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Oct
12

DIANE

This blog seems increasingly to have turned into an obituary page lately. 2025 has been quite a year for seismic
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Oct
11

A NORTHERN NIGHT

The neighbours and I had agreed to have a Northern Exposure-themed night at the house, with recipes chosen from The
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Oct
09

SOUNDTRACKS FOR LIFE

Having attended the film composer Zbigniew Preisner's 70th birthday concert at the Barbican in London a few weeks
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Oct
05

TEARS OF A CLOWN (A FRAGMENT)

Since Carlo—that matto cavallo—ate all the pages of my diary, mistaking them for apples (no doubt because I
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Oct
05

LATE NIGHT TAKEAWAY

Proustian memories inspired by madeleine cakes are all very well and good, but I think I can do one better.
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Oct
02

VISSI D'ARTE

Royal Opera Director Oliver Mears probably has some sense of how Russian soprano Anna Netrebko feels about calls for her
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Sep
30

RULES FOR RADICALS

"If the ends don't justify the means, what does?" - Saul Alinsky Mad Max meets Mad
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Sep
27

THE MOON AND YOU

Another project of mine that got consigned to the shelf many years ago was a screenplay I wrote with my
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Sep
25

LAYABOUT (FRAGMENT 3)

"You forget where you live again?" "Saw your light was on and thought you might like me
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Sep
24

BELLADONNA

Of course, there’s Marilyn, Rita, Audrey, and perhaps a few others I’ve forgotten in my internal cine-reel hall
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