Hints and tips:
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...Superstar festivities are a decades-old tradition for US presidential inaugurations, dating back to 1941 when Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Rooney performed at a ball for Franklin D Roosevelt....
...Resident choreographer Robert Garland’s Return, a medley to Aretha Franklin and James Brown, is not as rich as the music nor as charming as his work can be....
...“It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one.”...
...But Rich moonlights as a riff-loving rock’n’roll chick who has had a hand in writing hits for everyone from Céline Dion to Aretha Franklin – and has snagged multiple Grammy award nominations in the process...
...Crime Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, by Tom Franklin, Macmillan, RRP£7.99, 288 pages Larry and Silas, white and black, boyhood friends in rural Mississippi 30 years ago, are separated by an apparent crime...
...Blige and Aretha Franklin, but then – boom! – Clinton issued his last-minute reprieve for her ex- and she was at the centre of a scandal....
...Another voice: “Gabrielle, you’re not going to cry?” Gabrielle: “34.”(c) “I’ve always admired your courage Harry, but sometimes you can be really thick […] You need us, Harry.”...
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