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...The author Richard Adams once wrote that he “hated” which song — written for the film version of one of his books?...
...Richard Attenborough, late grandee of British cinema, is just one among the famous names to mimic Noël Coward in glossy new documentary Mad About the Boy. The impression proves a showstopper....
...A rare self-made billionaire who styled himself after Richard Branson and secured a statement of support from the Virgin founder for his sanctions challenge, Tinkov has long been an outlier in the Kremlin-dominated...
...‘Player Kings’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, April 1-June 22, then tours, playerkingstheplay.co.uk. ‘Oedipus’, Wyndham’s Theatre, London, October 4-January 5, oedipustheplay.com...
...Now try this I had a lovely weekend: the high points were seeing The Motive and the Cue at the Noël Coward, which you can watch at cinemas throughout the UK — find your local screening here....
...The Motive and the Cue opens at the Noel Coward Theatre on December 9. Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Does the latest volley of insults, in which Noel called Liam a “coward” and Liam responded that Noel “hates” Oasis fans, mean a rumoured return in 2025 is off the table?...
...‘The Motive and the Cue’, Noël Coward Theatre, London, December 9-March 23, nationaltheatre.org.uk; ‘The Hills of California’, Harold Pinter Theatre, London, January 27-June 15, hillsofcaliforniaplay.com...
...The moment when Tom Hollander’s Berezovsky realises just how far he has underestimated the new president has the force of a scene from Richard III....
...Celebrated tax exiles range from playwright Noël Coward to actors Sean Connery and Gérard Depardieu....
...It is there in the pervasive dinner-party trope that, yes, Richard Dawkins is “right”, but must he be so beastly about it?...
...The bequest features many of the greats of the 20th century, from Richard Avedon to Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks and Nan Goldin, as well as her own photographs....
...Noël Coward was even more insensitive, suggesting that Olivier should have given her “a clip in the chops”....
...I am reminded of the opening monologue of Dylan Thomas’s “play for voices” Under Milk Wood, in which Richard Burton intones: “Come closer now....
...A subsequent history that includes Berlioz, Novello, Coward and the entire gamut of modern musicals from Oklahoma to Shrek via My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison is well-known....
...Richard Leonard, the Scottish Labour leader, has resigned just four months before elections for the parliament in Edinburgh, in which polls suggest his party is set for another heavy defeat by the Scottish...
...Jennifer Saunders’s Madame Arcati is clearly the draw in Richard Eyre’s production (first shown in Bath last summer) and she doesn’t disappoint....
...Any other president in the past 50 years, including Richard Nixon, would have tried, however fleetingly, to heal America’s racial divisions after such a horrendous death....
...Defining the difference between the great American dramatists Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, director Richard Eyre put it thus: “Miller asked, ‘How are we to live our lives?’ . . ....
...Richard Armitage’s restlessly intelligent Astrov, the rural equivalent of an exhausted hospital doctor battling endemic problems, is drowning out memories with booze....
...Nestled above playwright Noël Coward and to the right of broadcaster Richard Dimbleby, a memorial plaque to author and humorist PG Wodehouse was dedicated in London’s Westminster Abbey on Friday....
...In nonfiction, try what I think of as the finest account of a modern US election, Richard Ben Cramer’s What it Takes....
...I keep coming back to the old Noël Coward quote: ‘Work is much more fun than fun’. It’s what I like doing, so I see no reason to stop.”...
...Richard E Grant gives his best performance in decades as Jack Hock, an ageing Withnail of the kind the teetotal actor was born to play....
...During a speech at Stanford University in 2017, he called venture capitalists “soulless cowards” and said he had stopped using Facebook....
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