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Lost for Words /Edward St Aubyn

Edward St Aubyn made his name with a series of novels, five in all,  featuring Patrick Melrose who was raped by his father. These are rather searing though extremely well written and in parts amusing. One literary friend of mine was reduced to tears by them. They generally had clever ambiguous [...]

January 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Fill the Void

Israel does not have the film industry you might expect. One of the most unified countries in the world you might have thought it would produce films glorifying its past achievements but Exodus was made by Ottto Preminger and Raid on Entebbe by Irvin Kirschner. Famously at the premier of Exodus, a [...]

January 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

George Weidenfeld

An aunt of mine who went to Forest Mere Health Hydro some 50 years ago met George Weidenfked there. She even was invited to his famous parties. It was an early introduction to me of one of the most magnetic and charismatic of post war publishers who died this week. On the Rust we like to dispel [...]

January 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hitchcock

Of all the genres, films about films I find the most entertaining. My favourite would be the Truffaut classic La Nuit Americaine  (Day for Night) in which Graham Greene makes an appearance and stars Jacqueline Bisset who made a fortune in real estate. Not far behind would be Le Mepris with the [...]

January 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Cote restaurant and London Philharmonic

You are unlikely to read a review of Cote in the columns of the serious foodies. Like Ken Howard, Terence Rattigan and Daphne du Maurier – all extolled in this organ – Cote suffers for its popularity. Yet if offers seriously good food at a reasonable price and this is why it is packed. [...]

January 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Getting to the nub of it

Sometimes I get a little confused, when I alight upon a rather smart aphorism, as to whether I’ve heard it elsewhere – e.g. via a quotation or written extract from a literary great, a politician, celebrity film star or artist, philosopher, wit or comedian – or I actually came up with myself. [...]

January 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Berlin 36

The 1936 Berlin Olympiad is rightly remembered for the feats of Jesse Owens who so embarrassed Hitler that he walked out of the stadium. There was another lesser known story of racial prejudice and  confused, indeed contrived gender, recorded in the 2010 film Berlin 36. I saw the film on Netflix [...]

January 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ken Howard exhibition

Last Tuesday  I attended Ken Howard ‘s annual show at the Richard Green Gallery. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Ken Howard and Richard  Green is thst they are in their eighties and still going strong. Arriving early I was able to speak to Ken and see his paintings without the [...]

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Minder Revisited

The National Rust is big on seventies tv drama and rightly so. One of the pleasures for me is to spot a young actor who went on to a big career. On Monday in Minder Ray Winstone appeared as a jack the lad young van driver. Yesterday Robbie Coltrane played a wig manufacturer Mr Henry and you can see [...]

January 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

False Nine/ Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr made his literary reputation with The Bernie Gunther novels set during and after the Nazi Reich. His hero was a detective, a good man and good German who would not bend to the Nazi creed. Kerr’s knowledge of that period was impressive and the plots exciting. He has now created a [...]

January 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

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