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...Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J Hoberman, New Press, RRP$28.99 Long before the US presidency became the vehicle of a reality TV star, it was the province of a former Hollywood male...
...J Timothy Richards, chief executive of Vue International, wrote an open letter to the Academy to express his concern at their decision-making process....
...The slate of nominees for this year’s prizes includes acting nods for Denzel Washington, Daniel Kaluuya, Octavia Spencer and Mary J Blige....
...In 1945, FBI director J Edgar Hoover was sent a typically inaccurate memo alleging the singer was a Communist sympathiser.)...
...Stanley J Seeger was an art collector whose love of art was exceeded only by his love of collecting....
...Butterflies in November , by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, translated by Brian FitzGibbon, Pushkin Press, RRP£12.99 The unnamed narrator of Ólafsdóttir’s novel is a recently divorced linguist who has just won...
...The notion that media industries are different is challenged in a new book by Jonathan Knee, Bruce Greenwald and Ava Seave, The Curse of the Mogul....
...There is also a lot of name dropping, such as: “I always thought that as alleged double murderers go, O.J [Simpson] was extremely pleasant!” This is the way he speaks....
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