Steve Bell So, on the day we learn that the FTSE 100 directors’ pay has gone up by 49% in the past year (55% the year before), St Paul’s Cathedral turns the tables and tells Jesus where to get off while the money lenders carry on with business as usual. Profits are soaring, David Hartnett […]
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Okay, Omar Sharif is now on my shit-list. Yup, there’s a man with charm who knows how to treat a woman. Although she just stands there grinning like an idiot after being slapped by the grizzled movie star, it looks as if she was probably in shock and too embarrassed to respond. Or hard-wired to
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Wing Hong, Hugo and Lucy There’s no business like show business … I had a great time last night onstage with a group of talented Asian actors who’d been brought together at the New Diorama Theatre by director Wing Hong Li. As an exploration of power dynamics and the madness of crowds, The Other Shore,
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Here’s my South China Morning Post column from 28th August, on the British Chinese take on the England riots and why Tiger Mom’s efforts are irrelevant. (Click on pic above for larger version.) Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Last night I finally finished off the first draft of Anna May Wong Must Die!. I’ve been thinking about this even before 2008, when I made a BBC Radio 4 programme on one of my heroines, A Celestial Star In Piccadilly, about Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend, Anna May Wong (broadcast January 2009). I’d originally
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Viewed from my sick bed — how apt! — Tom Six’s The Human Centipede was a perfectly good horror tale of power. Two American women and a Japanese tourist find themselves in the clutches of a mad scientist, Teutonic Doctor Heiter (creepy Dieter Laser), in his modern house deep in a German forest, so it
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