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    Robin Gibb, 22 Dec 1949 – 20 May 2012 One-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon by providing the core of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever has died aged 62

    Robin Gibb, 22 Dec 1949 – 20 May 2012

    One-third of the Bee Gees and a singer-songwriter who helped to turn disco into a global phenomenon by providing the core of the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever has died aged 62

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    Julie Delpy: ‘Hollwood hates me – but I don’t care’ She’s been fired by every acting agency in town, refused an invite to Vanity Fair’s Oscars bash, even pimps wouldn’t fund her films … so how is Julie Delpy still making movies?

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    • When were you happiest?
    • Last time I was on the dance floor – in Manchester a few weeks ago.
    • What is your greatest fear?
    • Something happening to my mother.
    • What is your earliest memory?
    • Being in the front yard, playing with violets, and my mother saying they were her mother's favourite flower. I would have been four or five.
    • What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
    • My impatience.
    • What is the trait you most deplore in others?
    • Lying.
    • What does love feel like?
    • Very painful.

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    guardianartanddesign: David Hockney, part 3 In cartoonist Peter Duggan’s latest take on art history, we dive back into David Hockney’s photo album to see if a third group of friends made A Bigger Splash than his last set of visitors

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    David Hockney, part 3

    In cartoonist Peter Duggan’s latest take on art history, we dive back into David Hockney’s photo album to see if a third group of friends made A Bigger Splash than his last set of visitors

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    In an interview with the Guardian last year, Sendak said that the term “children’s illustrator” annoyed him, since it seems to belittle his talent. “I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person,” he said. Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83.

    In an interview with the Guardian last year, Sendak said that the term “children’s illustrator” annoyed him, since it seems to belittle his talent. “I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person,” he said.

    Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83.

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    Was the 90s really the ‘decade that style forgot’? Hadley Freeman thinks not: However, as I said, despite all the pain I suffered, aurally, visually and mentally, I will defend the 90s, style-wise, and my evidence for the defence is the most 90s of all movies, Reality Bites.

    Was the 90s really the ‘decade that style forgot’? Hadley Freeman thinks not:

    However, as I said, despite all the pain I suffered, aurally, visually and mentally, I will defend the 90s, style-wise, and my evidence for the defence is the most 90s of all movies, Reality Bites.

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    It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The one everyone knows (and quotes). Parodied, spoofed, and misremembered, Austen’s celebrated zinger remains the archetypal First Line for an archetypal tale. Only Dickens comes close, with the beginning of A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light etc…

    Jane Austen
    Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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    From the archive 27 April 1982: Celia Johnson’s exquisite artistry Michael Billington was among those who praised her first Shakespearian performance for 20 years, applauding the way in which she was “not the usual wilting voluptuary but a distraught, untidy maternal figure caught up in events beyond her comprehension.” She regretted, she told me, that she had not played more Shakespeare. John Gielgud, a great admirer, suggests that a most unsuccessful early performance as Juliet damaged her chances of being such an ingenue.

    From the archive 27 April 1982: Celia Johnson’s exquisite artistry

    Michael Billington was among those who praised her first Shakespearian performance for 20 years, applauding the way in which she was “not the usual wilting voluptuary but a distraught, untidy maternal figure caught up in events beyond her comprehension.” She regretted, she told me, that she had not played more Shakespeare. John Gielgud, a great admirer, suggests that a most unsuccessful early performance as Juliet damaged her chances of being such an ingenue.

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