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When love is literally on your doorstep
Remember that Liza Minnelli song ‘You’ve Gotta Ring Them Bells’ about travelling around the world looking for love and in the end finding it was in the apartment next door all the time? Well as camp as the song is (and it is!) the premise is not that far fetched in these days of…
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The Harvesters
This dark and rather dismal coming of age tale is set South Africa’s central Free State province inhabited by Afrikaners made up of isolated farms where time seems to have stopped still. In fact it really is difficult to work out if this a period piece or not, and it is only the eventual…
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Heading for her 8th Oscar Nom GLENN CLOSE maybe up against JENNIFER HUDSON
Fresh from being the runner-up for an Oscar for the 7th time, legendary actress GLENN CLOSE has just announced plans for her next movie that may just get her the golden statute come next February. She is going to recreate her Tony Winning turn as Norma Desmond in the movie adaption of Lloyd-Webber’s Sunset…
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Jonny Ward reviews the UK premiere of GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM ” a truly uplifting, optimistic treasure of a play”
Gently Down the Stream ☆☆☆☆☆ Park Theatre When a young man takes an older lover, is there always an ulterior motive, or can the reasons be purely romantic, sexual even? This is a question that is raised many times in ‘Gently Down The Stream’. The play is directed by Sean Mathias and written by…
