Monthly Archives: October 2011

STAGE REVIEW: Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’

Posted on October 28, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – As Alvin Rakoff’s production of Adam Rolston’s A Sentimental Journey, about the life of Doris Day, opens in Los Angeles, the British-based filmmaker and stage director takes on another Hollywood icon with the World Premiere … Continue reading →

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Q&A: Norman Jewison

Posted on October 23, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett GHENT, BELGIUM: Canadian filmmaker Norman Jewison has had an outstanding career as director and producer of major Hollywood films such as “The Cincinnati Kid”, “In The Heat Of The Night”, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, “Fiddler On The … Continue reading →

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STAGE REVIEW: Mark Rylance in Jez Butterworth’s ‘Jerusalem’

Posted on October 18, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – “We are an unruly people,” Queen Elizabeth I warned the King of Spain, by which she meant the likes of Johnny “Rooster” Byron the Romany outlaw who cries freedom from his little patch of English … Continue reading →

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