does make me rather angry.

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Life The comments in this Guardian story about the status of freelancers in the benefits system do make me rather angry not least because...
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Woody Allen's Whatever Works is released in the UK.

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Film Finally. Almost exactly one year after it was released in the US, Woody Allen's Whatever Works is finally reaching the UK on th...

majesty

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Film The majesty of Mark Kermode's Sex And The City 2 review: Just in case you want to sing along .

haul himself or the TARDIS into it

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TV About a week ago - and with apologies for not catching up on this before -- Allyn Gibson was good enough to say some nice things about ...

an actual moonrocket.

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Space Cork's Catherine Ryan Howard spent a year in and around Orlando, Florida working for Walt Disney World. Her memoir of the trip...

hypercritical of himself

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Music This Village Voice piece about Woody Allen acts as a kind of prose sequel to Wild Man Blues and demonstrates that his commitment t...

Richard Curtis and The Black Adder

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TV Richard Curtis is interviewed in this week's Radio Times about his nu-Who episode on Saturday and he alludes to a first pilot for ...

Eyewitness: Shakespeare in the Park, New York City 2008

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Matthew Carlson played the Danish Captain in this performance which starred Michael Stuhlbarg, featuring Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose...
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Double Falsehood (The Arden Shakespeare). Edited by Brean Hammond.

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One of the thrilling elements of my amateur scholarship of Shakespeare is the ever present sense of discovery, which might have its nucleus ...
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everything’s renewed and revitalised.

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Books Justin Richards has been a writer in and editor of the Doctor Who spin-off range of novels for some years. Here he talks honestly a...

Vortigern and other hoaxes.

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In the 1790s, William-Henry Ireland, the son of an antiquarian, perpetrated one of the great literary hoaxes when he managed to fool many of...

Review: The Pacific. Episodes three to ten.

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TV One of my abiding memories of The Pacific (which just completed its run on Sky Movies HD) will be a shot from episode five which dea...

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Elsewhere I've reviewed last night's Doctor Who . I was so proud of the title that I've kept it an entire week until it actual...

Cold Blood.

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TV Companion deaths on the television version of Doctor Who are comparatively rare. Adric and Katarina is about the shape of it, and prob...

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Music Personally I think the Kate Nash/Lily Allen/Gabriella Cilmi/whimsyoverload Lena was a worthy winner and we got the pasting we des...

celebrity taxi drivers.

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Travel Victoria Coren on celebrity taxi drivers : "How come people are allowed to buy taxis if they aren’t taxi drivers? It means the...

only recently been restored.

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Film My Lovefilm BFI experiment is going well. I'm certainly watching films which I might otherwise have skipped over, not least Bab...

When Romeo Met Juliet met the red button

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Shakespeare Updated 11/6/2010: Breaking News! This has been moved to Saturday night, 12/6/2010 at 9:40 on the red button after the final...

not Shakespeare in any shape or form.

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Shakespeare Or rather not Shakespeare in any shape or form. In the 1790s, William-Henry Ireland, the son of an antiquarian, perpetrated o...

Exposition Is A Pill That Must Be Sugar-Coated

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Film "Exposition Is A Pill That Must Be Sugar-Coated" I can't help feeling, on seeing this interview with Hitch, that whe...