The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 2007:
DVD OF THE WEEK
Jan 07, 2007; ... thank you for smoking Fox Video, 15, pounds 17.99 Thank You for Smoking is the most outrageous American movie sincethe early film work of playwright Neil LaBute. Doubtless notcoincidentally, it stars Aaron Eckhart in a role almost ascontemptible as he played in LaBute's The ...
Sail to paradise celeb chefs balcony dining CARIBBEAN STYLE discover the idyllic sun-kissed islaNDs in unparalleled luxury
Jan 07, 2007; ... The cuisine served up by P&O Cruises is quite rightly rated assome of the finest afloat. So what do you do if you're that good? Youbring in two of the most eminent celebrity chefs and give them theirown restaurants. Gary Rhodes is a leading light in cutting-edge British ...
Cruising is hot stars shine on cunard STAR RATING britain's celebrities jump on board for rest and relaxtion
Jan 07, 2007; ... Since the early 20th century, Cunard has played host to more starsthan any other cruise line. Cary Grant was so impressed he referredto the Queen Mary as "the eighth wonder of the world''. Cole Portercomposed Begin the Beguine in his suite and playwright Noel Cowardwas such an avid guest ...
World at your feet just do it More and more britons are choosing to travel the globe on a cruise ship
Jan 07, 2007; ... TANNED, fit, elegantly dressed and still on the right side of 50,Robert and Hilary were not, to my mind, typical world cruisers.Indeed, they had never cruised at all, until they decided to take theplunge big time and make their first holiday at sea a full 103-daycircumnavigation of the ...
Wild and wonderful GLORIOUS new ENGLAND Amazing alaska beautiful landscapes and abundant wildlife make this a nature lover's paradise
Jan 07, 2007; ... Hundreds of tons of blue ice breaking away from a glacier andcrashing into the freezing sea was an unforgettable experience. Inthe stillness of Alaska's Glacier Bay, the cracking and snapping as200-ton chunks thundered towards the water was an extraordinary soundaccompanying an ...
Arrive in style around toronto crossing the atlantic there's no better way to visit New York than on Queen Mary 2
Jan 07, 2007; ... While a Queen Mary 2 Transatlantic Crossing is by far the grandestway to reach New York, travellers are not confined to just visitingthe Big Apple. Two-centre options combining New York stays with visits to othergreat US cities like Las Vegas and Boston can easily be built ...
Personally speaking Why it's neat to make a mess of things
Jan 07, 2007; ... ANYONE WHO HAS EVER SAT DOWN IN front of a clean sheet of paperand tried to force creativity knows that inspiration doesn't usuallyhappen that way. Rather, it tends to spring unexpected from novelconnections - and novel connections, in turn, usually go hand-in-hand with mess ....
Magic moments in sign language
Jan 07, 2007; ... FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THINK THAT show business is a constant roundof champagne and canaps, allow me to share with you that I spent asplendid New Year's Eve drinking beer in a working men's club in thesmall town of Padiham in Lancashire. At the top of a narrow cobbledstreet, we paid 50p to ...
bookS The spirit of the king, who would have been 72 tomorrow, lives on - especially in canada. charlie connelly meets 'Elvis priestley', 'Schmelvis' and others who celebrate his memory with a religious devotion
Jan 07, 2007; ... CANADA HAS A PROUD CLAIM: IT'S THE ONLY COUNTRY in the worldother than the United States where Elvis performed in concert. Inthe spring and summer of 1957, at the height of his early popularityand in response to a petition organised by a fan in Ontario, theyoung singer played dates in ...
ELVIS BY NUMBERS
Jan 07, 2007; ... 0 The number of encores Elvis performed in his career 1,564 The number of minutes that the Norwegian singer, KjellHenning Bjrnstad, spent continuously singing Elvis numbers in 2003.That's a world-record 26 hours, four minutes and 40 seconds 6 The number of ...
Telenovelas: the story so far television 'ugly betty', now on channel 4, brings a new style of soap to our screens - the latin american 'telenovela', which has a worldwide audience of up to two billion. Alex bellos tunes in
Jan 07, 2007; ... WHEN I LIVED IN RIO DE JANEIRO, NO ONE EVER wanted to meet up fora drink before 10 in the evening. Yes, Brazilians tend to eat late,but that wasn't the real reason - it was because the day's mostimportant telenovela started at nine and no one wanted to miss it.The telenovela schedule ...
the seeker of souls Film palestinian terrorists, tormented mountain climbers, mick jagger and now idi amin - all have had their demons unleashed in the films of Kevin macdonald. and he's even managed to stay friends with one of them. the director talks to nigel farndale
Jan 07, 2007; ... With his wavy, collar-length hair, quizzical eyebrows and angularchin, 39-year-old Kevin Macdonald looks more like an actor than adirector. Specifically, he looks like James McAvoy, the co-star ofhis new film The Last King of Scotland. Indeed, while they were atthe Toronto Film Festival, ...
MEL'S MAYAN BLOODBATH Apocalypto Miss Potter
Jan 07, 2007; ... The Gospel According to Mel is not a mysterious text. Most peoplecould recite it in their sleep. There will be fighting. There will beshouting. There will be chasing. There will be lashings of gratuitousviolence. Heads will roll, stomachs will turn, something unfortunatewill happen to an ...
OTHER RELEASES A Prairie Home Companion Dark Horse Little Red Flowers Paris is Burning Employee of the Month White Noise - The Light
Jan 07, 2007; ... A Prairie Home Companion (PG) Over the opening credits of Robert Altman's final film, we hearsnippets of American radio broadcasts as might be heard from just acursory twiddle of the dial. Cookery shows jostle for airspace withtraffic reports, relationship phone-ins with preaching ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... driving lessonsTartan, 15, pounds 16.99 The driving lessons here are a metaphor for a rites-of-passagestory in which a gormless teenage poet (Rupert Grint) learns lessonsin life from Julie ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... stntang Artificial Eye, 15, three DVDs, pounds 27.50 Set in post-Communist Hungary, Bla Tarr's bleak, seven-hour sagais like a cross between the work of his ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... terkel in trouble Eureka, 15, pounds 15.99 It's something of a mystery that talented comedians like JohnnyVegas, Bill Bailey and Olivia Colman were persuaded to lend theirvoices ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... severancePathe, 15, pounds 17.99 The marriage of humour and horror is always a delicate one; inChristopher Smith's attempt, set during a team-building trip toEastern Europe, the representative for comedy is Danny Dyer, ...
EARTHBOUND ON SKATES The Imperial Ice Stars: 'Swan Lake'
Jan 07, 2007; ... 'On ice'. As adjectival phrases go it has to be up there with 'encrote', 'some assembly required' and 'featuring Trinny and Susannah':definitely more a threat than a promise. The two ice extravaganzastouring Britain this winter are the perennial Holiday on Ice (whichopens in Brighton ...
UPON A PAINTED OCEAN Art for the Nation
Jan 07, 2007; ... The country's oldest national public art gallery is not, as youmight suppose, the National Gallery; it was pipped to the post by theNaval Gallery in the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen inGreenwich, which opened three weeks before it, in April 1824. TheNaval Gallery later ...
ART CHOICE
Jan 07, 2007; ... Fischli & Weiss Tate Modern, London SE1 (020 7887 8888) to 14 Jan.Witty Swiss duo in many media. Douglas Gordon Royal ...
KYLIE LIVES THE DREAM Kylie Riders on the Storm
Jan 07, 2007; ... 'Ladies and Gentlemen' - a theatrically delighted Kylieencompasses Tuesday's packed Wembley Arena in the sweep of a smallarm - 'this is one of my dreams.' She is dressed in glitteringcrimson - as a 1940s forces sweetheart with an undertow of Valkyrie -and has just dismounted from the ...
ON GREAT FORM The History Boys Billy Elliot
Jan 07, 2007; ... The History Boys has certainly got about. After beginning life atthe National's Lyttelton Theatre in the spring of 2004, AlanBennett's play about a group of sixth formers at a Sheffield grammarschool has been on two UK tours and played in Hong Kong, New Zealand,Australia and Broadway. It ...
THE MASTERMIND AT 9 DOWNING STREET The New Statesman: Alan B'Stard's Extremely Secret Weapon The Rocky Horror Show
Jan 07, 2007; ... Rik Mayall is back at his irreverent best playing the sexist,racist, immoral politician Alan B'Stard in a new stage show basedupon the hit television series The New Statesman. When B'Stard'screators, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, signed off in the early1990s he was a corrupt young ...
TIMELESS MYSTICISM sofia gubaidulina's visionary music is celebrated this week by the bbc and the Barbican. The Russian composer talks to john allison
Jan 07, 2007; ... Now that the Shostakovich centenary is behind us, perhaps it istime for the musical world to relax its fixation on his music. Not toignore Shostakovich, for his finest works deserve to endure, butrather to appreciate his legacy in a wider sense. A giant figure on -and beyond - the Soviet ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... This completes Testament's epic issue of the first stereorecording of The Ring, made at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival. As thefirst three operas have demonstrated, Joseph Keilberth conducted atruly wonderful interpretation, with singers of a quality rarelyencountered in Wagner today. Astrid ...
Out this week
Jan 07, 2007; ... If you're a fan of Cowboy Junkies or, indeed, you're actually onheroin and frankly don't care what you listen to, then this hugelyacclaimed New York trio are for you. I sort of see why all the othercritics like them: singer/songwriter/ lap-steel virtuoso Megan Hickeyhas a pleasant ...
AN OVERDOSE OF IMPROVING THOUGHTS Books to Change Your Life By Owl Prowl
Jan 07, 2007; ... It's very improving, Radio 4. Sometimes too much so, perhaps. Lastweek's morning readings, for example, were nothing less thanpunishing. In Books to Change Your Life By, Bel Mooney presentedextracts from five self-help classics, emphasising that 'the firstdays of New Year are ...
CRASH COURSE What's Britain Worth? The Wind in the Willows Ugly Betty
Jan 07, 2007; ... A month or so ago I went looking for a new pair of Viyellapyjamas. These, I felt confident, would heighten/restore/create-from-scratch my bedroom allure, while also protecting me from the manyairborne infections that can affect those of us with delicate chestsat this time of year. But ...
melissa katsoulis scans the literary horizon and suggests the most promising books to look out for in 2007
Jan 07, 2007; ... Christmas bestsellers being what they are, you will by now havefinished that glossy sporting biography, flicked queasily through thelatest offering from your favourite TV chef and spent enough hours inthe lavatory with Ben Schott to last you a lifetime. But now Decemberis over and you ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'NOVEL ON YELLOW PAPER' BY STEVIE SMITH
Jan 07, 2007; ... Novel on Yellow Paper was published in 1936 while Stevie Smith wasworking as a secretary for Newnes, the stationery company. Heroriginal suggestion for a title was Pompey Casmilus, after the book'sheroine, but this was rejected by her publishers and for a long timethe manuscript hung ...
rory maclean follows one man's quest to find a better place, and a better way, to live Utopian Dreams: A Search for a Better Life BY TOBIAS JONES FABER, pounds 12.99, 220 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Jan 07, 2007; ... At the age of 14 I created a country. I ceded our summer cottageisland from Canada, hoisted the national flag (sewed on to a pillowcase by my mother) and declared Bumpalump to be a distinct entity.Ottawa raised no objection (at least they didn't reply to mydeclaration of independence) ....
beatrix potter was more tough old bird than fluffy bunny, says jenny uglow
Jan 07, 2007; ... Like all lasting children's stories, the tales of Peter Rabbit,Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, Squirrel Nutkin and Jemima Puddleduck have a tingleof peril, cruelty and loss about them as well as a promise of warmthand love. This should warn us that their author was no a sentimentallover of fluffy ...
martin vander weyer on will hutton's analysis of the state china is in
Jan 07, 2007; ... The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century BY WILL HUTTON LITTLE BROWN, pounds 20 431 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)0870 428 4115 A couple of years ago, the great majority of British columnistsand pundits were falling over each other in their ...
LITERARY LIFE ANNIVERSARIES
Jan 07, 2007; ... 'Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified forholding any office at all.' Such a modern-sounding sentiment wasactually expressed in 1516 in Thomas More's Utopia. However, thefirst edition of his collected works was published in 1557, 450 yearsago. The Revenger's Tragedy ...
saul david on a lavish history of the army's senior regiments
Jan 07, 2007; ... Horse Guards BY BARNEY WHITE-SPUNNER MACMILLAN, pounds 30, 623 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870428 4115 With the future of the British Army so high on the politicalagenda, a history of its three most senior regiments - together knownas the Household Cavalry - ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 07, 2007; ... granta 96: War Zones Ed by IAN JACK granta, pounds 9.99 The latest Granta magazine is dedicated to war in many differentzones of time and place: as well as a searing recent dispatch fromLebanon there's a hard-hitting novel-extract by David Peace depictingTokyo at the end ...
CRIME FICTION
Jan 07, 2007; ... No one writes crime novels quite like the French author FredVargas. She has her own distinctive style and so does her quirkydetective, Commissaire Adamsberg of the Paris police. In Wash ThisBlood Clean From My Hand (Harvill Secker pounds 11.99) Adamsbergspots a newspaper report of a ...
jonathan bate praises America's most thought-provoking novelist
Jan 07, 2007; ... The Echo Maker BY RICHARD POWERS HEINEMANN, pounds 17.99, 451 pp T pounds 15.99( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist atwork in the English language today. He is also one of America'sfinest literary stylists. Each of ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 07, 2007; ... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl by Grayson Perry Vintage, pounds 8.99 When potter Grayson Perry accepted the 2003 Turner Prize dressedas his alter ego Claire, it seemed like par for the course. But thischarming memoir demonstrates that alternative artists can also ...
ROAD TEST SEAT's NEW Leon is a hot hatch for people with nothing left to prove, says neil lyndon
Jan 07, 2007; ... SEAT PRODUCES SUCH AN ARRAY OF hot hatchbacks - all with vaguelysimilar names which seem to have been chosen by sticking a pin intothe gazetteer of Spain - that you could easily end up buying thewrong one. Like the time I managed to board a budget airline's flightto Newcastle when I ...
TURN ON DAVE SPIKEY IS TOLD WHERE TO GO
Jan 07, 2007; ... With Tom Tom you can choose which voice you want to direct you,and I always choose Jane, because she's dead sexy and I love the wayshe says, 'Turn around where possible.' You don't want to get on the wrong side of her, though. Heading toManchester from my house, you can take the ...
GIZMOS OF THE WEEK
Jan 07, 2007; ... The new Triumph brush from Braun Oral-B has a multi-functionalbrush head to delve into the dental nooks and crannies that otherbrushes cannot reach. It's not quite the death knell for floss, butwell worth investing in. Standard pounds 139.99, Deluxe pounds 164.99, www.oralb.com ...
CHESS
Jan 07, 2007; ... IN THE ABSENCE OF ALL THREE Ks, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpovand Vladimir Kramnik, not to mention Alexander Morozevich, theRussian Championship was rather a shadow of its former self thisyear. However, it gave a new generation of players a chance to shine.Dennis Khismatullin, 16, is ...
POKER
Jan 07, 2007; ... MY SON CAME DOWN TO THE kitchen. 'What's that?' he said, pointingat the computer screen. 'That's a blog,' I told him, pleased to be more worldly in somecategories at least than my 12-year-old son. 'It's like an onlinediary that ...' ' ... I know what a blog is,' he huffed ....
SPOT THE OVERSEAS HOTSPOT Property prices are booming from Australia to Zagreb. There is money to be made for those who invest at the right time, but how do you uncover the next big thing? Zoe Dare Hall talks to the international experts
Jan 07, 2007; ... A decade ago, buying a home overseas could be contemplated only bythe adventurous or the well-heeled - and then it was probablysomewhere like Provence or Tuscany, a location with obvious holidayhome appeal. Now we are all at it, in the most unlikely of places.Disillusionment with pension ...
A very English cottage A garden which has inspired authors and photographers is on the market, with Grade II home attached. Eluned Price pays it a visit
Jan 07, 2007; ... If such a thing as an original English country garden exists, thenthis must be it. The Thatched Cottage in Amberley, West Sussex, was MarjorieHolland's home for three-quarters of a century until her death lastyear at the age of 96. The 16th-century cottage is now for sale, ...
Cliveden saga takes new turn This stately home's tradition of controversy seems set to continue - with a surprising new housing scheme.
Jan 07, 2007; ... Elegant Cliveden House in Buckinghamshire has always made thenews. From the rakish scandals of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham in the17th century to the social elite which gathered around Viscount Astorand his wife Nancy in the 20th, it has been a centre of power andpleasure - and never more ...
Best bets for 2007 - boom or bust Can property prices really carry on spiralling upwards? Suddenly all the talk is of a crash. Caroline McGhie checks out the top places to buy in an uncertain year
Jan 07, 2007; ... The rules of the game in 2007: there will be 20 times more buyersthan sellers, competition will be vicious and there is a danger thatsales will turn into mini-auctions. Everyone will be chasing theprettiest houses. Even the over-priced areas will carry on going upin value, but some less ...
After tsunami, Thailand returns to paradise The big wave changed everything. But now new holiday homes are springing up with the emphasis on safety.
Jan 07, 2007; ... The New Year should bring new optimism for Thailand, a countryfamed as an idyllic island paradise, but recently overshadowed bynatural disaster and political troubles. Boxing Day marked the secondanniversary of the tsunami that killed 250,000 people across Asiaincluding 8,500 in ...
New Year de-cluttering The Room Planner
Jan 07, 2007; ... The New Year always brings with it a feeling of freshness andpromise, of new beginnings and a break from old ties. De-clutteringyour home is one of the best ways to ensure a clear mind and acontinued positive outlook. There is something very therapeutic aboutdiscarding the old: the ...
On The Level Why should I pay pounds 800 for a survey?
Jan 07, 2007; ... Q. My girlfriend and I are buying our first house and, as it is anold property, the solicitor advises that we should have a buildingsurvey. The local surveyor he recommends charges pounds 800, whichis more than we can afford. Are there any books about buildingsurveys that we can buy, ...
On The Level OFF-PEAK ELECTRICITY
Jan 07, 2007; ... Q. You recently suggested (December 3) that it would be possibleto use a time-switch to control a storage heater connected to thenormal ring main. This would certainly work, but would not save moneybecause it is unlikely that the ring main would be connected to ameter that could ...
On The Level MY WALL IS WET
Jan 07, 2007; ... Q. Would you advise me on the best "rainwater proofing solution''for use on the exterior walls of my house. JD, Swansea A. In general it is not a good idea to use water-repellentsolutions on the exterior of walls. Solid brick walls work best whenthey are allowed to "breathe'' ...
Perky potted plants What should I do with my old Christmas tree?
Jan 07, 2007; ... Is it worthwhile trying to encourage poinsettias to flower again? These are also known as 'Christmas Stars', and usually have showypillarbox red flowers or bracts. If you are lucky, you can find someof the more unusual colours. My favourite is a dark maroon; white andpink are ...
The cabbage patch convert One year later, first-time kitchen gardener Alex Mitchell on what she learned the hard way
Jan 07, 2007; ... Early January, a whole year into my kitchen gardening life and atraditional time for reflection. So, what have I learned? Broadly, that it's all worth it. Nothing tastes better than asugar snap pea straight from the plant. Unless, perhaps, a cob ofsweetcorn or a peach straight from ...
Christmas recycling Greener fingers
Jan 07, 2007; ... It was Twelfth Night last night, so if you've just taken down thedecorations, think twice before you throw them in the bin. Christmascards can all be recycled, either in your personal or local recyclingbin, or through the Woodland Trust's Christmas Card Recycling Scheme,which raised more ...
Packer sets his cap at Aston Martin
Jan 07, 2007; ... EVERY thrusting young buck dreams of owning an Aston Martin oneday, but some like the brand so much they want to own the factory. James Packer, Australia's richest man, has emerged as a surprisebidder for the British luxury carmaker put up for sale by Ford lastyear. City sources ...
FTSE100 companies see profits double in four years
Jan 07, 2007; ... BRITAIN'S biggest companies are enjoying an unprecedented earningsboom that has seen profits double in just four years. New research, compiled by Thomson Financial, the data providers,estimates that companies in the FTSE100 generated profits after taxof pounds 73.2bn last year, an ...
EDS Army pay staff set to strike
Jan 07, 2007; ... AN IMPENDING strike by staff at EDS, the IT firm, is threateningto disrupt the pay of Army, Navy and RAF personnel. Hundreds of members of the PCS, the biggest civil service union,have voted by an overwhelming 93.5 per cent to take industrial actionover pay and conditions at the ...
Tesco faces threat to land bank Competition Commission moves closer to ruling giant's dominance is uncompetitive
Jan 07, 2007; ... TESCO could be forced to sell its controversial land bank underproposals being pushed by members of a Competition Commission reviewinto supermarkets. The regulator is due to publish its initial findings next week andsources close to its deliberations say at least two of the six ...
Mining a rich career seam
Jan 07, 2007; ... THE good times have finally arrived for mining graduates afteryears of watching their business counterparts strike gold. For thefirst time, starting salaries are matching, in some cases evenbeating, those paid to MBA graduates. A recent mining engineering undergraduate of the ...
Shop owners seize Adams' stock
Jan 07, 2007; ... LANDLORDS of Adams Kids, the embattled children's clothesretailer, have seized control of thecompany's stock in lieu of unpaidrent. Adams is in dispute with some of its landlords after itunilaterally decided to vary its rent terms in December, moving froma quarterly to a monthly ...
BT unleashes Wi-Fi mobile on high street
Jan 07, 2007; ... BT WILL this week begin its campaign to return as a major force inthe mobile telecoms market with the consumer launch of a phoneoffering cheap internet calls using Wi-Fi technology. Backed by a multi-million pound advertising campaign, BT Fusionmobile phones will for the first time ...
Rocky debut for Cairn India
Jan 07, 2007; ... THE LISTING of Cairn Energy's Indian subsidiary on the BombayStock Exchange is expected to get off to a rocky start after sharesin the Scottish explorer continued to fall on the back of lower oilprices last week. Although the offer is fully subscribed, banking sources said ...