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Film: Hell hath no fury like a studio scorned Paul Schrader is being exorcised. Last week, he handed in his final cut of Exorcist IV: The Beginning, the $45m prequel to William Friedkin's 1973 horror masterpiece, and reaction from its makers...(Continue Reading) Temper, Temper! When Alfred A. Knopf published my book, Temperament, in late 2001, the last thing I expected was a political response. The book traces the evolution ......(Continue Reading)best committee that ever sat, The POWER AND GLORY: JACOBEAN ENGLAND AND THE MAKING OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE by Adam Nicolson HarperCollins, L18.99, pp. 288 ISBN 0007108931 There are two ......(Continue Reading)Desperately seeking Doddy: on the trail of the unmatchable Ken Dodd, Michael Coveney finally catches up with the great comic as he prepares for a five-hour Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life in High Wycombe on a wet Thursday afternoon to spend nine or ten hours in the company of Ken Dodd....(Continue Reading)Slightly Far East It's the Sunday evening before the first day of school. The year is 1956, and I'm going into the eighth grade, my sister Janet into the fifth, but at the moment we're sitting with our parents out on...(Continue Reading)
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