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...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....
...October 5-December 24, Harold Pinter Theatre, London, atgtickets.com...
...Good Harold Pinter Theatre, London “We probably are good,” says David Tennant’s Halder, meditatively, towards the end of CP Taylor’s Good....
...CP Taylor’s play presents us with Halder, a decent, liberal-minded literature professor in 1930s Germany, who finds himself sucked, little by little, into horrific Nazi ideology....
...Of course, the voice you’re really hearing is Sopranos mastermind David Chase, co-writer and producer here (series regular Alan Taylor directs)....
...He is an English moderniser in the tradition of Harold Wilson, Tony Blair and, indeed, Alf Ramsey, whose “scientific management” had made England probably the fittest team in 1966....
...Equiniti: hush money The Takeover Panel can rival Harold Pinter for meaningful silences, writes Bryce Elder....
...(FT) Harold Evans, Fleet Street editor, 1928-2020 Known as Harry by friends and rivals alike, Sir Harold Evans was the finest newspaper editor of his generation....
...Instead, Norton-Taylor plies the reader with snarky snippets, overdetailed in some places, tantalisingly sketchy in others (such as MI5’s disquiet with Harold Wilson’s Labour government in the mid-1970s)...
...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....
...The tension as Bragg tackles Harold Pinter in a 1978 interview is a memorable example. Bragg asks him what his plays are about; Pinter makes clear that he has no intention of helping him out....
...This is a very good-natured show, peppered with neat little innovations: skiffle music (Charlie Fink), an outbreak of clog dancing, another of ballroom dancing, and Michael Taylor’s comically ingenious sets...
...Maggie Smith, in A German Life at London’s Bridge Theatre last April, traced the drift of an ordinary German citizen into Nazism; a staging of CP Taylor’s Good this autumn, starring David Tennant, will do...
...Britain has always been the junior partner, though it has sometimes counted itself the smarter one — serving as Greece to America’s Rome as Harold Macmillan put it....
...Other readables Martin Taylor, former boss of Barclays (and one-time FT journalist), gives his first interview in years as his tenure on the UK’s Financial Policy Committee draws close to the end....
...So it didn’t seem odd to my parents when the Conservative administration of Harold Macmillan invited citizens of the empire to come and live and work in Britain, helping relieve its labour shortages after...
...One of the first to respond was London wine merchant and Master of Wine Charles Taylor, who reported that the quality of female candidates for every job he advertises is so much higher than that of the male...
...His former wives, Leslie Caron, Jacqueline Taylor and Maria Ewing also survive him....
...But Harold Arlen and Edgar “Yip” Harburg’s song prevailed, transcending its Depression-era origins to become a kind of anthem for America....
...Director Roger Haines, revisiting his 2011 regional production of Richard Taylor and David Wood’s adaptation, admirably refuses to inflate things for Shaftesbury Avenue....
...He is unafraid of emotion, telling us which writers move him to tears (Keats, Wilfred Owen), and he is good on the lives of politicians — especially William Gladstone, Robert Peel, Harold Macmillan and Margaret...
...In May 1965 Fred Lee, minister of power in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, announced that the next phase of Britain’s nuclear power programme would be based on the British-designed advanced gas-cooled...
...Taylor discusses the importance of the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury in the early 20th century, run by Harold Monro, but does not mention his assistant and wife, Alida, who did most of the work, and who...
...Manus x Machina will be the first exhibition to fall under Bolton’s full charge since he took over from Harold Koda as the Institute’s curator in charge in January....
...Harold’s Hungry Eyes, by Kevin Waldron, Phaidon, RRP£10.95/$16.95 Harold is a small dog with an insatiable appetite, who sees food everywhere....
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