The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from July 2007:
What's that kangaroo doing in my book?
Jul 01, 2007; ... A few months ago, my Hollywood agent was pitching my new novel,The Woman in the Fifth, to a well-known director. After listening to the pitch, the director thought for a moment, then said: 'The title would have to be changed'. As it turned out, the director ...
seven says this is the week to ... 01.07.07
Jul 01, 2007; ... ADMIRE the work of Zaha Hadid, the undisputed queen of modernarchitecture, at the Design Museum, Shad Thames. It's one of the largest exhibitions the museum has staged - and the firstfull-scale show in Britain for Zaha (0870 909 9009) DIG OUT your vest and wear it with ...
THERE'S NO BIZ LIKE SHOWBIZ - OFFICIAL
Jul 01, 2007; ... I WAS CHATTING TO THE ROCK legend Alice Cooper the other day, the way you do, and he wastelling me he had recently performed in front of 153,000 people inBrazil and how noisy it was. 'I know what you mean,' I replied.'You've never heard real uproar until you've made 600 people ...
DARKSTAR ART WITH THEIR BLOOD, STRANGENESS AND SHARKS, THE YOUNG TURKS OF THE 1980S PUSHED BRITISH ART TO THE EDGE. BUT MAT COLLISHAW LIKED IT SO MUCH HE STAYED THERE. BRITART'S BEST-KEPT SECRET TELLS GUY KENNAWAY WHY HE'D SOONER CHASE FAIRIES THAN FAME
Jul 01, 2007; ... BY RIGHTS, MAT COLLISHAW SHOULD BE A household name. One of theGoldsmiths generation that brought us BritArt, Collishaw virtuallykick-started the whole thing with his photograph of a bullet hole ina head, the lead piece in the now mythical Freeze show curated byDamien Hirst nearly 20 ...
CUT IT OUT CINEMA FEAR AND BRUTALITY PERVADED JENNY MCCARTNEY'S ULSTER CHILDHOOD SO, FOR HER, VIOLENCE AS ENTERTAINMENT IS ALL THE MORE SICKENING. AS YET MORE 'TORTURE PORN' HITS THE SCREENS, SHE ASKS WHAT ITS LACK OF COMPASSION IS DOING TO AN AUDIENCE AVID FOR BLOOD
Jul 01, 2007; ... I don't know what makes someone enjoy watching prolonged torturescenes, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that many people do.As a film critic, my own reaction is certainly extreme, but it liesin the opposite camp from enjoyment. I cannot find macabre fun insuch scenes - as some ...
EVAN TEMPERED TELEVISION THANKS IN PART TO HIS ROLE IN 'DRAGONS' DEN', EVAN DAVIS IS THE FIRST BBC ECONOMICS EDITOR TO ENJOY SOMETHING APPROACHING CULT STATUS. HE MAY BE OPEN ABOUT SOME ASPECTS OF HIS PRIVATE LIFE, BUT WILL HE SHOW NIGEL FARNDALE WHAT'S UNDERNEATH HIS SHIRT?
Jul 01, 2007; ... THREE MEN IN SUITS ARE SITTING BY THE WINDOW IN A pizza restaurantnear Earls Court. 'Hey,' they say excitedly, as they look out on tothe street,' there's Evan Davis.' Not: 'Hey, there's that bloke offDragons' Den,' or 'Hey, there's the BBC's economics editor.' Therecognition is telling ....
CINEMA
Jul 01, 2007; ... Shrek the Third Paris, je t'aime Shrek, the grouchy, trumpet-eared ogre from the backwater swamps,is now an enormous star. He has an established entourage of trustedfairy-tale associates, a feverishly expectant fan base, and a lot ofmoney riding on his third feature film. In ...
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES
Jul 01, 2007; ... I didn't really watch movies much as a kid. Now I'm a filmfanatic. Once Upon a Time in America, by Sergio Leone (below), stayedwith me - I still remember scenes vividly. My friends and I wouldalso go to watch Bruce Lee movies on 42nd Street, in Manhattan, thentry to fight like the fights ...
OTHER RELEASES
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Flying Scotsman Hostel: Part II Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia Sketches of Frank Gehry Shutter The Flying Scotsman (15) Any time Hollywood tries to tart up a biopic by tweaking facts oradding action it finds itself under fire. But the truth is ...
HOBBITS BURST FORTH
Jul 01, 2007 ... To put it mildly, opinion diverged over the pounds 12.5 millionmusical version of The Lord of the Rings (with Michael Therriault asGollum, right). 'A thumping great flop ... ponderous inanities of thescript and triteness of the lyrics ... Oh no, not another f---ingelf,' moaned Charles ...
DVDs Out this week
Jul 01, 2007; ... GHOST RIDER Columbia, 12, pounds 19.99 A stunt biker says he'll sell his soul if Satan cures his father'scancer. He does, but promptly engineers the father's death in anaccident. Miffed, our hero turns into a flaming skeleton andretaliates by killing Satan's son. Another ...
DVD OF THE WEEK
Jul 01, 2007 ... AFTER THE WEDDING Soda Pictures, 15, pounds 18.99 After the Wedding is not from the same Danish stable as the Dogmepictures that created such a stir a few years back, but it resemblesthem. It's directed by Susanne Bier and is similar, in the gradualrevelation of a ...
POP CHOICE
Jul 01, 2007; ... T In The Park Balado, by Kinross (0871 220 0260) Fri, Sat, nextSun. The line-up includes Razorlight, The Killers, My ChemicalRomance and Arctic ...
Mud in your eye Glastonbury 2007 POP
Jul 01, 2007; ... The thing you don't realise when you see it on television is justhow bad the mud is. You see the waving arms and smiling faces; yousee the impressive aerial shots of a multi-coloured city in a greenSomerset valley; you see clean, nicely dressed Jo Whiley reassuringyou that everyone's ...
Ageing nicely POP
Jul 01, 2007; ... Meltdown: Iggy and the Stooges Jarvis Cocker As Meltdown master Jarvis Cocker proudly introduces Iggy and theStooges, a group formed, or more accurately deformed, in the lateSixties, before breaking up in the early Seventies, the brawny, bare-chested Iggy can be seen ...
Out this week Pop
Jul 01, 2007; ... What with the rave revival and all, elder statesmen Ed and TomChemical ought to be in the perfect position to clean up with apredictable album of mindlessly hedonistic block-rocking beats. Andthere's no denying they're at their considerable best when makingthrobbing, bass-heavy music for ...
Classical
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Danish tenor Helge Roswaenge died in 1972 but is stillremembered and admired for the exceptional quality of his singing.His career was based in Europe and his reputation was tarnished byhis association with the Nazis. He was outstanding in such roles asFlorestan and Bacchus but no ...
CLASSICAL CHOICE
Jul 01, 2007 ... Opera Holland Park London W8 (0845 230 9769). The seasoncontinues with Holland Park's now established pattern of rare andfamiliar operas. Delibes's Lakme provides the ...
Singing in the rain CLASSICAL
Jul 01, 2007; ... Ariadne auf Naxos La Cenerentola It was with Ariadne auf Naxos in 1993 that the then nascentGarsington Opera began to establish its Straussian credentials. Sincethen, the Oxfordshire house has gone on to stage several of thecomposer's operas, including some that really ...
Fragile vitality ART
Jul 01, 2007; ... Dutch PortraitsThe Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals Dutch Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals is the ratherdry title of an engrossing new exhibition at the National Gallery. The true subject of the show is the articulation, in art, of adistinctively Dutch sense of ...
ART CHOICE
Jul 01, 2007; ... Eye Music Pallant House, Chichester (01243 774557) to 16 Sept. Artists (Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian) inspired by music,from Bach to ...
THEATRE CHOICE
Jul 01, 2007 ... The Last Confession Haymarket Theatre Royal, London SW1 (0870 4000626) to 15 Sept. Roger Crane's Vatican thriller transfers fromChichester. David Suchet stars as the cardinal investigating ...
Eternity in two parts THEATRE
Jul 01, 2007; ... Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches Part 2: Perestroika Whatever else one might say about Tony Kushner's Angels inAmerica, it is not an economical work. The curtain went up at theLyric Hammersmith on Part 1 of this sprawling epic at 1.30pm onTuesday, and, ...
OTHER THEATRE
Jul 01, 2007; ... The Pain and the Itch The Pain and the Itch Royal Court, London SW1 (020 7565 5000) to 21 July Bruce Norris's play is the first production Dominic Cooke hasdirected as the Royal Court's new artistic director. It's a punchysatire on liberal America, with all the ...
DANCE CHOICE
Jul 01, 2007 ... Barbican Theatre, London EC2 (020 7638 8891), Wednesday-Saturday. Mark Morris's Mozart Dances is unquestionably the contemporary dance ...
Horseplay with clogs on DANCE
Jul 01, 2007; ... La Fille mal gardee Les Ballets C de la B It doesn't do to be smug, but it is rather pleasing that the ParisOpera Ballet - which has danced no fewer than three versions of LaFille mal gardee - should decide to add Frederick Ashton's 1960production to its repertoire. It's as ...
Accent on 'anky-panky TELEVISION
Jul 01, 2007; ... Paris: City of Dreams Women's Institute: The Hissing of Summer Lawns The Tower True Dare Kiss 'Bonjour mes amis et bienvenu Paris. Today we are going to lookat what lies behind the postcard image of this great city.' Butjudging by Paris: City of Dreams ...
CITY GUIDE NOTTINGHAM SEVEN HAS TEAMED UP WITH NESCAF COLLECTION TO BRING YOU THE BEST NEW EVENTS IN NOTTINGHAM. FROM SEUSS TO SOPHOCLES - PLUS SOUL, COMICS AND BEETHOVEN
Jul 01, 2007 ... Seussical the Musical The Nottingham Playhouse, 11-14 July, 0115 941 9419, www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk This musical extravaganza, which made its debut on Broadway in2000, incorporates elements and characters from many of the classicchildren's books by Theodor ...
SO MANY BOOKS, SO LITTLE HOLIDAY ... SO WHAT SHOULD YOU TAKE? MELISSA KATSOULIS LOOKS AT WHAT OUR CRITICS HAVE ENJOYED MOST THIS YEAR
Jul 01, 2007; ... As summer comes round again, our thoughts turn to sun, sea, sandand late nights in the departure lounge. And in these challengingenvironments, even the most literary among us might be tempted toturn to a bonkbusting paperback for some low-quality thrills. Butafter a few pages of ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'Appointment in Samarra' by John O'Hara
Jul 01, 2007; ... Appointment in Samarra (1934) is John O'Hara's first novel and oneof the great texts of Jazz Age America. But the title is rather odd.There is nothing in the book about Samarra, nor anything else Middle-Eastern. The title came about when Dorothy Parker showed O'Hara acopy of Sheppey, a ...
ARMS WHAT MAKES THE KALASHNIKOV THE TERRORIST'S WEAPON OF CHOICE? ASKS MICHAEL BURLEIGH
Jul 01, 2007; ... AK47: The Story of the People's Gun BY MICHAEL HODGES SCEPTRE, pounds 16.99, 224 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The AK47 has become a global brand, the Adidas or Coca-Cola of small arms, with about seven million of them in ...
BIOGRAPHY RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES IS ENTERTAINED BY THE EXPLOITS OF AN EXOTIC HYSTERIC
Jul 01, 2007; ... Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters BY PHILIP EADE WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 20, 362 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 'A charming, bright and vivacious lady who brought the charm of Mayfair to the Tropics and some of the exotic ...
HISTORY ERIC HOBSBAWM'S FONDNESS FOR OPINIONS RATHER THAN EVIDENCE REMAINS UNDIMMED, SAYS NOEL MALCOLM
Jul 01, 2007; ... Globalisation, Democracy and Terrorism BY ERIC HOBSBAWM LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 17.99, 184 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 'Our greatest living historian - not only Britain's but theworld's', exclaims a puff on the jacket of ...
CELEBRITY MARK SANDERSON ON THREE MEN WHO TAKE BEHAVING BADLY SERIOUSLY
Jul 01, 2007; ... Grow Up: An Autobiography BY KEITH ALLEN EBURY, pounds 18.99, 384 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Bit of a Blur BY ALEX JAMES LITTLE, BROWN, pounds 16.99, 274 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 ...
WE CAN'T SEE IT BUT WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ITWILLIAM LEITH ON THE WONDER OF AIR
Jul 01, 2007; ... An Ocean of Air: A Natural History of the Atmosphere BY GABRIELLE WALKER BLOOMSBURY, pounds 15.99, 321 pp T pounds 13.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 At the beginning of this excellent and mind-boggling book,Gabrielle Walker imagines looking at the ...
ANTIQUITY THE IDEA THAT AN EMPIRE WAS ENDED BY A FLEA LEAVES SIMON YOUNG SCRATCHING HIS HEAD
Jul 01, 2007; ... Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe BY WILLIAM ROSEN JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20, 367 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 There is something uniquely fascinating about the Byzantine empireof Justinian: Eastern Rome in its ...
LITERARY LIFE
Jul 01, 2007; ... There was certainly a huge turn-out of journalists for the launchof Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles and yet the occasion was morenotable for those who were said to be coming ('definitely','promised', 'confirmed') and yet did not show up. These included TonyBlair - who was, apparently, ...
INTO THE LISTS BAD GUYS HAVE GOT BADDER IN AMERICAN CRIME FICTION, FINDS JOHN SUTHERLAND
Jul 01, 2007; ... The thug hero goes back - long past Captain Meadows Taylor (whointroduced the term into popular parlance, with his Confessions of aThug, in 1839) to Beowulf and, doubtless, some of the brawniesdepicted on the cave walls of prehistoric man. The line continues in 20th-century ...
BIOGRAPHY ANTHONY HOWARD FINDS OUT HOW CONRAD BLACK HAS BEEN TAKING HIS MIND OFF HIS TROUBLES
Jul 01, 2007; ... Richard Milhous NixonThe Invincible Quest BY CONRAD BLACK QUERCUS, pounds 30, 1152 pp T pounds 26 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Four years ago, just as control of his press empire was about tobe snatched from him, Conrad Black published a heftily impressive ...
CRIME JOHN PRESTON FINDS THE WEARY CHARM OF AURELIO ZEN ENDURES BEYOND HIS CREATOR'S DEATH
Jul 01, 2007; ... End Games BY MICHAEL DIBDIN FABER, pounds 12.99, 335 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 There's a lot of death in Michael Dibdin's new novel, End Games.Nothing unusual about that, of course; for more than 20 years Dibdinhas been serving up a ...
FICTION DICKENS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC AT A TIME OF CIVIL WAR: IT'S A POTENT MIX, SAYS LINDY BURLEIGH
Jul 01, 2007; ... Mister Pip BY LLOYD JONES JOHN MURRAY, pounds 12.99, 219 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The opening chapters of Mister Pip suggest it's going to be aquirky, heart-warming story about inspirational teaching, individualcourage and the ...
FIRST NOVEL DAVID ROBSON SIFTS THROUGH THE HYPE TO FIND THE TALENT IN THIS WARTIME LOVE STORY
Jul 01, 2007; ... April in Paris BY MICHAEL WALLNER TR BY JOHN CULLEN JOHN MURRAY, pounds 16.99, 248 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Michael Wallner's first novel is being published in 20 countries, which probably says more aboutthe hype-driven ...
CRIME FICTION
Jul 01, 2007; ... Laura Lippman is best known for her excellent Tess Monaghan P. I.series, but she occasionally writes a stand-alone novel and What theDead Know (Orion, pounds 9.99) is one of her best. A woman isarrested after leaving the scene of a car crash. Disoriented andpanicky, she tells ...
FIRST NOVEL JAMES URQUHART ON THE LIFE-CRISIS OF A PHILOSOPHICALLY MINDED JOURNALIST
Jul 01, 2007; ... Inglorious BY JOANNA KAVENNA FABER, pounds 11.99, 273 pp T pounds 10.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In January Rosa's mother dies. In March Liam, Rosa's physicallybeautiful but cowardly boyfriend, refuses her proposal of marriage,thereby holing their ...
PAPERBACKS
Jul 01, 2007; ... THOMAS HARDY: THE TIME-TORN MAN BY CLAIRE TOMALIN PENGUIN, pounds 8.99 In this elegantly-written biography, Claire Tomalin emphasises thesignificance of the death of Hardy's first wife Emma. Estranged for years, and byall accounts cold towards her (behaviour ...
PAPERBACKS
Jul 01, 2007; ... THE FOURTH BEAR BY JASPER FFORDE HODDER, pounds 6.99 Jasper Fforde is flavour of the comedy month, and this genialspoof whodunit is a fine example of his style. Goldilocks is missing, the ThreeBears are in the frame and the psychopathic Gingerbread Man ...
TURN ON The rock-ola rocks, says Dominic Littlewood
Jul 01, 2007; ... EVER SINCE I WAS A YOUNG LAD, WATCHING PROGRAMMES like Happy Daysand Fifties and Sixties films such as That'll be the Day, I'vethought jukeboxes were beautiful. When I got to the stage where Icould afford one, I thought I'd treat myself. I also have a digital storage system that ...
Gizmos of the week
Jul 01, 2007; ... Camping it up this summer? Or planning to get sunstroke andtrenchfoot in the same weekend at an outdoor festival dedicated topopular music? If so, an Eton FR350 wind-up radio will be a usefulcompanion. It's not only an FM/AM radio but also a flashlight, mobilephone charger and - just to ...
ROAD TEST WE MAY LOVE TO HATE THE MONDEO, SAYS NEIL LYNDON, BUT THE NEW HATCHBACK IS A CLASSIC
Jul 01, 2007; ... HERE COMES A TRULY MARVELLOUS new Mondeo and the first thing itmakes you feel is that we've been here before. Since it first appeared in 1993, every new version of Ford'sMondeo has been acclaimed in identical terms, as: an unexpectedrevelation; an immense leap in quality; a serious ...
GUTTED Like the address, but hate the house? That's no problem for the new super-rich buyers who tear out the insides and start again, reports Caroline McGhie
Jul 01, 2007; ... Once it was the preserve of the gentrifying classes, youngprofessionals with energy but without the money for the very bestaddresses. Today, ripping the guts out of a house has been taken overby the super rich. Take a walk through the smarter streets of westLondon or the hottest of the ...
When two into one goes nicely If lack of space is the only issue, one answer might be to buy next door, Zoe Dare Hall discovers
Jul 01, 2007; ... The rich and famous don't always sell up and move on when theywant to spread their wings: they simply buy the house next door andknock two properties into one. Last week it was reported that Madonna had bought a pounds 6million house next door to her eight-bedroom Marylebone pad, ...
Going going gone Sales where what you see is not what you get
Jul 01, 2007 ... Castiglione del Lago, about 15 minutes' drive from Lake Trasimenoin Umbria, has four bedrooms, living-dining room, big family roomwith kitchenette and pizza oven, and a garage. But the kitchencupboards will leave with the owners. pounds 457,000, Brian A French and ...
For sale, front door not included We can all become attached to parts of our homes, but as Christine Webb reports, some sellers just won't let go
Jul 01, 2007; ... Marilyn Lesley is selling up and moving to a new home this summer,but she is so fond of her front door that she is taking it with her. Marilyn has already unhinged the door once, when she upped sticks20 years ago to her current home in Barham, Suffolk. Now her pounds425,000 ...
Lakefront luxury For sale around como
Jul 01, 2007 ... Five-bedroom 19th century villa, top left, overlooking the villageof Menaggio, with 180 degree views of the lake. euro4.2 million (pounds 2.9 million), Knight Frank, www.knightfrank.com, 020 7629 8171 Two-bed apartment, top right, on the lake's western shore, 9 milesfrom ...
It's Como, by George! In this hip Italian resort, closeness to Clooney is the only currency that counts. But as Zoe Dare Hall reports, bargains can still be found
Jul 01, 2007; ... George Clooney has a lot to answer for. Once the barometer of highliving on northern Italy's Lake Como was proximity to its main town,Como. But ever since the Hollywood star bought a villa in Laglio for$10 million ( pounds 5.04 million) in 2002, house prices have soaredand it is ...
Big impressions
Jul 01, 2007; ... Selling a home is all about creating positive first impressions.To make the most of a small property and its rooms, play with light,colour, furniture arrangement and, most importantly, be in tune withthe seasons. Start by clearing the clutter as it makes any room feelovercrowded ...
Are my windows under guarantee? ON THE LEVEL
Jul 01, 2007; ... Q. In 2004, we moved into a house which was 18 months old. Overthe past three years, the foam insulating strips between the windowframes and the glass appear to be expanding and as a result poppingout of position on many of the windows. As well as being unsightly(and very sticky), this ...
GARDENING HOLIDAYS
Jul 01, 2007; ... For the keen gardener, there are few more enjoyable holidays thandiscovering inspirational gardens, visiting foreign plant markets orhoning your horticultural and language skills on a course abroad. Theseason is here and there are many opportunities to broaden yourgardening ...
Vegetable patch is no place for sentiment to take root
Jul 01, 2007; ... Many gardeners trace their enthusiasm back to childhood when apatient grandfather showed them how to sow runner beans. My gardeningspark was lit by a musty top-floor flat in Swiss Cottage, rented withfriends in my mid-20s, in which we kept a house plant best describedas a piece of ...
READER OFFER ON STYLISH SUPPORTS
Jul 01, 2007 ... Climbers can make great punctuation marks in the border when givensupport to clamber up, and an attractive metal pyramid or obeliskwill look good all winter when the plants have died down. Room in theGarden is offering Sunday Telegraph readers a discount of 10 per centon their 5ft and ...
SUMMER CLIMBERS
Jul 01, 2007; ... The summer garden can seem suddenly rather green and drab once thefirst flush of perennials and climbers have finished flowering. Andit's a long while to wait for the fiery colours of dahlias,crocosmias and other late summer blooms to take up the torch. Some gardeners don't mind ...
Iraq prepares blueprint for privatisation gold rush
Jul 01, 2007; ... THE Iraqi government has begun preparing the groundwork for whatcould be one of the biggest privatisation programmes of recent years. The Sunday Telegraph has learned that officials from thegovernment have recently held talks with banking and legal advisersin London. City sources ...
Carlyle lines up $8bn bid for Virgin Media
Jul 01, 2007; ... CARLYLE, the private equity group, is poised to launch a $8bn (pounds 4bn) bid for Virgin Media, the cable company whose largestshareholder is Sir Richard Branson. The move is expected to trigger an auction, with bankers in theearly stages of preparing a sale ...
Fraud Office to quiz staff at BAE Systems
Jul 01, 2007; ... THE Serious Fraud Office is about to begin a second series ofinterviews under caution with executives from BAE Systems implicatedin allegations of corruption involving contracts with the defencegiant. Sources close to the investigation said the new push would see BAEstaff ...
Ashley delivers knockout blow for Everlast
Jul 01, 2007; ... MIKE ASHLEY, the founder of Sports Direct, appears to havedelivered a knockout blow to Hidary Group, the US investment firm, inthe takeover battle for Everlast, the iconic boxing equipment brand. Late on Friday night Sports Direct lodged a $33-a-share bid forEverlast Worldwide, the ...