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...memorable you wonder where you’ve heard it before, half the ghosts of Laurel Canyon invoked by the shimmering broken guitar chords, the buried whoop on “Oh, how I long to belong to me”....
...Jeff Mills, pioneer of Detroit techno in the 1980s, does not rest on his laurels....
...We don’t know how many trans women athletes there are, although we do know that Laurel Hubbard, the first trans women athlete to compete in the summer Olympics, did not make the podium....
...At the moment, getting work-life balance right seems like a real achievement but I don’t for a second rest on my laurels. You have to keep working at all those things....
...Laurel had left journalism to start up a networking group for creative types in online media. I remember once saying to her, “Laurel, you should really give up journalism and start a business.”...
...Rather than rest on her laurels and give motivational speeches, she then heads to Washington, where she joins the commerce department as a top administrator and devotes herself to running the National Oceanic...
...Two Laurel and Hardy detectives, the fatter one resembling a terrestrial blimp, try to solve crimes without falling over. They fail....
...He notes that every new employee does at least one course at TD University, a purpose-built campus in Mt Laurel, New Jersey, to learn the TD way....
...“We weren’t on the grounds,” replies Laurel. “We were sleeping on a park bench.” One of the critical roles of the bench is that it offers this refuge....
...US comedy stars with roots in the Jewish communities of eastern Europe have included everyone from the Marx Brothers to Jack Benny, George Burns, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld and...
...He shows how Los Angeles, by virtue of its position as the background to Hollywood, has been forced into every possible filmic version of the city, from buzzing backdrop to Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy...
...… By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, translated by Jethro Soutar, And Other Stories, RRP£10/$15.95 The volcanic island of Annobón, off the west African coast, provides the setting...
...Josh Gad gives him a droll, plaintive voice, like Woody Allen crossed with Stan Laurel. The film’s other vocal triumph is Idina Menzel. Her Elsa musical numbers are seriously can belto....
...Strange Shores , by Arnaldur Indridason, translated by Victoria Cribb, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99 The king of Icelandic crime fiction is not resting on his laurels, as the valedictory Strange Shores proves...
...If his name is ubiquitous in pop circles – he has masterminded albums by Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Robbie Williams, among others – it is because he works hard....
...The report has often been questioned – Woody Allen said he was going to give up comedy to write “a non-fiction version” – but Herzog says this is “stupid baloney”; other doubters, such as Oliver Stone (...
...In Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen’s funniest and most poignant movie, the comedian Alvy Singer, played by the director, reluctantly moves from his native New York to California in pursuit of love....
...But Redburn is not resting on its laurels....
...“Any culture that has enjoyed tremendous success will eventually sit on its laurels: look at Greece and Germany....
...Domingo entrusted the first two panels of the Puccini triptych to film director William Friedkin, who earned his régisseur spurs in earlier seasons and added to his laurels here....
...Allen has a TV guide owned by Stan Laurel which features the duo on the front cover. It came via Laurel’s daughter Lois and cost Allen £40 in 2005....
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