Globetrotting the Hollywood way September 23, 2010 FILM EAT, PRAY, LOVE Cert: 12A Well it’s certainly handsome, but then it’d be difficult for a film primarily set in Italy, India and Bali, and with such luminously attractive stars as Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, not to be. Based on memoirs of bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, it stars Roberts as Liz, a New [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND September 23, 2010 FILM THE HOLE Teenage horror hokum as a couple of kids discover a spooky hatch in the basement. WORLD’S GREATEST DAD This caustic black comedy gives Robin Williams his best role in years FROZEN So so thriller with a great premise:?with three skiers stuck on a chair lift, who will jump first? DVD ROBIN HOOD [...]
Spring/Summer 2011 promises a riot of fun September 23, 2010 IT’S as if the fashion industry has, this September, burst out of the cocoon of recession, replacing dark drapery and minimalist monochrome with outrageous shocks of colour and extraordinary materials. If this week’s shows were anything to go by, the high street next spring will be a cocophany of pinks, turquoise, sequins, feathers and cowgirl [...]
The City boys offering a cut above September 23, 2010 IF YOU can find it in the medieval maze between Lombard Street and Cornhill, tailoring shop Cad & the Dandy is a delightful place to get yourself togged up. It mixes old-fashioned charm – an antique mahogany cutting table, an old leather sofa for those waiting to be measured up, a Union Jack across one [...]
Drug wars in the swamps of Brazil September 22, 2010 COBRA BY FREDERICK FORSYTH Bantam Press, £18.99 by Zoe Strimpel Classic best-selling thriller writer Forsyth – of the highly acclaimed period pot-boiler The Day of the Jackal – is back. This time his hero’s enemy isn’t a person or group of people, it’s the entire world cocaine trade. The US President has decided to destroy [...]
LIFE COACH September 22, 2010 My inbox feels totally out of control and with it, my sense of professional and personal control has gone out the window. How do I get it back? Bob, 31, green energies broker INBOX overload is one of the major banes of modern corporate life. It may be over 15 years since email became a [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 22, 2010 SONDHEIM AT THE DONMAR Stephen Sondheim, the man who wrote Send in the Clowns and the creative force behind musicals including A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and – as lyricist – West Side Story, is 80 this year. Passion, one of his more recent works, is a tale of love, obsession and power set [...]
Why go out for dinner when dinner could come to you? September 22, 2010 WHAT’S a hungry banker with a bonus burning in his back pocket to do? Ostentatious displays of wealth just aren’t the done thing anymore, unless you want to risk attracting the attention of marauding bands of bitter taxpayers. But just because a ten course blow-out at your favourite high-end restaurant might be off the menu [...]
TIM BADHAM GOING OUT September 22, 2010 ENTERTAINING clients shouldn’t be rocket science. Some good food and plenty of drink should do. However, if you want to really impress and stand out from the competition, you’ll want to go the extra mile. You can’t go wrong with the very top restaurants such as Zuma and Marcus Wareing. Throw in a chef’s table [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 22, 2010 LP FIZZ DINNER AT THE LANESBOROUGH Champagne lovers with a bit of cash to put behind their passion should not miss out on this dinner at the super-swanky grand hotel. An eight-course menu designed by the in-house triple Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck will be matched with Laurent Perrier fizz. The classic zero dosage Ultra Brut [...]