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A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right

Yesterday it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. It says plenty about both the stature and importance of both Dylan and the Nobel Prize organisation itself that – save perhaps among some groups of literary elitist critics, pedants and those whose [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Room With A View/Theatre Royal Brighton

A literary memory from my school is a discussion on novelists in which the head master termed E. M Forster a “weak writer”. There was much consternation over this but it discoloured my appreciation of him. I have made various attempts to read A Room With a View with little success and [...]

October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Madrid: The History/Jules Stewart

One of the debates we have on the arts side of the Rust is kindle v book. It’s not either/or as many like me see the benefits of both. The kindle is transportable, downloadable and readable. Yet it has somehow taken some of the “connection” out of reading. Giving someone a [...]

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Review: Bridget Jones’s Baby

Last evening I went to see the relatively current movie Bridget Jones’s Baby with my thirty-something daughter. It’s not normally the kind of film that I’d go to watch and she reported that her mates and cousins have been marvelling either that a father would want to see it all, let alone [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

This House/ Chichester Festival Theatre

If you were an aspiring playwright your  play would be unlikely to be about the machinations of the Whips Offices of both parties in the Labour government of 1974-79. Yet this was precisely what James Graham wrote successfully  in This House. This was first dramatised at the National Theatre in [...]

October 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Theatre review: This House (Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre)

Yesterday I joined an old pal, a man of extensive property interests, for lunch in a hotel restaurant in Chichester. He was holed up there after doing a spot of business in the morning which had seemingly gone particularly well, for as I arrived he announced that we were to be served a bottle of [...]

October 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Acting tales

Yesterday I had a lunch with a good pal and conversation turned to actors and acting. My friend once shared a flat long ago with Alan Dobie and is still good friends with David Warner. These may not not be household names but in their day were highly respected, successful actors of stage and [...]

October 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

From Russia With Love

The intriguing story in yesterday’s Telegraph of Enigma references in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love and the normal disappointing Monday tv fare persuaded me to watch the film version last night. They say the definition of a classic film is you start watching it, possibly one you [...]

October 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

National Treasure

I was disappointed by the second in the series.  It all became rather formulaic typifying modern drama: the wife Marie played by Julie Walters exemplifies the tough woman who accepts her husband’s philandering and holds the situation together , In the interests  of diversity some of the [...]

September 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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