25 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Arthur Miller, Colin Clark, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, Milton Greene, My Week With Marilyn, Paula Strasberg, Simon Curtis, The Prince And The Showgirl, Zoe Wanamaker
‘This is a fairy tale’, was the original tagline – later replaced by ‘this is a true story.’ Continue reading
22 Tuesday Nov 2011
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
22 Tuesday Nov 2011
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A Taste of Honey, Dance With a Stranger, For Books' Sake, Jeanette Winterson, Joan Littlewood, Kenneth Tynan, Morrissey, Salford, Shelagh Delaney, Theatre Royal Stratford East
My tribute to Shelagh Delaney, ‘the first working-class woman playwright’, who died recently, is published today at For Books’ Sake
20 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Fiction, Film
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. Continue reading
14 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe
Last November, Morris Engelberg – 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. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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