The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from October 2004:
I didn't obey The Rules Ellen Fein made millions writing books advising women on how to snare a man. Then her marriage collapsed because of her terrible teeth. After years of smiling through the pain, she opens her heart - and her mouth
Oct 03, 2004; ... When Ellen Fein opens her mouth, the room falls silent. We are ina bustling diner on Long Island and she has been talking loudly abouther "botched" teeth job. Everyone wants a glimpse. "They're quiteugly to look at," she warns, before pulling down her lower lip. It is hard not to ...
How Nelson jilted his wife
Oct 03, 2004; ... The large, anchor-shaped diamond brooch was one of thousands ofjewels that I had been asked to value during my 10 years as head ofjewellery at Sotheby's. This one was a rare, intact survivor from the19th century, and I initially valued it at pounds 100,000. But therewas something else ...
Take Sid the Slug's warning with a pinch of salt
Oct 03, 2004; ... In the 1930s, the British physiologist JBS Haldane becameinterested in how we manage to balance the amount of fluid we drinkby the amount we excrete - thus maintaining just the right amount ofwater circulating in the bloodstream. Heroically, he downed eightlitres of water over a period ...
Blame it on the pigeons Miraculously preserved by volcanic mud 2,000 years ago, Herculaneum is a unique Roman treasure trove. But bureacracy has wrought shocking damage only now being reversed, writes Alasdair Palmer
Oct 03, 2004; ... When Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, as just about everyone knows, itcovered the Roman city of Pompeii in ash. The fact that it alsointerred Herculaneum, Pompeii's smaller neighbour, in an avalanche ofboiling mud is less well-known. By the time the mud cooled andsolidified, it had embalmed the ...
The not so good Shepherd Comedy
Oct 03, 2004; ... Cybill Shepherd From the luxuriant sophistication of Moonlighting to the finely-wrought domestic savagery of her own sitcom Cybill, Cybill Shepherdhas probably done more than most to establish the parameters at thehigh quality end of American TV. So when this famously ...
Music to make the heart grow Nigel Osborne's new opera ends in the Burmese jungle, but the inspiration for it started in war-ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina. The composer tells Peter Reed how experience is the mother of invention
Oct 03, 2004; ... Life could have been so much easier for Nigel Osborne. Just at thetime, about 20 years ago, when he was getting established as one ofthe leading voices of British contemporary music and was on the brinkof a major success with The Electrification of the Soviet Union (theopera he wrote for ...
ENO's wooden horse stumbles Opera
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Trojans Manon Lescaut Cosi fan tutte For the first time in its history, English National Opera hasstaged Berlioz's The Trojans complete in one evening, havingperformed the two parts, The Capture of Troy and The Trojans atCarthage, separately last year. At five and ...
The evergreen ghost of Hendrix Rock
Oct 03, 2004; ... Stratocaster anniversary The Fender Stratocaster was designed 50 years ago by Leo Fender,and the anniversary of the guitar that produced some of rock'sgreatest songs is celebrated at a sold-out Wembley Arena with a show somewherebetween charity event, variety show and ...
Our digitalised world saviour
Oct 03, 2004; ... Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (PG) For a film marketed as a unique spectacle, this multi-milliondollar folly turns out to be eminently familiar, not least in itsdreary reliance on computer effects. Its narrative, too, should berecognisable to anyone with a passing ...
Cruelty's very essence Cinema
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Layer Cake How you feel about a biographical film of Peter Sellers, Isuspect, will rather depend on your view of how best to preservedeceased British comic geniuses. Should we remember only theircelluloid triumphs? Or should we ...
The proof of the play is in the title Theatre
Oct 03, 2004; ... Cloaca Buried Child Primo The Solid Gold Cadillac Cloaca means "sewer" in Latin. It's also the name of the play thatKevin Spacey has chosen to open his artistic directorship of the OldVic. But that title is not the worst thing about it, not by a longway - it's ...
Islington - there be rubbish and art Dance
Oct 03, 2004; ... Sylvie Guillem and the Ballet Boyz The Place Prize The pavements were smashed and pitted, the trees ringed with bin-liners and broken television sets, but at the end of this dispiritingtrek through the filthy northern wastes of Islington lurked theshiny, blonde wood ...
Solitary spinster, bohemian gipsy Augustus John's stock as a painter was artificially depressed; that of his sister Gwen is drastically inflated, writes Andrew Graham-Dixon
Oct 03, 2004; ... Gwen John and Augustus John, at Tate Britain (until January 9), isnot just a tale of two artists, brother and sister, but of twostartlingly contrasting posthumous reputations. As a gifted studentat the Slade School of Art, at the turn of the 20th century, AugustusJohn was hyperbolically ...
Dismal mock-up Radio
Oct 03, 2004; ... You'd think that, given the BBC's unhappy experience of publicinquiries in recent times, having a cod one of their own as a weeklyhighlight on Radio 4 would not appeal as much it used to do. As it happens, the new Controller of Radio 4, Mark Damazer, then Deputy ...
Feel the vibration Television
Oct 03, 2004; ... A medium's relationship with the spirit world is not unlike atelevision's critic's relationship with his readers. Although I knowyou're out there somewhere, conviction is a good deal stronger thanactual evidence. It's true that messages do sometimes reach me from"the other side", but all ...
The style but not the substance Disraeli's charm and wit are here, says Douglas Hurd, but not much politics
Oct 03, 2004; ... Disraeli: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert HarperCollins, pounds 25, 401 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE LIFE of Disraeli, like that of Churchill, offers a honeypotaround which biographers buzz continuously - but for differentreasons ....
A most uncommon commoner Tony Benn's views may not be widely shared but admiration for the man himself is, says Paul Johnson
Oct 03, 2004; ... Dare to be a Daniel: Then and Now by Tony Benn ed by Ruth Winstone Hutchinson, pounds 17.99, 278 pp pounds 15.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 TONY BENN is one of a handful of politicians who, by a lifetime ofpersistence in their peculiarities, become a ...
The end of the biography affair After 29 years and 2,250 pages, Norman Sherry's daunting Life of Graham Greene is now complete: John Preston assesses the final volume
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Life of Graham Greene. Volume Three: 1955-1991 by Norman Sherry Jonathan Cape, pounds 25, 906 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 AT THE START of the third and final volume of Norman Sherry's vastlife of Graham Greene, he makes an admission. After ...
Moved to tears Which book, poem or play has made you cry more than any other? Continuing our series, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, chooses A. H. Clough's poem 'Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth'
Oct 03, 2004; ... IT WAS 1941. I was eight, lying on the floor of the sitting-roomin our home in Reading, listening to a broadcast by WinstonChurchill. He quoted from the poem, Say Not the Struggle NaughtAvaileth, by Arthur Clough, and the moving verse: For while the tired waves vainly ...
The ice in Stalin's heart Michael Burleigh considers the rise of the one-time seminary boy to dictator and mass killer
Oct 03, 2004; ... Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service Macmillan, pounds 25, 718 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 ROBERT SERVICE is the Stakhanov of British historians of Russia -producing weighty volumes at the epic rate that the Soviet minerStakhanov hewed coal ....
Why mini-buttocks on the chest? These books will tell you much about our bodies, but not why we look the way we do, says James Le Fanu
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body by Desmond Morris Jonathan Cape, pounds 18.99, 276 pp pounds 16.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 The Odd Body by Stephen Juan Collins, pounds 9.99, 380 pp pounds 9.99 ( pounds ...
A one-man university As a man and as a writer V. S. Pritchett was stimulating company, says John Gross
Oct 03, 2004; ... V. S. Pritchett: A Working Life by Jeremy Treglown Chatto & Windus, pounds 25, 308 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 V. S. PRITCHETT died seven years ago. He had an exceptionally longcareer - his first story appeared in 1922 - and an ...
How highbrows were brought low Intellectuals largely have themselves to blame for the dumbing down of our society, says Noel Malcolm
Oct 03, 2004; ... Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone? - Confronting 21st CenturyPhilistinism by Frank Furedi Continuum, pounds 12.99, 167 pp pounds 12.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE TITLE and subtitle here are the wrong way round. What FrankFuredi, Professor of ...
The Literary Life
Oct 03, 2004; ... FOR some time now Amazon, the on-line bookseller, has offered"Used and New" - ie second-hand - copies alongside their own alreadydiscounted brand-new titles. This seems rather unfair. Authors andpublishers do not profit from the sales of second-hand copies - manyof which are priced at ...
A roadmap to the primeval slime This study of evolution is a model of clarity, says Anthony Daniels, even if its view of the future lacks mystery
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 25, 528 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 RICHARD DAWKINS is a man of the most formidable gifts. To hisbreadth of biological erudition he ...
Bookworm and unrequited lover This Life of Jorge Luis Borges tells us much about the man but is less revealing of the novels, says Christopher Tayler
Oct 03, 2004; ... Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson Viking, pounds 25, 574 pp pounds 23 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 MOST OF THE stories that made Jorge Luis Borges the 20th century'smost renowned Hispanic writer were published in Buenos Aires in the1940s. Borges was already ...
Anglo-American attitudes Winston Churchill's mother was one of three American sisters who married into the nobility, finds Raymond Seitz
Oct 03, 2004; ... Fortune's Daughters: The Extravagant Lives of the Jerome Sisters -Jennie Churchill, Clara Frewen, and Leonie Leslie by Elisabeth Kehoe Atlantic, pounds 16.99, 368 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 "THANK YOU for the fiver - it is ...
Paperbacks
Oct 03, 2004; ... Empress of Pleasure by Judith Summers Penguin, pounds 8.99 HER NAME was Teresa Cornelys. Born in Venice in 1723, she became an international opera singer and lover ofCasanova, by whom she bore a child. When she decided to start afreshin London, she left a trail ...
Sex . . . put a cork in it
Oct 03, 2004; ... Before I Forget by Andre Brink Secker & Warburg, pounds 16.99, 312 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 "THIS IS threatening to become unbearably heavy-handed," says thenarrator of Before I Forget, having just tried to explain that it isthe ...
A dynasty of spies
Oct 03, 2004; ... Old Boys Charles McCarry Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 16.99, 476 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 CHARLES McCARRY was once a CIA agent and is still undercover in asense: he is a "cult novelist" whose previous books are out of print,though he ...
All that jazz
Oct 03, 2004; ... Oh, Play That Thing by Roddy Doyle Jonathan Cape, pounds 16.99, 376 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 "THIS WAS living like I'd never seen it," says Henry Smart, thehero of Oh, Play That Thing. "This wasn't drowning the sorrow, thegreat escape, ...
The last twilight The only bad thing about this novel is that it had to end, says Jane Shilling
Oct 03, 2004; ... Heads You Win by Ferdinand Mount Chatto & Windus, pounds 16.99, 290 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 THE THING about reading a really good novel, one from which youcannot look up, while pots boil dry and the cat steals the supper, isthat when it ...
Opening this week
Oct 03, 2004; ... Was it just the title that inspired Bill Kenwright to commission amusical version of Brighton Rock ? Whatever it was, Graham Greene's1938 novel set in gangland Brighton is getting the guitars andgreasepaint treatment in a new production that opens at the AlmeidaTheatre in Islington on ...
Classical CDs
Oct 03, 2004; ... Elgar Symphony No 2, Introduction and Allegro Halle/ Elder (HalleCD HLL7507, pounds 8.99). The Halle's plan to record all Elgar'smajor works, and many minor, on its own label continues with thisperformance of the Second Symphony which can at once take its placealongside those by ...
Rock CDs
Oct 03, 2004; ... REM Around The Sun (Warner, pounds 13.99). `Our curse is ourblessing,' said Michael Stipe recently and, indeed, REM have for manyyears sounded so irredeemably REM-like that nothing they ever do isgoing to win them new audiences. Instead - Monster being thedisastrous exception that proves ...
Concerts
Oct 03, 2004; ... Royal Festival Hall (0870 382 8000) Wed, 7.30pm: Elgar's Dream ofGerontius performed by the City of London Sinfonia and many choirsincluding the Royal Choral Society and the Huddersfield ChoralSociety, with David Rendall, Diana Montague and Matthew Best,conducted by Martyn ...
Theatre
Oct 03, 2004; ... Stuff Happens Olivier 020 7452 3000, Thur-Sat, in rep to Nov 6. InDavid Hare's play about the Iraq war his opposition to it is never indoubt, but its architects and supporters are allowed to make theirpoints forcefully. While the gaps in Hare's world picture areapparent - his misplaced ...
Opera
Oct 03, 2004; ... Royal Opera 020 7304 4000. Revival of David McVicar's productionof Gounod's Faust (tmw, Thur 6.30) with new cast including JohnTomlinson and Elena Kelessidi. Massenet's Werther (Tue only). Cosifan tutte (Wed 7, Sat 6.30). ENO Coliseum 020 7632 8300. Last performances of complete ...
DVDs
Oct 03, 2004; ... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Momentum, 15, DVD pounds15.99, video pounds 10.99). Director Michel Gondry and scriptwriterCharlie Kaufman conjure a unique hybrid that's part romance, part sci-fi. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet relish the conundrum. Jinnah (Asiangold, DVD only, ...
Rock
Oct 03, 2004; ... The Music. Riff-worshipping youngsters going supernova with theirotherworldly second album, Welcome to The North. NewcastleNorthumbria Uni tonight, 0191 261 2606; Edinburgh Corn Exchange Mon,0870 0600 100; Birmingham Academy Wed, 0870 771 2000; LondonHammersmith Palais Thur, 08700 ...
Dance
Oct 03, 2004; ... Birmingham Royal Ballet Hippodrome, Birmingham 0121 689 3000, Wed-Sat: David Bintley triple bill: the jolly Nutcracker Sweeties(exquisitely dressed by Jasper Conran with a Duke Ellington/ BillyStrayhorn score); the intriguing Shakespeare Suite (to Ellington'sSuch Sweet Thunder) and the ...
Cinema
Oct 03, 2004; ... Red Lights (15). The director Cedric Kahn has already provedhimself a clinical observer of relationships. Here he's triumphantlyreclaimed Simenon's novel about a wealthy Parisian couple whose carjourney to collect their children from summer camp charts a decentinto alcohol, despair and ...
Art
Oct 03, 2004; ... Eyes, Lies and Illusions Hayward Gallery, London SE1, 020 29210600, Thur to Jan 3. Show exploring optical illusions and tricks ofperspective, from 19th-century picture-puzzles to contemporary workby artists such as Christian Boltanski and Anthony McCall. Die Familie Schneider in ...
Oops! They've done it again The Blairs are not known for shrewd property investment. With the purchase of a house in London for pounds 3.6 million, have they made another mistake? Ross Clark reports
Oct 03, 2004; ... The final journey from 10 Downing Street is usually a humiliatingone. Who can forget the sight of Margaret Thatcher sobbing in herministerial Jaguar after her resignation in 1990? Or Harold Wilson'sremoval van drawing up the day after he unexpectedly lost the 1970election to Ted Heath? ...
Stormy waters for Normandy P&O's axing of ferries to Northern France is set to cause a fall in house prices, as British owners - and holidaymakers - shy away from longer journeys. Sonia Purnell reports
Oct 03, 2004; ... French estate agents are forecasting a collapse in property pricesin Normandy after P&O's shock announcement last week that it is tostop running services to the region. The traditional white-shutteredstone houses of the Cherbourg peninsula have been snapped up bythousands of Brits in the ...
The special agents
Oct 03, 2004; ... Any would-be buyer who fell in love with Rosewood Manor havingseen it advertised in the pages of Country Life in June, would havebeen in for a disappointment. The Queen Anne property eight milessouth of Bath, which came with six bedrooms, staff annexe, ornamentalponds and a guide price ...
Inside Winston's lair Ross Clark visits the flat in Westminster where Churchill's transformation from rebel MP to wartime Prime Minister had its beginnings
Oct 03, 2004; ... As German troops advanced through Poland on the evening ofSeptember 2, 1939, a mutinous group of MPs gathered beneath the rain-lashed mansard roof of 11 Morpeth Mansions, near WestminsterCathedral, to discuss the failure of the Prime Minister, NevilleChamberlain, to issue an ultimatum to ...
My Property Nightmare DIY fanatic
Oct 03, 2004 ... Tom Brayshaw and his wife had lived happily in their detachedhouse in a quiet East Midlands suburb for six years, until aneighbour obsessed with DIY moved in, writes Catalina Stogdon. "Myneighbour uses noisy tools. He keeps within the law for the time heuses them, never starting before ...
Stone window-sills Ask Jeff
Oct 03, 2004; ... What do you recommend for damaged stone window-sills? Mine havebeen patched, then painted and look awful. The house is a bay-fronted Edwardian semi. Are the sills real stone? All the houses inmy street have painted sills, so it seems sensible for me to paintmine - but only after I've ...
Boilers baloney The 'knock knock' is not a message from the other side, but a call for maintenance
Oct 03, 2004; ... As I leafed through the newspapers last Sunday, two things inparticular caught my eye. The first was a report that two-thirds ofBritish 18-to 24-year-olds believe in horoscopes. This is anextraordinary indictment of our educational system, for despite therecord numbers of youngsters now ...
Instant Plants Garden solutions
Oct 03, 2004; ... Big "instant" plants are in increasing demand. Once the preserveof television makeovers and show gardens at Chelsea, wheredistinctively trained, clipped or shaped large specimens are wheeledinto place a few days before they go on view, now they are sought byhomeowners with money but no ...
Tips
Oct 03, 2004 ... Mirrors work best if they are framed - a simple wooden one helpscreate the illusion of a doorway or window. Or how about usingsomething second-hand or skip-salvaged? In the right style of garden,a gothic frame or roundel could add immeasurably to the atmosphere.Experiment by propping up ...
Urban Gardener The art of illusion
Oct 03, 2004; ... One of the best moves I made in our little London garden was toinstall a large mirror along the back wall. This wasn't part of anyoverall plan - I've seldom been as organised as that in the eightyears that we've lived here. Like many of my schemes it was bornpartly of necessity, partly ...
'Use us or lose us,' building society tells village customers
Oct 03, 2004; ... PORTMAN Building Society is to challenge small communities to puttheir money where their mouths are when it comes to supporting localfacilities. It is to change the opening hours of 16 part-time branches to fulltime in a unique "use us or lose us" exercise. Eight of the 16 - ...
Egg is hoist by its own petard
Oct 03, 2004; ... EGG credit card holders are the biggest "rate tarts" in thecountry, according to new figures from uSwitch.com, which publishesfinancial product comparison tables. One in four visitors to the uSwitch credit card site between Juneand August were Egg cardholders looking for a better ...
State pension may be best, say insurers
Oct 03, 2004; ... SIX MILLION personal pension policyholders are to receive aleaflet from their insurer encouraging them to consider contractingback into the State Second Pension, or S2P (formerly Serps). Until now, most pension providers have left the decision tocustomers or independent financial ...
Mortgage chaos hits parent buyers of student digs
Oct 03, 2004; ... PARENTS planning to buy properties for children and their friendsto live in while at university could find it difficult to getmortgages after the end of this month. Lenders fear such mortgages will break new rules to be imposed bythe Financial Services Authority when it assumes ...
Adams brings the split caps to book
Oct 03, 2004 ... ANDREW ADAMS (above), the Edinburgh University finance lecturerwho in April 2001 was one of the first people to predict the collapseof split-capital investment trusts, has written a book on thesubject. The Split Capital Investment Trust Crisis, publishedtomorrow, it includes a foreword ...
Standard Life embarks on Sipp offensive New self-invested pension to target investors who are jumping on the buy-to-let bandwagon
Oct 03, 2004; ... STANDARD LIFE is to launch a major assault on the burgeoningpounds 15bn self-invested personal pension market with the launch ofa new Sipp in December. The Edinburgh-based insurer is aiming to grab a 25 per cent sharein a market that is expected to expand rapidly over the ...
Government defers pensions reform until after the General Election
Oct 03, 2004; ... A LONG-AWAITED government report on the UK's pensions crisis willendeavour to kick the debate on possible reforms into touch untilafter the General Election. Adair Turner, the former CBI director-general who has been leadingthe review, is fearful that no solution will be found if ...
BT paves the way for cheaper broadband
Oct 03, 2004; ... PIERRE DANON, the head of BT's retail operations, wants thetelecoms giant to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in localexchanges in a move that would amount to a declaration ofindependence by the vast retail division. Danon wants the green light from BT's board to allow BT ...
M&S womenswear revival under threat after exodus of more key staff
Oct 03, 2004; ... MARKS & SPENCER, the high street retailer, has suffered anotherseries of embarrassing defections from its Limited Collectionwomenswear team, which is one of the few areas of its business thatis thought to be doing well. Margaret McDonald, who was the head buyer for the ...
Sainsbury family will sell if King fails to deliver CEO given May deadline to prove himself
Oct 03, 2004; ... THE SAINSBURY family, which owns around 35 per cent of theeponymous supermarket chain, has set Justin King, its chiefexecutive, a deadline of May to prove that he can turn it around. The family will consider selling J Sainsbury or taking it privateif there is no evidence of ...
Pioneer of controversial loans to net pounds 250m from Ocean Finance sale
Oct 03, 2004; ... PAUL NEWEY, the co-founder of Ocean Finance, a provider ofcontroversial debt consolidation services for financially stretchedhouseholds, is set to pocket a personal fortune of around pounds 250mafter putting the business up for sale. Ocean Finance is understood to have appointed ...
Follow the story - but heed the underlying facts Taking Stock
Oct 03, 2004; ... A STORY - never mind whether it is true - is one of the mostpowerful drivers in the stock market. Aim-listed BioProgress is one of the best current examples. Thiscompany has developed a range of patented methods to replaceconventional gelatine pills, which could revolutionise ...