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West End Whingers (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Sometimes the Whingers leave the theatre inspired. Braving the rugby fans heading for Twickenham yesterday they trailed out to the Richmond Theatre through the Simon Callow and Bonnie Langford themed ticket barriers at the station to see the stage adaptation of Calendar Girls. Yes, with New Year just around the corner they’re left themselves with a matter [...]
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Get Your Book Red Here (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Reading is fun. There’s a statement for bibliophiles world wide. Even war can’t stop the browsing. And reading in a group is more fun. In library school we’ve often discussed the importance of library as place in the life of users. I’ve found a nice London Times article by Simon Callow, prolific English actor (You [...]
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans, by Simon Callow The second volume of Callow's huge Orson Welles project (excerpt and discussion of the first volume here), this takes us through a chaotic (or,...
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The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Next book on my "entertainment biography" shelf: Orson Welles: Volume 1: The Road to Xanadu, by Simon Callow The first volume of actor/writer Simon Callow's gigantic Orson Welles project. Volume II came out last year, and there will be a...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Simon Callow is enchanted by the grandeur of Istanbul a city whose astonishing history is seldom far from view.
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Daily Express (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Frequently voted one of the best British comedies, this is the kind of film you can watch time and time again without spoiling your enjoyment.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Take it from the stars says Sarah Edworthy: keeping down with the Joneses is the trendy solution to the credit crisis.
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Light reading (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
At the Times Online, Simon Callow has a lovely piece on falling in love with the London Library : When I was a member of the National Theatre Company in 1979, working with Michael Kustow on performances of a speculative re-ordering of the published sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets, I was impressed by the number of arcane publications on the subject that he was able to lay his hands on, all distinguished...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
From The Boys in the Band to Brokeback Mountain, gay roles in cinema have come a long way from their tortured beginnings. Simon Callow charts the journey
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Another season of "Midsomer Murders" on DVD, another sidekick for Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby. Don't worry if you get them all confused, although I will say that Jason Hughes, as Ben Jones, is much more reminiscent of...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
I was sixteen. I was always falling in love. This very natural state of affairs was rendered complicated by the fact that the year was 1965 and boys weren't suppose to fall in love with boys. I felt no guilt about the direction of my desires, but I was loth to express them, partly because I knew that if I picked the wrong person to make my declaration of love to, I could get punched on the nose.
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Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
| Peter Klein | Because they produce purple prose like this: I have tried to show how the impossibility of a single filmic representation can serve as a refractory surface against which a series of analogies, paradigmatic shifts, and disarticulations located within distinct yet convergent planes of historical actualisation come into a view. It is in turn, [...]
