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...Midwinter London gets a splash of Hollywood Technicolor on January 21 as LA photographer and film-maker Alex Prager opens a show of new work at Lehmann Maupin’s gallery in Cromwell Place....
...Job moves Melissa Sawyer has been promoted to global head of M&A at Sullivan & Cromwell....
...Baroness Helena Kennedy QC Barrister, broadcaster and Labour member of the House of Lords T-shirt: Billy Elliot, opened 11 May 2005 at the Victoria Palace Theatre, LondonMusic: Elton JohnLyrics: Lee Hall...
...MacCulloch is generous to his mentor Geoffrey Elton, yet a central thesis of this book is that Elton’s vision of a “Tudor revolution in government” overstated the extent to which Cromwell formalised a central...
...Thomas Cromwell: A Life, by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Allen Lane, RRP£30/$40 For centuries Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief adviser in the 1530s, tended to lurk in the shadows of Tudor history....
...By the end of January, actor Alan Rickman and scientist Marvin Minsky were among those who had followed them to the grave. The tone was set; thick and fast, it seemed, the famous fell....
...Raisin farmer Marvin Horne was fighting against a government order that said part of a farmer’s annual crop had often to be handed over for free to the federal government....
...“We thought it would be a good idea to sell our products to a department store – so we chose Bloomingdale’s, and got on the phone to the chairman, the legendary Marvin Traub....
...I’m always reading young songwriters talking about Ray Davies or Cat Stevens or Elton – it’d be nice to get a mention.” Gilbert O’Sullivan plays the Barbican on October 4....
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