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Appointment in Samarra/John O’Hara

The recommendation of books is the artery of the book world. The most obvious source is the critic or reviewer. However there are problems here. The reviewer can be a disaffected writer, possibly a biographer selling 5000 books for one year’s hard toil and jealous of a popular writer that can [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Television: past and present

At the risk of being a bore [surely not, Editor] I continue to enjoy the vintage retro tv of the seventies and eighties shown on ITV4. I have praised the quality of the scripts, the acting and the creation of memorable  characters in Minder and The Professionals but there are two more features [...]

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Rules of the Game

One of the aspects of my work which I most enjoy and as Arthur Daley might say a”nice little earner” is advising on art acquisition. I am sufficiently critical of myself, my clientele and the art world to say there is an element of hypocrisy here. The client may say and will be advised [...]

October 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Reading matters

One of the aspects I enjoy most in the Rust is the ongoing debate of attendance v watching on tv a sporting event. As an WBA supporter I don’t get to many games but that does mean I have no cred as for geographical, financial, and logistical reasons it’s not that easy. Over in the arts [...]

October 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life imitating art, or something …

The process of growing old is a strange phenomenon. As an oldie I sometimes frighten myself by how little I can remember about the past, not just in history generally but about what happened when in my own life. Having said that, ironically perhaps, it is also the case that simultaneously – [...]

October 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Bad Jews/Theatre Royal

One of the  features I most appreciate about the Rust is the approach to review. This is typified by dear young Daffers, DYD as I call her, who rates ambience, greeting, decor, comfort, cost, speed of delivery and payment as much as gastronomy as these are all considerations the diner takes on [...]

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Magic of Motown/ Theatre Royal Brighton

I don’t really enjoy nor appreciate tribute bands and rock musicals so I was apprehensive last night about The Magic of Motown. It was a dedication to the great Motown artists of the sixties and seventies, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and Gladys Knight. Six black [...]

October 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Nooooooooooooooo!

I hate it whenever one of the ‘temples of eternal truths’ of one’s youth is proved to have been built upon sand. It may only have been about ten years ago that I first learned that actress Diana Copeland – perhaps best remembered as Sid James’ long-suffering wife in [...]

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Up Against the Night/ Justin Cartwright

I begin this review with an admission: I know Justin Cartwright and like him immensely. Thus the reader might charge me with being unobjective and also I can see biographical elements to his novel that the more detached reader does not. It’s the story written in the “I” form of [...]

October 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rebecca/Theatre Royal Brighton

To dramatise on stage a fine novel and film is never going to be easy and Emma Rice’s production is a brave but flawed attempt. I went with Alice Mansfield, an authority on Daphne du Maurier, who wondered beforehand how a play necessarily finite and constrained to the proscenium would cope [...]

October 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

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