Hints and tips:
...Composer Vincenzo Bellini died at 33 (intestinal disorder), while typhoid claimed both Franz Schubert (31) and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (44)....
...valerie.hopkins@ft.com; @VALERIEin140 Chart du jour: Dirty Danske FT's Big Read takes a fascinating look inside one of Europe's biggest dirty money scandals at Danske Bank....
...I cherish the place where Emily Hopkins and John Singh will be forever neighbours, where cultural differences and boundaries don’t apply....
...After setting up the RSC in his twenties, he went on to direct premieres by such acclaimed playwrights as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Peter Shaffer and Alan Ayckbourn....
...His directing career, which spanned more than 50 years, included both classic work and the world premieres of seminal new plays such as Betrayal, No Man’s Land and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, and Peter...
...(Harold Pinter reckoned he’d need a play to run for 30 years to match the six million strong audience a TV transmission would attract.)...
...Tobias is the recipient of several journalism prizes, including a Harold Wincott award and a British Press award....
...In the mid-1920s, Harold was invited to Baltimore, Maryland, to paint surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital....
...“O the mind, mind has mountains,” wrote the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yes indeed; and valleys and caverns and canyons; and probably switchback railways and ski resorts....
...This reminded me of the days when the UK economy was still hedged about by exchange controls and of Labour prime minister Harold Wilson’s notorious statement after the 1967 sterling devaluation that “it...
...In Williamson’s Hamlet, Marianne Faithfull played Ophelia and Anthony Hopkins took the role of Claudius. Again it was Hopkins, Williamson’s contemporary, who became the better-known man....
...Imagine Harold Pinter dramatising the Krays, or Edith Wharton scripting a Lizzie Borden biopic....
...Fay Weldon wrote for Upstairs, Downstairs and Harold Pinter had the first pass at Remains of the Day, but when the Merchant-Ivory duo who produced the film rewrote it, he took his name off the credits....
...Upon graduation in 1995 Hollander pushed him towards a masters’ degree in poetry at Johns Hopkins, in Baltimore, which would include a teaching stipend. “But I’m not a poet,” he told Hollander....
...The 1960s were also when Harold Pinter’s “comedies of menace” (The Birthday Party, The Lover) were played – even premiered – on television....
...The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era, by Michael Mandelbaum, Public Affairs RRP$23.95 A professor at Johns Hopkins University argues that American global leadership...
...Hird, who chairs the jury of the Wincott Prize for business documentaries (named for former FT journalist Harold Wincott, who left a legacy to set up a foundation to encourage good business journalism) awarded...
...I’d be sitting over in Malibu, on the beach, with Tony [Hopkins] if I’d got it.” Would it have been a good life? “No, I’d rather do this. It’s my world isn’t it, all this. It’s my little game....
International Edition