The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from January 2008:
Seven says this is the week to ... 06.01.08
Jan 06, 2008; ... TOAST Liverpool, as it becomes European Capital of Culture 2008.Ringo Starr appears at Friday's opening ceremony on St George'sPlateau. On Saturday, Liverpool - the Musical marks the opening of the Echo Arena Liverpool; www.liverpool08.com WATCH Glenn Close and Ted ...
Personally speaking Rousing and arousing - the story and the glory of pop
Jan 06, 2008; ... Asked by BBC4 to write and present a film that answered thequestion 'Pop, what is it good for?', I avoided simply responding'absolutely nothing', or, indeed, 'absolutely everything', and goton with talking about some of my favourite pop songs. I could haveinstantly chosen hundreds that I ...
WHO'S THAT AT THE DOOR? DON'T ASK
Jan 06, 2008; ... IT'S BEEN A FUNNY OLD HOLIDAY time. New Year's Day fellinconveniently into our laps on a Tuesday, post-party recovery fellon the Wednesday and as a consequence, hardly any offices seem tohave thought the Thursday and Friday worth the bother. This has leftmost serious business in a hiatus ...
THE SCHOOL OF ROCK COMEDY HE'S MADE HIS OWN SITCOMS, STARRED IN HOLLYWOOD MOVIES AND DONE STAND-UP IN FRONT OF ARENA-SIZED CROWDS. BUT HOW WILL CHRIS ROCK'S BRAND OF RACY - AND RACIAL - HUMOUR GO DOWN IN BRITAIN? 'THESE ARE GONNA BE WEIRD SHOWS,' HE TELLS STEVEN DALY
Jan 06, 2008; ... Chris Rock sits behind his desk at Chris Rock Enterprises, asmall, tidy office 23 storeys above Manhattan's Lincoln Centre, andbrowses through the concert advertisements in a local paper. 'Fivearea shows,' he marvels. 'Wow! That is amazing.' The American actor/comedian is ...
THE WORLD'S GOING CRAZY... CHRIS ROCK ON RACE, MARRIAGE AND JUDE LAW
Jan 06, 2008 ... 'Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people!Ya know why? Because black people hate black people too! Everythingwhite people don't like about black people, black people reallydon't like about black people' 'You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is ...
100 CLASSICAL ALBUMS YOU MUST HEAR MUSIC BEWILDERED BY THE EVER- GROWING CATALOGUE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC ON CD? LET OUR MUSIC CRITIC MICHAEL KENNEDY BE YOUR GUIDE WITH HIS CHOICE OF 100 ESSENTIAL RECORDINGS
Jan 06, 2008; ... Choosing the hundred classical CDs that you really should hear isa pleasant task, but not an easy one. Some classic performances fromdecades ago choose themselves, but not all classic performances are35 years old, and I have not hesitated to include more recent ones.There are also some ...
THE A-Z OF CINEMA HOME-VIDEO, DVD, HIGH-DEF, ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS, SHAKY CAMCORDER COPIES FROM THAILAND ... DESPITE ALL THIS, THE HUMBLE CINEMA IS STILL THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE WAY TO SEE A FILM. FROM DAZZLING ART DECO PICTURE HOUSES TO CARTWHEELING USHERETTES, HERE'S A REMINDER OF WHY.
Jan 06, 2008; ... A ARCHIVE It was a little act of destruction that would eventually leadRonald Grant to a 19th-century workhouse in Elephant and Castle, andto the creation of one of the most extraordinary - and endangered -museums in the country: the Cinema Museum in London. A boy ...
Spare our blushes CINEMA
Jan 06, 2008; ... Lust, Caution P.S. I Love You Lust, Caution (18) does not seem quite the right title for AngLee's latest. 'Caution, Lust' would have been better. 'Boredom,Porn', if you were feeling really accurate. For two long hours thegrand passion here - indeed the only plot at all - ...
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES DIRECTOR JOE LYNCH
Jan 06, 2008 ... David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983) is one of the oddest, mostengrossing horror films ever made. It's full of visceral images,like those of VHS tapes being inserted into people's stomachs, andof TV sets exploding into human entrails - but Cronenberg alsothrows in some profound ideas ...
OTHER RELEASES
Jan 06, 2008; ... Half Moon Alice in the Cities El Violin Half Moon (tbc) New year, new directions. The Iranian film-maker Bahman Ghobadi,previously known for such weighty dramas as 2005's Turtles Can Fly,attempts a significant change of gear with Half Moon, a sort ofarthouse ...
The many faces of bobness
Jan 06, 2008 ... I'm Not There is Todd Haynes's homage to Bob Dylan, and he usessix actors to express differing aspects of the singer (includingHeath Ledger, right). Karl French (Financial Times) liked it a lot:'It is wonderfully bold and a dazzling piece of fracturedstorytelling.' Chris Tookey (Daily ...
DVDs Out this week
Jan 06, 2008; ... WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY? Optimum D1125, PG, pounds 12.99 Woody Allen's directorial debut, from 1966, is a cult classic. Out of the ropy Japanese spy-thriller Kagi no Kag, he created thisabsurd comedy: simply by replacing the original dialogue with hisown dub. Allen's re-hash ...
Rooted in reality ART
Jan 06, 2008; ... Velazquez's Fables At the Prado, Madrid Rafael Moneo is the endearingly self-effacing architectresponsible for the Prado's new extension in Madrid. A quietlyenthusiastic man, he gives the impression that he would far rathertalk about Old Master paintings than modern ...
ART CHOICE
Jan 06, 2008; ... Louise Bourgeois Tate Modern, London SE1 (020 7887 8888) to 20 January. Just two weeks left to catch this spellbindingretrospective, devoted to the 96-year-old French-American sculptor.The 200-work show charts her engagement with almost every major 20th-century ...
THEATRE
Jan 06, 2008; ... Marianne Dreams The Woman Hater Marianne Dreams Almeida, London N1 (020 7359 4404) to 19 January This is the Almeida's first foray into the family Christmas show.Moira Buffini's play, directed by Will Tuckett and adapted fromCatherine Storr's novel, was never ...
Yhe odd couple THEATRE
Jan 06, 2008; ... Much Ado About Nothing Simon Russell Beale is the thinking man's Christopher Biggins.Big, larger than life, and perhaps a bit too camp for some people'stastes, this wily actor has a way of insinuating his way into acharacter, even when you are quite resistant to the ...
THEATRE CHOICE
Jan 06, 2008 ... The Magic Flute and A Christmas Carol Young Vic, London SE1 (0207922 2922) to 19 Jan. These two exuberant South African productionsdeserve to be the festive smash ...
DANCE CHOICE
Jan 06, 2008 ... Sylvia Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London WC2 (020 73044000). Ashton's 1952 ballet returns on 18 January (in rep to 24March) with Zenaida Yanowsky and David ...
Bless my whiskers DANCE
Jan 06, 2008; ... The Tales of Beatrix Potter and Les Patineurs Set party frocks to 'stun': Covent Garden has revived The Talesof Beatrix Potter as part of a seasonal double bill. FrederickAshton's ballet began life in 1971 as a feature film. He wasoriginally in two minds about the project, worried ...
Curls night in TELEVISION
Jan 06, 2008; ... Sense and Sensibility Extreme Pilgrim The Shadow in the North Jane Austen, as is well known, is famous for her sex scenes. Theundone corset, the flashing thigh, the winking nipple ... these arethe great Austen hallmarks - at least they are when she has beenorchestrated ...
Winner by a nose CLASSICAL
Jan 06, 2008; ... The Adventures of Pinocchio Shadowtracks Of all the new operas premiered last year, the newest may wellprove the most enduring. Opera North's Christmas present to itself -its first full-scale commission in nine years, shared with Sadler'sWells and Chemnitz in Germany - was ...
BOOKS IT IS THE NEW WRITERS APPEARING IN 2008 WHO INTEREST MELISSA KATSOULIS AS MUCH AS THE RETURN OF SOME BIG NAMES
Jan 06, 2008; ... The year 2008 looks set to be another bumper one for Englishletters, with publishers from Land's End to John o'Groats (OK,London to Edinburgh) poised at their presses in readiness to bringyou a whole new library of reading matter. From the ABC ofcontemporary letters (Ackroyd, Barnes and ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME
Jan 06, 2008; ... 'The death of Ivan Ilyich' By Leo Tolstoy The simplicity and power of this novella, the story of theterrible encroachment of death on a shallow man spiritually unprepared for it, has staggeredmillions (on reading it in 1886, Tchaikovsky feverishly ...
ANTHROPOLOGY JAN MOIR CAREFULLY SCRUTINSES BOTH DESMOND MORRIS AND THE MALE FORM
Jan 06, 2008; ... The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body BY DESMOND MORRIS JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 18.99, 280 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 In his new book Desmond Morris points out that the hair thatgrows on top of a man's head is one of the ...
SCIENCE THE MEN WHO MADE THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM GREAT WERE CURIOUS SPECIMENS, SAYS JIM ENDERSBY
Jan 06, 2008; ... Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum BY RICHARD FORTEY HARPERPRESS, pounds 20, 338 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 As a curious 10-year-old, I stood in London's Natural History Museum, ...
MEMOIR DIANA ATHILL IS CURIOUS ABOUT EVERYTHING IN LIFE, SAYS JANE SHILLING, BUT ESPECIALLY OLD AGE
Jan 06, 2008; ... Somewhere Towards the End BY DIANA ATHILL GRANTA, pounds 12.99, 182 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The people in Diana Athill's family, particularly the women,generally make old bones and good deaths. 'Even the least lucky werespared the ...
LITERARY LIFE 2008
Jan 06, 2008; ... It is 500 years since Michelangelo started to paint the ceilingof the Sistine Chapel - and since William Dunbar published TheGolden Targe. In this allegory the Scottish poet, imagining himselfon trial at the court of Venus, is wounded by the arrows of Beauty in spite of the shield ...
IRELAND LEO MCKINSTRY RETRACES IRELAND'S BUMPY ROAD TO MODERNITY
Jan 06, 2008; ... Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000 BY R. F. FOSTER ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 20, 240 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The grand vision of Eamon de Valera, the dominant figure in Irishpolitics for almost five decades after ...
CRIME FICTION
Jan 06, 2008; ... Considering its population is only around 300,000, Iceland seems to have more than its fair share of good crime writers. Yrsa Sigurdardottir keeps up the standardwith Last Rituals (Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 11.99), a grisly chiller set in the depths of ...
FICTION ED KING PROBES THE MOTIVATION OF A BASQUE TERRORIST
Jan 06, 2008; ... The Accordionist's Son BY BERNARDO ATXAGA TR BY MARGARET JULL COSTA HARVILL SECKER, pounds 18.99, 389 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The publication of his first novel, Obabakoak, in 1993established Bernardo Atxaga as a literary ...
COMEDY DAVID TWISTON-DAVIES REVELS IN WODEHOUSEANA
Jan 06, 2008; ... A Wodehouse Handbook: The World and Words of P. G. Wodehouse BY N.P.T. MURPHY POPGOOD & GROOLLEY, pounds 30 + pounds 6.50 p&p, 2 VOLS, 496 AND 584 pp 9 WINTON AVENUE, LONDON N11 2AS The great myth about P.G. Wodehouse, until he died at 93 ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 06, 2008; ... LONDON IN THE 19TH CENTURY BY JERRY WHITE VINTAGE, pounds 10.99 This is a companion volume to the author's acclaimed book aboutthe 20th century and has the same generously illustrated format. Buthere the contrasts between rich and poor, opulence and squalor, aremore ...
PAPERBACKS
Jan 06, 2008; ... THE MUTINY BY JULIAN RATHBONE ABACUS, pounds 7.99 Late in his literary life, Julian Rathbone is starting to earnthe plaudits his well-crafted fiction deserves. Nineteenth-centuryIndia has been much visited by other novelists, but this lively account of ...
ROAD TEST IT'S A SPRIGHTLY DRIVE, BUT THE CORSA VXR LOOKS AS CHAVVY AS POSH'S HAIR-DO, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
Jan 06, 2008; ... DARK HAD FALLEN ON THE MISTS OF a winter afternoon by the time I left the supermarket and my testcar - a black Vauxhall Corsa VXR - was shrouded in gloom in one ofthe farthest bays of the car park. Walking towards it, pushing myladen trolley, I clicked the door-release ...
Selling the family home to live the dream Huge sums tied up in property mean selling can fund an adventure, from a mid-life gap year to a change of career. Caroline McGhie meets some of those who have taken the plunge
Jan 06, 2008; ... Living in a pink cottage in one of the prettiest villages inSuffolk, Bill Stevenson and his wife Lynda might be thought to haveachieved a dream lifestyle. Bay Tree Cottage is built of cob andthatch and might have slipped from the pages of a fairy story. Theirdaughter Clementine, aged ...
The house with the dream life included... A restored French farmhouse and successful cookery school offers buyers a new lifestyle, reports Graham Norwood
Jan 06, 2008; ... Statistics show that most people stick to new year's resolutionsfor a fortnight: if you vowed to change your lifestyle in 2008, youhave only another week to snap up the delightful Le Manoir deL'Aufragere in Normandy. This 18th-century, six-bedroom farmhouse not only makes ...
Don't miss the bumper January rush Homeowners are falling over themselves to cut prices and get a quick sale. Welcome to the buyers' market of 2008. Graham Norwood reports
Jan 06, 2008; ... In the uncertain new year housing market, one man's slowdown isanother man's bargain. If you want proof, just ask the Higginbottomand Nash families. Michael Higginbottom, a retired headmaster and now a schoolinspector, and his wife Elisabeth are this weekend slashing ...
Let there be light Choosing the right illumination for your home can make all the difference to its mood and value, says Sarah Lonsdale
Jan 06, 2008; ... Georgie Fordham is one of a growing number of people who believethat good lighting is as important as a colour scheme or upholsteryfor your home. "We had two London houses professionally lit, andwhen we moved to the country I was determined to have properlighting here too, even though ...
Keeping a tidy workshop
Jan 06, 2008; ... My father-in-law's workshop is an endless source of fascinationto me. I marvel at how he can lay his hands on anything that heneeds at a moment's notice despite the space appearing to be inchaos. The most amazing creations come out of this place: practical,always useful, and just plain ...
Can I put glass in my fire doors? On the level - A builder gives it to you straight
Jan 06, 2008; ... Q. I live in a 20-year-old, purpose-built block of eight self-contained flats. Access is from a communal inner area, and there areno exterior fire escapes. To increase the daylight in my flat Ishould like to replace or modify some of the internal doors byadding glass. The front door from ...
On planting to raise a smile from passers-by
Jan 06, 2008; ... Gardening, like cooking, is one of those lovely pastimes that cangive as much pleasure to others as it does to the practitioner. Iwas thinking about this in the lead-up to Christmas, as I walked thestreets laden with bags of presents. Stopping every now and again torest, my eyes would ...
PLANTING WINTER CONTAINERS
Jan 06, 2008 ... Choose only frost-hardy plants, unless you are in a particularlysheltered situation. Put a good layer of broken crocks in the bottomto stop the compost from being washed out; you can also furtherimprove drainage by adding a few inches of gravel or, for biggerpots where lightness is ...
Clarity hits as I'm scrubbing the bricks
Jan 06, 2008; ... January is a time for hard truths. In the garden, the bare bonesare exposed, the leaves and flowers stripped away to reveal theskeletons of the trees, the hard lines of raised beds, the pavingand structures showing bluntly beneath a grey sky. The inanimatecomes to the fore. The ...
Forget gym membership ... get gardening instead Our garden expert on how to keep fit
Jan 06, 2008; ... Rather than spiral into despair as you peer over your paunch atthe scales in the New Year, look to the garden instead. I think thisis the best way to get into shape and I often wonder how many gymsubscriptions are paid up then left unused as those good intentionswane. Many of us know ...
Analysts to cut M&S forecasts amid sales fears
Jan 06, 2008; ... CITY analysts are poised to downgrade their profit forecasts forMarks & Spencer following its crucial Christmas trading update onWednesday. Retail watchers had expected M&S to deliver like-for-like salesgrowth of up to 3 per cent - but in recent days a number of majorbanks, ...
Global Radio offers pounds 300m for GCap Media
Jan 06, 2008; ... RICHARD EYRE, the chairman of Capital Radio owner GCap Media,will this week be forced to explain why he has rejected a takeoverproposal from rival Global Radio that would have valued GCap at morethan pounds 296m, nearly pounds 100m more than its stock marketvalue on Friday ...
Rock sale jeopardised by falling house prices Bankers struggle to value stricken lender as property market weakens, throwing financing for a sale in doubt
Jan 06, 2008; ... FEARS of a housing crash are threatening to scupper the sale ofNorthern Rock, pushing the stricken mortgage lender ever closer tonationalisation. Any rescue will depend on the pounds 10bn- pounds 15bn offunding that investment banks Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and RoyalBank of ...
WHEELER TO COLLAR MARKET
Jan 06, 2008 ... Nick Wheeler (above) is to appoint financial advisers for astockmarket flotation of his Charles Tyrwhitt shirts businessfavoured by City workers ....
Towergate plans pounds 1bn refinancing to pay for expansion
Jan 06, 2008; ... TOWERGATE Partnership, Europe's largest independent insurancegroup, is planning a pounds 1bn refinancing of the business to helpto fund new acquisitions. Private equity-owned Towergate, which provides cover for 200specialist risks ranging from helicopters to Formula One ...
City's favourite shirtmaker looks to button down float
Jan 06, 2008; ... CHARLES TYRWHITT, the shirtmaker favoured by bankers in Londonand New York, will seek to sell a stake in the business by floatingon Aim later this year. Founder Nick Wheeler is seeking fresh capital to expand thecompany's stores from nine to a chain of 50 across the UK ...
Anglo shelves sale of Tarmac
Jan 06, 2008; ... MINING giant Anglo American has postponed plans to sell its pounds 3bn Tarmac business until credit markets return to normal. Cynthia Carroll, Anglo's chief executive, first announced inAugust last year her intention to sell Tarmac after months ofspeculation that it was on the ...
Formaplex deal a pounds 9m winning formula
Jan 06, 2008; ... TWO former engineering apprentices are sitting on a paper fortuneof pounds 9m after striking a deal to sell half the company theycreated to Dunedin Private Equity. Formaplex is a Portsmouth-based engineering group that works withalmost all the UK's Formula One teams including ...
Hohn makes child's play of hedge fund investing with a 40pc return
Jan 06, 2008; ... CHRIS HOHN's hedge fund, TCI, is understood to have clocked upgains of almost 40 per cent last year, after reaping huge profitsfrom the sale of Dutch bank ABN Amro. The Children's Investment Fund, as it is officially known, wasone of two London-based funds that forced ABN into its ...
Turfed-out SIS in running for BBC arm
Jan 06, 2008; ... SATELLITE Information Service, the racecourse television companywhich has just lost its monopoly on British betting shops, is amongthe few remaining bidders for the BBC's pounds 150m Resourcesbusiness. Put up for sale in August, BBC Resources comprises an outsidebroadcast ...
Nursery group on block
Jan 06, 2008; ... KIDS UNLIMITED, one of Britain's leading day nursery groups,could be about to change hands for more than pounds 50m. The company and its private equity owners, Isis Equity Partners,have appointed Deloitte to advise on strategic options, which islikely to lead to a sale ....
Apax founder wants Aim to emulate Nasdaq system
Jan 06, 2008; ... SIR Ronald Cohen, one of the founding fathers of British privateequity, has called on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to introducereforms to the junior Aim market to make it more like America'sNasdaq exchange. Sir Ronald, who founded Apax Partners in 1972, believes that Aimis ...
Network Rail bosses face House grilling
Jan 06, 2008; ... NETWORK Rail's directors are to be hauled before the TransportSelect Committee to explain the fiasco on the West Coast Main Linethat disrupted the travel of 60,000 passengers a day last week. Newly knighted chairman Sir Ian McAllister and chief executiveIain Coucher can expect a ...
Flight to gold as investors lose faith in money Is it back to the super-value of the Middle Ages as the world's mines run out of the precious metal, asks Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Jan 06, 2008; ... The last time gold touched $850 an ounce, the world was visiblyspiralling out of control. Soviet tanks had just rolled into Afghanistan. The Mullahs hadseized US hostages in Iran. Pax Americana was on the ropes, and sowas capitalism. Inflation had reached 14 per cent in the ...
HOUSE OF FRASER SALES UP
Jan 06, 2008 ... House of Fraser, the Baugur controlled department store, defiedthe high street gloom and saw sales rise over the key Christmas and New Year trading period. On a like-for-like basis, sales were up 2.4 per cent up on the same period last year in thefive weeks to January ...
Stewart to lure Close key staff
Jan 06, 2008; ... CENKOS's Andy Stewart, the man stalking Close Brothers, isthreatening to poach the investment bank's stars and clients ifClose continues to cold-shoulder his 950p-a-share bid. Last Friday Close held preliminary talks with private equityhouse Blackstone about a white knight bid, ...
Hands continues to clear out EMI old guard
Jan 06, 2008; ... GUY HANDS has parted company with the chief operating officer atEMI in a review of the business which includes plans to createcloser ties between the record label and his chain of Odeon and UCIcinemas. Ian Hanson, who was only promoted to COO in January last year and ...
Traders seeking belated present from shorting Debenhams
Jan 06, 2008; ... CITY traders have staked more than pounds 150m on adisappointing Christmas trading update from troubled retailerDebenhams. Short sellers have sold more than 200m shares in the retailerthey do not own ahead of Debenhams' trading update later this month,according to Data ...
Christmas depresses retailers
Jan 06, 2008; ... RETAIL sales growth slowed sharply over December compared withthe previous year, figures released this week will show. In the most conclusive evidence to date that Christmas was acrushing disappointment for many retailers, the British RetailConsortium, the industry body, will say ...
Watch the economists cut and run . . . again
Jan 06, 2008; ... The Bank of England faces another tough decision on Thursday.Having cut interest rates to 5.5 per cent in December, the MonetaryPolicy Committee is this month expected to keep borrowing costs onhold. In last week's Reuters survey, 51 of 63 "leading economists" saidthe MPC should ...
The singular folly of the single currency
Jan 06, 2008 ... LAST week, a leader column in a national newspaper argued thatthe UK's decision to stay out of the euro looked "increasinglybizarre". With Cyprus and Malta entering the now 15-nation single currencyzone, the paper asserted "the story of the euro is primarily one ofbenefit to ...