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ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...Ingestion of a different kind features in The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L Davis (John Murray RRP£14.99, April; already available in the US), which relates an episode in...
January 3, 2020
Q&ASmall Talk - Books
Q&A with author Jane Harris
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
October 27, 2017
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
How Ida Lupino broke Hollywood’s gender rules — half a century before #MeToo
...(Her own self-description: “a poor man’s Bette Davis”.) They Drive by Night (1940) advanced her reputation. High Sierra (1941) was her stellar peak....
February 2, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Negroland by Margo Jefferson review — between Americas
...Jefferson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the New York Times, includes sharp descriptions of postwar black American performers such as Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge and Sammy Davis Jr, who prized...
November 11, 2016
ObituaryLife & Arts
Remember Prince as the ultimate artisan
...His mastery of the LinnDrum machine, manufactured in 1982, gave “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” and a dozen other songs their queasy syncopation....
April 22, 2016
Life & Arts
The List: Four celebrity entourages
...Fellow habitués Harold Ross, Alexander Woollcott and Robert Benchley were no less renowned for their glinting apercus than Dorothy Parker, and yet posterity has cruelly cast them as her entourage....
June 5, 2015
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Life & Arts
The best of Britain in cricket and other sports
...A few miles across London, however, Britain’s tennis players — or, to be more exact, the two Murray brothers — beat an even older enemy, the French, to reach the semi-finals of the Davis Cup for the first...
July 24, 2015
ObituaryMedia
British crime novelist PD James dies aged 94
...Co-presenter Evan Davis later said: “She shouldn’t be guest editing, she should be permanently presenting the programme.”...
November 27, 2014
Q&AFT Magazine
The Inventory: Sara Paretsky
...The writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis in my writing life....
August 8, 2014
Tea Party movement
Democrat homes in on governorship of Virginia
...“I felt bad for Dorothy,” he wrote, “but it was a million bucks for the Democratic party.”...
October 27, 2013
Lunch with the FTLife & Arts
Lunch with the FT: Lorin Stein
...He pitched and pitched and got a break when an essay on Dorothy Parker was accepted by Might, a literary magazine that burned brightly in the 1990s and was co-edited by the not-yet-famous Dave Eggers....
August 13, 2010
Retail & Consumer industry
Cooper is frontrunner for Imperial helm
...become chief executive, that would make her one of the few women to lead a FTSE 100 company – alongside Dame Marjorie Scardino at Pearson (owner of the Financial Times), Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American, Dorothy...
March 25, 2009
ReviewLife & Arts
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
...The shortest, by Lydia Davis (American, born 1947), is a paragraph of fewer than 100 words and I couldn’t see why it had been included....
February 16, 2009
ReviewFT Magazine
The Best of 2007: Art
...Davis Yale £40, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £32 The world from which Steichen emerged: a panoramic survey of the young medium, between 1839 and 1885, and a compelling record of 19th-century America....
December 8, 2007
Life & Arts
Leading ladies: On top in Hollywood
...Dorothy Arzner was the only woman to direct films for a studio between the late 1920s and 1943....
September 29, 2007
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
The best books of 2007
...Davis Yale £40, 358 pages FT bookshop price: £32 The world from which Steichen emerged: a panoramic survey of the young medium, between 1839 and 1885, and a compelling record of 19th-century America....
December 7, 2007
Personal Finance
It’s never to late for a taste of la dolce vita
...First, says Jonathan Davis, a certified financial planner at Helm Godfrey, Dorothy mustn’t delay in selling her home....
August 19, 2005
World
Mudlark: News Corp's move costs Carey cash
...Another, unsurprising exit on the cards is that of corporate relations director Jan Shawe, long-time protegée of departed chief executive Sir Peter Davis....
September 2, 2004

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