A long time ago in a cinema far, far away, a wide-eyed pre-pubescent girl was sitting in the front row clutching her salted peanuts and Kia-Ora and waiting eagerly for a film about King Arthur to begin. At long last, the auditorium darkened, the opening credits rolled and … Richard Harris burst into song. Up [...]
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I Hate Musicals
Posted in Entries by Moira, Special Features, tagged cinema, musical films, musical theatre, musicals, west end on September 5, 2011 | 32 Comments »
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What a week we have in store for you. Moira is in full loathing mode, Nikki finds herself flummoxed, Lisa is disappointed with a teen novel, but Anne . . . well, Anne is playing princess with tiaras and curtseys. We’ll just have to blame planetary alignment . . . Monday: Moira’s only comment on [...]
The Memory Chalet, by Tony Judt
Posted in Entries by Hilary, Non-fiction: essays, Non-fiction: memoir, tagged memoir, Paris, New York, Tony Judt, European history, ALS, putney, Kings College Cambridge, kibbutz, French intellectuals, Green Line Buses on September 2, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’d never heard of Tony Judt until I read the news of his death, followed by many tributes, then the reviews of this posthumous book. I was intrigued that a writer I knew nothing about could be so sincerely and widely mourned. I read more, and discovered that his work covered ground that is integral [...]
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