The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 2006:
THEATRE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Herg's Adventures of Tintin Aladdin Once in a Lifetime Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Putting a real, live, pink-tongued Snowy on stage within the firstfew seconds of Herg's Adventures of Tintin at the Barbican is aninspired idea, if only because the resulting ...
MY RESOLUTIONS GO TO THE DOGS
Jan 01, 2006; ... AH, THE WANDERER returns. Welcome back from the festive season. Itrust you passed a happy time sitting in front of a roaring fire, orHemel Hempstead, as we now call it. I'm afraid I am feeling rather chipper, but I'm not insensitive tothe fact that one or two of you will be ...
Well, did Tom Cruise dance with aliens? sam jordison THE INSIDER
Jan 01, 2006; ... 'Hello, we're from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ... ' 'Great,' I said. 'Come in.' 'What?' Mormons who are out cold-calling don't expect that kind ofresponse. Abuse, yes. Door slamming, undoubtedly. There was even onesad occasion involving hot pursuit with a ...
You can't beat a bit of flobadob ian Gardhouse THE INSIDER
Jan 01, 2006; ... Stephen Fry and I came up with more than 20 expressions forgibberish (see list at end). The Eskimos, it is said by those whorefuse to call them the Inuit, have 15 words for snow. And they haveso many because knowledge of the various kinds of frozen water is animportant, perhaps vital, ...
Why cathedral choirs are so out of tune michael white
Jan 01, 2006 ... When Maurice Chevalier thanked heaven for little girls, he wasexpressing a personal opinion that heaven (or, at least, itsrepresentatives on earth) hasn't always shared. Over the past few weeks you will probably have encountered a fewrepresentatives of heaven on earth, otherwise ...
London proves a match for Manhattan
Jan 01, 2006; ... AN EXHAUSTED BUT STILL ADORABLE WOODY ALLEN flew in to Britain topromote his new film, Match Point, at the Curzon Mayfair. EmilyMortimer, Ewen Bremner and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (sporting his silkGalliano 'newspaper-print' scarf with pride) ambled around the after-show extravaganza in ...
NEW YEAR? WHAT NEW YEAR? Naomi Alderman hates to break up a good party, but she wonders what it is we are all celebrating
Jan 01, 2006; ... GOOD MORNING. HOW ARE YOU FEELING RIGHT NOW? Head a little sore?Throbbing at the back of your eyes? Tongue like sandpaper? Believeyou may die before the day is through? Thought so. Now, how aboutgoing out for a brisk run, followed by a smoothie, mid-morning yogaand a couple of hours ...
Tough love Interview No one plays psychopaths and sadists better than Peter sarsgaard - as he proves in 'Jarhead'. He tells John Preston why it's normal to be weird.
Jan 01, 2006; ... PETER SARSGAARD LOOKS LIKE A SLEEPY SADIST. In any other sphere oflife this wouldn't be much of a recommendation. In Hollywood,however, it has propelled him towards stardom. Of course, it helpsthat he can act, and when it comes either to soaking up punishment on screen, or dishing it ...
CINEMA
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Producers Just Like Heaven Mel Brooks's The Producers (12A) seems to have switched genresmore times than a chorus girl changes costume. When it first steppedout, in 1968, it was as a film starring Zero Mostel as the Broadwayproducer Max Bialystock and Gene Wilder as his ...
MEL BROOKS
Jan 01, 2006 ... The comic cornucopia that is Mel Brooks was born in New York onJune 28, 1926 - the 12th anniversary of Archduke Franz Ferdinand'sassassination, he later bragged - as Melvin Kaminsky, the son ofRussian Jewish parents. He subsequently changed his name to avoidconfusion with the musician ...
OTHER FILMS
Jan 01, 2006; ... Rize (PG) 'The footage in this film has not been sped up in any way' is astrange disclaimer, but, in this case, a crucial one. Much of thedancing in David Lachapelle's manic documentary is so bouncy, so eye-popping, that one might well write it off as hi-tech trickery. It ...
RADIO
Jan 01, 2006; ... A Bach Christmas Christmas in Asgabat A Good Read A Bach Christmas on Radio 3 was quite simply the best, as well asthe biggest, radio production I have heard. As somebody who doesn'toften face the day without a little Bach anyway, I was always likelyto enjoy it, but ...
ART
Jan 01, 2006; ... James Turrell is an American artist who works with the refractorymedium of light. He was born in 1943 and first came to prominence inthe mid-1960s, as one of a generation of West Coast artistsassociated with what came to be known as the 'California Light andSpace Movement'. His creations ...
2006 starts here POP
Jan 01, 2006; ... In the aftermath of such landmark events as Kate Bush's love-songto her washing machine and Madonna's belated rediscovery of her innerdisco-dolly, 2005 is already established as something of a pop annusmirabilis. So the only prudent course now seems to be to scour thetea-leaves for ...
LOAD DOWN SIR JOHN TUSA'S FAVOURITE TRACKS Dvork: Piano Quintet in A, Op 81
Jan 01, 2006 ... This live recording by Sviatoslav Richter and the Borodin Quartetis intense, lyrical, and at the climax blisteringly fast. It gets meright back to my Czech roots and always gives me a lift. Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jsus I first heard thisplayed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard ...
The sound of the year to come POP
Jan 01, 2006; ... The thought of a new Morrissey album in March with the titleRingleader of The Tormentors, featuring songs called 'Life is aPigsty', 'I Just Want to See The Boy Happy' and 'You Have KilledMe', may or may not make your mouth water. You might be eagerlyawaiting Outkast doing 'Cock A Doodle ...
MUSIC
Jan 01, 2006; ... Il barbiere di Siviglia BBC Symphony Orchestra/Runnicles Paul Lewis Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier certainly don't shy away from thebig gesture. At the end of Act I of their new production of Ilbarbiere di Siviglia at the Royal Opera House, the whole set ...
Dance
Jan 01, 2006; ... Pinocchio Will Tuckett's Pinocchio, for Covent Garden's Linbury StudioTheatre, had been shaping up as the dance show of the season. His2002 hit The Wind in the Willows was a delight. Pinocchio, with thesame design team, composer and choreographer, along with many of thesame ...
TELEVISION
Jan 01, 2006; ... The English Harem Under the Greenwood Tree My Family and Other Animals Whatever Love Means Every so often - always unprompted and invariably late at night -I find myself declaring in bellicose tones that television drama hasimproved hugely over the past 10 ...
Where to buy in 2006 art sales
Jan 01, 2006; ... It's only a few weeks since the dealers and buyers returned fromthe galleries of Miami-Basel, but they're ready to return to businesswith the London Art Fair, which opens later this month. Britain isthe centre of the European art market - last year almost pounds 5billion worth of art ...
Opera and concerts
Jan 01, 2006; ... Royal Opera House London, 020 7304 4000. Mark Elder conducts thenew Patrice Caurier-Moshe Leiser staging of Rossini's Il barbiere diSiviglia, with George Petean in the title role, Joyce DiDonato asRosina, Toby Spence as Almaviva and Bruno Practc as Doctor Bartolo(today 3pm, Wed, Sat); ...
Dance
Jan 01, 2006; ... English National Ballet London Coliseum 020 7632 8300, Thur-Jan21: Kenneth MacMillan's sumptuous Sleeping Beauty. Star couple AgnesOaks and Thomas Edur dance the opening performance. New Adventures Sadler's Wells, London EC1, 0870 737 7737, to Feb5. Matthew Bourne's Edward ...
Rock
Jan 01, 2006; ... Get Loaded Presents NY Day Live DJs including X-Press 2, and PeteHeller will nurse your New Year's Day hangover with some 'banging'acid-house. London Camden Koko tonight, 08700 600 100. Mogwai Extreme noise terror with the odd melodic interlude. DublinTemple Bar Music Centre, next ...
Art
Jan 01, 2006; ... Richard Long Haunch of Venison, London W1, 020 7495 5050, Tue-Feb10. New and previously unseen work from the Turner Prize-winner.Haunting new photographs documenting journeys. Spectacular Miracles Ashmolean, Oxford, 01865 278 000, to Jan 29.Bizarre and wonderful images of statues ...
Cinema
Jan 01, 2006; ... King Kong (12A). Peter Jackson's spectacular three-hour remake ofthe 1933 classic exudes confidence: with Naomi Watts, Jack Black andAdrien Brody. Lassie (PG) The canny collie is predictably sentimental for adultviewers, but ...
Theatre
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Canterbury Tales RSC Swan, Stratford, 0870 609 1110, to Feb 4.Characterful and well-directed six-hour Chaucer marathon adapted byMike Poulton. The Wild Duck Donmar, 0870 ...
OUT THIS WEEK DVDs
Jan 01, 2006; ... SHAKESPEARE RETOLD Acorn Media UK AV0348, 2 discs, pounds 18.99 This BBC series of 90-minute films is for modern audiences whocan't cope with Shakespeare's absurd dialogue but love his watertightplots. It's a mixed bag: Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth are bothcarried by ...
OUT THIS WEEK Games
Jan 01, 2006; ... DOGZ UbiSoft Game Boy Advance pounds 19.99 Who would have thought Nintendogs would work so well? Clearly noone, hence this rush job, which simulates the rearing of a range ofdogs. Plenty of repetitive gameplay later and your thumb will beknackered from joyless ...
BOOKS With everything from Hannibal Lecter to magic mushrooms, 2006 promises to be a year to get your teeth into, says Melissa Katsoulis
Jan 01, 2006; ... It's that time of year again, and the chances are you haveresolved to Read More Books in 2006. In fact, even if you haveresolved to read fewer - you are a Booker judge, perhaps, or anaspiring footballer - the crop of new books coming out over the next12 months should help you make sure ...
THE LITERARY YEAR 2006
Jan 01, 2006; ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Holidays, wrote: 'The holiest ofall holidays are those / Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; /The secret anniversaries of the heart.' The bicentenary of his birthwill not be celebrated until next year but 2006 provides numerousopportunities to mark the ...
TITLE DEED: HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME THE DECAY OF THE ANGEL BY YUKIO MISHIMA
Jan 01, 2006; ... At around midday on November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima drove a foot-long dagger into his belly. As he lay gasping on the carpet he wasbeheaded by his gay lover Masakatsu Morita. The reasons behind thisact of seppuku, or, as it is known in the West, hara-kiri, werecomplex. It was partly ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Christopher Tayler detects plot holes, red herrings and thin jokes
Jan 01, 2006; ... The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: Volume 3: The Novels ED BY LESLIE S. KLINGER Norton, pounds 30, 907 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 Sherlock Holmes: The Biography BY NICK RENNISON Atlantic, pounds 14.99, 240 pp T pounds ...
Crime P. D. James examines the case of the wife-murderer Dr Crippen
Jan 01, 2006; ... Supper with the Crippens BY DAVID JAMES SMITH ORION, pounds 18.99, 344 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 Dr Crippen is not the only murderer who has cut up and buried hisvictim's body, but he is certainly the most notorious. The crime forwhich he was ...
Mountaineering Tom Fort is moved by this elegy for a rare spirit who hungered for high places and danger
Jan 01, 2006; ... High Endeavours: The Life and Legend of Robin Smith BY JIMMY CRUICKSHANK CANONGATE, pounds 16.99, 372 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Climbers, potholers, round-the-world-yachtsmen, deep-sea divers -why, in God's name, do they do it? It's a ...
NEWSPAPERS Kim Fletcher on interesting times for a fleet street institution
Jan 01, 2006; ... The History of the Times: Vol VII 1981-2002: The Murdoch Years BY GRAHAM STEWART HarperCollins, pounds 30, 727 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 Anyone who worries that Rupert Murdoch has changed the characterof The Times since buying it in 1981 should be ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 01, 2006; ... JUNG BY DEIRDRE BAIR, LITTLE, BROWN pounds 14.99 Carl Gustav Jung was chosen by Freud to become the first presidentof the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1910, but theirprofessional relationship ended four years later when Jung foundedhis own system of analytical ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 01, 2006; ... IN TASMANIA: ADVENTURES AT THE END OF THE WORLD BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, VINTAGE, pounds 6.99 From the biographer of Bruce Chatwin, an appropriatelyChatwinesque confection of unlikely tales from a far-off land. If youthink of Tasmania as Australia Lite, think again ....
DISSIDENCE The best place to find out what life is like in iran is the internet, says Con Coughlin
Jan 01, 2006; ... We Are Iran BY NASRIN ALAVI PORTOBELLO, pounds 12.99, 365 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 It is being hailed as Iran's new revolution, only this time it isnot taking place on the streets of Teheran but in cyberspace. Given that Iran is one ...
Fiction Can't make up your mind? there's a pill for that. Christopher Cleave on a psychedelic debut
Jan 01, 2006; ... Indecision BY BENJAMIN KUNKEL PICADOR, pounds 12.99, 240 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 'Warm milk and guaranteed tender safety for all honest mammalswilling to work a twenty-hour week!' Not an executive summary ofFrench employment law, but one ...
FICTION David Robson enjoys a tale of geo-politics and grumpy old men
Jan 01, 2006; ... Churchill's Triumph BY MICHAEL DOBBS HEADLINE, pounds 17.99, 341 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 The 'triumph' of the title is half-ironic. The 1945 Yaltaconference - the subject of the last of a quartet of novels byMichael Dobbs - was at best a ...
FICTION Matthew Alexander is beguiled by a poetic fable in which the arabian nights and napoleon meet
Jan 01, 2006; ... Flawed Angel BY JOHN FULLER CHATTO & WINDUS, pounds 12, 249 pp T pounds 11 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Flawed Angel is a dynastic fable set in an Eastern kingdom aroundthe turn of the 19th century. This fairy-tale land of spices, palacesand peaceful tradition is ...
SUSANNA YAGER ON CRIME FICTION
Jan 01, 2006; ... Ignoring the trend for espionage novels set in the contemporaryworld, Olen Steinhauer has carved a niche for his well-researchedCold War thrillers. The rather dour hero of The Vienna Assignment(HarperCollins, pounds 18.99), Major Brano Sev, works for theintelligence service of an ...
BOOKS
Jan 01, 2006 ... We would welcome your views on this novel as you read it. Tell usif you like (or dislike) the characters, the style of writing, theplot - anything that strikes you as interesting. Over the next threeweeks we will publish a selection of your comments both in Seven andon our website. If ...
BOOK CLUB
Jan 01, 2006 ... Seven readers differed - as readers of Mansfield Park have alwaysdone - in their views of Fanny Price, the novel's heroine. ErmineDesmond thought it silly that anyone could find Fanny dislikeable:she is 'heroically admirable throughout. Who with sensitivity doesnot wince with her again ...
BOOK CLUB Hilary Spurling introduces her choice for january: 'winter's tales' by isak dinesen
Jan 01, 2006; ... I have never forgotten a captivating passage I read long ago inIsak Dinesen's Winter's Tales about the importance of superficiality.I was very young then, too young probably to grasp its implications.It comes from the second story in the book, The Young Man with TheCarnation, about a ...
MOTORING SMALL CARS - INCLUDING TOYOTA'S YARIS - ARE GETTING TOO BIG, SAYS Neil Lyndon
Jan 01, 2006; ... TOTAL EFFICIENCY IS NOT ALWAYS endearing. The heart does not soarover mere competence and efficacy. For these reasons, the new Toyota Yaris can be compared to CliffRichard or Arsenal football teams of the past. Nobody could denytheir metronomic accomplishments, but a car of this ...
TAKE FIVE want a new snowboard but don't know which way to jump? read on ..
Jan 01, 2006 ... A snowboard leaning outside against a piste bar wall isn't goingto be insured if that board goes walkies. So, if you're going tospend about pounds 400 on a new one this season, make sure youinvest in a lock as well. All the boards featured here are available from Snow and Rock at ...
Euronext cleared for LSE offer
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE Competition Commission is to pave the way for a takeover bidfor the London Stock Exchange by Euronext, the pan-European stockexchange operator, by removing the main impediment to a merger of thetwo companies. The commission has already provisionally ruled that Euronext ...
Public sector payroll will top 6m this year
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE NUMBER of public sector workers will pass 6m in 2006 for thefirst time in 16 years, a leading think tank estimates. The Office for National Statistics' latest figures show thatBritain is already close to this landmark in the expansion of thepublic sector. The number of public ...
Revenue launches probe into soaring tax credit fraud
Jan 01, 2006; ... FEARS are mounting that the tax credit system is being overwhelmedby fraud from tens of thousands of people falsely claiming to be sickor disabled. Documents published by HM Revenue & Customs show that the numberof people claiming Disabled Worker Premium has rocketed. Among ...
Real tennis members make racket at Queen's
Jan 01, 2006; ... TALKS are under way to guarantee the future of real tennis andrackets at their Queen's Club headquarters in West London, amid fearsthat the new owners ofthe prestigious club may not wish to continueproviding the historic sports. Queen's, the home of the Stella Artois tennis ...
MPs savage power of big four grocers Leaked Parliamentary report warns of 'food deserts' if supermarkets are allowed to expand unchecked
Jan 01, 2006; ... FOOD WHOLESALERS and independent newsagents are "not expected tosurvive'' beyond 2015 because of the unchecked growth of Britain'ssupermarkets, according to the damning preliminary findings of aninvestigation into the retail sector by an influential group of MPs. The riposte to the ...
Buy-to-let lenders 'will be scared off'
Jan 01, 2006; ... NEW REGULATIONS on shared houses could deal another blow to thebuy-to-let market, on top of the chancellor's decision to excluderesidential property from self-invested pensions, mortgage lendershave warned. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has told the Office of theDeputy ...
Chancellor blamed for equity Isa sales slump
Jan 01, 2006; ... SALES of equity Isas plungedto a record low in 2005 and the slumpwas caused by Gordon Brown's decision to scrap the dividend taxcredit, according to industry experts. Figures from the Investment Management Association (IMA), due outlater this month, will show that sales of Isa unit ...
Conrad's Hilton chain fulfils his global dream The anti-communist founder of the hotel group would have been thrilled by its decision to merge its two arms. Matthew Moore reports
Jan 01, 2006; ... 'My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting worldpeace.'' Conrad Hilton's words as he opened the Park Lane Hilton, hisfirst London hotel, in 1963 reveal a man not wanting for ambition. Last week's announcement of the long-anticipated reunification ofthe US Hilton Hotel ...
Ferrari and De Beers add sparkle to Formula One
Jan 01, 2006 ... FERRARI'S Formula One team is to mark its diamond anniversary in2007 with a multi-million pound sponsorship deal with De Beers, theworld's largest diamond mining company, writes Andrew Murray-Watson. The move is part of De Beers's commitment to raise the ...
United climbs out of bankruptcy
Jan 01, 2006; ... UNITED AIRLINES expects to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcyprotection early in February, the giant US carrier said on Fridaynight. The airline said enough of its creditors had voted in favour of aplan to restructure its balance sheet to end its three-year spell ofbankruptcy ....
Compass eyes Cousins for top job
Jan 01, 2006; ... HEADHUNTERS acting for Compass, the troubled caterer, haveapproached Richard Cousins, the recently departed head of BPB, theplasterboard maker, to be its new chief executive. Compass shareholders, frustrated at what they perceive as thecompany's lack of leadership, are understood ...
Gas supplies to industry hit snag after brief cold snap
Jan 01, 2006; ... BRITISH industry has been hit by a shortage of gas after only afew days of cold weather. According to figures from National Grid, the company that runs theUK's network of gas pipes, "interruptions'' in gas supply toindustrial customers took place on Thursday and Friday ....
Christmas sales cheer retailers
Jan 01, 2006; ... NEW LOOK, the clothing retailer, Harrods, the Knightsbridgedepartment store, and Superdrug, the toiletries chain, all enjoyedbetter-than-expected trading over the Christmas period, giving astrong early indication that the festive season was not the disasterthat some analysts had ...
MPs set to block Mail equity handout
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE number of MPs to have signed an Early Day Motion opposingRoyal Mail's plan to hand a fifth of its equity to employees hasreached 208. Allan Leighton, Royal Mail's chairman, believes the scheme is avital incentive to motivate employees and steel the company for ...
Packer's son steps up to the plate Andrew Murray-Watson looks at the task of following a swashbuckling entrepreneur
Jan 01, 2006; ... James Packer was relaxing on Christmas Day when he was told thathis father was critically ill and had only hours to live. Kerry Packer, the richest man in Australia, worth an an estimatedA$7bn ( pounds bn) and the executive vice-chairman at Publishing &Broadcast Ltd, his quoted ...
Last post for Royal Mail's monopoly
Jan 01, 2006; ... High on the downs above Fovant in Wiltshire, among the famousregimental badges carved into the chalk, is the insignia of the PostOffice Rifles (now defunct). Like the regal red boxes that decoratethe landscape, it is a reminder of the influence the Royal Mail hashad on our culture - ...
Daily Mail dilemma
Jan 01, 2006; ... WHEN Viscount Rothermere, the chairman of Daily Mail & GeneralTrust, said before Christmas that he was auctioning his Northcliffelocal newspapers, I doubted he could get pounds 1.5bn for thetitles. But the subsequent sale of The Scotsman, by Sir Frederick andSir David Barclay (who also ...
Tax credit hubris
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE root source of Gordon Brown's woes as chancellor is his beliefthat society can be designed by experts appointed by him. And hischosen device for achieving this perfection is the tax system. Thatis why he invented tax credits as a way of fine-tuning who earnswhat. Adam Smith ...