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Johnny Depp has become, in his young middle age, like a star of the movies’ golden period
Public Enemies
Music
this was a triumph of eye-popping production and exhausting choreography
Madonna
Theatre
If his smug stage persona is tricky to warm to, his skill, and the snappiness of Andy Nyman’s direction, are spot-on
Derren Brown
If you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this film
I thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to see
Absolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!
London,
This is a clever book. This is a fantastically clever book. Though this novel's jacket warns you that it 'is not about politics', the claim is as disingenuous as the book's own narrator who constantly invades the narrative, telling you whether he likes his characters or not, or that he is 'worried we are ignoring' this character or that one.
Ostensibly, the simple story of how Moshe and Nana fall in love and then invite bisexual Anjali into their lives and bed is anything but simple. It's the sort of book where Stendhal, de Sade and Bogart make regular appearances in the digressions.
And what is he digressing from? Usually it's graphic portrayals of sex. And yet miraculously, amid this cool, mannerly and distinctly authorial prose, he manages to evoke a sweet sadness for his characters, a genuine poignancy which strikes you - especially at the end - as a surprise.
Out of a doctoral inquisition into the strangeness of sex comes a funny and strangely insightful romance. A genuinely original book.
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