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...Yet perhaps the most familiar of familiars is the cat, with its recurring presence in ghost stories from the time of Edgar Allen Poe onwards....
...For us viewers, at least, if not the warring Roys....
...It was as if the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, held a mirror up to our decayed society and told us, reassuringly, “I see you.”...
...Disney had enjoyed unusual privileges in Florida for decades through the special taxation district, which had been created after a lobbying effort by Walt and Roy Disney in the 1960s....
...By contrast, 1980’s Music of Many Colours, another collaboration recorded during a tour of Nigeria by US spiritual jazz hero Roy Ayers, is a highlight....
...“Logan Roy isn’t picking the material for his drapery, he’s got staff to deal with that,” he says....
...Unlike Roy, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong knows when to call it a day....
...Jesse Armstrong, the show’s creator, and his cast maintained the highest standards up to the last. 10....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...Manhattanite fortysomethings stricken with existential malaise and social myopia such as Toby and Rachel Fleishman (Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes) are, after all, ripe for skewering....
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press) A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...The great joy of HBO’s Succession is not in debating whether its creator Jesse Armstrong is the natural heir to Shakespeare (he’s not), nor which cast member should be garlanded with Emmys (Matthew Macfadyen...
...Jesse Armstrong’s fictional study of the conglomerate Waystar Royco and its dynastic struggles last found its boorish patriarch Logan Roy increasingly yielding to the ministrations of his PA and confidante...
...But they are easily embroiled in the kind of internecine warfare that Succession’s creator Jesse Armstrong anatomises so well....
...“Those early Woody Allen movies really inspired me because I had never been in homes or situations like that before....
...Nilanjana Roy FT COLUMNIST The Covenant of Water (Grove Atlantic), Abraham Verghese’s fourth book, is a hefty 736-page summer blockbuster: set in Kerala, one of my favourite parts of India, the prose is...
...Internally, executives are optimistic about rising stars such as Shannon Bream and Jesse Watters. The loss of Carlson comes at a critical time for Fox....
...Take a break from the news Unlike Logan Roy, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong knows when to call it a day....
...Here he is talking to the big boss, Logan Roy. Stewy Hosseini The issue here, sir, is that everyone fucking hates you. Logan Roy It’s cloudy, it’s sunny. Stewy Hosseini Your COO is a fucking joke....
...In “Indian April”, the late Meena Alexander, who died in 2018, writes to and about the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg travelling in Rajasthan, and honours the mixed traditions and geographies that made...
...Launched five years ago by former Politico executives Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, Axios has rapidly carved out a niche with some of the most influential newsletters in Washington and the world...
...The Roy family’s psychodrama unfolds against a backdrop of opulent locations, from gleaming town houses and elegant country piles to the family’s gargantuan superyacht....
...As creator Jesse Armstrong has said of the Roy progeny, breaking free of the gilded cage of their existence would be akin to another kind of death....
...Kate Moss is a stalwart figure of the inner circle, alongside Naomi Campbell, Demi Moore and Lily Allen, who slept on his sofa when she was still a precocious teen....
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