So last night I was at the press night for All About My Mother, the Old Vic’s new adaptation of Pedro Almodovar’s classic film. My review’s online now, and will be in print in next week’s issue of The Stage. In the meantime, the condensed version:
Oh. Dear. God.
It got three stars in the […]
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We have become somewhat inured of late to the phenomenon of newspaper columnists detailing the minutiae of life under the shadow of a terminal illness. The Observer’s Ruth Picardie and The Times’ John Diamond both arguably became more famous as cancer sufferers than they ever had been as the accomplished journalists they already were.
There […]
As a nation, we’ve come to expect impersonation of former singing stars to be accompanied by dry ice, sliding doors and Matthew Kelly. No matter how many Stars In Their Eyes she may have, though, Deirdre the housewife will, after her three-and-a-half minutes of fame, still be a housewife.
When Kate Dimbleby dons the peroxide […]