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...This cycle boasts at least two star-making performances. The 24-year-old David Oyelowo is a magnificent Henry VI. His Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...
...DIED. JEROME LINDON. 75, head of Les Editions de Minuit publishing house and the first to recognize the genius of Samuel Beckett, publishing nearly all his works and remaining a lifelong friend of the Nobel laureate; in Paris...
...fortune and three residences. With plenty of cash and plenty more expected, they see little need to conserve wealth. Today's new money increasingly covets exotic experiences more than fancy trappings, according to Iconoculture, a research company hired by J.P. Morgan to track wealth culture in 12 cities. Larry Samuel, a partner in Iconoculture, thinks the World taps perfectly into today's moneyed mentality: "If bragging rights are defined more by what you do than what you own, what a coup it will be to tell somebody that this is how you live...
...Even King Lear got a makeover in the form of a glorious marriage between Edgar and the distinctly not-dead Cordelia. But the thwarted love, the suicides and the excessive carnage of Hamlet all stayed exactly where Shakespeare placed them, as though they were something permanent and unchangeable. With Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s discovery of a touch of Hamlet in himself about 100 years later and the general attention to the play paid by the Romantics, Hamlet has only become more monumentalized over the years. Even T.S. Eliot’s famous dismissal of the work...
...Jews, the most important moment in this reverent progression occurred in about 1000 B.C. That is the date believers assign to the biblical description of King David's unification of the Israelite tribes and his choice of Jerusalem as his capital. The Bible's book of Samuel also recounts David's inducing his God to accept the location for his earthly seat, the Ark of the Covenant. It tells of David's purchase, for 50 shekels of silver, of a "threshing floor" on the mountain. And finally the book of Kings tells of David's son Solomon, who built upon...