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...When Viola and Sebastian are shipwrecked on the Illyrian coast at the beginning of Twelfth Night, there is the sense that they have escaped their own restricted worlds for a never-never land where nothing...
...crowning a grassy cachaça cocktail with marigolds, violas, alyssum and an edible butterfly....
...And so we follow him dragging his bosses into what is hoped may be a modestly lucrative partnership with the new king of the court. Sonny duly doorsteps family matriarch Deloris Jordan (Viola Davis)....
...Borrowed from Star Wars, the same device opens The Woman King, the sinewy epic from director Gina Prince-Bythewood....
...Viola Davis and her co-stars trained intensely for months to become fighters. And the pitch worked! Well, sort of. It got interest....
...To subscribe to our own feed wherever you listen, click here: https://link.chtbl.com/ftweekend This week, we talk about the Hollywood blockbuster The Woman King, starring Viola Davis....
...This week, we talk about the Hollywood blockbuster The Woman King, starring Viola Davis....
...“Viola does.” Davis stepped into a shoot loaded with physical demands....
...Among them is Gina Viola, a progressive activist who is running for mayor....
...We have the producer of the film Woman King with Viola Davis on the show. Her name is Cathy Schulman. She convinced Hollywood executives to get a historical epic of this magnitude made....
...Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, predicted that a “negligible amount” of triple-jabbed people would be admitted to hospital over winter....
...“I have to always stop and try to marry Viola, who grew up in Central Falls, with the Viola who’s on the cover of glossy magazines. I still have to reconcile the two....
...Out goes largely computer-generated supporting character Killer Croc and in comes Nanaue or King Shark, another heavily-muscled interspecies cross with the voice of Sylvester Stallone....
...Nestling under the red terracotta rooftops of Cremona’s medieval centre are, at a recent count, 169 active workshops, “luthiers”, making violins, violas and cellos....
...The rest could easily have fit into a 15-minute installation, but it does suggest that Baryshnikov, his blue eyes even more piercing under the chalky paint, would have made an excellent zombie Night King...
...Boseman’s co-star Viola Davis is nominated for Best Actress alongside Andra Day, the breakout star of The United States vs Billie Holiday....
...Drummer David King and Mat Maneri on viola are from that debut, Chris Speed is a substitute on clarinet and sax and, with new addition bassist Erik Fratzke adding tonal depth, the band’s quality of sound...
...Each year, Kings Place in London has a running, 12-month festival theme. This year it is “London Unwrapped”, exploring the city’s history as a cultural melting pot....
...Thought to have been settled as far back as the 10th millennium BC, it is the home of the Temple of Amun, which honours the god who was consulted by Greek kings (Alexander the Great was said to have followed...
...They are pledging up to a combined $250m of their own money, according to two people with knowledge of their campaign, supplemented by larger stakes from high-frequency trading magnate Vincent Viola and...
...On top of simple scrubbed wooden tables sit little vases stuffed with fresh herbs, and big ceramic bowls are filled with creamy viola aubergines, ripe Californian avocados, peaches and melons, and tiny chillies...
...But perhaps the most striking piece of work I experienced during the pandemic was this series of beautifully filmed and produced performances of new commissions for solo viola by Lawrence Power....
...The Italian-born businessmen, who moved to America when he was 12, acquired “La Viola”, or the violets, for the colour of their jerseys, from leather goods tycoon Diego Della Valle....
...Hassan Fathy: Earth & Utopia , by Salma Samar Damluji and Viola Bertini, Laurence King, RRP£65/$85 Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy’s radical book Architecture for the Poor (1969) changed the way modern...
...Bank Ban is set in the 13th century, when Hungarian king Endre II, fighting abroad, left his ambitious queen Gertrud, from Meran in the Tyrol, in charge....
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