The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from June 2007:
If the book is going to win, I have to love it
Jun 03, 2007; ... It wasn't quite the best day of my life. That honour must go to the day I sold my first novel, a golden dayin the middle of summer when I walked 15 times round the park with agrin on my face as wide as the world, trying to understand what hadhappened (I couldn't. I eventually came ...
A LONG HAUL BACK TO CIVILISATION
Jun 03, 2007; ... I'M THINKING OF TAKING UP FLYING. Anyone heading for a privatepilot's licence these days is viewed with suspicion, but really I have had enough. Last week I took a domestic flight fromEdinburgh to Bristol. In the modern world of aviation, gettingthrough security is only the ...
BIG GREEN MONEY MACHINE FILM WITH THE FRIENDLY OGRE'S LATEST ADVENTURES ABOUT TO HIT OUR SCREENS, THE FIGHT IS NOT SO MUCH SHREK VERSUS LORD FARQUAAD AS DREAMWORKS VERSUS DISNEY. SHREK'S JEFFREY KATZENBERG, WHO ONCE SUED DISNEY FOR $280M AND CALLED THEIR HEAD 'A PSYCHO', TELLS NIGEL FARNDALE WHY HE RECKONS HE'S AHEAD BY A NOSE
Jun 03, 2007; ... BEHIND A MAZE OF PLYBOARD PARTITIONS, DOZENS OF animators aresitting in semi-darkness, a small army of mouse-clicking troglodytesover whom the Californian sunshine has no dominion. They are allyoung looking - T-shirts and jeans, goatees and hair gel - and mosthave impressive strings of ...
Behold the front page PHOTOGRAPHY THESE IMAGES TELL A STORY IN A WAY THAT WORDS NEVER CAN. IN THIS INTRODUCTION TO A NEW EXHIBITION OF CLASSIC PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS, W.F. DEEDES, EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 1974-1986, EXPLAINS HOW PICTURES CHANGED THE NATURE OF JOURNALISM
Jun 03, 2007; ... Glance at any quality newspaper before 1900. There are longunleaded columns of close type, reporting what public men have saidand done, but no impression of what they looked like. The DailyGraphic (founded in 1890) was the first morning picture paper, but inits earliest years it was ...
THE MOVIE-MAD MAYOR FILM HE'S LAUNCHED A PRESTIGIOUS FILM FESTIVAL, FOUR OF HIS BOOKS ARE BEING MADE INTO MOVIES AND HE'S 'GOOD FRIENDS' WITH CLOONEY AND DE NIRO. HE CAN EVEN GET 5,000 PEOPLE TO TURN UP TO A MATHS DEMONSTRATION. SO HOW DOES HE FIND TIME TO BE MAYOR OF ROME? DAVID JENKINS MEETS WALTER VELTRONI
Jun 03, 2007; ... IT'S PRETTY GRAND, THE OUTER OFFICE IN which Walter Veltroni, theMayor of Rome, has been talking to me. The chairs are gilt, theceiling high, there's marble around the imposing double doors. In onecorner are some banners and a bust of the wolf that suckled Romulusand Remus. And there ...
widowed and untouchable Water Flyboys
Jun 03, 2007; ... The makers of Hollywood blockbusters tend to have sleepless nightsabout their budgets and focus groups: Deepa Mehta, the Indiandirector, had to contend with death threats. While shooting Water(12A), the third film in her 'elements' trilogy, she faced fierceopposition from Hindu ...
Wedding Daze Paradise Lost The Hitcher The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros Ten Canoes
Jun 03, 2007; ... Wedding Daze (15) On paper it's a match made in heaven. Jason Biggs and Isla Fisherin a nuptials comedy. He's an old pro at pre-altar angst (AmericanPie, Anything Else, Saving Silverman). She was extremely funny in TheWedding Crashers (and off screen is getting hitched to Sasha ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Jun 03, 2007; ... CLASSICS OF GERMAN CINEMA 1920-1943 ????? Eureka, PG, pounds 44.99 A collection of five films, all but one made before the SecondWorld War. The exception is a 1943 colour version of the adventuresof Baron Munchhausen, the legendary teller of tall tales ....
Out this week DVDs
Jun 03, 2007; ... NOTES ON A SCANDAL ????? 20th Century Fox, 15, pounds 19.99 An art teacher (Cate Blanchett) unwisely allows sympathy for ateenage pupil to develop into full-blown sexual relations, leavingher at the mercy of a colleague (Judi Dench) who has taken anunhealthy interest in her ....
All about great acting Kean Othello
Jun 03, 2007; ... It is good to see Antony Sher back on the West End stage. He is adifficult, complicated, often rather exasperating actor, but he isnevertheless important. What the West End is crying out for now, morethan ever, is important actors in important plays. After years offrivolity and froth, ...
Philistines The Tempest Cymbeline OTHER THEATRE
Jun 03, 2007; ... Philistines Lyttelton Theatre, London SE1 (020 74521 3000) in rep to 18 August This is a glorious production of Gorky's savage indictment ofpetty bourgeois values, and in Andrew Upton's assured version, theplay feels as fresh today as when it was first put on in 1902 ....
studies in time and emotion Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007
Jun 03, 2007; ... Almost all of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum's newexhibition, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007, are on loan fromprivate collections, a fact that suggests a larger trend. Biddingwars these days, especially in the field of contemporary art, aremostly conducted between rival ...
ART CHOICE
Jun 03, 2007; ... Lucian Freud Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (00 353 1 6129900) Weds to 2 September. Sixty years of paintings and works on ...
studies in time and emotion Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007
Jun 03, 2007; ... Almost all of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum's newexhibition, Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992-2007, are on loan fromprivate collections, a fact that suggests a larger trend. Biddingwars these days, especially in the field of contemporary art, aremostly conducted between rival ...
POP back for the hard sell Manic Street Preachers Rufus Wainwright
Jun 03, 2007; ... If you are a devoted fan of Manic Street Preachers' earnestprotest-pop, it must be wonderful to see them line up on stage at theForum looking lean, relaxed and ready to confirm that their latestalbum 'Send Away the Tigers', their eighth, is a flying return tofast, furious form ....
POP CHOICE
Jun 03, 2007; ... Download Festival Donington Park (0870 400 0822) Fri, Sat, nextSun. Tattooed teens and veteran head-bangers converge for heavy-rockpandemonium featuring My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and IronMaiden. George Michael Wembley Stadium (0871 220 0260) Sat. Familiar pophits, guest ...
CDs Out this week
Jun 03, 2007; ... This is almost certainly the most important album to emerge fromthe black British underground since Tricky's 'Maxinquaye'. Why?Because though its strangely sympathetic patois, wit and musicalinfluences (drum'n'bass, grime, garage) are quintessentially East Endstreet, the production, ...
POP empowered hen-night Girls Aloud Rodrigo y Gabriela
Jun 03, 2007; ... Like all the best public occasions, a Girls Aloud live show offersan opportunity for an upturning of the normal social order. In themarvellously hysterical atmosphere of a dressed-up-to-the-elevensWembley Arena, it's the people who aren't wearing flashingfluorescent pink bunny ears who ...
CDs Out this week
Jun 03, 2007; ... These are extracts from pre-1939 off-air broadcasts preserved inthe Leech Collection at the British Library. None is complete, andthe sound is far from ideal, but, thanks to the Elgar Societyassisted by Alan Blyth, here is a chance to hear The Dream ofGerontius conducted by Malcolm ...
mad about the boy Death in Venice Fidelio CLASSICAL
Jun 03, 2007; ... Britten's Death in Venice, which returns to the site of its 1973premiere with the opening of the Aldeburgh Festival next weekend, isnew enough in operatic terms still to be yielding up its secrets. Italso remains rare enough for the conjunction of Aldeburgh'sforthcoming performances with ...
dangerous psychotripe Families at War Brits Get Rich in China Queen Camilla TELEVISION
Jun 03, 2007; ... "It's boogered me up,' said a weeping woman, her face in herhands. 'Really boogered me up.' Just as television's appetite forpeople's misery grows more ravenous by the year, so its convictionthat any problem can be solved in a maximum of three days becomesever more entrenched. In ...
strictly cuban Havana Rakatan
Jun 03, 2007; ... Just a few words can act like a magic spell on a theatre's boxoffice. 'Minimalist Estonian tragedy' could stop a coach party in itstracks; 'colourful Cuban extravaganza' is pretty well a licence toprint money - as the Peacock Theatre is discovering with HavanaRakatan, which features 14 ...
BIOGRAPHY THIS EXEMPLARY LIFE SHOWS THE MOBILITY, ENTERPRISE AND DANGER OF THE 18TH CENTURY, SAYS NOEL MALCOLM
Jun 03, 2007; ... The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History BY LINDA COLLEY HARPER PRESS, pounds 25, 363 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Attentive readers of Linda Colley will remember the story ofElizabeth Marsh - or at least, ...
INTERNET JOHN PRESTON ON THE BATTLE FOR THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER DOMAIN NAME ON THE WEB
Jun 03, 2007; ... Sex.com BY KIERAN MCCARTHY QUERCUS, pounds 12.99, 280 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In 1994, Gary Kremen, a Silicon Valley software salesman, set up awebsite called sex.com and registered himself as the legal owner. Itdidn't cost him a ...
SCIENCE TERENCE KEALEY TRIES A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO A REBELLIOUS GENIUS
Jun 03, 2007; ... Einstein: His Life and Universe BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, pounds 25, 675 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Albert Einstein always did the unexpected. Raised in Munich, hegrew to dislike Germany as a nationalistic and militaristic ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'love in the time of cholera' by gabriel garcia marquez
Jun 03, 2007; ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor enlos tiempos del colera) - soon to be a major motion picture - got itstitle through an opportunity for a pun that does not exist inEnglish. Colera, in Spanish, means both 'cholera' and 'anger'. Love,cholera and anger are all ...
MILITARY RICHARD OVERY PRAISES A LUCID UNPICKING OF THE KEY MOMENTS THAT SHAPED A WAR
Jun 03, 2007; ... Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 BY IAN KERSHAW ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 30, 596 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Politicians, unless adept at the art of endlessly trimming, haveat times to make ...
MEMOIR CHRISTOPHER TAYLER ADMIRES A NOVELIST WHO CONFRONTS HER OWN PAST
Jun 03, 2007; ... The Mistress's Daughter BY A. M. HOMES GRANTA, pounds 12.99, 238 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The American short-story writer and novelist A. M. Homes was oncebest known in this country for The End of Alice, a novel narrated bya ...
GUANTANAMO 'AMERICAN OPPRESSORS' HAVE A RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL TOO, SAYS ALASDAIR PALMER
Jun 03, 2007; ... Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons BY CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 16.99, 320 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Clive Stafford Smith spent 20 years defending people facing thedeath penalty in the US before he ...
LITERARY LIFE
Jun 03, 2007; ... Not many of the 67 authors featured in the glossy coffee-tablebook How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors bothered to turn up forthe launch in a soon-to-open Mayfair restaurant (which is just aswell since the champagne ran out after half an hour). Iain Sinclairwas one of the ...
DAILY LIFE JONATHAN SALE IS ENTERTAINED BY AN ANATOMY OF OUR EVERYDAY ROUTINES
Jun 03, 2007; ... Queuing for Beginners BY JOE MORAN PROFILE, pounds 14.99, 258 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Why did the cultural historian cross the road? In Joe Moran's case, it would be to watch everyone else doing the'pedestrian shuffle' on ...
FICTION TIBOR FISCHER PRAISES A SATIRE OF MODERN RUSSIA AND ITS ORDERLY LAWLESSNESS
Jun 03, 2007; ... Absurdistan BY GARY SHTEYNGART GRANTA, pounds 10.99, 352 pp T pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Absurdistan is a very unusual novel. It's a Russian novel - butit's been written in English. It's arguably the best Russian novel ofthe past decade and ...
FICTION ALL MANNER OF GOINGS-ON IN THE WOODS INTRIGUE JAMES URQUHART
Jun 03, 2007; ... Cryers Hill BY KITTY ALDRIDGE JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 16.99, 344 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 It is 1934 and Walter Hall is courting Mary Hatt in the southBuckinghamshire village of Cryers Hill. 'The pleasure of a good poemcould put a curve ...
CRIME FICTION
Jun 03, 2007; ... A crumbling Venetian palazzo makes a suitable backdrop to AndrewWilson's creepy thriller, The Lying Tongue (Canongate, pounds10.99). Adam Woods has just left university and has come to Venice towrite his first novel. To support himself he takes a job as live-inassistant to Gordon Crace, ...
DEBUT MATT THORNE IS IMPRESSED BY A PORTRAIT OF INTOLERANCE
Jun 03, 2007; ... American Youth BY PHIL LAMARCHE SCEPTRE, pounds 12.99, 240 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 American gun culture has provided inspiration for several recentaward-winning novels, including Lionel Shriver's We Need to TalkAbout Kevin and DBC ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 03, 2007; ... THE GOD DELUSION BY RICHARD DAWKINS BLACK SWAN, pounds 8.99 The scientist Richard Dawkins really hates religion, and this isthe flaw in this book, which sets out to 'convert' people to atheism.His arguments against the existence of God are based on the ...
PAPERBACKS
Jun 03, 2007; ... HANNIBAL RISING BY THOMAS HARRIS HEINEMANN, pounds 11.99 Can a monster like Hannibal Lecter be explained? Should he beexplained? As his creator Thomas Harris delves into what he calls'the hot darkness of his mind', tracing Hannibal back to hischildhood in wartime ...
turn on george miller finds a new way of filming
Jun 03, 2007; ... ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE WE STARTED WORK on Happy Feet I sat down with the computer wizards at WarnerBrothers to discuss how we were going to film it. As all the penguinsand characters were animated and 'motion-captured' before being puton their sets within the computer, we needed to ...
road test THE NEW SKODA FABIA IS LIKE A RED FLAG TO NEIL LYNDON
Jun 03, 2007; ... THOSE TIRED OLD JOKES ABOUT SKODA are blessedly mouldering in thedustbin of history along with the Marxist-Leninism that was almostthe death of that noble old company; but, even so, there is aperceptible air of the Warsaw Pact age and its austerities about themost basic versions of the ...
CHESS
Jun 03, 2007; ... LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE older generation: the 4NCL was won in style by Guildford ADC 1, ateam with just one junior player out of a squad of 15. The Surreyteam, backed by A&DC, a human resources consultancy, showed that evenprofessional chess players in the twilight of their working ...
POKER
Jun 03, 2007; ... THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO lose your money at online poker. Play whenyou're drunk or bored or tired. Treat it as an entertainment, acomputer game, rather than a competitive sport in which the peopleyou're playing against want to take all your money. Bluff too oftenand against too many ...
pounds 1.4M WIGHT GOLD The waterfront property boom has crossed the Solent, but Clive Aslet finds the island still retains its salty charm
Jun 03, 2007; ... I'll take the convertible," I said, unable to resist the open-topped VW Beetle in the car hire office at Ryde. On a sunny Mayafternoon, this is the way to see the Isle of Wight. Arriving at Rydeby the Fastcat is an experience. A little train, which looks asthough it has been taken out of ...
A softer approach to cutting-edge design Gallery Christine Webb discovers an ultra-modern home fashioned from the mellow stone of a Cotswold cottage
Jun 03, 2007; ... There is something of the butterfly about the striking,contemporary house that hunkers into Cleeve Hill, on the CotswoldEdge, with "wings" outstretched. The house has slowly emerged from the chrysalis of the tall, 100-year-old cottage called Rushbury, which previously stood there ....
AFTER A SCRAPE, SKY'S THE LIMIT FOR PENTHOUSES The posh pad at the top of the block used to be the white elephant of the property market. Now they're selling again, says Ross Clark
Jun 03, 2007; ... At a time when the London market is booming, it is quite a feat tospend four years without finding a buyer. Yet that is how long theone remaining four-bedroom, 3,680-square-foot penthouse at AlbionRiverside, the Norman Foster-designed block in Battersea, has been onthe ...
Perfect grammar Moving to an area within reach of a good grammar school? You may be in for a pleasant surprise, says Ross Clark
Jun 03, 2007; ... David Cameron, whose constituency lies in Oxfordshire, is unlikelyto go canvassing in the Devon village of Budleigh Salterton. But ifhe does, he should be wary of knocking on the door of Peter and AnnGerman. The Germans moved to the village for two reasons: partly sothey could see the ...
How to beat the developers at their own game Young buyers prepared to work hard have found a way on to the property ladder, writes Graham Norwood
Jun 03, 2007; ... Say "first time buyer" and most people think of a struggling 20-or 30-Something, scraping together money for a tiny flat in a roughpart of town. But it doesn't have to be like that, as brothers Davidand Richard Clegg, 23 and 25 respectively, can testify. Last year, they bought a ...
From rubble to riches Why are buyers seduced into paying top prices for houses that might have foxes living in the kitchen?
Jun 03, 2007; ... When you go to view a pounds 3.5 million home, you expect the oddluxury. The latest Boffi kitchen, a bespoke wine vault, or at thevery least, new flooring. What you don't anticipate are the words "in need of modernisation"discreetly inserted on page two of the details. A ...
Meet and Crete: Britons race for a place in the sun Thousands of foreigners are buying up land on Greece's most southerly island. June Field reports on the chase for the best bargains
Jun 03, 2007; ... If you like the sound of Crete, you had better get a move on.Demand for land is outstripping supply and prices are on the up. The most southerly and largest of the Greek islands has abewitching blend of coastal and mountain scenery. Although known forits rocky terrain, the western ...
Shared children's rooms The Room Planner
Jun 03, 2007; ... Getting two children to happily share a bedroom is all aboutgiving each a sense of their own space - no matter how small. Eachchild needs to have their unique haven that they can retreat to forrest or play. Ideally, you need to divide the bedroom into three distinctspaces: a ...
On The Level Will this quilt keep in heat?
Jun 03, 2007; ... Q. The top floor ceilings of my 1950s house have been insulatedwith fibreglass laid between the joists. On a recent televisionprogramme, the builder was using a quilt-like overlay on top of thejoists, which was supposedly equal to eight inches (200mm) offibreglass. This aroused my ...
On The Level KEEPING THINGS COOL
Jun 03, 2007; ... Q. I am having a kitchen extension built, which will include two1.5m-wide windows facing full sunlight in summer. Is there any glassthat will minimise heat entering the kitchen while maximising thelight that enters? I am trying to avoid fitting darkened glass asthat would make the ...
On The Level DISCHARGE FEES
Jun 03, 2007; ... Q. Two years ago, I re-mortgaged and had to pay a discharge fee. Ihave heard that this has now been ruled unlawful, but the mortgagecompany denies all knowledge. Do you know anything more about this? FW, Durham A. In January of this year, the Financial Services Authority ...
'I'm just a caretaker' Miranda, Duchess of Beaufort My Space
Jun 03, 2007; ... Before I moved into Badminton House about 10 years ago, I workedwith Jane Nicholas on other peoples' gardens. We tended toconcentrate on town gardens but also tackled a few larger countryproperties and did everything ourselves: the design, the planting andthe physical work. Then when I ...
Choosing a sundial Sundials
Jun 03, 2007; ... Everybody loves a sundial, whether it's a traditional stone andbrass affair or something strikingly modern, but how are they bestplanned and positioned? Fortunately, there is helpful information outthere for dedicated sundial worshippers. How do you make sundials that are laid out ...
The Kitchen Garden Graduate Alex Mitchell is a victim of her own success and is forced to part with some much-loved tomato plants
Jun 03, 2007; ... Sometimes, you've just got to let go. Cut ties and walk away.Realise that, in the immortal words of Andrea Bocelli and SarahBrightman, it's "Time to say Goodbye". And yet, when you've broughtsomething into the world, nurtured it, fed it and protected it fromthe cold, how do you sever ...
Roof gardens
Jun 03, 2007; ... I fantasise about floating in a hot air balloon above the rooftopsof cities such as London, Paris and New York, simply to snoop at theroof gardens. Whenever I walk around a city, I'm always on thelookout for secret, hidden gardens; shady courtyards, glimpsedthrough open gateways, or ...
Private bank to show rich kids how to hang onto the family silver
Jun 03, 2007; ... FOR the wealthy parent it's always a worry. But Britain's newgeneration of multi-millionaires has grown so concerned that theirchildren will turn into spoilt brats they are asking the bank tohelp. HSBC Private Bank is offering some of its wealthy customers thechance to send their ...
Tesco takes on 'sleepy' solicitors
Jun 03, 2007; ... TESCO, the UK's largest retailer, is plotting to take on highstreet solicitors by launching a property conveyancing service. The supermarket is in the early stages of signing up one of a newbreed of legal companies to act as a third party provider for itsbooming financial services ...
Boots pension trustees seek to block takeover in court
Jun 03, 2007; ... PENSION trustees at Boots are preparing to go to court to block atakeover of the high street chemist in an unprecedented legalshowdown with private equity buyer Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The tactic could result in the pounds 11bn deal facing a lengthydelay until the pensions ...
Tory donor lines up pounds 100,000 of company funds for political gifts
Jun 03, 2007; ... A FORMER treasurer of the Conservative party has been grantedpermission to spend pounds 100,000 of a listed company's money ondonations to unnamed political organisations. Henry Angest, the chairman and chief executive of ArbuthnotBanking Group, secured the right through a special ...
Royal Mail strike plan: bosses will deliver post Executives braced for three-month showdown with unions over modernisation
Jun 03, 2007; ... ROYAL MAIL has drawn up secret contingency plans for 6,000 of itssenior managers to deliver the post as it digs in for a summer ofcrippling strike action. The result of a strike ballot of 127,000 postal workers overradical plans to modernise the group is due this Thursday ....
RBS puts Southern Water up for sale
Jun 03, 2007; ... SOUTHERN WATER, which supplies customers in Kent, Sussex andHampshire, has been put up for sale with a price tag of around pounds 4bn. The disposal is expected to kickstart a rush of consolidation inthe water sector. Share prices of some of Britain's largest watercompanies have ...
UK investment in India 'way too little'
Jun 03, 2007; ... INVESTMENT by British companies in India is "way, way below" whatit should be, according to one of the country's most seniorpoliticians. Ashwani Kumar, the Indian minister of state for industry, saidinvestment by UK companies in the fast-growing Indian economy was farbelow its ...
Investors turn their backs on Vector flotation
Jun 03, 2007; ... MAJOR property investors on both sides of the Atlantic are set toshun the flotation of Vector Hospitality, the biggest propertyflotation yet attempted on the London Stock Exchange. Cohen & Steers, the largest specialist property investor in theworld, and one of its biggest European ...
Lonrho breaks taboo with listed Zimbabwe venture
Jun 03, 2007; ... INVESTORS will be given the first opportunity to invest inZimbabwe through an innovative vehicle about to list on the Londonstock market. LonZim, which is backed by Lonrho, the Aim-listed rump of TinyRowland's business empire, is in the process of raising pounds 50m,which will ...