Hints and tips:
...Maugham used the Proudlock case as the basis for “The Letter”, first as a short story and then a play, which was later made into a celebrated Hollywood film starring Bette Davis....
...One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...Chick Corea’s love affair with Spanish music took him, early in his career, to the 1960s bands of Latin jazz pioneers Mongo Santamaria and Willie Bobo....
...His 1937 review of Wee Willie Winkie brought down the law and closed Night and Day, the magazine he reviewed for. He took up with The Spectator, but not for long....
...They like to disrupt things,” Davis explains. “She’s not like that. She’s always been much more disciplined, organised.”...
...And Michael Fallon and David Davis have done heavyweight jobs but are they the best face of the 21st-century Conservative party?...
...Prewar fighters Joe Louis and Willie Pep (such a virtuoso of feints and lateral movement that he reputedly once won a round without attempting a punch) are in the conversation....
...But she had ambition and a head for marketing: “Every time someone had a truck of beer about to go out of date, I would see Willie [Haughie] from City Refrigeration and we’d do promotion nights....
...Jazz masters Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Keith Jarrett transform show tunes and folk songs into radiant works of art....
...The Think Long committee includes former California governor Gray Davis and has been advised by Mr Davis’s successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger....
...“If that were advanced by any Caucasian, it would be denounced as the most vile form of racism,” Mr Davis says....
...Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes By Michael Gray Bloomsbury £25, 432 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Blind Willie McTell was posthumously celebrated as a great bluesman....
...Supporters of David Davis, the rival who was once favourite for the leadership, the Daily Mail and the tabloid division of the BBC have sought to elevate Mr Cameron?...
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