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...His Simpson’s reboot, meanwhile, sounds like it will be comparable to previous revivals of The Ivy and J Sheekey. “Hopefully, I know how to do Simpson’s,” he says....
...In 1998 the pair sold their trio of restaurants — The Ivy, Le Caprice and J Sheekey — to former PizzaExpress chair Luke Johnson for £13mn and after plans to open an initial hotel were thwarted, they opened...
...“She became the Mother Teresa of world politics,” says Josef Janning, a senior associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations....
...months before the next one.”...
...“And you live in Los Angeles at that time?” he continues, once I’ve selected his 2014 hippie epic Inherent Vice, and a minor role as one of its colourful array of lovable stoners....
...She veers between vapid generalisation — “the sweep of his life and work was truly epic”; other artists’ paintings “simply paled next to Turner’s” — and costume drama....
...Objects I would never part with are framed photos of my sons – Dylan [25], Dakota [23] and Duke [17] – given to me by my husband for Mother’s Day....
...His account of the collapse of the party and the brave but deluded people who ran it, of his distant, philandering father and his impossible mother, is by turns affectionate, brutal and hilarious....
...History (Little, Brown) by Richard J Evans....
...Her funeral will be held at the end of next week at St Paul’s Cathedral. She will have a “full ceremonial funeral” with military honours as was afforded to the Queen Mother and Lady Diana....
...This year Tutu won the $1.7m Templeton Prize for spiritual leadership, following in the footsteps of Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, Billy Graham and others....
...It is hard to imagine Christopher Hitchens’ short and acrid meditation on the life of Mother Teresa, The Missionary Position (1995) – which portrays her as an evil-minded, rapacious Albanian dwarf – being...
...The banking system was simply counteracting years of excess, and Britain could easily weather whatever came next....
...He borrowed from several countries’ Ramayanas and the freedom and energy of his approach leaps from the page in chapters such as “Kill That Mother!” and “You Shot-Hot Monkey!”....
...he moved in and out of relationships, ceaselessly on the lookout for the next woman, the next casual encounter)....
...St Hilda’s, birthplace of the town, has been locked in redevelopment/demolition cycles since the 1950s. The local joke is “more visions than Mother Teresa, more pilots than British Airways”....
...In the arguments over dodgy dossiers and unilateral declarations of war, he sided with George W Bush, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Tony Blair rather than with his old friends on The Nation....
...Manhattan and downtown London and Shanghai, not suburbia, are the real friends of the environment....
...Or Mother Teresa, whose low motives Hitchens so mercilessly divines. Or indeed God, Hitchens’ most enduring target....
...“He’d forgotten it all the next day, but I remembered it forever.”...
...It’s the wrong story and the wrong movie. Of all the 9/ll traumas and terrors, Stone picks a minor survival tale and gives it the Hollywood treatment....
...THE MANY FACES OF GOD: Science’s 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine by Jeremy Campbell W.W....
...M.J....
...The Clinton Foundation arrived in earnest last year and persuaded donors, led by the Irish government, to fund one of the most neglected areas of Aids: treating children who contract HIV from their mothers...
...Summers, who grew up in suburban Pennsylvania where both his mother and father were economics professors, was something of an academic wunderkind....
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