Hints and tips:
...The eggplant “parmesan” sandwich was enough to keep me coming back every day during my LA stay, and I wish they’d open up a restaurant in Paris or London – I’d happily become a vegan if they did!...
...Later, there was the young adult novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor, about an African-American family living and working in rural Mississippi in the 1930s....
...But she did, picking up, it seemed, mid-sentence at the precise point she’d left off. Two days later, I received a call from her then agent....
...We’d also invite Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a traveller and independent spirit who introduced the smallpox inoculation to Europe having seen its use in Turkey, where she lived for many years — and where...
...Modern Nature, a book published in 1991, spanning the years 1989 and 1990, and recounting Jarman’s struggles as an artist and public figure, as well as his regular trips into London’s Soho: to his beloved Mildred...
...‘The Women’ and ‘Mildred Pierce’ are re-released in the UK on August 17...
...Re-reading Fahrenheit 451 decades after I’d first read it as a teenager, I heard Bradbury’s plea far more clearly....
...But in 2010 and 2012 there were no female directors in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes....
...Nevertheless, the past 12 months have been sobering for the director, even though he’d prepared for a backlash by being sparing with festival screenings, sharing promotional duties with his cast and agreeing...
...I’d recommend it, actually. Especially if you like survival....
...A few weeks later, I sat with a friend who’d flown in from New Delhi in the front row at the 02 Arena – a concert we agreed was the best we’d ever attended....
...On Thursday Amcu leaders met Mildred Oliphant, labour minister, for what she said were “cordial” talks....
...It is easy to think of Mildred Pierce, for example, as a character from Arbus....
...In deepest Virginia in 1958, a teenager called Mildred got pregnant by her young boyfriend Richard, who wanted to make an honest woman of her. The only thing was, she was black and he was white....
...The boat ride through the bogs at the beginning is sweet, especially when Mildred the crocodile snorts water at you....
...Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish. I’ve bought 12 copies in the past two weeks. Which author would you most like to review the work of? Henry James....
...Joan Crawford made everyone cry as the pie-baking mom in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce....
...In the first story, “Fall”, Amy Bostick, a rookie teacher, arrives in New York from the Midwest to start a job at the high school hard by the subway station at 242nd Street in the Bronx....
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