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How to Marry a Millionaire

08 Monday Jan 2018

Posted by marina72 in Brighton, Fashion and Beauty, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Betty Grable, Brighton, Cinemascope, David Wayne, Duke of York's Brighton, How to Marry a Millionaire, Jean Negulesco, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Nunnally Johnson, Picturehouse, Travilla

On a crisp Friday morning in the first week of January, I joined a handful of people at the Duke of York’s in Brighton – England’s oldest independent cinema – for a screening of How to Marry a Millionaire. It’s part of a regular series of classic movies aimed at an older audience, with tea and biscuits served beforehand, and a fifteen-minute interval – although I think it’s fair to say they could use some promotion. (Classic movie fans, please note: Millionaire is showing at Picturehouse cinemas across the UK throughout January, and looking further ahead, There’s No Business Like Show Business is scheduled for June.) Continue reading →

2016: A Year In Non-Fiction

22 Thursday Dec 2016

Posted by marina72 in Amy Winehouse, Books, Brighton, Film, History, Lana Del Rey, Music, Non-Fiction, Politics, Witchcraft, Writing

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A Year in Books, Amy Winehouse, Another Day in the Death of America, BFI Stars, Blondie, British Witches of Sussex, Elena Ferrante, F.A. Mannan, Frances Farmer, Frantumaglia, Gary Younge, I'm Not In the Band, Jean Rhys, Journalism, Julie Christie, Lana Del Rey, Letters, Lyndsy Spence, Margaret Lockwood, Melanie Bell, Natalie Wood, Nathalie Leger, Peter Shelley, Rebecca Sullivan, Suite For Barbara Loden, Sylvia Patterson

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British journalist Gary Younge has a sharp eye for how political events impact on ordinary lives. While living in Chicago, he investigated the stories behind the blunt statistics of ten children and teenagers shot dead in a single day. Never intrusive, but quietly devastating, Another Day in the Death of America illuminates with rare power. Continue reading →

Layla

05 Wednesday Mar 2014

Posted by marina72 in Books, Brighton, Fiction

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For Books' Sake, Layla, Nina De La Mer

Layla by Nina De La Mer

My review of Layla, the second novel by Brighton-based author Nina De La Mer, is posted at For Books’ Sake.

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Biba and Beyond

07 Thursday Feb 2013

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Brighton, Fashion and Beauty, History

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Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Hulanicki, Biba, Boutique, Brighton, Kate Moss, Kensington, London, Poland, Twiggy, Warsaw

Barbara Hulanicki, the fashion designer who founded Biba, the iconic 60s boutique, spent her formative years in Brighton. She is now the subject of a major retrospective, Biba and Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki, at Brighton Museum and Gallery in the Pavilion Gardens until April 14th. Continue reading →

The Guns of Retribution

25 Tuesday Oct 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Brighton, Fiction

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Brighton, For Books' Sake, Icy Sedgwick, Novella, Pulp Press, The Guns of Retribution, Western

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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