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...A scholar in China’s Global Times, an organ of its communist party, this week said that American politics resembled “a host of demons dancing in riotous revelry”....
...Dancehall MC Irah booms “This is the year 3099” amid “Demon”’s shrill electronica, but it all sounds alarmingly close to home....
...On Wednesday, in Massachusetts, prosecutors dropped a case accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct....
...Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland, by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Walker Books, RRP£15 In a sector of the book market awash with fantasy titles, sometimes it’s good to get back to basics....
...stage adaptation of an Ingmar Bergman film would sound daunting to many, so Stephen Beresford’s version opens with young protagonist Alexander Ekdahl declaring to the audience that it will contain ghosts, demons...
...Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey have both — rather recently — discovered they suffer from this terrible affliction....
...Kevin Tsujihara, chief executive of Warner Bros Entertainment, tries to assuage the fears of cinema owners: “I assure you,” he says, “we are not going to let a third party or middleman come between us.”...
...This US team was led by Kevin Durant instead, the power forward who looked disinterested throughout the tournament until the last game when he dominated weak opposition to score 30 points....
...Theofanis Gekas, the Greek striker, has a tattoo of five Chinese characters on the inside of his right arm saying 寒冷殺人魔 – “cold-blooded killing demon”....
...Often these figures engineer the downfall of the play’s protagonist, but in Birdland protagonist and demon are one and the same....
...And the more he went on, the more I found myself thinking of Kevin Keegan, the erstwhile England soccer manager....
...When he tries to colour in a minor character – a player such as Kevin Keegan, or Ian St John – it usually works. But pretty soon we are back inside Shankly’s blessed head....
...“Rue” by Lauren Goff and “Wicked Be” by Heather Graham are both clever, feminist takes on the witch archetype, while Kevin J Anderson imagines how Victor Frankenstein’s creation might respond to the Nazi...
...Dark Lies the Island by Kevin Barry, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12.99, 185 pages Kevin Barry broke on to the Irish literary scene in 2007 with There are Little Kingdoms, a maverick collection of short stories published...
...Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 ballet classic, driven by demons of desire and design (those sumptuous sets), is so blatant a template for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan that hostile critics...
...They get a babble of interference: self-censoring demons, poor plotting, miscarried cameos (Richard Jenkins doing superannuated hippy hedonism, a kind of weight-watchers’ Lebowski)....
...By the close, with Kevin Spacey joining the doomed cast as a scrambled-egg wearer essaying spaced-out slapstick, it is like a bad episode of M*A*S*H....
...When, a year and a half ago, Lord Mandelson wrote of Brown that he was “not comfortable in his own skin”, the great communicator made it clear that here was one whose inner promptings, contradictions and demons...
...If England can somehow eke out another 50 or 60 runs this morning, South Africa will be under real pressure, albeit on a pitch that seems to hide few demons....
...Aftra, meanwhile, claims the support of Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon and Kevin Spacey. SAG was not available for comment on Wednesday....
...In 2008 we have been invited to remember the Irish hunger strikes in Steve McQueen’s powerful Hunger; the fall of a political super-demon in Ron Howard’s festival-opening Frost/Nixon (from Peter Morgan’s...
...By now Blair was installed in Downing Street, and had burnished his credentials with a game of head tennis with Kevin Keegan, the former England international and manager, and with well-publicised talks...
...In late 2007, a general election in Australia saw Howard’s government replaced by Kevin Rudd’s Labor party....
...The second is a set of interconnecting stories about love and destiny, flattered by star casting (Forest Whitaker, Kevin Bacon, Andy Garcia) while flattened by dud scripting....
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