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Play it again, Bogart
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TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (Cert PG, 100 mins), with Bogart and Bacall
coached by Howard Hawks in salty repartee, is being revived at the
Curzon Soho. A season of Classic Bogart is concurrently at the NFT.
Alas, it omits John Cromwell's under-appreciated Dead Reckoning, a
private-eye meller with Lizabeth Scott as the femme fatale and the
splendidly villainous Morris Carnovsky.
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Letter: Journey to the centre of a vicious circle
The Independent - London
; Sir: In reviewing Steve Ellis's new translation of Dante's Hell in the context of past translations, Ian Thomson omits John Ciardi's excellent translation, both colloquial and appropriately metred, which has long been a staple of humanities courses in US universities. That's not surprising, I
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Duke omits John Poindexter's Iran-Contra past
The Independent Weekly
; ... press releases from the Provost's office and the Duke Office of News and Communications, Poindexter's biography was sanitized of an ... eternal sunshine of Duke's spotless mind? David Jarmul, head of the news and communications office, explained that the university generates ...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Children's Book: Angels, ponies and leprechauns; Nicholas Tucker ranges from ancient China to modern Ireland (with a supernatural twist) in new teenage fiction.(Features)
The Independent (London, England)
; Every novel by Geraldine McCaughrean is always quite different from the one before, but The Kite Rider (Oxford, pounds 6.99) is one of her most unpredictable yet. Owner of the wildest imagination in current children's literature, she settles this time on a Chinese boy character hired by a circus to
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Children's Book: Angels, ponies and leprechauns Nicholas Tucker ranges from ancient China to modern Ireland (with a supernatural twist) in new teenage fiction
The Independent - London
; Every novel by Geraldine McCaughrean is always quite different from the one before, but The Kite Rider (Oxford, pounds 6.99) is one of her most unpredictable yet. Owner of the wildest imagination in current children's literature, she settles this time on a Chinese boy character hired by a circus to
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videos + dvds; New releases this week
Evening Times
; PREPARE to buckle your swash as The Count of Monte Cristo makes his way back to the screen. This modern epic is available to rent on DVD and video from Monday from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Dashing Jim Caviezel stars as poor, honourable sailor, Edmond Dantes, who is transformed into the
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Handel's Theatrical `Tolomeo'
The Washington Post
; Handel's opera "Tolomeo, Re di Egitto" opened the Maryland Handel Festival resoundingly Thursday night in the University of Maryland's Tawes Recital Hall. This was essentially a student production with a limited budget, but it gave a musical satisfaction attributable equally to Handel's superb
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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The original Oliver comes alive.(News)
The Journal (Newcastle, England)
; Byline: By David Whetstone Oliver Twist at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday If you are thinking Food, glorious food and similarly jaunty, singalong songs, forget it. This production of the Dickens classic is about as far from Lionel Bart and his musical Oliver! as it's possible to be. Neil
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Hell comes to Hollywood
Evening Standard - London
; OPERA Rake's Progress Covent Garden . . . .. UPDATING the setting of an opera is always a gamble: will the relocation reveal more than it obscures? Robert Lepage's production of Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (which originated at La Monnaie, Brussels, and is shared with three other houses but is new
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CLASSICAL RECORDINGS;Rare Treasures From Kurt Weill
The Washington Post
; Kurt Weill's first opera (now lost) was reportedly based on "an old German play about knights and their ladies" and was composed in 1910-11-not bad for a composer who was born in 1900. It probably sounded a lot like Richard Wagner, whose music was the operatic staple in the German town of Dessau,
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Fiorentino Finds Good Ways to Be Bad
Chicago Sun-Times
; `I have this terminal condition called bitchiness, right?" Linda Fiorentino smiled, and tossed her hair back from her forehead. Straight, black hair, framing dark eyes that level with you. Just the way she looked in "The Last Seduction," and just the way she looks in "Jade." At a time when half the
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