With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
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Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Derek Malcolm's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Goran Olsson.
Cast: Kenny Gamble, Clive Davis, Blanche Williams, Billy Paul
Description: Directed by Goran Olsson, this documentary pays tribute to Philadelphia soul artist Billy Paul, who rose to fame in the '70s with his song "Me And Mrs Jones", which stormed the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. However, his follow-up single "Am I Black Enough For You" almost ended Paul's career. Olsson's film interviews the singer and his wife Blanche as they recall this period in their lives.
Country: SWE. 2008. 91mins
The subject of Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary is soul singer Billy Paul, whose one worldwide hit was the ballad Me and Mrs Jones.
He ruined his burgeoning career by cutting the black activist song, Am I Black Enough for You?, maintains Blanche Williams, his wife and manager. Still, she supported him loyally through the hard times that followed.
There’s not enough about the conflicts between Paul and those who controlled his records but this is a fan-like yet not too oleaginous tribute, with copious numbers to prove that he was — and still is — a singer who really had something.
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