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...As well as Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, George Benson and Thundercat, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and country singer Alison Krauss reunite for their Grammy-winning duo....
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London...
...The mighty Met hasn’t been flying high of late when it comes to Der Fliegende Holländer....
...“All autobiographies are lies,” wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1896. “I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies; I mean deliberate lies....
...Two successive administrations, under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, have largely ignored flex-fuel vehicles....
...Laugharne’s sole bookseller, George Tremlett, says Dylan Thomas had “the aura of a rock star”. His name certainly has pulling power....
...André Breton’s famous “Wall”, begun in the 1920s and now in the Centre Georges Pompidou, was an apparently random selection and disposition of natural wonders, “found” objects, and tribal and western art...
...The FBI showed Mr Hollander a chart of SAC employees with Mr Cohen at the centre. While low on the totem pole, Mr Hollander helped the FBI fill in some blanks....
...The BBC2 television comedy Rev, starring Tom Hollander as Adam Smallbone, a well-meaning but doubt-ridden priest in an inner London parish, returned on Thursday for a new series....
...as George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth....
...Roger has done one of the brilliant jobs of the last 15 years by doing something different”, said Joel Hollander, former chairman and chief executive of CBS Radio....
...“I know you’re not a poet,” said Hollander, “I’m just trying to get you a job!”...
...Brand, which often includes me, hate his preening egocentricity, his colossal arrogance as a celebrity of sin, his juvenile rubbishing of (among others) the military in Afghanistan and the supporters of George...
...As he moved artistically toward “music drama”, it served his purpose to tout Der fliegende Holländer as a break with his three earlier operas, all ultimately excluded from the Bayreuth canon....
...Consider Tony Blair’s floral swimming trunks, Bill Clinton’s Hawaiian shirts, George W. Bush’s Crocs-with-socks and Silvio Berlusconi’s bandana, all of which resulted in mirth and derision....
...This is one of those political facts that George W. Bush understands – his vacationing self is as bullish as his Oval Office self....
...Under Gergiev the Mariinsky has done nearly all the Wagner canon, for instance; the Bolshoi just Der fliegende Holländer....
...“After Hollander I say it’s quite possible that we could do Tristan in two years.” Ratmansky is still sizing up his domain, but says the ballet troupe is in “excellent shape”....
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