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...entire theater falling into rapt silence knows that there's a core power to expert storytelling that can't be lost on any scale.This power is undoubtedly strongest, however, on the smallest scale. And therein lies the success of the Sugan Theatre Company's production of This Lime Tree Bower, one of McPherson's earliest plays, currently playing at the Boston Center for the Arts. First produced in Dublin and shortly thereafter in London, This Lime Tree Bower brought McPherson international recognition. Its easy to see why. Whereas a play like The Weir loses something from the disconnectedness...
...opinion makers; now that he has been knighted it sometimes seems he can do no right. Virgin's reams of cheerful consumer research notwithstanding, Branson came in third on bbc radio's lighthearted year-end Villain of the Year poll. And in December an unauthorized biography by journalist Tom Bower-which seems to try the fancy trick of painting Branson as both a Machiavellian schemer and a reckless fool-ranked alongside Branson's own autobiography on the Sunday Times business best-seller list. (Branson has sued Bower for libel over a newspaper article...
...About a year ago Branson even had to fight off bankers who wanted to close his Our Price high street shops, which are being retooled into mobile phone and CD stores. Bower's book suggests that Branson had to sell his Virgin Atlantic stake to pay his debts and save Our Price. Branson counters: "We could have kept it afloat through the general funds of Virgin...
Reported by Amanda Bower...
...Amanda Bower...