Boulton (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... Hugh Orde, the head of the police chiefs association ACPO and the actor Tom Conti, who's swopping Shirley Valentine for the Virgin Mary. Plus the Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf(who is also a spokesman for former presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi) on why the Green Revolution is still going strong in his homeland. The former Lib Dem leader Sir Ming Campbell and the writer...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... rich men who look like Richard Gere and who treat her good.Do you remember that scene in the film Shirley Valentine when the Joanna Lumley character (Shirley's goody-goody former schoolmate who Shirley thinks is now an air hostess) corrects her, in those seductive tones, with: 'I'm a hooker, darling,' Belle de Jour AKA Brooke Magnati knew her own father used prostitutesIt's...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... a superb catalogue of first-rate popular theatre behind him that also includes Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, it is desperately sad that his creative well appears to have run dry in recent years.
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... of this brilliant production first performed in 1998.Tom's role in the enormously popular film Shirley Valentine and his portrayal of the Jeffrey Bernard on stage in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell mark him out as one of Britain's best loved performers.The performance is followed by Tom Conti chatting to the audience.Join him at Pleasance Theatre, Islington for this strictly limited one-week,...
