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☆ With ‘Tommy’ Revival, Pete Townshend Is Talking to a New Generation
  + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Rob Tannenbaum | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As he entered a suite at the Carlyle hotel in Manhattan, Pete Townshend mentioned that an afternoon meeting had been canceled. “So,” he added, “we have lots of time to talk.”Townshend is one of rock’s great singers, songwriters and guitarists, and he’s also among music’s pre-eminent talkers. In 1969, the Who released “Tommy,” a rock opera written mostly by Townshend, although the bassist John Entwistle contributed the songs “Cousin Kevin” and “Fiddle About,” and the drummer Keith Moon suggested the premise of “Tommy’s Holiday Camp.” Townshend expected the double album to fade quickly, in the way of most records. Instead, it took root in pop culture, and in short succession was adapted by a ballet group in Montreal, the Seattle Opera and the London Symphony Orchestra. Then, most memorably, it was a delirious 1975 film directed by Ken Russell.
Persons: Pete Townshend, ” Townshend, he’s, music’s, Tommy, Townshend, John Entwistle, Cousin Kevin ”, Keith Moon, Ken Russell Organizations: Carlyle, Seattle Opera, London Symphony Orchestra Locations: Manhattan, Montreal
☆ Big Biba: A look inside London’s famed 1970s fashion store
  + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Zoe Whitfield | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
As the creative force behind the look of the wildly popular 1970s London fashion store Big Biba, Thomas knows a thing or two about engineering excitement. “An act of bravery”Interior designer Thomas had already designed Hulanicki and Fitz-Simon’s home and the third Biba store in 1968 before being approached about the landmark seven-level store. “Fitz offered me two floors (of Big Biba) but I wanted it all,” he recalled of his initial involvement. Tim WhiteWhile Wintour’s shopgirl life was short-lived, Big Biba’s staff were a vital component of the experience remembered Thomas. In 1969, the independent company sold a majority of its shares to another British fashion retailer Dorothy Perkins which, in August 1973 (a month before Big Biba opened), was then bought by a property development company called British Land.
Persons: CNN —, ”, Steven Thomas, Thomas, Barbara Hulanicki, Stephen Fitz, Simon —, Andy Warhol, Marcel Hennequet, “, “ David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Bryan Ferry, John Bishop “ Fitz, Ian Dury, Fitz, Simon, Singer Annie Lennox, Doreen Spooner, Daily, Martin Pel, Mary Quant, Anna Wintour, —, York’s Bergdorf Goodman, Simon’s, “ Fitz, Tim, Whitmore, Tim White, “ Biba, Barbara, Ken Russell’s, Biba, Hulanicki, Buckingham, Kasia, Dorothy Perkins, Pel Organizations: CNN, New York Dolls, Shoppers, Textile Museum, Street, Disney, Big, Buckingham Palace Locations: London, Kensington
☆ Ukraine was given 101 guns and 148,000 bullets collected by Miami police in a buyback scheme
  + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Miami Police Department sent over a hundred guns and 148,000 bullets to Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pressing the US to send more long-range weapons. The "Guns 4 Ukraine" scheme provides vouchers ranging from $50 to $150, depending on the type of weapon handed in. But last month Ukrainian President Zelenskyy made another plea for military assistance, urging the US to supply it with long-range weapons and modern aircraft. "I would really draw attention to long-range armaments," he said, adding: "We have been waiting for this for quite some time."
Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ken Russell, Marian Zablotskyi, Biden, Zelenskyy Organizations: Miami Police Department, Service, Miami, Miami New Times, Ukrainian, Committee of America, Ukraine's Finance, Biden Administration, State Department Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon
☆ Julian Sands Dies at 65; Actor Played Shelley, a Warlock and a King
  + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Within two years, Mr. Sands had worked with Mr. Ivory and Mr. Russell, two directors with wildly different styles. “James Ivory is like an Indian miniaturist, and Ken Russell is a graffiti artist,” Mr. Sands told The Times. “Happily, Figgis has chosen well, with Sands effortlessly carrying by far the most demanding role of a man of isolating self-absorption.”Julian Richard Morley Sands was born on Jan. 4, 1958, in Otley, England, to Richard and Brenda Sands and grew up in nearby Gargrave. He began acting as a child, inspired in part by his mother’s work in amateur theater. When he was 6, he told The Yorkshire Post in 2013, he appeared in a play; his first line was “My master, the great Aladdin.”
Persons: Sands, Ivory, Russell, “ James Ivory, Ken Russell, ”, Mike Figgis, Figgis, Adam, ., ” Kevin Thomas, ” Julian Richard Morley Sands, Richard, Brenda Sands Organizations: Mr, Times, Vegas, Los Angeles Times, Yorkshire Post Locations: British, Otley , England, Gargrave
☆ Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Ben Brantley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
She didn’t so much enter the restaurant as erupt into it, a fast-burning blaze of psychic exasperation that seemed to set the silverware rattling. Glenda Jackson was five minutes late for our meeting, and she looked ferociously disgusted with herself, with the universe, with the “bloody” London transit system and, most likely, with the prospect of having to talk about herself. Such was my first in-the-flesh encounter with Jackson, who died Thursday at the age of 87 and who had seared herself into my teenage consciousness decades earlier as an uncompromisingly modern, sui generis movie star. Waiting for her five years ago in the restaurant of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, I had been prepared to be awed, intimidated, even terrified. What I hadn’t anticipated was how unnervingly energizing the presence of this 81-year-old woman would be.
Persons: Glenda Jackson, Jackson, seared, Edward Albee’s “, Ken Russell’s “, ”, John Schlesinger’s, — Organizations: Broadway Locations: London, Trafalgar
☆ Glenda Jackson, British actor turned politician, dies aged 87
  + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Elizabeth Piper | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Raw-boned, pallid and angular, with striking, sharp eyes, she had starred on stage, television and film before quitting to take up politics, declaring: "“An actor's life is not interesting". Jackson also won two Emmy awards for her portrayal of England's Queen Elizabeth I in the BBC's 1971 television series "Elizabeth R". After more than three decades on stage and film, Jackson quit acting and took her no-nonsense, straight-talking style into politics. In 1992, at the age of 55, Jackson won a seat in parliament representing the left-of-centre Labour Party in a constituency in north London. In parliament, Jackson was vociferous in her condemnation of the Conservative Party which she accused of instilling a “"dreadful, dreadful moral malaise" in Britain.
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