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...The singer is also famed for his choreography, which, like his music, bears an undeniable Michael Jackson influence, though that is not overstated nowadays....
...There’s a wonderful moment at the heart of Michael Longhurst’s inspired production of Amadeus, which uses members of the Southbank Sinfonia to brilliant effect....
...“The day is so cluttered, my apartment is not,” Michael White says, as the lift opens directly into his sleek penthouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side....
...directing career, which spanned more than 50 years, included both classic work and the world premieres of seminal new plays such as Betrayal, No Man’s Land and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, and Peter Shaffer...
...Director Michael Longhurst takes his cue (as who could not?)...
...Zaentz, who has died aged 92, won three Best Picture Oscars for films based on literary originals: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus (from Sir Peter Shaffer’s play) and The English Patient....
...“But I know what Michael Jackson is and who Michael Jackson is, and I know that in order for me to get there, I got a long, long way to go.”...
...The vacuum left by his retirement from directing for the stage has already been filled: next year he will direct a film about the Irish actor/writer Michael MacLiammoir, a close friend since Callow’s days...
...In Sleuth Michael Caine and Jude Law go head to head with all the passion and believability of two puppets wired for sound....
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