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A hit, laugh-out-loud comedy from the pen of Ian Hislop is coming to Leigh

St Joseph’s Players in Leigh are to put on a hit stage comedy which makes gentle fun of amateur dramatics and Hollywood egos ...

Start the week with a film: In ‘Ran’, a family succession plan leads to chaos and carnage

Kurosawa’s three Shakespeare adaptations – Throne of Blood (based on Macbeth ), The Bad Sleep Well (based on Hamlet) and Ran ...

Downfall of a King: a ‘magisterial’ biography

A Life – an ‘enthralling’ biography London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe’s ‘page-turning’ new book Book reviews: ‘London ...

Family of boy, 8, killed by falling tree branch at Calabasas park to get $14.6M

The parents of an 8-year-old boy tragically killed by a large tree that fell in a Calabasas park last year are expected to ...
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Strike ends at Lear seat plant after tentative deal reached with UAW

WENTZVILLE, MO –Nearly 500 Lear Corp. workers are back on the job today after the union reached a tenative agreement with the truck seat manufacturer, according to the union president. The strike also ...
The New Yorker

Eight Great American Novels

P.S. One more Great American Novel, for good measure: “ A Thousand Acres ,” by Jane Smiley, is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set on a family farm in Iowa, in the nineteen-seventies.