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Lalaland- worth 7 Golden Globes?

The short answer is no. To justify these accolades a musical must have a better score and Lalaland barely has one memorable song. Think of the great MGM musicals of the fifties, Singing in the Rain, My Fair Lady, Gigi and the songs are memorable. The much and justifiably revived Oliver! does not [...]

January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picasso’s ceramics

Like many of genius Picasso had a restless spirit. That spirit might explain why he went through so many periods – blue, pink, cubist and experimented in so many different media. In 1947 when his artistic and political fame (he was a director of the Prado during the Spanish Civil War and [...]

January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

EAST WEST STREET/PHILIPPE SANDS

EAST WEST STREET is a portrait of two eminent jurists and an investigation into the antecedents of international human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands. The common denominator is Lviv, a city sometimes in Poland but now in Ukraine as the two lawyers, Hirsch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin both lived in [...]

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not elementary enough, Doctor Watson

Yesterday after my evening meal (having recorded the same on Sunday) and because Monday is worst night of the week for television I watched the third and final episode of the BBC drama’s blockbuster Sherlock’s fourth series. By now most UK viewers will know that this incarnation of Sir Arthur [...]

January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Back to Black

I’m not saying that I know I’m preaching to the converted but it will come as no surprise to regular visitors to this website that a recurring theme is not nostalgia per se, or indeed any notion that Fings Ain’t Wot They Used Ter Be, but a simple (and some might like to think logical) common [...]

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Crown

Seeing a reference to Claire Foy in Bob Tickler’s rant sorry crafted piece inspired me to watch the series The Crown on Netflix. This proved to be no easy matter. Netflix appears in the Home Page after the TV switches on and then disappears. My wife Gail and I had various attempts at [...]

January 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Shantaram/Gregory David Roberts

I studied modern languages at school which provided an excellent education on French and German classic literature for which I am grateful. Our teacher had a theory that the life of the writer was irrelevant. The cleverest boy in our class challenged him one day on this. Since that day I have often [...]

January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

3 classic films.

Making a long haul flight and seeing the menu of films on offer I chose 3 classics of cinema. When I see such a classic, often for the umpteenth time, I look for some new theme, get drawn in anyway and leave it identifying a theme I did not anticipate. All thus happened in the three I chose:   [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of ‘making up your own rules’

One of the great things about the Rust – and it took a while to dawn upon me – is our laissez-faire editorial policy. When I first joined I found it all rather disconcerting. Indeed I found I wasn’t by any means the only correspondent who had initially felt it that represented [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could have knocked me down with a feather

Today I shall be venturing a little beyond my remit for my first post of the New Year. Perhaps due to the blizzard of family activities, the McDonnell household has been full of chaos in recent times and – with not least my own catering duties to the fore – I have necessarily been distracted [...]

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

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