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...Blanchard was first introduced to Lemmons through a friend when she began searching for a composer for her 1997 directorial debut Eve’s Bayou, a gothic drama starring Samuel L Jackson....
...He was successful and soon found himself manager of l’Hôtel de Ville, which was then, and still is, considered by many to be the finest restaurant in the world....
...The lemon-yellow L-shaped sofa and armchair and the two huge sash windows make it warm, light and optimistic. In the foreground is a chrome-and-glass tubular table and four white plastic chairs....
...strongly, with the next significant event being the sale of Suse [Linux] by end March and subsequent capital return.”Numis ● Restaurant Group tumbled after the owner of Frankie & Benny’s announced that Andy McCue...
...New boss Andy McCue, who joined from Paddy Power Betfair 18 months ago, has embarked on a price-cutting, volume-led strategy, reversing previous attempts to offset empty tables with higher bills....
...Naturally, there is an existential threat to be foiled, in the form of a mob of deplorables led by a shock-haired Samuel L Jackson....
...If there’s one man who can break through these preconceptions it’s Francesco Mazzei who, at his City restaurant L’Anima, manfully wrestled the regional food of his Calabrian youth into enough compliance...
...The most subtle example of this would be Mia Hansen-Love’s Things to Come (L’avenir), the French writer-director’s low-key and wholly unexpected follow-up to last year’s 1990s rave-era feature Eden....
...Yet academic Rebecca L Spang has dismissed the story as an urban myth....
...The style king, Terence Conran, dismissed her as a peddler of “high society mimsiness”. He was unfair....
...“The trustee confirms that he has begun filing avoidance actions against a number of parties who withdrew more than they deposited with Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities,” said Kevin McCue, a spokesman...
...M&S said that it had spoken to more than 50 per cent of its shareholders and that, with the exception of L&G, the investors were “broadly content with our explanation”....
...L&G and other shareholders urged M&S to introduce a better balance of authority in the boardroom to prevent a “potentially damaging concentration of power”....
...Better still is Terence Davies’s Of Time and the City. Here, too, you could say that nothing is new....
...The final part of Michelangelo Antonioni’s trilogy on alienation and affluence is L’Eclisse (Optimum), in turn inspired, pretentious and irritating – but the film’s final images glow with a haunting lyricism...
...Provence in the south of France has long been a chosen destination for European artists and aesthetes, offering a quintessentially French elegance and, as frequent visitor Terence Conran once commented,...
...One analyst today described A&L as “the Volvo of the UK banking sector”....
...recreate the sculptural battleground of the mid-20th century in two historic exhibitions – Moore at Kew, the largest outdoor show of the British sculptor ever seen in the capital, and the Pompidou Centre’s L’...
...l. Crosbie, London, UK Michael Mauboussin: We don’t have strong views about the direction of rates....
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