The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from July 2004:
Cantona in camera Football player, philosopher, actor, poet, painter - and now photographer. In Paris, the enigmatic Eric Cantona talks to Kim Willsher
Jul 04, 2004; ... Eric Cantona deals with questions with much the same legendaryskill he once approached a football. He traps them, dribbles themaround, does a little nifty footwork and then - thwack - blasts theminto the net at an impossibly oblique angle. Even when he played forManchester United, his ...
No glamour required Interview In spite of his pounds 300 million fortune, Phil Collins dresses down, lives in 'a house not a mansion' and says his needs are simple. Has the Mr Nice Guy of rock 'n' roll - now on his final tour - never been nasty?
Jul 04, 2004; ... Among Phil Collins's many achievements, there are a couple thatstrike me as being particularly clever. First, he has sold 80 millionrecords and amassed a fortune of more than pounds 300 million, whileearning virtually no critical respect. The kindest thing mostreviewers say about him is ...
An endangered species David Kirke and his disciples invented bungee jumping as well as the human catapult at the centre of a recent manslaughter trial. He tells Julia Llewellyn Smith about his latest project - a 25ft flying horse
Jul 04, 2004; ... Early on April Fool's Day in 1979 a group of young men assembledin top hats and tails on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.Suddenly, one man, David Kirke, with a scarf around his face andclutching a bottle of Champagne, clambered over the rail and tipped,backwards, towards the ...
A miniature human being in 4,500 tiny parts In Sickness and in Health
Jul 04, 2004; ... The most striking feature of each successive wave of moderntechnology is that everything keeps on getting smaller. The massivecomputers of the post-war years that filled a couple of rooms now siton everybody's desk. Those once-hefty mobile phones and video camerasnow fit in the palm of a ...
In search of the Russian soul Russia's mysterious landscape is known mainly through literature, but now an exhibition of little- known artists beguiles the eye, writes Michael Prodger
Jul 04, 2004; ... To the Western mind, the Russian landscape is simultaneouslyfamiliar and unfamiliar. Familiar because it is a leading characterin the writings of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov et al and unfamiliarbecause the Russian interior, Russia profonde, is not and never hasbeen a tourist destination ....
Sock-burning thrills Dance
Jul 04, 2004; ... Tocororo Holding Space I would be perfectly happy to watch Carlos Acosta whitewashing thekitchen ceiling. A check on my cuttings file reveals that, should MrAcosta agree to become part of my domestic menage, he would bejoining Irek Mukhamedov (creosoting the back ...
Other films
Jul 04, 2004; ... Godsend (15). Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are thinking of moving to the country. "The city's no placeto raise a child," says Jessie, shortly before their eight-year-old,Adam (Cameron Bright), is mown down on the high street. Enter RobertDe Niro as a mysterious ...
An ogre meets his in-laws Cinema
Jul 04, 2004; ... Shrek 2 One for the Road Shrek, the ingenious story of an ogre who woos and wins the fairyprincess, was an enormous box-office hit in 2001. Such monstroussuccess clamoured for a sequel, but there was a problem: Shrek andPrincess Fiona - who was initially cursed to become an ...
Die Fledermaus Zaide
Jul 04, 2004; ... Opera Holland Park's new Die Fledermaus owes more to Gilbert andSullivan than to Johann Strauss. Alistair Beaton's English libretto,originally done for a D'Oyly Carte production, patters along briskly,with a few deft contemporary references to Swiss referees andCroatian tennis players; ...
Very French, very grown-up When Fanny Ardant was young, she was told she was 'like wine, you'll get better with . . .' Her new film confirms that prediction. She flirts lightly with Jasper Rees
Jul 04, 2004; ... There's a game played by film buffs called Six Degrees of KevinBacon. It is based on the theory that you require only half a dozenfilms to get from any actor in the history of cinema back to Bacon.In French cinema the game would be simpler, and shorter, becauseeveryone who is anyone has ...
Greed is good at Glyndebourne Opera
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Miserly Knight/ Gianni Schicci Les Dialogues des Carmelites Le nozze di Figaro This is the summer of opera double-bills. After Opera North'scrop, Glyndebourne pairs Rachmaninov's The Miserly Knight andPuccini's Gianni Schicchi. They are linked by the ...
Artful dodgers' feud Theatre
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Old Masters King Lear The Colour of Poppies Joseph Duveen was the most famous art-dealer of his time, BernardBerenson was the most famous art-historian. For over 30 yearsBerenson served as Duveen's adviser. Then, in the 1930s, Duveenacquired a masterpiece, The ...
Pot luck in the sauna Rock
Jul 04, 2004; ... Glastonbury `The fun is always happening somewhere else," said a sign in themiddle of a field near the dance tent and it's something I oftenworry about at Glastonbury. I've been worrying about it particularlysince I wormed my way near to the front for Orbital's crowded last-ever ...
Elton's deep moments Pop
Jul 04, 2004; ... Elton John For this Elton John performance at the Wembley Arena, he's notbeing pantomime Elton or Lion King Elton or rock 'n' roll Elton. He'sserious singer/ songwriter Elton. The show could be subtitled TheAlbum Tracks, but that wouldn't necessarily fire up the masseswanting ...
Gangster showbizJake Arnott, once a struggling actor, is now an extra in a lavish BBC dramatisation of his own best-selling novel, The Long Firm. He and screen-writer Joe Penhall talk tough with John Preston
Jul 04, 2004; ... It was back in 1998 that Jake Arnott, then a struggling actor whohad once appeared, swaddled in bandages, as a non-speaking zombie inthe film Sphinx, wrote his first novel, The Long Firm. To hissurprise and delight, the book was optioned by the BBC while it wasstill in ...
Hapless egotism Television
Jul 04, 2004; ... Among the freaks, popinjays and gaudy charioteers who ride backand forth across our screens, only a few make any lasting impression.Here, the Harries family of Cardiff occupy a padded arena all oftheir own. Fifteen years ago, James Harries, then a 10-year-oldneuter moppet with a froth of ...
Gardening fills a God-shaped hole Radio
Jul 04, 2004; ... Often the most awkward interviewers elicit the best results. It'snot always the ones who are themselves confident, knowledgeable andarticulate who get their subjects to talk most freely. Sometimes theway to get people to speak is to be stumbling, mistaken and vagueyourself. Bel ...
One long life and 18 short ones Max Hastings says that Bill Deedes's ability to see the good side of even the most unlikeable public figures is a quality we should cherish
Jul 04, 2004; ... Brief Lives by W. F. Deedes Macmillan, pounds 12.99, 212 pp pounds 10.99 (99p p&p) 0870 155 7222 I HAVE no idea whether Bill Deedes is a practising Christian, butChristian charity is among the most conspicuous of his virtues. In atrade in which most ...
Summer reading Our regular contributors recommend the best recent books to take on holiday
Jul 04, 2004 ... Jonathan Bate ALAN HOLLINGHURST 's The Line of Beauty (Picador) is as good asthe English novel gets. Almost every sentence is a thing of beautyand the book as a whole will prove itself a joy for ever, thedefinitive fictional reimagining of the decade of Thatcher and Aids. One ...
The Literary Life
Jul 04, 2004; ... THE BOOKER longlist was decided this week - the Russian BookerPrize that is, not the English. Set up after the collapse ofcommunism, the prize - whose official title is the Booker-Open RussiaLiterary Prize - is flourishing, George Walden, the new Chairman ofits Board and a Russian ...
A transatlantic bridge too far Niall Ferguson is not convinced that Tony Blair represents the best hope for a reconciliation between Europe and America
Jul 04, 2004; ... Free World: Why a Crisis of the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time by Timothy Garton Ash Allen Lane/Penguin, pounds 17.99, 308 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 FIVE YEARS ago a horror film called The Blair ...
A tour around Chekhov On the centenary of Chekhov's death this exploration of the places he loved brings him to life, says George Walden
Jul 04, 2004; ... Chekhov: Scenes From a Life by Rosamund Bartlett Free Press, pounds 20, 395 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters tr by Rosamund Bartlett and Antony Phillips Penguin, pounds 12.99 pbk, 624 ...
He woke up and it was all a dream
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Coma by Alex Garland Faber, pounds 9.99, 90 pp pounds 9.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 WRITERS who produce good books at the beginning of their careersoften have a hard time coping with people's high expectationsafterwards. But writers who produce good ...
Full of Eastern promise This vast novel is studded with jewels, says David Robson, but Tolstoy it isn't
Jul 04, 2004; ... Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernieres Secker & Warburg, pounds 17.99, 625 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE PUBLICISTS have pigeon-holed this one already: a "Turkish Warand Peace" from the man who gave us Captain Corelli and his ...
Hell's fury in palest yellow
Jul 04, 2004; ... Canarino by Katherine Bucknell Fourth Estate, pounds 15, 340 pp pounds 13 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 KATHERINE BUCKNELL was born in Washington, educated at Princeton,Oxford and Columbia, edited some of Auden's poems and Isherwood'sdiaries, and now lives in ...
Missing from his own index It is the things that are left out that give this offbeat novel its power, says Caroline Moore
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Fit by Philip Hensher Fourth Estate, pounds 15.99, 326 pp pounds 13.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THIS NOVEL is disconcertingly original - a wonderfully odd comedycleverly structured around absences. The central lacuna is thenarrator, John. Like the ...
An obsessional pedant, yes . . . a lunatic, no This attempt to show that a great Biblical scholar was not insane, but a victim of conspiracy convinces Anthony Daniels
Jul 04, 2004; ... Alexander the Corrector: The Tormented Genius Who Unwrote theBible by Julia Keay HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 269 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ALEXANDER CRUDEN was born in Aberdeen in 1699. At the age of 20 hewas briefly admitted as a lunatic ...
Rude tales of the rich and famous Nobody's private life stays private for long in these entertaining memoirs by an old enfant terrible of publishing, says Anne Chisholm
Jul 04, 2004; ... Jew Made in England by Anthony Blond Timewell, pounds 20, 299 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 IT WAS only to be expected that Anthony Blond, the maverickpublisher who delighted in provoking the literary world for 40 years,would write a provocative ...
Paperbacks
Jul 04, 2004; ... Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French Harper Perennial, pounds 8.99 PATRICK FRENCH' s Tibet, brilliantly brought to life here, is notthe Shangri-La of film and fiction nor the mystic land imagined byactivist flower persons; indeed, such ...
Paperbacks
Jul 04, 2004; ... My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Faber, pounds 7.99 PETER CAREY 's latest novel is inspired by a celebrated literaryhoax, the Ern Malley Affair, which caused consternation andembarrassment in postwar Australia, as an exciting new poet,"discovered" by a literary ...
Two wheels good, four wheels bad John Preston is left breathless but exhilarated by an art critic's freewheeling account of the joys of cycling
Jul 04, 2004; ... One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers: Memoirs of a Cyclist by Tim Hilton HarperCollins, pounds 16.99, 396 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ENTHUSIASM IS not easy to put across on paper; there's a constantrisk of gushing or ...
Intelligence services are forever This romp through the history of espionage gathers intelligence about spies and spying but fails to evaluate it, says Noel Malcolm
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Puppet-Masters: Spies, Traitors and the Real Forces behindWorld Events by John Hughes-Wilson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 20, 479 pp pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 JAMES BOND films are not what they used to be. In many ways, theyare better, with ...
Opening this week Tea and a Slice of Art
Jul 04, 2004; ... Art and commerce don't necessarily mix. Most businesses treat artas little more than something striking to pep up their corporatefoyers - if they treat it at all. It wasn't always so. In the 1930s,Shell commissioned some of the country's leading contemporarypainters to produce pictures ...
Classical CDs
Jul 04, 2004; ... Tallis Spem in alium, Lamentations, etc Tallis Scholars/Phillips(Gimell CDGIM 203, 2 CDs, pounds 12.99). Peter Phillips's TallisScholars have been performing their eponymous composer since 1977 andrecording him since 1985. This anthology marks next year's presumed500th anniversary of his ...
Rock CDs
Jul 04, 2004; ... Razorlight Up All Night (Vertigo pounds 9.99). `I've just beenturned into a fan,' I overheard someone saying at Glastonbury. `By aband called Razorlight.' Tragically, I missed them myself, though Idid catch their pretty-boy singer Johnny Borrell doing a lovelygospel version of their big ...
Concerts
Jul 04, 2004; ... Barbican Hall 0845 120 7550, today, 7.30pm: the classy LSO ChamberEnsemble perform Strauss's Capriccio Prelude, Mozart's ClarinetQuintet and Mendelssohn's Octet. Wed & Thur, 7.30pm: MstislavRostropovich conducts the LSO in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (withVadim Repin) and ...
Dance
Jul 04, 2004; ... Carlos Acosta's `Tocororo' Sadler's Wells, London EC1 0870 7377737, to July 24. The Cuban superstar and regular Royal Ballet guestreturns to the Wells with a reworked revival of his sweet, dancenarrative about a poor boy from Cuba who finds himself through dance. . . Gumboots ...
Opera
Jul 04, 2004; ... Glyndebourne 01273 813813. Double bill of The Miserly Knight andGianni Schicchi (today 4.50, Thur 6.05), Rodelinda (Tue, Fri 4.35),Die Zauberflote (Wed, Sat 5-25). Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Revival of Tosca (Sat 7.30) with MariaGuleghina. Ben Heppner as Peter Grimes (Tue, Thur), ...
DVDs
Jul 04, 2004; ... Cold Mountain (Buena Vista, 15, DVD pounds 22.99, video pounds14.99). Nicole Kidman and Jude Law are competent as lovers separatedby the American Civil War in Anthony Minghella's adaptation ofCharles Frazier's bestseller. The weak link is Renee Zellweger'sOscar-winning but embarrassingly ...
Theatre
Jul 04, 2004; ... Iphigenia at Aulis Lyttelton 020 7452 3000, tmw, Tue, in rep toSep 7. Iphigenia is lured to Aulis on the pretext that she is goingto be married; in reality her father plans to sacrifice her to thegods to expedite the Greek cause in the Trojan war. The subject-matter of Euripides's play ...
Rock
Jul 04, 2004; ... Wu-Tang Clan. Dig out the Wu-Wear for this rare date from theclan. Fans will miss the non-appearance of ODB, but the hip-hopmastery of RZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man and Inspectah Deckshould more than make up for his absence. London Hammersmith ApolloThur, 0870 60 63 400 ....
Art
Jul 04, 2004; ... Galleon and Other Stories Saatchi Gallery, County Hall, London SE1020 7823 2363, Wed to Oct 30. Recently acquired work including BrianGriffiths' Beneath the Stride of Giants - a 40 ft galleon made ofEdwardian tallboys, Victorian bureaus and other bits of furniturefound in skips and ...
Cinema
Jul 04, 2004; ... The Ladykillers (15). It was always going to be a tall order toremake the classic 1955 Ealing comedy, and the redoubtable Coenbrothers fall short, although not without some diverting momentsalong the way. The Coens transport the heist story to America's DeepSouth, and make the criminal ...
Fantasia
Jul 04, 2004; ... It's tempting to turn up your Old World nose at Florida. With itsugly retirement developments and thousands of tourists thronging itstheme parks, Florida is southern California without the culture. And yet, beyond the amusement parks, you will find spectacularbeaches and stunning ...
'Young buyers move into God's waiting room'
Jul 04, 2004; ... Billy Smart, a 30-year-old British inventor, has spent $2.2million on property in Florida. He has bought two houses - one for$900,000, the other for $1.3 million - at The Cove near Palm Beach. Although still a haven for those firmly clutching their buspasses, Florida - known as ...
Market Watch Interest rate rises
Jul 04, 2004; ... It is easy to tell when the Bank of England's Monetary PolicyCommittee (MPC) is due to meet to discuss the next movement ininterest rates. Estate agents and house-builders - normally the firstto claim that the housing market is robust - begin to talk it down. Last week, John White, ...
Word on the Street
Jul 04, 2004; ... The economic migrants who continue to flock from the North to theSouth East may increase their salaries, but they are not guaranteedto find happiness, according to the centre-left think-tank, theInstitute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Last week it launched aCommission on Sustainable ...
Couple seize their quarry Lime Kiln House is one of the first - and possibly last - homes to be built under 'Gummer's Law'. Andrew Morgan pays a visit
Jul 04, 2004; ... It is hard to imagine a more astonishing location for a new housethan that chosen by John and Corrie Jeffery in the Dorsetcountryside. Their home, which has a strong Arts and Craftsinfluence, sits within the terraced escarpment of a former chalkquarry and the old workings resemble a vast ...
The country closes its gates Rural areas are seeing a rapid growth in guarded, 'gated' communities. But are they the only way to ensure that holiday homes aren't burgled and children can play safely? Emily Bearn investigates
Jul 04, 2004; ... The fashion in the property market suggests that we are a nationliving in the grip of terror. Such terror, indeed, that the "gated-community" - a residential answer to Fort Knox - is becoming aspopular in Britain as it is in Johannesburg. Perhaps mostsurprisingly, these establishments ...
GARDEN SOLUTIONS WATERING PART 11
Jul 04, 2004; ... Never mind that in the past few days of Wimbledon we've haddownpours, this is the time of year when people always ask me aboutirrigation. The hours spent dragging hoses here, there and everywherebegin to mount up - as do the water bills. Putting the hose on everynight could cost more ...
Amateur Gardener Strong colour
Jul 04, 2004; ... As my garden tips over from the fresh promise of June to theabundant chaos of summer, discipline has been much on my mind. It'sparticularly important this year as I have been experimenting withcolour. The first sight of it is next to the house in a trio ofbrilliant-green ceramic pots ...
Split-cap suspension at ABN
Jul 04, 2004; ... A SPLIT-CAPITAL investment trust salesman at ABN Amro has beensuspended by the bank pending an internal investigation. Last week Andrew Worne was asked to leave the building immediatelyso that the bank could conduct an investigation into the salesprocess for split-capital ...
Morrison backtracks on 'Southerners' slur
Jul 04, 2004; ... SIR KEN MORRISON, the chairman of Wm Morrison, the Yorkshire-based supermarket group, this weekend sought to explain away remarkshe made about the Southern-based employees of his Safeway chain whichimplied they were less hard-working and cost-conscious than theirNorthern ...
Revealed: Green made pounds 6.4bn offer for Sainsbury last summer
Jul 04, 2004; ... PHILIP GREEN, the billionaire stalking Marks & Spencer, approachedJ Sainsbury a year ago with a pounds 6.4bn takeover offer. He had discussions with Sir Peter Davis - who was ousted asSainsbury's chairman last week, but was the supermarket group's chiefexecutive at the time - but ...
Fate of M&S hinges on pension fund Trustees appoint CSFB as financial advisers ahead of negotiations with Green on its funding
Jul 04, 2004; ... AN IMPROVED bid for Marks & Spencer from Philip Green, thebillionaire entrepreneur, hinges on the outcome of negotiations withthe trustees of the store group's pension fund. Whether he willacquire the group with a higher offer could be known within days. Green, who has raised ...
Come clean on pensions raid, say Tories
Jul 04, 2004; ... DAVID WILLETTS, the shadow pensions secretary, will tomorrow callon the Government to give more information on the financial effectsof Gordon Brown's pounds 5bn annual raid on pension funds. He will table a Parliamentary question asking for up-to-datefigures on the tax relief given ...
Trust discounts hit 15-year high
Jul 04, 2004; ... PLUMMETING confidence in the investment trust industry has pusheddiscounts on many of Britain's most popular trusts to their widestlevels for 15 years. Foreign & Colonial, the oldest and largest conventional investmenttrust, is trading at an average discount of 19 per cent, a level ...
Sainsbury's Bank drops mortgages
Jul 04, 2004; ... SAINSBURY'S BANK has pulled out of the mortgage market afterfailing to attract sufficient interest from customers. The bank confirmed last week that it is no longer sellingmortgages to new customers, but said it was concentrating on otherfinancial products, such as loans, credit ...
ScotPower broke into home of ex-customer
Jul 04, 2004; ... ELECTRICITY and gas companies are wrongly disconnecting hundredsof customers, according to Energywatch. Over the past year the watchdog has received complaints from 550consumers who have been threatened with disconnection incorrectly.Some 240 were actually cut off, despite being ...
Card providers in firing line over repayments Widows is latest lender to cut back minimum payments to boost profits
Jul 04, 2004; ... CREDIT CARD companies have been slammed for quietly reducingminimum monthly payments, thereby encouraging customers to pay offless and retain larger interest-bearing debts. Scottish Widows has become the latest credit card provider toreduce minimum payments due each month from 3 ...
FKI engineers a coup as Cobham chief signs up
Jul 04, 2004 ... FKI, the engineering group, has achieved a coup by signing upGordon Page, the well-respected chairman of the defence companyCobham, as its new chairman. The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that FKI's incumbent, Keith Orrel-Jones, has decided to retire and will hand over to ...
American vulture funds swoop on Eurotunnel debt
Jul 04, 2004 ... US VULTURE funds have been buying up debt in Eurotunnel, thebeleaguered owner of the Channel Tunnel, in the expectation that thecompany will be restructured or taken over by its bankers. Eurotunnel has debts of around pounds 6.4bn with more than 200banks. Vulture ...
Companies must adapt or fail, warns Zimmerman
Jul 04, 2004 ... ONE of Britain's most experienced fund managers says companiesmust adapt to changes in the stock market or miss out on prosperity. Stephen Zimmerman, the former deputy chairman of Mercury AssetManagement, who ...
BP reserves the right to go its own way Browne is critical of the SEC's confused diktats on reporting proven reserves, writes Sylvia Pfeifer
Jul 04, 2004; ... Lord Browne is not a man easily provoked but the chief executiveof BP, the oil giant, has made it clear that he won't shy away fromconfrontation with America's powerful stock market regulator over itsreporting of reserves at Ormen Lange, a giant Norwegian gas field. BP's share of ...
Winsor warns banks on Network Rail restructuring
Jul 04, 2004; ... TOM WINSOR, who quit as rail regulator on Friday, has issued awarning that the interests of banks that have lent Network Rail somepounds 13bn could be damaged by the imminent shake-up of the railindustry. Next week the Department for Transport will publish a White Paperwhich is ...