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...“Without Harry’s work, there was no way I would have gone down that path,” Sharpe said. Markowitz, born in 1927 in Chicago, was the only child of Morris and Mildred, who owned a grocery shop....
...governor – “Forget all the excuses, it was wrong” – and the painful end to his 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver, which dissolved after she discovered he had fathered a child with long-time housekeeper Mildred...
...While reading Trust, Hernan Diaz’s sharp and affecting second novel, I found myself thinking of Max de Winter....
...St Mildred’s Bay and Viking Bay make wonderful day trips from London; you can even do a coastal walk between the two....
...attention to the aftermath of the civil wars of the 17th century — and to the manhunt for real-life figures Edward Whalley and William Goffe, wanted for their involvement in the murder of King Charles I,...
...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....
...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!...
...I am here! Table two.”...
...Among the sceptics is film producer and director Mildred Okwo, who created a streaming platform to distribute her last film, La Femme Anjola....
...It was in advance of her role in Mildred Pierce, a now near-forgotten television mini-series based on the 1941 novel about a successful restaurateur and failing mother, for which she told me she had spent...
...Her most famous novel is Excellent Women — new readers, start there — in which not much and everything happens to Mildred Lathbury, one of those youngish women who take care of everything, except themselves...
...I got my first glimpse of Jarman’s Sebastiane when it aired as part of its “Banned” season....
...“I realised I could recognise good art, even in unfamiliar mediums.” The gallery was built on his strong eye, in a nascent market. “We bought everything we could,” he explains....
...“I assume the regulator would not want Deliveroo to go bankrupt, which is worse for consumers,” said one investor. “It’s a bump in the road rather than a real blockage, but it’s annoying....
...At the end of his shows with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, he has been known to invite the audience to join him one at a time for a hug, a chat and a selfie....
...“I came from nothing,” she liked to tell interviewers in her later years, “but Hollywood took me from nothing and gave me everything good that I’ve learnt and that I have.”...
...Re-reading Fahrenheit 451 decades after I’d first read it as a teenager, I heard Bradbury’s plea far more clearly....
...The laureates, she said contentedly, “had ideas that I missed and they did great work. I’ve received a lot of recognition for my contributions.”...
...They have always been so, from the glory days of the “women’s picture” in the 1940s, when Joan Crawford starred in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday....
...But it’s not something I was necessarily concerned with when I made it. Whenever I think about Richard and Mildred, I understand them — from my perspective....
...So instead of asking what would Jesus or Marilyn Monroe do, you might think how would your favourite Blue Peter presenter handle it, or Mildred from George and Mildred, or Admiral and Mrs Croft, Jane Austen...
...“I’ve never known a lady named Georgia . . . and I wasn’t dreaming of the state . . . even though I was born there,” he said. “It was just a beautiful, romantic melody.”...
...“I’m cautiously optimistic,” he says. “We are talking about a low likelihood that we don’t find the aircraft before May, although it is a possibility.”...
...As Mildred Pierce, Joan Crawford set up a restaurant chain....
...“Mildred’s?” he asks, referring to a vegetarian restaurant. I hesitate. A week earlier, I had tried to get a table there, only to be confronted with a one-hour queue....
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