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...chef, not the actor - at the ABode Hotel, tel: (44-161) 200 5678. I'd round off the day at the Radisson Edwardian's Opus One bar, tel: (44-161) 835 8904, and if I'm too tipsy to go home after that, I'd check into the Shirley Bassey Suite as the beds there are big enough even...
...Goldeneye," Tina Turner Composed by Bono and the Edge and sung by Tina Turner, who gets into the same vocal space as Shirley Bassey did. She's a little camp, but not so camp that you can't enjoy the song as light entertainment...
...Goldfinger," Shirley Bassey It's less a song than an alphorn to herd people into movie theaters, and Bassey walks the line between seduction and camp with the same dexterity as Sean Connery...
...himself in government, I fear chaos and civil war," he says. History isn't heartening. In 46 years, no democratically elected Nigerian President has successfully handed power to a democratically elected successor. Many still hope that next year Obasanjo will be the first to do so. But Bassie Roland Bassey, national secretary of the Obasanjo Solidarity Forum, says the country needs stability more than change: "You need someone who can hold the country together, who can hold the military together, who can hold the militias together. We believe that person is the President. Why change?" That's a sentiment with...
...Amelia Ferrugia ascends on her mechanical moon at a recent rehearsal, Freeman encourages his Queen to command the stage with her gestures ("but not Shirley Bassey ones"). Caught in the folds of her drapery below, Jaewoo Kim is coaxed to treat her presence like perfume. "Can that be more intense?" Freeman later asks. Every now and then, the director drops back to view the scene through the frame of his hands. Such details will make all the difference when his vision is unveiled, and Freeman hopes it will share with Shakespeare the quality of being "both spontaneous and inevitable...