Hints and tips:
...Montauk (the easternmost beach town in New York’s Hamptons) built by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright; the baronial manse in Bedford, a tiny hamlet an hour’s drive from New York that also counts Martha Stewart...
...He speaks in English on a video call from his flat in Earl’s Court (an in-person meeting had to be cancelled after I caught Covid)....
...Munro pitches the action on either side of a contested episode at the Earl of Bothwell’s castle. Was Mary abducted and raped? Or was the sex consensual?...
...These range from portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Peter Lely (whose paintings you’ll also encounter at Petworth House, former seat of JMW Turner’s patron the Earl of Egremont, the gates to which are a five-minute...
...Gardner had purchased the painting from the Earl of Darnley, a transaction that the British press described as a form of villainous looting....
...The signatories, including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Ricky Tomlinson, warned that British actors were already losing jobs to EU actors because of the costs of the new bureaucracy, with job-advertisements...
...Even Martha Stewart has a gummy line. When Seth Rogen launched his cannabis website, houseplant.com, in March this year, it crashed due to overwhelming demand....
...Shandling recycled this as a delicious Larry Sanders plotline in which the network brings in a young Jon Stewart to guest host, prompting Larry quickly to cut short his vacation when Stewart proves too popular...
...It’s 20 years since The 11 O’Clock Show, which launched the careers of Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen, went off air....
...Downton Abbey: Hugh Bonneville plays the Earl of Grantham, defending the aristocracy against social upheaval....
...After 200 years with the Fitzwilliams, following the death of the 10th and last Earl in 1979, Wentworth Woodhouse and its gardens were sold....
...By the time Dearden asked Bogarde to play Farr, the role had been turned down by Jack Hawkins, James Mason and Stewart Granger....
...“I know he called me Ricky Butcher [from the soap opera EastEnders], as he thought I was as thick as two short planks.”...
...Other top England batsmen saw their careers end after around 100 Tests and 8,000 runs: Alec Stewart, David Gower, Geoffrey Boycott. Why is this the case?...
...Carl Linnaeus, the great botanist, bestowed its name, but misspelt “Stuart” as “Stewart”. Like a misnamed racehorse, a misnamed plant can never escape....
...The comedian Stewart Lee was even harsher, calling it “a government surveillance operation run by gullible volunteers, a Stasi for the Angry Birds generation”....
...Step forward Charles Gordon-Lennox, the Earl of March, who is hoping that enough people will be asking that question to support the latest commercial venture at Goodwood, his family estate in West Sussex...
...“It’s electric,” was how Nicholas Stewart, a 37-year-old train driver from Coatbridge, described the atmosphere in Glasgow in recent days....
...Rona Munro’s theatrical triptych spotlights the three James Stewarts who reigned over an unruly Scotland between 1424 and 1488. Each play would stand on its own....
...“Cheers to @Letterman,” the UK’s Ricky Gervais chimed in on Twitter. “A king, a kingmaker and probably the man most to blame for inflicting me on America.”...
...Lord Stewart Wood, an adviser to the opposition leader, says: “You have to ask: what kind of centre-left faced the crisis in 2008?...
...Stewart is Stewart Hand, the estate’s head forester (and, things being as they are, much else); the captain, Nick Goodlife, works with him, as cattleman-cum-dairyman....
...Wasim Younis, manager of The Boltons, a Best Western hotel in Earls Court, says these customer reviews are driving standards higher. “The quality is improving....
...Alan Stewart, finance director, insists that Mr Bolland has the support of shareholders....
...For years, Lord March begged Mercedes-Benz and Audi to bring their vintage Silver Arrows racing cars to the Goodwood Revival, his three-day celebration of classic cars, aircraft and other machines on the earl...
International Edition