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...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
...Then cruise the city’s timeworn chigres (rustic bars) such as Casa Lín on Avenida de Colón and Casa Pachu on Calle Alfonso III el Magno, where the cider flows freely along with platters of fabes con almejas...
...of one of its loveliest hotels, Château La Coste, near Aix-en-Provence, is also home to a clutch of architecturally striking pavilions and indoor exhibition spaces — designed by the likes of Tadao Ando, Oscar...
...Lex appears to accept the only way of valuing a university degree is via the earnings of its graduates (“Humanities degrees: ave atque vale”, Lex, July 4)....
...The prize was widely expected to be awarded posthumously to Chadwick Boseman, who died aged 43 from colon cancer last summer, for his performance in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom....
...(You will recall the Oscar is banked already, for what that might be worth.) His French director Florian Zeller was also the writer of the play the film is based on, Le Père....
...The film was nominated for six Oscars, including best picture. It won three Academy Awards — in the best original score, best costume design and best production design categories....
...Ma Rainey features the final performance of another major African-American movie star, Chadwick Boseman, who died unexpectedly in August of colon cancer at the age of 43....
...Boseman, he now learnt, had been sick with colon cancer for four years, unknown to Lee or his other directors. “I was in disbelief. The loss and the shock of it together.”...
...Maybe interest was piqued when I read that Ryan Coogler, whose first feature length film, Fruitvale Station, about Oscar Grant, a man killed by police in Oakland, California, was writing and directing the...
...Don’t even think about getting an appointment in Oscar week – she’s the red carpet’s go-to for glow (Camera-Ready Facial, from $390)....
...“I don’t like London at all,” says the 42-year-old model, who is sitting on a sofa in the modest flat in Maida Vale she shares with her husband, the Oscar-winning Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, when...
...The latest landmark in the mounting homage and salutation to Baldwin’s writing is Oscar-winning Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of his penultimate novel If Beale Street Could Talk....
...was nominated for eight Oscars at the 2002 Academy Awards, winning two of them....
...(FT) Runner set to walk out of jail Oscar Pistorius is to be released from prison this week after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp....
...The Dominican Republic honoured de la Renta with the order al Merito de Juan Pablo Duarte and the order of Cristobol Colon....
...At the same, BHP, Rio and Vale are pressing ahead with their iron ore expansion plans....
...“There’s been a gradual trend of Chinese companies participating in derivatives as it’s easier to trade them here offshore as the contracts are in dollars,” said Oscar Tarneberg, senior iron ore analyst...
...Last year was a good year for iron ore, which is critical to the profitability of miners such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale....
...Brazilians take pride in what their creativity has accomplished in the arts, architecture and football – think of bossa nova, Oscar Niemeyer and Neymar....
...… Fernando Meirelles His City of God (Cidade de Deus), about life and death in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas made him world famous but the Oscar nominee did not stop there, moving on to Hollywood with The...
...Vale, the largest iron ore miner by volume, said that up to 15 per cent of its clients in China had asked for their contracts to be calculated on a different basis to account for the recent drop in spot...
...Silicone, Vale This year, it’s a headline moment for a headline topic. At least for those who value the popular screen’s rich, kitsch heritage....
...“When I leave this vale of tears, I hope to leave a ‘generation of the kind’. These children wouldn’t be caught dead in fur....
...Four rooms of sumptuous decorative work explore how English art publishers such as John Lane and the Vale Press attracted illustrators of genius from across Europe....
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