The Summertime Sadness star has been keen to add her voice to the Bond franchise for a number of years.
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Victoria says she and David have always tried to “protect” their children, following a rift with their son.
“He taught and gave me so much. Warm, wise, encouraging, generous and gentle. An exceptional talent. I was lucky enough to work with him on various things over the years, from the inception of Raindog Theatre Company and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, panto, radio, Monarch of the Glen, of course, and much more.
The show at the Barbican Music Library celebrates 1996 and includes Mel B’s leopard-print catsuit
The Succession star says Glenrothan – his directorial debut – is a “love letter to Scotland”.
Harmon was best known for a car-washing scene in the Paul Newman prison drama.
Through a collection of stories, both old and new, Mary Beard begins Talking Classics with her experience of what the ancient Greeks might term thauma (a wonder, or wonderment) when visiting a museum in her youth, upon viewing a piece of ancient Egyptian bread.
Bizarre as it may sound, this experience sets the scene perfectly for the journey Talking Classics takes the reader on, seamlessly coalescing the world’s vast history with that of the present day.
Readers are invited to reflect on their own meditations – classical pun intended – of classics as a whole, noting on how the fixated appreciation of the Greeks and Romans can lead to an overall misinterpretation of what that time was really like.
Overall, Beard’s friendly, colloquial writing style makes for an easy read when sitting down with Talking Classics, from depicting rich images of historic life in ancient Pompeii to present day America; evoking images of the past and contrasting them with how modern-day eyes might view it. Although I’m no historicist (or classicist, for that matter), Talking Classics is a stimulating, accessible read which I would recommend to anyone with even the faintest of interests in the classics.
The singer will play three UK arenas later this year, 14 years after her first album came out.
The lawsuit said the firm’s practices had led to higher ticket prices and worse service for customers.
Journalist and author Rory Carroll makes a welcome return to long-form writing here, following the critical success of 2023’s Killing Thatcher and the superbly written Hugo Chavez biography Comandante (2013). Having served as the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent since 2018, Carroll here turns his focus to the extraordinary latter years of the life of his fellow Dubliner, Roger Casement.
A truly fascinating character, Casement would become a hero of the Irish nationalist movement, but was raised in England and enjoyed a remarkable rise through the British civil service. Eventually knighted for his services (which included the bombshell exposure of human rights abuses in the Congo by Belgium, and further atrocities by a British-registered company collecting rubber in Peru), Casement then returned to his roots – a self-professed “incorrigible Irishman”.
He became an active proponent of Irish nationalism and an energetic leader in a conspiracy to encourage German military support for the movement in 1914. It is these years of Casement’s life and, particularly, the efforts of the fastidious British Naval captain Reginald ‘Blinker’ Hall to foil the plot, which drive the narrative of A Rebel And A Traitor.
Combining the energetic penmanship of a thriller-writer with the detailed analytical eye required to effectively portray the complexities of Casement’s life, Carroll has delivered a compelling work of historic writing which more than does its subject justice.