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News Source: Variety
| about 1 hour ago
Gerard Butler has made a career out of confounding his critics. In recent years, the Scottish thesp, who recently turned 40, has played everything from an iconic, singing spectre ("The Phantom of the Opera") to a belligerent Spartan king ("300") to a
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 hour ago
Rosanna Greenstreet 'I'm interested in the fabulous capacities of human beings.' Photograph: David Levene Jeanette Winterson , 50, was brought up by adoptive parents in Accrington. At 23, she wrote Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit , which won a
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 hour ago
When I was a child, I knew that Van Gogh was the greatest painter who had ever lived...I have learned to admire Botticelli and Caravaggio and Ivon Hitchens, but in old age I am faithful to my earliest love...The eye sees, the hand obeys, the spirit
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 hour ago
A snip at £325. "Historical ignorance breeds political apathy, and it is this deficiency that two excellent books will correct," Dan Jones noted in the Times, recommending David Horspool's The English Rebel and Ben Wilson's What Price Liberty? . "
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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 hour ago
I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage' Frank Kermode interviewed by Christopher Tayler Frank Kermode. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe In 1995, Sir Frank Kermode published
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News Source: The Gazette
| about 2 hours ago
Artist and poet Jane Hilberry wasn’t surprised when she was invited to speak at a conference at the Colorado Springs School . The poet, who’s been an English professor at Colorado College since 1988, regularly does these kind of talks and
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News Source: Connecticut Post
| about 3 hours ago
Mayor-elect John Harkins vowed throughout a highly contentious four-man contest for the town's top job earlier this year that a cornerstone of his administration would be to reach across the political aisle, seeking the bipartisan cooperation he said
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| about 3 hours ago
However, this week I'm sticking my cowardly neck out to discuss a topic that will disturb you...Now, I'm aware this topic can generate more fuss than which way to hang the toilet paper (with the paper coming over the top, people), but stay with me.