Investors need to get used to lower returns June 20, 2010 Until last week I’d never been in The Galerie Doree, but if you ever get the chance it’s well worth a peek. Situated inside what is now the the Banque de France but was once the Hotel de Toulouse it equals anything in Versailles with a French version of the of the Sistine Chapel on [...]
OUT OF OFFICE April 13, 2010 HAIR COMES TO THE WEST END Back in the age of flower power and the sexual revolution, James Rado and Gerome Ragni’s counter-culture musical was a defining cultural event. Its recent Broadway revival has been an award-laden smash hit and the production has now come to London with the full, tie-dyed Broadway cast. Until 25 [...]
Bullock is Miss Sentimentality in her apple pie Oscar role March 25, 2010 Film THE BLIND SIDE Cert: 12A IT’S certainly a remarkable story. “Big Mike” Oher, a poor black kid from the Tennessee projects abandoned by his junkie mother, became a major star in American football after being rescued by rich housewife, Leigh Anne Tuohy. She and her millionaire husband (Tim McGraw) adopted him as a teenager, [...]