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...Film critic Danny Leigh gives his verdict on Philip Martin’s film. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Separately, Boston Fed president Susan Collins will give opening remarks at her bank branch’s conference on housing. The European Central Bank publishes minutes from its December meeting....
...Gifted veteran Jackson Silva (Clifton Collins Jr) has had his share in a long career, one that seems to be winding down before two arrivals....
...The coup is pinning down where Collins put her mark on the world. Creating her facade was only half the story....
...January sees publication of Ramachandra Guha’s Rebels Against the Raj (William Collins, January), the story of the foreign fighters who joined the struggle against the Raj....
...So the film cannily focuses on the early years of its subject, finding in them three grand narratives — love with sweetheart Edith Bratt (Lily Collins), the trauma of the first world war, and the creative...
...One such is Marla Mabrey (Lily Collins, overstretched), a good girl from Baptist stock with a “case of the smarts” who gets pally with another new recruit, sweet-natured driver Frank Forbes (Alden Ehrenreich...
...Why would he have wanted to work in the British movie business of the 1970s and 1980s, a grim landscape where nothing got made and, when it did, tended to involve Joan Collins?...
...rowley.leigh@ft.com Photograph: Andy Sewell...
...Danny Leigh Classical music and opera Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures, by Alfred Brendel, Biteback, RRP£25 Not only the complete collected writings for the first time, but also...
...The right priority Robin Leigh-Pemberton, who died this week, was a very odd choice for governor of the Bank of England in 1983....
...Not the Royal Mail Perhaps James Leigh-Pemberton wants to repay his debt to society....
...“We will see dispersions start to appear among G10 economies, which will have a knock-on effect on currencies,” says Mr Leigh....
...“2012 has been very quiet altogether in currency,” agrees Malcolm Leigh, a principal in Mercer Investments....
...… TRAVEL The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, by Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Colin Thubron and Artemis Cooper, John Murray, RRP£25 This final part of Leigh Fermor’s trilogy recounting...
...At 14, I aspired to be a stage actress like Vivien Leigh and then segue into Flora Robson roles. By 17, I was already a movie star in England....
...Broker Collins Stewart forecasts 2011 sales of £355.7m with adjusted pre-tax profits of £38.1m....
...“Pension funds are very aware of costs and the fact that currency returns have declined in recent years whereas fees have not,” says Malcolm Leigh, a principal at Mercer....
...But Sleeping Beauty, the debut film from Australian art-house director Julia Leigh, just released in the US, could be set to change that....
...The Shift: The Future of Work is Already Here, by Lynda Gratton, Collins, RRP£18.99, 384 pages As futurology goes, Gratton’s book is more practical than most....
...Andy Stewart, founder of Collins Stewart and Cenkos Securities, then head of convertibles at Chase Manhattan bank, eventually made it to his office in a four-wheel drive vehicle....
...Mr Stewart says that when he and Leigh Collins founded Collins Stewart in 1991, they were imitating Close Bros by creating an investment bank in which staff owned most of the company....
...Collins Stewart was founded in 1991 by Andy Stewart and Leigh Collins. In 2000 Mr Smith led a management buyout of the group and floated it on the London Stock Exchange....
...THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR: A People’s Historyby Diane PurkissHarper Collins ₤25 A richly detailed history of how English people went about their daily lives during the cataclysmic years from 1640 to 1649....
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