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...“Disney, Warners and NBC have had five years of trying to pivot to streaming services,” explains Tom Harrington, analyst at Enders Analysis....
...Its former chief executive, Francis deSouza, quit the company last month after a bruising proxy battle against activist investor Carl Icahn, who criticised the deal as a “reckless decision”....
...Letter in response to this article: Algeria’s French ties are not the only show in town / From Francis Ghilès, Paris, France...
...They concentrate on the meetings of musical cultures, either in cities (Jerusalem, Istanbul) or through travellers (Ibn Battuta; the 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, who went to India and nearly...
...The 78-piece selection also features works by other 20th-century greats including Jean Dubuffet, the Giacometti brothers, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne....
...But Emma Walshe, of London rare book dealer Peter Harrington, also emphasises a rich seam that celebrates the weird and wonderful....
...Today, Hollywood offers a rich trove of screen treasures, from arthouse DVD box sets of Béla Tarr, Xavier Dolan and Jim Jarmusch films, to Downton Abbey and Gomorrah....
...Chief curator Xavier Salomon offers various solutions to the painting’s enigmas and lands charmingly on a quotation from the poem “Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara: . . ....
...St Edmund’s RC primary school in Whitton, Archbishop Myers Secondary Modern in Hounslow and Saint Francis Xavier’s Bilateral in Liverpool....
...Take St Francis Xavier, who travelled to Goa, India, in 1542 and established the first Jesuit school. Think of the courage it took to voyage to new lands with little money and no weaponry....
...Aged 32, after 14 years of training during which he learnt to speak six languages fluently, Father Tommy was ordained as a Jesuit priest, the same order as that of the current Pope Francis....
...A journalist tries to reconstruct the life and times of Newton Francis Xavier, one of the Bombay poets who stopped writing poetry and became a legendary painter instead....
...I went to Saint Paul’s Catholic School in south London and Saint Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, also in south London. I didn’t go to university, I went straight to work....
...Le Monde is owned by Xavier Niel, the telecoms billionaire, Matthieu Pigasse, head of Lazard Frères in France, and Pierre Bergé, business partner of the late Yves St Laurent....
...(Nagasaki is a city with a long history of persecution; ever since the introduction of Christianity to Japan by Francis Xavier in the mid-16th century it has been the spiritual centre of Japan’s small Catholic...
...With Tom at the Farm 25-year-old Xavier Dolan, the French-Canadian filmmaker feted for glossy-precocious gay/bi dramas (I Killed My Mother, Laurence Anyways) seems to have decided, “Enough is enough and...
...François-Xavier Roth waxes lyrical in the programme book about his choice of period instruments yet his “smaller timpani and trombones” still raise a fearful storm when a normal double forte would suffice...
...Rebecca Rist, an expert in papal history at Reading University, said the choice of Francis – echoing both the 13th-century St Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier, one of the first followers of the Jesuits...
...Tracey Emin looked to the early 20th-century painter Egon Schiele; and Damien Hirst placed himself in a long tradition of artists depicting death – as well as explicitly referencing Francis Bacon....
...We follow Old India hand, Jeremiah Blake, along with Lieutenant William Avery, on their hunt for Xavier Mountstuart, a poet obsessed with the Thugs....
...According to Jon Gilbert, resident Ian Fleming expert at Adrian Harrington Rare Books, Chopping was introduced to Ian Fleming’s wife Ann at an exhibition by her friend the artist Francis Bacon and was subsequently...
...The author potters from inland Hyderabad to Tamil Nadu, a southern state where fishermen were first converted to Catholicism in the 1500s by St Francis Xavier....
...At a time when Marcel Duchamp was widely regarded as the most significant artist of the 20th century, Houseago was interested in such unfashionable figures as Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, Francis Picabia,...
...St Francis of Assisi has proved to be a popular figure in film....
...The glitz and glamour of this year’s 10th anniversary celebrations for the Marrakech International Film Festival, which began on December 3, saw a red carpet awash with old Hollywood royalty – Francis Ford...
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