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...Morris is dying of liver cancer, but still harbours dreams of delivering Lear onstage....
...In the 19th century, Marie-Antoine Carême, the chef who codified French cookery and was the most famous confectioner of all, published his first books....
...Edward Lear, by Jenny Uglow, Faber, RRP£16.99 The biographer and historian takes on the godfather of nonsense verse....
...In the old days, people might go eccentric or crazy in a dramatic or melodramatic way – like King Lear, Baby Jane, or Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard (made in 1950 when Swanson was 51...
...Divorced from Johanna in 1989 after 25 years of marriage, Tuohy was married for the third time in 1998 – to Rose Marie Wheeler, a Vietnam-born Frenchwoman....
...The girl waiting for her lover (Julie-Marie Parmentier) played Cordelia to Piccoli’s Lear....
...In dividing his kingdom, King Lear demanded that his three daughters declare how much they loved him....
...The culture ministry duly renewed the duo’s mandate from 2008 to 2011, with the backing of the town’s influential mayor, Marie-José Roig....
...But in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s 1988 play she cheats death and reveals her secrets....
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