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...The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...Perhaps a sly Machiavellian stratagem had taken place. Majesty’s lustre couldn’t help but outshine that of showbiz at the Coronation Concert....
...Highlights in a performance that never flagged included dramatic Potter tenor sax, urbane Kendrick Scott drums and the shimmering sound of vocals blending with brass....
...Myers, who won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for his novel The Gallows Pole, excels at conjuring rural England....
...Scott has been in demand by collectors....
...Plummer had an excuse: he was director Ridley Scott’s first choice for Getty before Spacey was considered. And he didn’t need a truckful of make-up to play a mean old miser....
...“No, at Ronnie Scott’s . . . under my own name,” he added, to clear thing up....
...He had a gift for mischief and sly drollery....
...Like Scott, Richardson is a strong melodist with a standout sound and a clear idea of how rhythm and harmony fit together....
...Now previewing The Audience, Apollo Theatre, London Kristin Scott Thomas succeeds Helen Mirren in the recast return to the West End of Peter Morgan’s comedy about the private audiences between the Queen...
...But it is excellent, a series of late-night jams in the free-thinking spirit of Sly Stone or Prince, smoothed by the soul singer’s irresistible voice, salted by astringent social comment....
...This revival has been reworked, with some fresh choreography from Scott Graham and Eddie Kay, and a largely new cast, but the concept remains the same....
...Review by Olrando Bird … The Kept, by James Scott, Hutchinson, RRP£14.99, 368 pages The Kept, James Scott’s first novel, has zero feel-good factor....
...This truly was an ordeal to rival Scott’s final push to the Pole. London Bridge, New Cross and Hither Green sped by in a blur of Spanish or Urdu – or Welsh, perhaps....
...I love this sly complexity, because I myself possess so many shared identities that I have given up listing them....
...These clerks, said Vanity Fair in 1860, were “vain, mean, selfish, greedy, sensual and sly, talkative and cowardly”. From such unpromising beginnings, things got worse....
...Half of Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos at the New Museum brims with subtle, sly, shape-shifting work. The other half is hugely dull....
...Rhythmically sly and out of the loop, it was the evening’s highlight. patmartino.com...
...The vote came as Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror for the past 10 years, handed in her notice as she was facing a revolt over her £1.7m pay package....
...Here is his Twilight impassivity – weird, lucent-eyed, fixed of stare, sullenly magnetic – but Donnellan and Ormerod use it with sly craft....
...That follows a letter, also published for the first time, from Sly Bailey – chief exec of Trinity Mirror – expressing concern about Mensch’s comments....
...Rachel Z injected Coldplay’s “Lost” with sly funky infusions and a sudden splurge of notes, then a ramble through impressionist arpeggios introduced Sting’s “King of Pain”....
...(What Gavin does not know about Scott isn’t worth knowing.) The hundred or so Scotts and an equal number of Scottophiles were easily outnumbered by the other members of the congregation....
...Depp has said he originally only took what has become his most defining and lucrative part to please his small children, and in the first two films you really could feel him stylising each move for sly humour...
...Roy Haynes, who was in the legendary saxophonist’s quintet for three years, was at Ronnie Scott’s for a short residency; saxophonist Lee Konitz, founder member of the cool school, but twinned with Parker...
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