The Independent (London, England) back issues from December 2008:
Take a cold, hard look
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Weekend's Television WALLANDER SUN BBC1 LOUIS THEROUX: LAWAND DISORDER IN PHILADELPHIA SUN BBC1 AFTER ROME: HOLY WAR ANDCONQUEST SAT BBC2 The titular detective in Wallander is gloomy - a crapulous, grey-looking figure in Ken Branagh's characterisation, poised ...
CLASSICAL
Dec 01, 2008; ... THOMAS QUASTHOFF Wigmore Hall, London ***** No wonder the hall is full: a recital by the German baritoneThomas Quasthoff is not to be missed. Perched on his customisedstool, he immediately banishes any thoughts about his diminutive,thalidomide-affected frame. This is his ...
Radio Choice
Dec 01, 2008; ... Bleak House 11AM BBC RADIO 7 Michael Kitchen and Jean Marsh star in this five-part adaptationof Charles Dickens's most complex novel, a dark tale about a long-running legal dispute. Afternoon Play: Prayer Mask 2.15PM RADIO 4 Joseph Fiennes stars in David ...
From Marseilles to Baltimore
Dec 01, 2008; ... As The French Connection gets a new release, its director WilliamFriedkin tells James Mottram how it paved the way for TV dramas from24 to The Wire If there's any doubt that William Friedkin's The FrenchConnection has endured, you only have to play this year's most-hyped ...
Riveting roller-coaster is an American classic
Dec 01, 2008; ... THEATRE AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY National Theatre: Lyttelton, London***** Having won six Tony awards on Broadway and the Pulitzer Prize forits author, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County was asking for itscomeuppance on arrival at the National Theatre. Much as I'd like tokick-start a ...
OPERA
Dec 01, 2008; ... RIDERS TO THE SEA Coliseum, London ***** It was always going to be an intense evening, but factor in theuntimely death of the man who was to have conducted, Richard Hickox,and it became a profoundly sad one. How typical that Hickox shouldhave been the motivator for English ...
POP
Dec 01, 2008; ... MGMT The Forum, London **** Of all the Brooklyn exports to the British music scene, MGMT spanthe most musical generations with their blend of Sixties synth-fuelled psychedelia, Bowie influences and rock. That tickets fortonight sold out in June and touts are selling them for 100 ...
The pathological pursuit of a motoring icon and a Minor miracle
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Monday Book MORRIS MINOR: THE BIOGRAPHY By Martin WainwrightAURUM, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) on 0870 0798897 Which of today's cars might a thirtysomething recall in 2040 witha fugitive and unearthly fondness? A Smart car, perhaps: chic,cleavered, ...
BOOK NOW
Dec 01, 2008 ... Power of a Cliche A spoken word performance and slide show by the writer andphotographer Haleh Anvari (right) that explores and contrasts therepresentation of Iranian women in the West and in Iran. Power of aCliche focuses on the black chador as visual shorthand for Iran, andits ...
Princesses of pop
Dec 01, 2008; ... A new generation of women want to take over the charts. Justdon't call it Girl Power, they tell Matilda Egere-Cooper In 2008, a few schools of feminine pop ruled the roost. On theright were the retro-revivalists, lavished with plaudits for theiryouth, remarkable vocals and their ...
Timeless style - updated
Dec 01, 2008; ... The turtleneck, the tailoring, the tulip skirt ... it's allclassic Yves Saint Laurent - but with a twist. Creative directorStefano Pilati tells Susannah Frankel why nothing in fashion shouldstay the same. Not for long, at least 'I was thinking about power, and about a powerful ...
The party dress code
Dec 01, 2008; ... Preparing for the season of celebration? Choose a style thatsuits both you and the occasion, says Carola Long'Things go better with a little bit of razzamatazz," sang JarvisCocker back in the mid 1990s, and he might as well have beenreferring to the party season. Dressing up is ...
Ready to Wear
Dec 01, 2008; ... What a woman. You have to hand it to Madonna - she's asfabulously fashionable at 50 as she ever was. In fact, thisparticular look - she's wearing a sleeveless green organza feathertop, leather obi belt and black feather skirt, all from nextseason's Louis Vuitton collection - establishes ...
1 DECEMBER 1936
Dec 01, 2008 ... Days Like These sir henry "chips" channon, Conservative politician, writes in hisdiary: "Last night, the male dinner party at Stornaway House wasBeaverbrook, Esmond Harmsworth, Perry Brownlow and Monckton, theKing's Solicitor. All agreed the marriage cannot be allowed, andthat ...
Justin TV: is this a game of life and death?
Dec 01, 2008; ... I first met Justin Kam in May 2007 at Los Angeles' landmarkRoosevelt hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. Back then, Kam had his owninternet show: an always-on video streaming act in theme of PeterWeir's 1998 movie The Truman Show, which involved Kam wearing awebcam and broadcasting himself, ...
Operation lifesaver
Dec 01, 2008; ... In Zambia, an experiment in the battle with HIV/Aids is producingstaggering results. If this were a vaccine trial, the medical worldwould be hailing it as a miracle. But instead of a wonder drug, thesecret weapon is circumcision. Jeremy Laurance reports After weeks of waiting, ...
'What happened to the future they promised us on Tomorrow's World?'
Dec 01, 2008; ... Tales Of The Suburbs I was once told, by someone who knows about these things, thatthe key to being relaxed and happy is to fill your spare time withan absorbing hobby. Now, almost everyone to whom I have passed this on has retortedthat they don't have any spare time. There ...
The Life Browser
Dec 01, 2008 ... ON THE WEB TODAY ... What's cooking * Whoever came up with the idea to invite Snoop Dogg on to theMartha Stewart cookery show may well be a viral marketing genius. Ina hugely popular clip, the charismatic rapper struggles to masterthe concept of mashed ...
Despite 'Manuelgate', Radio 5 Live's controller risks playing it for laughs
Dec 01, 2008; ... Comedy hasn't been a laughing matter at BBC Radio for some weeksnow. Suddenly it's a genre fraught with danger that makes producersblanch with fear, having already cost two powerful executives theirjobs and besmirched the careers of two of the corporation's mostfamous ...
Less lunch, Moore licence fee please
Dec 01, 2008; ... In furtherance of his heroic campaign to destroy the institutionhe is paid an annual 816,000 to protect, Mark Thompson is reportedlyintent on entertaining a common criminal at the licence fee payer'sexpense. The BBC director general has invited Charles Moore to lunchin his office, ...
Why marketers must learn to ride new waves with silver surfers
Dec 01, 2008; ... Just look at him in his aviators and tux, a girl hanging off eachshoulder, and spraying around the fizz like Lewis Hamilton on thepodium at Silverstone. Except, of course, if you're a media planner,a brand manager or a marketing director you probably won't see thisfellow at all because ...
How to talk about the economy
Dec 01, 2008; ... Life Support ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR THE MODERN WORLD GET PRACTISING We might not be at war, but there is certainly a Blitz spirit inthe air. The collapse of much of the global economy is unifying thenation in a way we haven't seen since the days of ration books - orat least ...
Virginia Ironside's Dilemmas
Dec 01, 2008; ... Dear Virginia, I am a single parent, with no partner on thescene, and I've had a very open relationship with my son, who is now13. But I was taken aback when he recently confessed he thought hemight be gay. I have no idea how to handle this, and I'm worried itmight be something to do ...
Morning-after motoring
Dec 01, 2008; ... Does a good night's sleep mean it's safe to get behind the wheel?Simon Usborne mixes a real hangover with a virtual car to find out According to the online alcohol consumption calculator,www.RUpissed.com, I am, indeed, pissed. It's been more than eighthours since I drank the last ...
With Cheil deal, Trevor Beattie goes global
Dec 01, 2008; ... If all goes to plan, by the time you read this, one of Britain'smost famous admen will have inked a deal that sets his agency on theroad to the rest of the world. Trevor Beattie is going global. Beattie McGuinness Bungay, barely three years old and growingfaster than any other ...
Lorraine Candy
Dec 01, 2008; ... Work Lorraine Candy, 40, has been editor-in-chief of 'ELLE' since2004. Life Lives in north London with husband, James, and childrenRuskaya, Gracie and Henry. Balance Dishing out advice on 'Project Catwalk' and 'ModelBehaviour'. WHAT MAKES ELLE STAND OUT? It ...
The 'Sun King' is 77 and he can't go on for ever. But can his children keep the empire?
Dec 01, 2008; ... What will happen to Rupert Murdoch's vast media empire when hedies, or goes senile? According to a new biography of the tycoon byMichael Wolff published this week, there could be a deadlock amonghis children, who will control the trust that owns 38 per cent ofNews Corp. Mr Wolff ...
The snapper the stars still come out for
Dec 01, 2008; ... If you are one of the country's most famous celebrities, chancesare you see the unwashed hoards of photographers who follow youaround as the enemy - at least some of the time. But one man hasmade a career out of being different from the average paparazzo. Dave Hogan has ...
Beauty gift sets The Ten Best Beauty gift sets
Dec 01, 2008; ... Organic Pharmacy Start dropping hints now if you covet this Skin Essentials setfrom the Organic Pharmacy, as it isn't cheap. It includes a carrot-butter cleanser with muslin cloth, herbal toner, rose face cream,face gel and firming serum - your skin will thank you for ...
FIVE BEST { Exhibitions }
Dec 01, 2008 ... GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS (GUILDHALL ART GALLERY, LONDON) Life, the universe and everything from the strange Victoriancreator of visionary, allegorical paintings - grand, absurd andirresistible. Alongside photographs and other archival material are more than80 paintings, ...
FIVE BEST { Plays }
Dec 01, 2008 ... THE FAMILY REUNION (DONMAR WAREHOUSE, LONDON) Jeremy Herrin's highly charged and grimly atmospheric revival ofT S Eliot's verse-drama stars Samuel West as Harry, a modern-dayOrestes, who returns to the family home that he fled from eightyears previously. Penelope Wilton ...
FIVE BEST { Films }
Dec 01, 2008 ... CHANGELING (15, CLINT EASTWOOD, 141MINS) A consistently engaging, solid drama, based on a real-life case,which mixes "woman-in-peril" melodrama, police procedural andcrusading expose of corruption. Angelina Jolie stars as a motherwhose son disappears from her house in March ...
BEST OF THE REST
Dec 01, 2008 ... FOLK: BELLOWHEAD (QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, LONDON) The mob-handed folkies are the house band for this tribute toSandy Denny, which features Marc Almond, Lisa Knapp and Jim Moray. (0870 380 0400) tonight JAZZ: KEITH JARRETT (ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, ...
Critic's Choice
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Ascent of Money 8PM CHANNEL 4 Investors' inability to learn from past mistakes is the moral ofNiall Ferguson's latest film, in which he traces the history of thejoint-stock company (ie, one you can buy shares in) and thesubsequent market bubbles. Ferguson takes us from ...
Film Choice
Dec 01, 2008; ... Three Days of the Condor 1.25PM & 8PM SKY MOVIES MODERN GREATS (Sydney Pollack, 1975) A terrific post-Watergate spy thrillerwith Robert Redford (right) as a researcher for the CIA who comesback from lunch one day to discover that all of his colleagues havebeen killed. Faye ...
LUDERIN DARBONE
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fiddle player and bandleader at the forefront of Cajun music The leader of the Hackberry Ramblers for more than six decades,Luderin Darbone was a fine fiddle player and, more importantly, oneof the great innovators in Cajun music. Today, both the music and the cuisine of the ...
As the world sees it...
Dec 01, 2008 ... Indian security reform THE TIMES OF INDIA It will be a long time before the country and Mumbai forget theirnights of terror. But even as we try to think of how best we candeal with it, the most chilling realisation is that, in a countrylike ours, it is always going to be ...
Briefly
Dec 01, 2008 ... Delmar Watson The award-winning photographer Delmar Watson, who died ofprostate cancer on 26 October aged 82, was one of nine brothers andsisters all of whom were child actors, appearing in more than 1,000films between them. The family motto was "all for one and one forall", and ...
WILLIAM GIBSON
Dec 01, 2008; ... Playwright best known for his depiction of Helen Keller, 'TheMiracle Worker' The playwright William Gibson wrote two of Broadway's mostsuccessful post-war plays, both of which enjoyed runs of nearly twoyears - Two for the Seesaw, a two-character piece depicting theromance ...
Israel to free 250 in bid to bolster Abbas
Dec 01, 2008 ... World in brief JERUSALEM Israel is to free 250 Palestinian prisoners in a bid tobolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power strugglewith Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip. The prisoners, afraction of the 11,000 Palestinians held by Israel, will be ...
Gunmen kill eight diners
Dec 01, 2008 ... World in brief CIUDAD JAUREZ At least 12 masked gunmen opened fire at arestaurant in Mexico's northern border city of Ciudad Juarez,killing eight. The drugs squad said the gunmen arrived at theseafood ...
Creative light lost
Dec 01, 2008 ... World in brief The white sails of the Sydney Opera House darkened last night tomourn the death of Jorn Utzon, right, its Danish ...
Downturn set to challenge China
Dec 01, 2008 ... World in brief BEIJINGThe Chinese President, Hu Jintao, said China'scompetitiveness and trade strength were under threat from the globaleconomic downturn, testing the grip of the ruling Communist Party.The Party's ...
Pro-government rally raises the heat in Thai power struggle
Dec 01, 2008; ... Declaring their love of democracy, supporters of the PrimeMinister stage their own show of force as explosions rock thecapital. Oliver Wright reports from Bangkok THOUSANDS OF pro-government supporters took to the streets ofBangkok yesterday in a significant show of strength, as ...
Tesco sales to fall 3% below industry norm
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Week Ahead THE SUPERMARKET group Tesco is pegged to unveil a slowdown in UKlike-for-like sales growth when it publishes a third-quarter updatetomorrow. The company's non-food exposure and the introduction ofmore than 350 discount brands in September is expected to ...
Diary Economics
Dec 01, 2008 ... Today: Manufacturing PMI; Mortgage approvals data for October. Wednesday: BRC Shop Price Index for ...
You're not going far enough, Swedish expert tells Cameron
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE CONSERVATIVES will be warned today they would be wrong torefuse to allow Swedish-style independent "free" schools to make aprofit out of private education. That would be "a terrific mistake",said Mikael Sandstrom, the Swedish Prime Minister's senior adviser."The profit motive is good ...
Meet Robin Bhuna, a diligent Swedish schoolboy who only spends an hour a day in class. If the Tories are right, all British children should have the chance to learn like this
Dec 01, 2008; ... Richard Garner in Stockholm reports on the experiment that theConservatives want to import For Robin Bhula, a17-year-old student studying natural sciencesat a Swedish independent "free" school, the choice was simple. "Theold system tied me," he said. "I like to study at home. I ...
Rescuers fail to save 150 whales stranded on Tasmanian beach
Dec 01, 2008 ... At least 150 whales have died in a mass stranding off Tasmania'swest coast, despite efforts of rescuers who managed to shift a smallnumber back to the ocean. The state government said the number oflong-finned pilot whales that had perished had climbed to 150 aftera body count on Sunday, ...
Oligarchs on their uppers
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Millionaire's Fair in Moscow is an annual opportunity for therich to flaunt their wealth. But there's a twist this year: nobody'sgot any money to spend. By Miriam Elder There were cars and yachts, a naked model painted in gold and awho's who of the tacky Russian pop scene at ...
The price is wrong: 2.5% sale starts today
Dec 01, 2008; ... Many retailers will pass on the VAT cut that takes effect today,but they haven't had time to change their price tags * Retailers runout of time to change price tags ahead of Darling's cut in VAT SHOPS will be displaying the wrong prices today after retailersfailed to change all ...
Georgia calls for swift compromise on Nato
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Saakashvili says Nato should send a strong signal to Moscow byallowing entry The Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, has urged Natomembers to bury their differences and agree to a "compromise" thatwould accelerate his country's membership of the Western militaryalliance, ...
Council to launch 'Bank of Essex'
Dec 01, 2008; ... A "Bank of Essex" is to be set up to help small businessesstruggling to win investment because of the credit crunch, underplans being examined by the county council. The proposal for a bank,which would be a central point for help in accessing European funds,is part of a wider plan to ...
Now anthrax takes toll on the starving in Zimbabwe
Dec 01, 2008; ... To add to the peril of cholera, Zimbabwe's beleaguered populationis now facing anthrax. An outbreak of the deadly infection haskilled two children and one adult and spread to 32 others. It isthreatening to wipe out at least 60,000 livestock in the northernZambezi Valley, aggravating the ...
Downturn forces Brown to scale back Queen's Speech
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Bills axed so Government can focus on the economy GORDON Brown's legislative programme for next year has beenstreamlined at the last minute to enable the Government to focus onthe ailing economy. Previously announced plans to curb cigarettesales, set up a giant database of phone ...
NUMBERS OF THE DAY
Dec 01, 2008 ... 5,000 The number of people that Azam Amir Kasab, a captured terrorist,said his militant group hoped ...
Spheres of influence are a fact of life
Dec 01, 2008; ... Readers sometimes complain that newspapers don't publish morecheerful stories. Eager to oblige, I would point out that, in a weekof mostly grim tidings, from economic meltdown to terrorist carnage,there's one bright spot. Ahead of the Nato summit, the US governmenthas said that it will ...
India and Pakistan have a common extremist enemy
Dec 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE Islamabad too is struggling against a virulentfundamentalist insurgency The slaughter in Mumbai has finally come to an end. But thepolitical inquest into the atrocity is only beginning. Hundreds ofangry Mumbai residents took to the streets yesterday to protest ...
Competent leadership badly needed
Dec 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE THE SCANDAL of the arrest of the Shadow immigration minister,Damian Green, continues to reverberate. Arresting MPs (not tomention raiding their offices in the House of Commons) is no smallmatter in a democracy. The affair must be treated with the ...
Bonfire of the Bills
Dec 01, 2008 ... LEADING ARTICLE IT IS hard to see silver linings in those recessionary clouds,but if you peer closely enough, you might just make some out. Takethis week's Queen's speech. The Government needs to make room on thelegislative agenda for emergency action to alleviate the ...
It's my party and I'll cry off if I want to
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Her flying visit was billed as 'Britney Party'. But she shockedthe fans who had flocked to see her by refusing to perform SATURDAY WAS supposed to be the night that Britney Spears provedto London clubbers that she had put her recent bizarre behaviourbehind her by performing to ...
Swiss voters give boost to heroin on the NHS rise
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Switzerland set to back radical plan to help addicts * Votehailed as turning point in public opinionA pioneering British programme to provide injectable heroin todrug addicts received a boost yesterday when voters in Switzerlandbacked a similar scheme in a ...
1955 Thursday 1 December
Dec 01, 2008 ... Rosa Parks challenges US race law A black woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabamafor refusing to give up her ...
'I can't stand him': Clegg overheard attacking team
Dec 01, 2008; ... * Defeated leadership rival among targets of leader's unguardedremarks NICK Clegg is certain to cast a suspicious gaze at his fellowtravellers the next time he boards an plane. As the Liberal Democratleader flew from London to Inverness last week, he shot the breezewith his ...
Heart fears for conjoined twins
Dec 01, 2008; ... Doctors will decide tomorrow whether to separate the newbornconjoined twins Faith and Hope Williams this week. The twins were delivered by caesarean section on Wednesday andare being treated at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.Their mother, Laura Williams, 18, made history ...