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‘Wicked Baby’: A Tale Retold

Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Profumo Affair, Updates, tagged , , , , , on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I was surprised – and flattered – to find my 2004 novella, Wicked Baby, listed in the bibliography to this book which accompanied the 2010 exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, Christine Keeler: My Life in Pictures. The catalogue includes photographs of Keeler – the iconic model at the centre of 1963′s Profumo Affair – and [...]

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Marilyn’s Last Sessions

Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, tagged , , , on November 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Marilyn Monroe’s final two years, as a patient of the psychiatrist, Dr Ralph Greenson – who saw her daily in the month before she died – have long been the subject of intense speculation. One of Greenson’s students, Lucy Freeman, published a study of their relationship, Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe, while Luciano Mecacci’s [...]

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My Week With Marilyn

Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, tagged , , , , , on November 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »

‘This is a fairy tale’, was the original tagline – later replaced by ‘this is a true story.’ My Week With Marilyn is an Anglo-American confection, based on Colin Clark’s memoirs of filming with Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe on The Prince and the Showgirl (1956).

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Bookish Birthdays: George Eliot

Posted in Books, Fiction, tagged , , , on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My profile of the great Victorian novelist, Mary Anne Evans aka George Eliot, who was born on this day in 1819, is published at For Books’ Sake

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Shelagh Delaney 1939-2011

Posted in Books, Fiction, Theatre, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My tribute to Shelagh Delaney, ‘the first working-class woman playwright’, who died recently, is published today at For Books’ Sake

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Andrea Arnold’s ‘Wuthering Heights’

Posted in Film, Books, Art and Photography, Fiction, tagged , , , , on November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Wuthering Heights – the classic novel by Emily Brontё, published in 1848 – was first filmed by William Wyler in the sunny hills of California nearly a century later. The French-born actress, Juliet Binoche, starred in a 1992 remake. There have been several TV adaptations, and non-English versions from Luis Bunuel and Jacques Rivette.

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Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil

Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, tagged , , , on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Last November, Morris Engleberg – former lawyer and executor of Joe DiMaggio’s estate – objected to a new biography of the baseball legend, or more precisely, its cover – a photo of DiMaggio with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, taken by John Vachon in 1953.

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Bookish Birthdays: Anne Sexton

Posted in Books, Poetry, tagged , , on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My tribute to the American poet, Anne Sexton, born on this day in 1924, is published at For Books’ Sake

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The Guns of Retribution

Posted in Books, Brighton, Fiction, tagged , , , , , , on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My review of The Guns of Retribution - a Western novella by Icy Sedgwick, published by Brighton’s Pulp Press – is now online at For Books’ Sake

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Finishing the Picture

Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Theatre, tagged , , , on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Finishing the Picture: Miller, Monroe and The Misfits Finishing the Picture, Arthur Miller’s last play, opened in Chicago in October 2004, a few months before his death. It was inspired by Miller’s own memories of The Misfits, the movie he wrote for his then-wife, Marilyn Monroe.

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