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...‘Cooking: Simply and Well, for One Or Many’ by Jeremy Lee is out now, 4th Estate Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Loo Lee Lian, chief executive of Invest Penang, the non-profit arm of the state government, says the organisation has had to become “more selective” on who comes in due to the squeeze on land....
...I’ve got two brothers and we used to watch a lot of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme films. Private school or state school? University or straight into work? State school....
...She writes for Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? When I was three, four years old, I would get so excited when the garbage collector came....
...Joni Mitchell, Carmen McRae, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline — my musical influences swing from tree to tree. Ambition or talent: which matters more to success?...
...Alfred Molina plays Mark Rothko in “Red” at Wyndham’s Theatre until July 28; delfontmackintosh.co.uk/tickets/red Portrait by Sarah Lee Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...I grew up seeing videos, films and books that were forbidden or not available in the USSR — including Bruce Lee films. As a child, I was impressed: my ambition was to do karate....
...Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, by Robert Lacey, Harper, RRP£20/RRP$29.99 A biography of the super-agent who built the Ford model empire, Lacey’s book provides a fascinating insight...
...I got a job as a teacher, then one day I bumped into Lee Brilleaux and we started Dr Feelgood. Who was or still is your mentor? At university, Tony Harrison, the poet....
...The pianist Jack Honeyborne is coming down again for the festival with his trio – he’s in his eighties and he was musical director for Vera Lynn and performed with Peggy Lee....
...And then I was playing with Roy’s band Wizzard, on a bill alongside Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis – I was terrified. Goodness knows what it sounded like....
...As a very young child I wanted to be Bruce Lee. Public school or state school? University or straight into work?...
...Apart from Boyle’s return to stage work, the major selling point of this production is the central casting, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating in the two main roles; the National...
...Brooklyn By Colm Tóibín Viking £17.99, 256 pages Eilis Lacey leaves behind her quiet life in County Wexford and travels to Brooklyn in search of better opportunities, in Tóibín’s sixth novel....
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