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...left to watch? Nighy. If the Academy handed out an award for Best Overacting, he would win every year. A stalwart of British theater, particularly David Hare plays, he is most warmly remembered by movie audiences for playing the drug-addled rock star Billy Mack in Love Actually and the pirate Davy Jones in the last two Pirates of the Caribbean offerings. (He also appears, his emoting confined to the standard range, as one of Tom Cruise's cohorts in Valkyrie.) Here, outfitted with piercing powder blue eyes, Nighy ascends to scenery-devouring heights that obliterate the boundary between...
What can you get for a single unit of Britain's poor, battered currency? Not much - apart from power, influence and an entrée into the highest echelons of the British establishment. These are the potential byproducts of an agreement reached on Jan. 21 by Russian oligarch and politician Alexander Lebedev to buy London's largest newspaper, the Evening Standard, from its current owners Associated Newspapers for the nominal fee of one pound sterling...
...bargain-basement price is arguably the least startling aspect of a transaction that if confirmed next month following a staff consultation process - and barring any intervention by the British government - will open a new and bizarre chapter in Anglo-Russian relations. Lebedev, after all, is a former KGB operative, who spied on Britain under diplomatic cover during the Cold War, by his own account scouring news sources such as the Standard for tidbits to feed to his handlers back home. His exotic pedigree has caused a few splutters. Richard Ottway, a Conservative MP, said he felt that "the fact that...
...editorial board will ratify any appointments, which are predicted to include Geordie Greig, currently at the helm of snobby glossy British magazine Tatler, as editor. Such a choice wouldn't signal an emphasis on hard news but an advisory board full of big hitters could certainly help to open doors. Names reported to be in the frame include Gorbachev and Tony Blair. His priority, Lebedev told a hastily convened press conference in Moscow, is to ensure the Standard's survival. "I don't want it to be said that some Russian idiot and former spy came along and bought...
...with this year’s theme inspired by Thomas Hardy’s novels and set in Wessex, England. Playing at Sanders Theatre through Dec. 30, “Revels” includes everything from clogging to caroling to serpent playing (the serpent being a snake shaped, British musical instrument of yore). Though jaunty and lighthearted throughout, the show ultimately asks the audience to question why tradition is so easily forgotten. The show employs the talents of the Mellstock Band, Casterbridge Children, and Village Quire, musical groups that play and dress as musicians would centuries ago and who come...