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...Letter in response to this article: Cuomo report is a useful foil for Democrats / From Harold Seneker, Fair Lawn, NJ, US...
...Obviously Alan Bennett’s parody-able, but I admire Alan Bennett . . . You have to have some prickle in you to get going.” This makes it worse, I say: now subjects know you dislike them....
.... ★★★★☆ The future collides with the present to more active purpose in Walden (Harold Pinter Theatre, London), an invigorating new play from American writer Amy Berryman, opening producer Sonia Friedman...
...The great figures in the field were men: Charles Webster, G P Gooch and Harold Temperley, John Wheeler-Bennett, Hugh Seton-Watson, AJP Taylor, Fritz Fischer and Pierre Renouvin....
...Even before the highly successful satirical review Beyond the Fringe, in which he starred with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett, shot him to superstardom, the critic Harold Hobson wrote of the then...
...When the privatisation programme of Margaret Thatcher’s government got into its swing in the mid-1980s, Harold Macmillan, a former UK Conservative prime minister, compared the policy to a family selling...
...And he, in turn, was stealing from the British intellectuals of the 1950s and ’60s — from Harold Macmillan to Alan Bennett — who had established that clever types wore cardigans....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I might have been a stage actress in some of the plays I loved as a girl – maybe Chekhov, Henry Gibson, even Harold Pinter....
...Harold Cook, a Texas Democratic strategist in Austin, says: “Democrats are always faced with those sorts of choices....
...“‘You can’t call yourself director of the National Theatre until Harold Pinter has called you a shit.’”...
...Peter Hall wrote the book — well, the chapter — on how to direct Harold Pinter. Lindsay Anderson was David Storey’s go-to man; John Dexter, Arnold Wesker’s....
...nationaltheatre.org.uk, 020 7452 3000, to September 30 Sunny Afternoon, Harold Pinter Theatre, London Joe Penhall’s hugely enjoyable musical about The Kinks makes for a joyous evening out, peppered with...
...Working class actors, artists, musicians, designers and writers such as John Lennon, Ray Davies, Keith Richards, Julie Walters, Steve McQueen, Brian Cox, Harold Pinter, Ali Smith, Helen Mirren, Alan Bennett...
...The production premiered two years ago in London, with Mirren and some of the same supporting cast, most notably Richard McCabe as a touching Harold Wilson....
...David Cameron, for instance, is clearly intent on pursuing a classic incumbent strategy — so much so that Stanley Baldwin’s (unsuccessful) “Safety First” campaign of 1929 or Harold Macmillan’s (successful...
...Sunny Afternoon, Harold Pinter Theatre, London A musical doesn’t have to be original to be stormingly successful....
...He knew what Harold Macmillan meant when the prime ministers sad “most of our people, have never had it so good”....
...Jamie de Courcey plays successful painter Edward and Dorothea Myer-Bennett his not-so-faithful wife; Belinda Lang directs....
...How gratified Alan Bennett must have been to receive a note praising his television play Our Winnie as a “perfect play about imperfection”....
...As Bennett acknowledges, Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s determination to end Britain’s military presence east of Suez crystallised an emerging reality....
...In the 1980s McEwan was one of a group of literary writers in London — others included Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Harold Pinter and Hanif Kureishi — who were radicalised by Thatcherism....
...Tony Bennett...
...Until Harold Macmillan eased restrictions on buildings exceeding the height of St Paul’s, London’s skyline consisted of two 100m-high buildings: St Paul’s and the Big Ben clock tower....
...As Harold Tillman, chairman of the British Fashion Council, says, “the wedding is an ideal opportunity for the fashion industry to highlight the long-standing relationship between the royal family and our...
...After 10 years, the Conservative government, led by 67-year-old Harold Macmillan, was ripe for mockery....
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