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...She saw a painting by a California-born artist, Richard Shaffer: “Very atmospheric, in blues and greys,” she says, “and embedded in it were words, and I am always a sucker for stuff with language....
...Thanks to Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus and the enormously successful film derived from it a lot of people know who Antonio Salieri was, even if they have never heard a note of his music....
...Who’s who in Richard Avedon’s ‘The Family’ First row (left to right): Richard Kleindienst, former US attorney-general, Washington, DC, July 29 1976; James Skelly Wright, circuit judge, US Court of Appeals...
...The story is well known from Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus and elsewhere — the stranger in grey who comes to commission a Requiem for an anonymous patron, the sing-through by friends of partially finished...
...He directed Alan Ayckbourn’s “Bedroom Farce” in New York and London in 1977, and Peter Shaffer’s “Amadeus” in 1979....
...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...
...Play of the Month ran for 18 years, bringing everything from Shakespeare to Shaffer to Britain’s living-rooms: 117 productions in total. Theatre used to be a regular presence on British television....
...What’s left is mucho mumbo-jumbo: the shrink, Dysart, played with lumbering gravity by Richard Griffiths, utters pronouncements about bloody ritual and the cost of sacrifice....
...It’s fascinating to turn from his toned but dull physicality to the ultra-corpulence of Richard Griffiths, who, as Dysart, is peculiarly expressive and natural in every effortful transfer of weight....
...We got to talking and drinking, and then some friendly faces turned up in the form of a couple of Vogue writers and Bee Shaffer [US Vogue editor Anna Wintour’s daughter]....
...And, since I’m no great admirer of Peter Shaffer’s serious plays, let’s pass over Daniel Radcliffe’s West End stage debut in “Equus” opposite Richard Griffiths (Gielgud Theatre, February)....
...The bass Andrei Antonov (replacing Richard Paul Fink without explanation) exulted in the torturous, ultimately murderous monologues of Salieri....
...I am sure FIFA would agree with the principle I have put forward.Richard Shaffer, Manchester Sepp Blatter: England of all countries has some of the best youth academies around....
...Tammi Shaffer, mother of two children and a Bush voter in 2000, says: “I don't care for either one of them.”...
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