London’s Savoy Theatre will always be associated with the musical comedies of Gilbert & Sullivan which built it. Their topsy-turvy had to be transporting because the Savoy’s seats were designed…
Caught in flagrante delicto, a Richard Pryor character challenged his wife, ‘Who you gonna believe — me or your lying eyes?’ Whether it’s on the health effects of tobacco, coal…
Two movies you mustn’t miss this Christmas: ‘The Great Beauty’ (‘La Grande Bellezza’) and ‘Nebraska’. Superficially the two have much in common. Both take men late in…
Rarely, one comes to a novel from watching a movie based on it. Even more rarely does a very faithful movie – a superb film – lead to…
My mother raised four sons (and their friends and dogs and rabbits…) in a rambling, wreck of a house in a small town with plenty of woods and fields surrounding…