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Superstar DJs Here We Go!Wednesday, 09 September 2009
Bankers aren't the only fabulously remunerated fat cats to have taken a tumble in the public's estimation recently. As Dom Phillips points out in his highly entertaining account of the rise and fall of British club culture, "superstar" DJs no longer... Read more... |
Close Up on Hunter S ThompsonWednesday, 09 September 2009
Hunter S Thompson always had one beady, sun-bespectacled eye on posterity. At 21, living in poverty in a remote cabin in the Catskills and toiling away at an autobiographical first novel, Prince Jellyfish (still unpublished), he would immodestly... Read more... |
No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes de MilleTuesday, 08 September 2009
In dance heaven, poor Agnes de Mille is resigned to being jostled by nobler colleagues. "Sprightly but peripheral" was her own assessment of her work, yet, with her 1942 ballet Rodeo and her musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, Brigadoon and more, she... Read more... |
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success and BetrayalSunday, 06 September 2009At first sight, it seems extraordinary that there has never been a serious biography dedicated to the Supremes before now. They achieved more than enough to deserve a shelf-ful. In their heyday from 1964 to 1969 America loved them to... Read more... |
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