Foreign aid workers to pull out after women are kidnapped Nov 14, 2009
from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. Saturday, 14 November 2009. (Yahoo News -- Rap and Hip-Hop)
Netherlands to send back 26,000 failed asylum-seekers Nov 14, 2009
Independent on Sunday. from The Independent & The Independent on Sunday. (Yahoo News -- Netherlands)
Faces of rock to a Van Gogh show Nov 1, 2009
The Habit of Art : Britain s National Theatre mounts the world premiere production of Alan Bennett s latest play at its Lyttelton Theatre. Toward the end of their lives, Bennett imagines the composer Benjamin Britten seeking out his old friend and onetime collaborator, the poet W.H. Auden, to discuss Britten s latest opera, Death in Venice. (Boston Globe)
Top UK Scriptwriters & Video Games Creators' Shortlisted for Writers' Guild Awards 2009 Oct 31, 2009
Dating back to 1961, the list of Awards' recipients acts as a roll-call of the greatest British writers of the past half century and include Alan Bennett, Jimmy McGovern, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French among others. This year's event also marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain as an independent trade union affiliated to the TUC.. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
IFC show recalls ‘Monty Python’ heyday Oct 17, 2009
The Goon Show, the zany BBC radio series featuring Peter Sellers, left all the British members gobsmacked, as did Beyond the Fringe, the stage revue written by Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore, and Alan Bennett. The biggest influence on Gilliam was the humor magazine Help. (Boston Globe)
Michael Palin in the Movies Sep 9, 2009
The film was co-written by Alan Bennett, and was the first movie Palin had been in without taking a hand in the script. Maggie Smith was again amongst the cast, as was Richard Grithiths, and like The Missionary, A Private Function was a gentle English farce, this time featuring a plot which revolved around food rationing following the Second World War, the celebration of Queen Elizabeth s wedding, and a stolen pig. (Suite101.com)
Montrose wont have a burning ban, will rely on residents common sense Aug 18, 2009
The council approved a budget of $200 for Alan Bennett to repaint the citys entrance signs. Reader Comments. (Keokuk Daily Gate City, IO)
Sherlock Holmes’s staying power Jul 19, 2009
Alas, neither of Cook and Moore s Beyond the Fringe mates, Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller, figure in the cast. The two actors most commonly associated with Holmes are Brett, thanks to multiple British television films that ran on PBS in the 80s and 90s, and Rathbone. (Boston Globe)
Is this man the UK's 'last monarchist'? May 30, 2009
Playwright Alan Bennett has explained his decision to turn down a knighthood, despite describing himself as the last monarchist in the country. Speaking at the the Hay Festival of Literature, in mid Wales, he said the title "just wouldn't suit me". (BBC News -- UK)
* SUNDAY PROFILE: Morrissey: the man behind the miserable mask May 24, 2009
All are titles stolen from the big-mouthed bards own songs; fitting tributes to a man who has spent the last three decades plagiarizing ideas from Warhol and Virginia Woolf, from Patti Smith and Sandie Shaw, from Alan Bennett and George Eliot, from the New York Dolls and Anthony Newley, from the TV soap Coronation Street and the Carry On films. As a recent two-day Irish symposium on his lyricism showed, international academics now queue up alongside the passionate fans to celebrate Morrissey... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Moon approves upgrade to technology information system Mar 25, 2009
Alan Bennett, the district's director of fiscal and school services, said there is not enough money in the general fund for this expenditure, but he suggested it be paid for through the district's capital reserve fund. Freelance writer Kim Lawrence can be reached in care of. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Storyteller found his voice on stage Mar 21, 2009
Best known for the films Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Happy-Go-Lucky, Leigh's play about social values and pretence has been enjoying a renaissance in recent years, most recently in New York, where Jennifer Jason Leigh played the scorching sales rep Beverly, a character Alan Bennett once described as having "shoulders like a docker, with a walk to match". The Ensemble Theatre is mounting the play this month, in a production directed by Mark Kilmurry and starring Queenie van de Zandt, Brian... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Stephen Fry: The internet and Me Mar 13, 2009
Imagine if someone like Alan Bennett, for example, who is a prodigious gallery-goer and a great writer occasionally, only tantalisingly occasionally on art - imagine if on your website you just said to these people could you just come in and talk about your favourite painting ... com, it would be there forever and people would be able to say, "There's Alan Bennett talking about Whistler's Mother" or whatever. (BBC News -- Technology)
Loitering with literary intent Feb 28, 2009
This is the shop that Alan Bennett launched in 2003 and where literary luminaries such as Martin Amis and John Lanchester are reputed to loiter. It was five o'clock on a cold December evening and night had fallen already when I arrived. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
