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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Clive Morgan
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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Call me paranoid, but I can't help discerning some grim significance in Channel 4's decision to transmit a documentary about the sexual history of the now ageing heir to the throne on the night when our attention is turned to the American presidential elections. To me, what they were saying was, stop getting all excited about the charismatic black guy and change we can believe in – that's over there. Over here, you're still struggling to get out form underneath a quasi-feudal system dominated by wealthy, socially homogeneous, middle-aged and charisma-free men.
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David Harpool reviews Channel 4's look at Prince Charles's friendshipwith Lady Dale Tryon, plus the latest episode of British Style Genius.
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Tessa Gibbs
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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The director first dismissed 'Bees,' only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered "The Secret Life of Bees" to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without a break and she was exhausted.
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The director first dismissed 'Bees,' only to later fall in love with the book and bring it to the screen. SIX YEARS ago, when Gina Prince-Bythewood was first offered "The Secret Life of Bees" to adapt into a screenplay and direct, she blew it off without even reading the book. Never mind that Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a young white girl growing up in the civil-rights-era South was a bestseller. Prince-Bythewood had just come off directing two movies without a break and she was exhausted.
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By Robert Collins
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“The Choice,” on PBS’s “Frontline,” traces the two candidates’ stories but ends at a point when the war in Iraq — rather than the economy — still seemed as if it might be the election’s pivotal issue.
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Pete Naughton
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By Serena Davies
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Pick of the London Film Festival
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Radio 2 recently carried an interview with a female Icelandic pop singer (there’s one who isn't Björk, apparently). This woman told an enthralling story about a male friend of hers called Siggi, a drummer and a bit of a show-off, who was out for a walk when he saw a group of people standing around a beached whale. To amuse the crowd, this man climbed on to the whale and clambered over it pretending to conduct a guided tour, but suddenly he disappeared from view. The only sign of him was a faint echoing cry. It transpired that he had fallen into the whale’s vagina, and had to be hauled out by a human chain. He is now affectionately known in Icelandic pop circles as 'Siggi the Vagina Miner'. I relate this tale not because poor Siggi's experience acts as a kind of metaphor for the Icelandic economy, although in a way it does, nor in a spirit of incredulity that Radio 2, the erstwhile home of Jimmy Young, for heaven's sake, should now be broadcasting stories of m ...
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By Damian Thompson
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"Which do you prefer – fake or natural?" asked Gok Wan at the beginning of Miss Naked Beauty. Since you're asking, Gok, I think what I'd prefer is really, really good fake. Tasteful, you know, so that it's only distinguishable from natural by the fact that it looks a bit better. This, incidentally, is not only the wrong answer to Gok's question, it is a wicked answer too, because Miss Naked Beauty is on a mission to the benighted, a series expressly intended to take on commercially sponsored notions of orthodox beauty and "say no to beauty fascism". That it does this with a kind of Nuremberg rally of empty self-affirmation, in which various young women spout the "we're-all-beautiful" party-line, may strike some viewers as a paradox. But I imagine that Gok's devoted fans won't notice. For myself, I couldn't help but feel an unexpected surge of sympathy for the defiantly unnatural Joan Rivers. Vox-popped by Gok in a London street and asked whether she supported his search for an unadulterated beauty ambas ...
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By Patricia Wynn Davies
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By Gerard O'Donovan
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In Dead Set, television is eating itself, and it's a messy eater. Look, there was Davina McCall, eyes like lychees and gnawing on a strand of lower intestine, ripped from the belly of an unfortunate runner. This wasn't, as it happened, just the talent having a hissy fit. Davina had become a zombie, all that animatronic perkiness wiped away and replaced by a slavering lust for human flesh. And as news flashes reported on the spread of the mystery contagion and the live feed was interrupted for updates on riot and conflagration, only a tiny handful of people remained unaware of what was happening: the bickering housemates inside the Big Brother house, insulated from the outside world by a television format.
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By James Walton
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By James Walton
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Give it up for the Embarrassing Bodies doctors, "tackling embarrassment wherever they find it", according to the gung-ho opening for Channel 4's travelling problem page, which appears to have been stalking festivals and beaches recently soliciting teenagers to expose themselves in front of the cameras.
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