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The Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel ignited the film career of Marlene Dietrich, then aged 28, and her film career going nowhere. Just another struggling Berlin actress. Fortunately for her director Josef von Sternberg cast her in The Blue Angel a cooperation that was to make six films for Paramount and lift her to [...]

May 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Two novels set in Florence: Angels of Mud & Still Life

As Venice is for painters so Florence has attracted writers: E. M Forster’s Room With a View and Alex Preston’s In Love and War to name but two. By happenstance the last two novels I have read were both set in post war Florence. Curious too with half the Rust team in Nice. The first – [...]

April 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

The complications of modern – and ancient – life

Today I dip my toe gingerly into potentially controversial waters as I express a certain sympathy with the plight of poor Northern Ireland Women’s manager Kenny Shiels. Rusters who follow the sport of football will be all too familiar with the incident which has propelled Mr Shiels on to the [...]

April 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

For me, it’s one Bridge too far …

Regular visitors to this organ will be aware that we have previously covered the case of the transgender Emily Bridges which is currently a cause celebre in British – and to some extent also now world – cycling. Today I return to it because of the latest development. Emily issued a [...]

April 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Communication in the modern era

Earlier this week I read somewhere that these days spoken phone calls are becoming less popular than alternatives such as texting, instant messaging or video calls. Apparently a new survey conducted for Sky Mobile found that 80% of people contacted said they preferred messaging or video calls to [...]

April 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

On a fundamental sporting dilemma

As regular readers will be aware, on this organ we have a number of subjects that we address upon a recurring basis simply because from time to time – usually prompted by either stories featuring in the media and/or events in our lives – they come mind. Today’s example is arguably a glorious [...]

March 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Anatomy of a scandal/Sarah Vaughan

I am reading Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan, a political thriller shortly to be dramatised on Netflix. It is not very good. Firstly the characters are flimsily based upon Boris Johnson/David Cameron (Oxford ex-Eton toffs) and a Conservative sex scandal – all familiar territory to [...]

March 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Roast, Borough Market

‘Roast’  is in Borough Market. It is new to me and things got off to a bad start when they had no sign of the reservation which I had booked through TheFork. I knew I had booked – and indeed had confirmation – so I was less than pleased. My guest, an actress whom I have known 40 [...]

March 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Transgender issues, not least in sport

Being an oldie, Rust readers would expect me to be relatively unimpressed by the 21st Century’s general obsessions with “wokeness”, atoning for the alleged sins of colonialism, no-platforming, the advancement of equality and diversity and, of course, the supposed inalienable right of women [...]

March 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Kiss Myself Goodbye/Ferdinand Mount

This is the story of the aunt of Ferdinand Mount who was the former editor of the Times Literary Review and advisor of Mrs. Thatcher. He called her Aunt Munca but she gave herself many names in her life journey from childhood in a poor part of Sheffield to a suite in Claridges and a house in [...]

February 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

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