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...Highlights The film producers behind Netflix’s Drive to Survive, the docuseries that helped revitalise Formula One, are raising around £30mn from George Pyne’s Bruin Capital, the FT exclusively reported...
...In August 2015, the steel columns of the Seagram building sliced through the sunlight and confined several dozen power lunchers at the Four Seasons restaurant inside a bronze cube....
...When David Byrne danced on stage with his band Talking Heads in a vastly oversized suit in the 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense, he was making a bold New Wave art-pop statement....
...EJR Barnes has created a mighty marble-topped table with column-like stainless-steel legs for the dining room; Fred Rigby made the majestic Golden Ratio Desk in ebonised oak and steel, which sits on the...
...After work I head straight to the V&A for inspiration, Daunt Books for a guaranteed great read, The Laboratory Spa and Health Club for its wonderful pool, and Moro in Exmouth Market for dinner....
...It’s been described as “incel-friendly” and “dangerous” (also “the most disappointing film of the year”)....
...The then founder and head of the department of design, architecture and digital at the V&A, Kieran Long, argued that the gun does precisely what the museum has always sought to do: to bring together contemporary...
...On the stone façade of Palazzo Chiaramonte in Palermo, there are grooves left by the iron cages in which hung the severed heads of aristocrat rebels against Emperor Charles V....
...For example, Wang seemed to agree that he had paid a high price for the AMC Entertainment cinema business and film studio Legendary Entertainment simply to convince US companies to sell to him....
...Faust responds by pouring a pint of beer over his head. The audience hoots with laughter....
...But according to one person familiar with the situation, Jason Kilar, currently head of Hulu, the internet TV and film service, is also in the running for the job....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...FILM Sleepless in Hollywood : Tales from the New Abnormal in the Movie Business, by Lynda Obst, Simon & Schuster, $26 304 pages Obst, a New York Times editor turned film producer, is by turns romantic...
...In the 1560s, Albrecht V of Bavaria created his celebrated Kunstkammer to flaunt his collection and lord it over other European princes....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...It feels like driving through a Truffaut film....
...Film Compiled by Nigel Andrews Joseph P Kennedy’s Hollywood Years By Cari Beauchamp Faber, £25 The father of JFK, Bobby and Teddy was once a film producer....
...This chimed with a complaint that I once heard from Judy Steel, wife of the former British Liberal party leader David (now Lord) Steel....
...The tree is at the V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance until January 6 2008; ‘The Golden Age of Couture’, featuring Boudicca, is also at the V&A until January 6 Vanessa Friedman is the FT’s fashion editor Needles...
...In between, his Man of Steel wiped out attention deficit disorder for a year or two in television’s first generation of children. He seemed ready to rocket....
...“But the seriously rich will also have a cook, head housekeeper and two under-housekeepers, a head gardener, a chauffeur, at least one nanny and a PA,” says Ms Urquhart....
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