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...Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman, Mudlark £25/Penguin Press $32 During the Trump presidency, Maggie Haberman of the New York Times established herself...
...Simon Wells’s set of translucent screens creates multiple interiors....
...and Maggie Rogers....
...(Laughter) I mean, she has a very astringent sense of humour, which makes it much more interesting somehow that backstage, she’s got this shop shops or slightly Maggie Smith put-downs....
...“I would say we decline 90 per cent of applicants and that really troubles me,” says Simon Dukes, chief executive at not-for-profit loans provider Fair for You....
...“Every tool is on the table to reduce prices,” said Emilie Simons, White House assistant press secretary....
...Here Fellowes and his partners (this film is directed by Simon Curtis) find themselves like comic book film-makers too, knocking out sequels on the fumes of fan service....
...The actor tells me he wants to get cast T-shirts made that read “We are all Simon Gould”....
...(Maggie Smith! Diana Rigg! Jane Birkin!) Fabulous costumes, absolutely....
...Lee Rowley, a 41-year-old milkman’s son and former financial services executive, becomes a business minister, while Maggie Throup, a former Remainer, joins the government as a health minister....
...“There are films about trying to connect and not being able to, like The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s film, and The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s film, both about that urge and inability to connect...
...She realises this project so fully that we can almost feel Sloane, Maggie and Lina’s living presence. I read the book in a single breathless, heartbroken day....
...Coming back to the present day, and closer to home, we have Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow (Simon & Schuster, £7.99)....
...Rereading the whole series will, according to Simon Schama in his FT review, “leave you cumulatively transformed”....
...The Twelve Cats of Christmas (Simon and Schuster £6.99) by Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea puts a feline spin on things, charmingly reminiscent of vintage Disney....
...Maggie Murphy is general manager of Lewes FC, a lower league English side that nearly went bust after the 2008 financial crisis....
...a shop selling mystical new age tat; and the rival detecting crew, whose resemblance to Simon and Garfunkel is another running joke (echoed in musical leitmotifs in the soundtrack)....
...Series three of David Simon and George Pelecanos’s series dramatising the development of the porn industry around Times Square has reached 1984 and a whole new raft of social issues....
...I’m with Simon Schama, in his review for the FT: “this reader wouldn’t want a word less”....
...It is surely Maggie O’Farrell’s greatest novel to date — and in quite a field....
...Listener Anna Simons calls it “original, witty, lyrical, dramatic, culturally sensitive. Great to see two handsome, sexy Japanese male leads (first time perhaps in a western production).”...
...From the mainland Chinese perspective, it’s always good to park some money in Hong Kong,” says Maggie Lee, head of residential estate agency in Hong Kong for Knight Frank....
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