny Leigh was less sold on Awkwafina than I was) but entertaining enough for that....
...However, Danny Mortimer, chief executive of NHS Employers, said in a letter to NHS leaders in England on Wednesday: “There are areas where we are disappointed that we have not been able to make more progress...
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...Punctuation comes from Guns N’ Roses on the soundtrack and Hemsworth’s beaming claims of “another classic Thor adventure”....
...Legacy cast members Dern and Sam Neill return alongside Jeff Goldblum’s rock’n’roll chaos theorist. The screwy emphases of his line deliveries remain a blast....
...The film is set in Angoulême, south-west France, but the year is 1963, and the students here are besotted with the transatlantic exports of chewing gum and rock’n’roll....
...No way back on N Ireland There is no path back to a pre-Brexit Northern Ireland, writes Robert Shrimsley, and only when the ultras and unionists have accepted this will there be hope for a deal everyone...
...But that tense central double act is drama from the off — Reed the vicious rock’n’roller, Cale the languid Welsh avant-gardist....
...The movie errs on the side of caution, a good-time family romp topped with a squirty-cream crown of nostalgia: cameos for Salt-N-Pepa, punchlines involving Jar Jar Binks....
...“But in a strange twist,” his crisp, well-spoken narration will say, “Mao Tse Tung’s wife was going mad.”...
...Danny Boyle, the ceremony’s director, later claimed that the then Conservative sports minister, Jeremy Hunt, had wanted to shorten the NHS segment....
...But the dominant tone is prudishness — a fleeting gimp mask aside, few tales of sex, drugs and rock’n’roll have so earned their 12A certificate. ★★☆☆☆...
...Discussions with Danny Yip, The Chairman’s restaurateur, and Kwok Keung Tung, its chef, started a week before the event, but the dishes were finalised only a couple of days ahead, once the kitchen had been...
...“It’s a tale of true crime, drugs, guns and rock’n’roll, and plays out like the plot of a movie.”...
...Sushma U N and Nupur Anand reported for Quartz on how “cheap renewable energy is killing India’s coal-based power plants”....
...Tonally, it’s tricky to make a rock’n’roll middle finger of a movie that also holds the key to Disney’s second quarter — the grin the film wears can seem a little fixed....
...Sahill Shan, analyst at N+1 Singer, has forecast that Pinewood will report revenues of £81m for the 12 months to the end of March, up from £75m in the previous year....
...Cleveland rappers Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s “Wind Blow” is essentially freestyle rap over a more-or-less unchanged middle section of “The Chain”, foregrounding the bass melody....
...Meanwhile, the chain that was founded by restaurateur Danny Meyer, who is known for his upmarket joints like Union Square Cafe, projected full-year sales of $245m to $249m, up from a previous outlook of...
...The labour market remains buoyant, employment levels may be little changed and the price of houses will continue to rise modestly by zero n to 3 per cent....
...There, the straight and narrow is evaded; what unfolds is an urban odyssey and the search for a lost rock’n’roll singer....
...I instinctively recoil when people describe cooking as “the new rock ’n’ roll” but here it is the food itself that reminds me of music....
...As Danny Boyle, a patron, said at last week’s opening: “What we tried to show with the Olympic opening ceremony and what you’ve shown here as well is that culture runs through all of us”....
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