Hints and tips:
...After the war, he attended classes at the New School’s Dramatic Workshop, alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis and Sydney Poitier, who became a life-long friend....
...The movie has a genial sense of humour, and there are cute moments among Hilary’s circle of colleagues (with Toby Jones as a pernickety projectionist)....
...It conjures Marlon Brando and On the Waterfront or something, not quite the same vibes. Robert Armstrong You are talking about the Midtown uniform. Jo Ellison The Midtown uniform. Exactly....
...“We’ve recently had some bonkers prices for barn-find unrestored scooters,” explains Damian Jones of H&H....
...Chill vibes Flower arrangement pin, £20, Alkemi, alkemistore.com Wildflowers, £12, Bloom East via Jones of Brockley, jonesofbrockley.com Body soap, £18, austinaustinorganic.com Candle, £120, austinaustinorganic.com...
...Her marriage, meanwhile — to distracted entrepreneur Dean (Marlon Wayans) — is in the state both parties would call “fine”....
...The Snakes , by Sadie Jones, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Harper, RRP$26.99 Jones’s fifth novel is a fantastic read as a thriller, but where Jones excels, is in her microscopic yet compassionate scrutiny...
...Marlon James follows his 2015 Man Booker Prize winner A Brief History of Seven Killings with a surprising foray into epic fantasy, albeit of the literary kind, with Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Hamish Hamilton...
...I also downloaded a cover of Send in the Clowns by Grace Jones. I have a very eclectic taste in music and discover a lot by listening to BBC Radio 6 Music....
...John Crow’s Devil, by Marlon James, Oneworld, RRP£8.99, 240 pages...
...There are many voices in A Brief History of Seven Killings, the novel that won Jamaican writer Marlon James the Man Booker Prize this week: drug dons, gangsters and hitmen; a harassed CIA station chief;...
...Booker T Jones tentatively vamps on piano and O’Connor stops him by drawing her hand across her throat....
...This ongoing saga could have been something out of an Indiana Jones film given the entertainment it provided. The last I heard scientists had quashed claims about the train’s existence....
...Jamaican writer Marlon James for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings....
...Alongside, or, as it were, overlapping with Jones was Maeve Brennan, who was in charge of Hull’s inter-library loans....
...A lot of good actors do this: Robert Mitchum, Marlon Brando....
...Local titles now regularly outperform international blockbusters such as Quantum of Solace and Indiana Jones, so the country ranks fourth after the US, India and South Korea in its audiences’ preference...
...(Think of John Gilbert, extinguished by the sound era; or Jennifer Jones, David O. Selznick’s earthbound angel; or Anna Sten, Sam Goldwyn’s “new Garbo”.)...
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