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...A genuine page-turner, it lives up to its reported $15mn advance. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...“Philosophers, famous women, celebrities — you get whole sets of who’s who,” says Turner....
...III, whose story she first encountered at primary school....
...Soon he is toying with his children’s loyalty (King Lear), insulting Kamala Harris (more Richard III), and publicly humiliating Ted Cruz in the guise of support (Julius Caesar)....
...A few years ago, Michael played Richard III there, who’s a character that’s often interpreted to have a disability. I asked him about it....
...White convinced Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, brothers he knew from high school, to buy the struggling outfit for $2mn....
...Actor Greg Hicks played Richard III at the Arcola; Barney Norris’s immensely moving Visitors had its first outing there....
...We see his rise from page in the service of Elizabeth de Burgh — wife of Edward III’s son Lionel, Duke of Clarence — to soldier and official for kings, travelling Europe to broker marriages....
...Richard West, partner, Kennedys Richard West seeks to enable his firm’s clients to “use lawyers less” through several new process and product development initiatives....
...In practice, the only successful instance, other than Nixon, of Americans removing a leader was George III....
...The Beach Boys and Aretha Franklin joined the queue for the services of Reedman and his production partner, Nick Patrick....
...As the scholar Richard Stephens writes, “English or British drawings were actually the products of many nationalities, often with their own distinct artistic habits.”...
...And in 1977 they had their moment in the spotlight on a Richard Pryor television special....
...Now he has adapted his 2012 book subtitled Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London for the stage, and appears in Richard Eyre’s production as Prince George....
...“Topsy” Turner, holder of most of the club’s records, first played at the club in 1948, hanging up his bat just a decade or so ago....
...“Directors who can fill that role are few and far between,” wrote Alan Bennett in the preface to The Madness of George III....
...Turner and Constable stoked the sales effort by celebrating waterside beauty and Britain’s seafaring might....
...Walked through the Tower of London by my dad, I thought I caught on the riverside breeze the whimpering cry of one of Richard III’s inconvenient nephews....
...Leicester’s bid includes a three-day drama production of the story of Richard III, England’s controversial medieval king, whose remains were recently discovered under a car park in the East Midlands city...
...Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air, by Richard Holmes, William Collins, RRP£25, 404 pages In December 1783, Benjamin Franklin – then in Paris as the American ambassador to France – was one of nearly...
...Ben Franklin was just a little younger than Sidney when he said that those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither....
...The Plantagenet decorator-king Henry III brought in Sicilian craftsmen to make the ostensibly ur-English shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey....
...Here the crown goes to Kathleen Turner as Dolores Benedict in The Man With Two Brains (1983). The only woman in cinema to bake a rival’s brain with butter and capers....
...From Prof Richard A. Werner....
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