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What wouldn't
you do for celebrity stardom?
Former EastEnder Shaun Williamson
tells Peter Gruner about the price of fame
A CONTROVERSIAL and shocking American black comedy, which
touches on the national obsessions of celebrity and fame, is
about have its British premiere at Islington’s King’s
Head Theatre. >
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A tale of
two Kiplings
Rudyard Kipling is one of our
most enduring writers, but also a mass of contradictions, finds
Piers Plowright
IF I’d been looking out of my window in the Spring
of 1935 I might have seen a small man, top-hatted and probably
dress-ed in black, on the arm of an even smaller, thick-set
woman, going through... >
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Haunting
verse which holds us spellbound - POETRY brings you
nearer and nearer to that crystal of light of an untold number
of facets reflecting everything. >
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Escape
into the landscape - COMMERCIAL illustration is a
dying art. With computers and digital photography the need for
an artist who can put together an image... >
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A community's photo album
- KILBURN in 1972 was a community facing rapid change. Massive
new investment in the area – one of the poorest in London...>
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Who's
that girl? - IN the early days of Doctor Who, when Patrick
Troughton played the good doctor, he had a delectable sidekick
called Samantha Briggs. >
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Did
Falkender really write the Lavender list? - MY first impression
of Harold Wilson was of a plump tabby cat, puffing... >
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A
prophet and painter years ahead of her time - HILMA Klint
described herself as an atom in the universe. But the revelations
surrounding a series of...>
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The
garden of delight for Bafta-winning Lia - URBAN and rural
worlds collide in Shakespeare’s As You Like It as characters
flee inner-city pressures into...>
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Laugh
your head off, or have it lopped off
- THE Duke of Edinburgh’s man servant walked out of
the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury last week with....>
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Leigh
and the art of ad hoc film-making - ACCLAIMED film and theatre
director Mike Leigh gave his audience a... >
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Islamic
art and the Jewish connoisseur - BUYING art is not an investment
– it is about safeguarding cultural items for...>
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Kevin
and Tom cook up Moore comic fun - For actor Kevin Bishop
playing Dudley Moore on stage was a real eye-opener, writes
Peter Gruner. >
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Tales
by a Russian master - WHEN Clare Kitson started to publicise
her book on film masterpiece The Tale of Tales, she knew she
was up against it. >
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Drama
as Gayle puts The Bard behind bars - Stage and screen star
Gayle Hunnicutt is bringing Shakespeare to prison inmates around
the country writes Gerald >
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Book
festival open to all - It's Jewish Book Week and with over
50 events and a host of top names there's bound to be something
for everyone, writes Dan Carrier >
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Betjeman's
great defender - A N Wilson's biography of John Betjeman
shows the late poet laureate as a product of his Highgate childhood,
writes Jane Wright >
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Wanda’s
building sight - GETTING caught in the traffic around the
massive rebuilding at the King’s Cross development was
the inspiration for a new exhibition >
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Chasing
Rimbaud through our streets - WHO would have thought that
in Camden there once lived in 1873 two great French poets >
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Generations
join for a theatrical triumph - THE Tower
Theatre Company, which was left in severe difficulties after
losing its Islington home of more than 50 years >
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Playwright
emerges from obscurity with a tale of incest –
Playwright John Symonds has lived in relative obscurity in Hampstead
for 40 years...>
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