Hints and tips:
...The second is filled with Hollywood actors (Zac Efron, Harris Dickinson, Jeremy Allen White) pumped and gurning in the ring. That might suggest a knockabout comedy....
...You can imagine a Sleeper-era Woody Allen making hay with the premise of a love detector....
...Excellent too is Jeremy Allen White, who you may recognise from hit culinary streaming series The Bear. Here, he exits the kitchen to play a wistful mechanic....
...Miller’s everyday forensics whizz Barry Allen is given just enough screen time to establish himself as loveable nerd before his hyper-accelerated alias is called into action....
...There are traces of Norway’s literary king of minutiae, Karl Ove Knausgaard (an acquaintance of Trier); Woody Allen as well, Oslo an echo of Annie Hall’s Manhattan (and Manhattan’s Manhattan)....
...Affleck plays husband and father Vic Van Allen, de Armas his gadfly wife Melinda. Their life together is shaped by her affairs, flaunted socially with Vic’s knowledge, if not quite his blessing....
...Leigh O’Dell, a lawyer at Beasley Allen who sits on the plaintiff’s steering committee in the talc litigation, said the bankruptcy strategy is “cynical” and designed to slam shut the doors to the courthouse...
...“I’m not afraid of death,” Woody Allen once wrote, “I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Some Conservative MPs feel the same way about the next general election....
...(Fascinating interview with Carax by Danny Leigh here.)...
...Earlier this month, Nike co-founder Phil Knight submitted an unsolicited bid for his hometown Portland Trailblazers, currently owned by the estate of the late Paul Allen....
...A more theatrical note is promised by Truly Madly (Sphere, March), Stephen Galloway’s account of the passionate, turbulent, captivating romance between actors Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier....
...More recently, well — you can plot for yourself the trajectory of Trolls, Woody Allen clunker Wonder Wheel and then, unfortunately, Trolls World Tour....
...Add in a demented fan, however, and things get interesting, especially with Julianne Moore, Joan Allen and Jennifer Jason Leigh playing very weird sisters in King’s adaptation of his own novel....
...The extensive stock – some 20,000 books – has included gems such as a 1937 copy of Gone With the Wind inscribed by Vivien Leigh to a friend before she was cast as Scarlett O’Hara in the film, and A Tale...
...Until recently, Allen seemed conclusively non gratis....
...Alongside Freud (Michael Sheen), Cleopatra (Jameela Jamil) and more, Elizabeth Taylor is played by Lily Allen, daughter of the film’s producer Alison Owen, Charlotte Brontë by Mel Giedroyc, sister of director...
...Woody Allen, Joel and Ethan Coen and Quentin Tarantino are justly famous for their clever, witty scripts, which also sell well as published screenplays....
...I read a recipe for poached egg and artichoke and served it to Richard Polo, my boss and the owner of Joe Allen’s....
...It’s been clear for several years now that Baumbach has picked up where Woody Allen left off (or might have), and with Marriage Story he gives us his Husbands and Wives....
...Stanley Roy Badmin’s meticulous detail and botanical expertise made him the natural choice to illustrate The Ladybird Book of Trees (1963) while John Leigh-Pemberton brought an explosion of colour to Garden...
...“This is particularly serious given the CVV leak,” said Sean Humber, partner at law firm Leigh Day....
...Vivien Leigh was also India-born — her mother seems to have been partly Parsi — while Tom Stoppard, Felicity Kendal and Norman Wisdom all spent formative time there....
...he gave to the actress (“Study of Roses”, est £70,000-£100,000); a charming 1942 red chalk study of Leigh by Augustus John (est £5,000-£7,000) and a John Piper watercolour, “Notley Abbey” (c1946), that Leigh...
...More columns at ft.com/leigh New England mussel chowder Clams, razor clams, even oysters make a good chowder. Lightly salted cod is also excellent, especially if a stock is made from the head first....
...Another law firm involved, Leigh Day, faces charges of misconduct at a disciplinary hearing in March over its role....
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