The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from October 2006:
Time to find out who our real friends are
Oct 01, 2006; ... 'There is little friendship in the world,' wrote the philosopherSir Francis Bacon, 'and least of all between equals'. On firsthearing this seems an absurd statement. Surely the world spills overwith friendship? Surely the man without friends is the exceptionrather than the rule? ...
SEVEN SAYS THIS IS THE WEEK TO ... 01.10.06
Oct 01, 2006; ... MARVEL at the majesty of Holbein, the first artist to turn theEnglish royal family into celebrities. At Tate Britain now (Arts,p26) GET THE HOTS for the Guillemots, Fyfe Dangerfield's zany cocktailof jazz, baroque, indie pop, Sixties psychedelia ... you name it. UKtour starts ...
My Odd socks taste delicious
Oct 01, 2006; ... WHEN I WAS AT BOARDING SCHOOL, there was a particularly repellentdish served monthly which consisted of sausage meat baked with apotato topping. It was a meal that made even the youngest participantgrieve for the wasted life of a pig. The headmistress called it'Chef's Special', but to ...
I dreamt I was being pecked by birds THEATRE First came a panicky trip to Mississippi. Then the nightmares. Rosamund Pike tells Nigel Farndale about the pain and pleasure of taking on Tennessee Williams
Oct 01, 2006; ... It is 9.25 in the morning. I take a sip of coffee, my first of theday, and try hard not to stare at Rosamund Pike's chest. It's notthat her breasts are particularly large, or small, it's just she isnot wearing a bra and her low-cut halter top struggles to containthem whenever she leans ...
A dynasty crushed by hatred BOOKS INDIA IN THE 18TH CENTURY WAS A LAND OF PEACEFUL INTEGRATION, WITH MANY ENGLISH GENTLEMEN 'GOING NATIVE'. BUT BY THE GREAT MUTINY OF 1857 RACISM WAS RIFE AND THE BRITISH WERE LOATHED. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, WHOSE NEW BOOK TELLS HOW THE MUGHAL EMPIRE WAS DESTROYED, EXPLAINS WHAT WENT WRONG
Oct 01, 2006; ... NOT FAR FROM MY FARM OUTSIDE DELHI LIES Zafar Mahal, the ruinedsummer palace of the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar II. Itis a deeply melancholy place. The cusped arches of the chambers whereZafar held his mushairas, or poetic symposia, are collapsing; onlypigeons declaim here ...
ON SET WITH THE BOYS FROM 'THE HOOD' Television writing the script for the bbc's NEW ROBIN HOOD SERIES was the easy bit. Much harder, says DOMINIC MINGHELLA in his on-set diary, was tryinG to keep his merry band of men in check
Oct 01, 2006; ... MARCH 22, 2006, BUDAPEST Spring in Budapest, famously, lasts a weekend, but you have to seeit to believe it. The weather switches from brutal winter to short-sleeve summer in an instant. And here it is, happening before ourvery eyes. It is not convenient. Because today we ...
A PAST MASTER'S PRESENCE ART
Oct 01, 2006; ... Holbein in England Cornelia Parker Tate Britain's sober but exemplary new exhibition, Holbein inEngland, contains a startlingly vivid array of portraits of the Tudoraristocracy. They are, in fact, the first fully achieved portraits ofEnglish people; and the melancholy truth ...
MAGNIFIED FICTION
Oct 01, 2006; ... Cornelia Parker is best known for her 'atomised sculpture'. In1991 she created Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, the fragments ofa shed, which had been exploded by the British Army School ofAmmunition, suspended in mid-air. In 1999, she made Edge of Englandfrom pieces of fallen chalk ...
ART CHOICE
Oct 01, 2006 ... Turner Prize 2006 Tate Britain, London SW1 (020 7887 8888), Tuesto Jan 14. Czanne in Britain, National Gallery, London WC2 (020 7747 2885),Wed to Jan 7. USA Today: New ...
THE PAIN IS TAKING SHAPE ART 2
Oct 01, 2006; ... Francis Bacon: Paintings from the 1950s That great art is the product of an extreme personality is a rulethat has been proved so often by art history that it might as well bea law of physics. And few artists can compete with the extremity ofFrancis Bacon's lifestyle in the 1950s, ...
STONE'S TREACLY MEMORIAL CINEMA
Oct 01, 2006; ... World Trade Center Click At the end of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center (12A) the screengoes black, the violins calm down a bit and some statistics flash up -2,749 people died in and around the Twin Towers on 9/11; they camefrom 87 different countries; 343 of them were ...
OTHER RELEASES
Oct 01, 2006; ... Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait Kekexili: Mountain Patrol Life & Lyrics Johanna Hoodwinked Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (PG) In Zidane, the ball is round, but the framing is one Cubists mightappreciate. For this singular 'filmed portrait' of ...
MY FAVOURITE FILM CINEMATOGRAPHER JOHN MATHIESON
Oct 01, 2006 ... Terrence Malick's The New World (2005), with Colin Farrell(below), is an extraordinary piece of work. There's a light, carefreeapproach to the story and an editing style I didn't expect from anestablished film-maker. You might think he'd manipulate the viewer ina definite direction; ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Oct 01, 2006; ... UNITED 93 Universal, 15, pounds 19.99 An almost flawless dramatisation of how part of the terroristaction on 9/11 was thwarted by the courage and selflessness of thepassengers on the hijacked United Airlines flight 93, which wouldotherwise have struck the White House. The ...
DVDs Out this week
Oct 01, 2006; ... RIVER COTTAGE: ROAD TRIP Channel 4, pounds 18.99 Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall packs up his teepee and goes in searchof cuts of meat and funny English folk the rest of us go out of ourway ...
DVDs Out this week
Oct 01, 2006; ... DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY Optimum, 15, pounds 18.99 Michel Gondry's record of the free concert organised by Americancomedian Dave Chappelle in Brooklyn in 2004 is ...
DVDs Out this week
Oct 01, 2006; ... FRIENDS WITH MONEY Sony, 12, pounds 19.99 Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack havesackloads; Jennifer Aniston, as a teacher-turned-cleaning lady, hasnone. Since this is a Cinderella story, the outcome is never indoubt, but how it transpires takes you agreeably by ...
THEATRE CHOICE
Oct 01, 2006 ... Amadeus Wilton's Music Hall, London E1 (020 7565 5000) to Oct 14.John Doyle's production of Peter Shaffer's play is dominated byMatthew Kelly's and Jonathan Broadbent's superb performances ...
THE BARD FOR THE BAFFLED THEATRE 2
Oct 01, 2006; ... Cymbeline Not all the Shakespeare plays at Stratford's Complete WorksFestival are RSC productions. Cymbeline, which has just finished itsrun at the Swan, is the brainchild of Kneehigh Theatre, a Cornishtouring company founded in 1980. Purists beware: this is not a production ...
A TERRIBLY LONG SECRET THEATRE
Oct 01, 2006; ... A Moon for the Misbegotten Wicked If it's now considered acceptable for Shakespeare's works to beliposuctioned - even at Stratford they are looking remarkably slimthese days - I can't see why Howard Davies couldn't have inserted thevacuum pump into Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for ...
CDs Out this week
Oct 01, 2006; ... At a time when we tend to associate him with Wagner, thisdelightful disc reminds us of Bryn Terfel's eminence as a Mozartsinger. Whether as Figaro, Papageno, Guglielmo, Don Giovanni orLeporello, he brings style and interpretative insights to everything,not to mention wonderful diction ....
STUNTED GROWTH IN THE GARDEN CLASSICAL
Oct 01, 2006; ... La finta giardiniera LPO/Berglund LSO/Davis Mozart was 18 years old when he composed La finta giardiniera,setting a stock, dramatically inadequate libretto to some of the mostdistinctive music he had yet written, and a few of the arias point tofuture greatness. Yet, ...
DANCE CHOICE
Oct 01, 2006 ... Birmingham Royal Ballet Birmingham Hippodrome (0870 730 1234) toSat. An ever-welcome revival of MacMillan's three-Kleenex Romeo andJuliet (left) which received a makeover in 1992 with attractive ...
OVER THE WAVES OF CHANCE DANCE
Oct 01, 2006; ... Ocean The Place Prize Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Ocean was originally conceived by Merce Cunningham and thecomposer John Cage in 1991. It was first unveiled in 1994 but onlyreceived its British premiere last week as the highlight of DanceUmbrella. The ...
MASTER OF FUNDAMENTAL EXHIBITIONISM POP
Oct 01, 2006; ... Jay-Z The man with many names, one of which is real, one of which is Jay-Z, oozes onto the stage at the Wembley Arena. His hood is up, hesparkles with diamonds, controlled menace and resplendent self-pride. After sort of retiring as hip hop performer a few years backto become ...
CDs Out this week
Oct 01, 2006; ... No one ever made great pop music while knowingly under theinfluence of Bruce Springsteen. This is just one of the many ironlaws of aesthetics which these subversive Las Vegas Mormons seem hell-bent on overturning. While their debut album Hot Fuss sold fivemillion copies by sucking the ...
LOAD DOWN GWEN OF THE PIPETTES
Oct 01, 2006 ... Elvis: I Just Can't Help Believing I used to really hate Elvis. Idanced in Las Vegas, and there were all these tribute acts and I wasjust like, 'God, this is the tackiest thing.' Then I heard this song,a live recording, and I got to reading books about him and it wasjust such a ...
REVIEWERS REVIEWED GOOD-LOOKING, NO CHILDREN
Oct 01, 2006 ... Everyone loved the look of Alfonso Cuarn's Children of Men, basedon the sci-fi novel by P. D. James, set in the future where the humanrace has become sterile. 'The designers deserve credit for makingLondon in 2027 look like the grunge capital of the world, ie, likenow, only more so,' ...
YOURS SINCERELY, IMPRISONED WITHOUT CHARGE RADIO
Oct 01, 2006; ... Letters from Guantanamo Three and the Third Perhaps there can be no such thing as a wholly impartial programmeabout any embattled subject. You just have to settle for fair enough.Letters from Guantanamo (Radio 4, Wednesday) tackled a very difficulttopic, the fate of prisoner ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'THE TALE OF GENJI' BY MURASAKI SHIKIBU
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Tale of Genji (c 1010), by the Japanese noblewomantraditionally known as 'Lady Murasaki', is sometimes designated theworld's first novel; perhaps it could be called the world's firstbonkbuster, dealing as it does with the irresistibly attractivePrince Genji and his many love affairs ....
Literary lives When Coleridge met Wordsworth it didn't just change their poems, it changed all english poetry, says BFrances Wilson
Oct 01, 2006 ... The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge BY ADAM SISMAN HARPERCOLLINS, pounds 20, 454 pp T pounds 17 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 Break-ups had happened before of course. Henry VIII's split fromthe Vatican comes to mind, or Socrates' spat with the Athenian ...
Biography Is this, at last, diana's 'true story'? asks John Adamson
Oct 01, 2006; ... Diana BY SARAH BRADFORD VIKING, pounds 20, 443 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 Dispassion, perspective, and a concern for evidence are qualitiesthat one rarely expects - and still more rarely encounters - in anybiography of Diana, Princess of Wales ....
Relatives It is mothers who get all the attention: Nicola Shulman welcomes the aunts' moment in the sun
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Complete Book of Aunts BY RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN FABER, pounds 12.99, 266 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 I heard on the radio this morning that there are, unaccountably,only 50, or 15, or some other scandalously low number of shoppingdays till ...
Religion Kenan Malik doesn't believe in god, but he doesn't believe in richard dawkins either
Oct 01, 2006; ... The God Delusion BY RICHARD DAWKINS BANTAM PRESS, pounds 20, 397 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 Richard Dawkins once took part in a debate with the distinguishedtheologian and philosopher Richard Swinburne. The Holocaust,Swinburne suggested, had a ...
Football Patrick Barclay praises this paean to two of the game's great players
Oct 01, 2006; ... Best and Edwards: Football, Fame and Oblivion BY GORDON BURN FABER, pounds 16.99, 255 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 It is not Ashley Cole's fault that he will never merit a mentionin the same breath as George Best and Duncan Edwards, the most ...
Autobiography Rupert Everett as a writer? He's not acting, says John Preston
Oct 01, 2006; ... Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins BY RUPERT EVERETT LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 18.99, 406 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 A few weeks ago I was having a drink with a publisher anddiscussing this autumn's big books. 'Rupert Everett's autobiographyis ...
History how good was king richard and how bad was king john? asks Helen Castor
Oct 01, 2006; ... Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest BY FRANK MCLYNN JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20, 578 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 They were the 'Devil's Brood': Henry, Richard, Geoffrey and John,the four sons of King Henry ...
Protest Melissa Katsoulis on the uncommon experience of the greenham women
Oct 01, 2006; ... Common Ground: The Story of Greenham BY DAVID FAIRHALL I. B. TAURIS, pounds 18.99, 216 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 Walking to Greenham: How the Peace Camp Began and the Cold War Ended BY ANN PETTITT HONNO, pounds ...
Fiction Is richard ford really john updike in disguise? asks Matt Thorne
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Lay of the Land BY RICHARD FORD BLOOMSBURY, pounds 16.99, 485 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 With his new novel Richard Ford completes his journey from theworld's second favourite 'dirty realist' to becoming a less giddy(but, ...
Fiction It is time martin amis wrote a bona fide novel again, says Tibor Fischer
Oct 01, 2006; ... House of Meetings BY MARTIN AMIS JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 15.99, 198 pp T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 'I am not a character in a novel,' the narrator of Martin Amis'slatest novel announces on page 19. The reader has already begun togather as much ....
CRIME FICTION
Oct 01, 2006; ... The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (Quercus, pounds 12.99)was originally conceived as a screenplay and its setting in the icywilderness of mid-19th century Canada is powerfully cinematic. Thecentral story is simple - the hunt for a murderer - but theindividual stories of the ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 01, 2006; ... THE STORY OF GOD BY ROBERT WINSTON BANTAM, pounds 8.99The eminent scientist Robert Winston ponders the illogicality of aworld in which (a decline in church attendance notwithstanding)religions can still flourish in an age of science, while theirdevotees in all parts of ...
PAPERBACKS
Oct 01, 2006; ... SHALIMAR THE CLOWN BY SALMAN RUSHDIE VINTAGE, pounds 7.99 Self-indulgently over-blown though his style tends to be, Rushdieexpertly keeps one turning the pages of this rich, deep tale of love,hate and revenge, in which the passion of two young Kashmiri loversturns to ...
Debut Catherine Humble on what it means to feel real
Oct 01, 2006; ... Remainder BY TOM MCCARTHY ALMA BOOKS, pounds 10.99, 286 pp T pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.25p&p) 0870 428 4115 The hero of Remainder is involved in an accident that leaves himeight million pounds richer but alienated from the world around him.He must learn how to move ...
OCTOBER BOOK CLUB CLAIRE MESSUD CHOOSES 'OSCAR AND LUCINDA' BY PETER CAREY
Oct 01, 2006; ... The joy of Peter Carey's novels is that each one so vividly andcompletely creates its own fictional world; and each is a surprise.I'm a fan of almost all his books but my favourite remains Oscar andLucinda, for which Carey won the Booker Prize in 1988. A grand and ambitious ...
WATCH LOVER NICK HURRELL ZENITH DEFY CLASSIC OPEN
Oct 01, 2006 ... These days men have to be more elegant, yet more rugged. We needto be both hunter-gatherers, and in close touch with our feminineside. There is now a watch for each of these moods: the slimmest dresswatch ever; the Everest-climbing watch; the bath-the-baby waterproofwatch; and ...
GIZMOS OF THE WEEK
Oct 01, 2006 ... Pictures give little sense of the scale of the new iPod Shuffle,which is barely bigger than a matchbook. Its best feature is a spring-loaded clip, which attaches it to your person or clothing. One Gb offlash memory can hold up to 240 songs, it weighs half an ounce, andhas up to 12 hours ...
TURN ON LUCY CALDWELL'S SMOOTH OPERATOR
Oct 01, 2006 ... THERE IS A PASSAGE IN Bridget Jones's Diary in which ourbeleaguered heroine, getting ready to shave her legs in preparationfor a hot date, laments: 'Being a woman is worse than being afarmer: there is so much harvesting and crop-spraying to be done. Thewhole performance is so highly ...
TAKE FIVE SLEEK AND STYLISH, THESE ARE KETTLES FOR TEA DRINKERS TO GET STEAMED UP OVER
Oct 01, 2006 ... Tea-drinkers love their little ceremonies, but whether you're apot or mug person, milk before or milk after, you still need a decentkettle. These models were chosen principally because they look thepart and, price aside, if you take it for granted that they boilwater, what else ...
ROAD TEST BMW has transformed its 3 series COUP. Neil Lyndon is dazzled
Oct 01, 2006; ... DAVID HOCKNEY ONCE SAID THAT, when he first arrived in Londonafter growing up in Bradford, he felt as if he had gone to heaven.But then, he said, he visited Los Angeles, 'which made London seemlike Bradford'. A similar sequence of revelations marked the recent launch inFrance of ...
THE GOLDEN GATEWAY? Shiny new developments are rising from a patchwork of dockyards and industrial wasteland to the east of London. But who is buying and at what cost? Caroline McGhie meets the pioneers
Oct 01, 2006; ... They are places the smart people turned their backs on forhundreds of years, where the marshes oozed, the beer was brewed andlatterly the cars came off the assembly lines; where the poor lived,the tower blocks rose and industry belched smoke and fumes. Theleftovers of Essex, melded with ...
Why the Brits are buying up Bulgaria A band of intrepid house- hunters is abandoning the Black Sea coast and settling in a forgotten corner inland. Grainger Laffan reports
Oct 01, 2006; ... Rujitza was once a sleepy little place in the far south-easterncorner of Bulgaria, 40 miles from the Black Sea. As the young peopleleft in search of jobs and a better life, it was turning slowly intoa ghost village. Services remained archaic and many houses satabandoned as sale prices ...
Create a mini library The Room Planner
Oct 01, 2006; ... There's something instantly soothing about walking into a roomfilled with books. Well-stocked shelves muffle sound and draw theeye, inviting you to curl up and relax with a good read. Few peoplecan devote an entire room to a library but there are lots of placesthroughout the home that ...
How did rot attack my conservatory? On The Level
Oct 01, 2006; ... Q. In 1994 I had a conservatory supplied and erected by Wickes. Itwas described in the brochure as being made of hardwood. I havefollowed the maintenance suggestions given by the company, andtreated the timber regularly with Wickes's own branded product, asoriginally supplied by the ...
The cabbage patch convert First-time kitchen gardener Alex Mitchell is advised always to work in tune with the moon
Oct 01, 2006 ... I do a lot of gardening and my back always seems to be in agony, Isaid. The reflexologist/masseuse was taking notes. "You see, I spend all my time leaning, weeding, hoeing, raking,digging. My lower back is always stiff. Is there anything you couldrecommend to improve ...
Out of the ordinary
Oct 01, 2006; ... I love unusual plants that are rarely stocked in garden centres,but how can I track them down? The first step is to consult the RHS Plant Finder: the book isupdated annually and available by mail order and is in mostbookshops; there is also an online version (01483 ...
Autumn roses
Oct 01, 2006; ... In the words of the country song, it has been "a good year for theroses''. Or rather, a good autumn. There is a splendid second show ofblooms now, even on old roses and others that usually give their allin summer with just a smattering of flowers later on. I've had 20 ormore pink-tinged ...
US Congress acts to ban online bets Bush expected to sign bill in new threat to survival of British internet gaming companies
Oct 01, 2006; ... A bill making it illegal for banks and credit card companies toprocess payments to online gaming companies was unexpectedly approvedby the US Congress yesterday, threatening to devastate the businessof British companies such as PartyGaming, 888 Holdings andBetonSports. The bill ...
Tesco takes on Microsoft in battle for software market
Oct 01, 2006; ... TESCO, the UK's biggest retailer, will go head-to-head withMicrosoft, the world's largest software company, by entering the pounds 8.5bn computer software market. The retailer will launch Tesco-branded software in 100 stores thismonth. An initial range of six products, which will ...
Stansted comes up short for the A380
Oct 01, 2006; ... THE TROUBLED Airbus A380 is heading for a further setback asLondon's first new runway in two decades is likely to be too small toaccommodate its giant wingspan. Final plans to build a second runway and terminal at Stanstedairport, at a cost of pounds 2.7bn, will be submitted for ...
Big banks threaten to curb lending as IVAs soar
Oct 01, 2006; ... BRITAIN'S big banks have warned the Government that they will stoplending to poorer families in the face of the boom in personalinsolvencies. Showdown talks between the British Bankers' Association and thedebt management industry are planned for later this month tochallenge ...
Horseracing consortium may seek deal to split the Tote
Oct 01, 2006; ... THE UK racing consortium seeking to buy the Tote is likely to tryto negotiate buying just the pool betting licence, leaving theGovernment to sell the betting shops on the open market. The Tote has had an exclusive right to operate, or authoriseothers to operate, pool betting on ...
Lomax in exit talks with Misys
Oct 01, 2006; ... KEVIN LOMAX is this week expected to announce his decision to quitMisys, the software group he founded in 1979. This weekend he is holding discussions over compensation terms anddeparture dates, but Sir Dominic Cadbury, the chairman, hopes to havesecured an agreement before ...
Commission 'deluged' on supermarkets
Oct 01, 2006; ... THE Competition Commission has been inundated with responses toits investigation into supermarket dominance, leading to growingfears that the watchdog may not be able to cope with the deluge ofinformation. The commission has so far received 250 submissions for its inquiry- more ...
Ted Baker is taking the road east
Oct 01, 2006; ... TED BAKER, the fashion retailer, is plotting a massive expansionin the Middle East and Asia as it looks to take its quirky clothingbrand into new territories. The retailer has signed licensing agreements that could see itopen 70 stores in 16 countries over the next five years. The ...