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...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...
...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?...
...(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....
...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...
...His mastery of the LinnDrum machine, manufactured in 1982, gave “The Ballad of Dorothy Parker” and a dozen other songs their queasy syncopation....
...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....
...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...
...Co-presenter Evan Davis later said: “She shouldn’t be guest editing, she should be permanently presenting the programme.”...
...The writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis in my writing life....
...“I felt bad for Dorothy,” he wrote, “but it was a million bucks for the Democratic party.”...
...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....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...Dorothy Arzner was the only woman to direct films for a studio between the late 1920s and 1943....
...First, says Jonathan Davis, a certified financial planner at Helm Godfrey, Dorothy mustn’t delay in selling her home....
...Another, unsurprising exit on the cards is that of corporate relations director Jan Shawe, long-time protegée of departed chief executive Sir Peter Davis....
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