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Category Archives: Notes
MUSIC REVIEW: Led Zeppelin reunion at the O2 Arena
By Ray Bennett LONDON – For two hours and 10 minutes Monday night, legendary British rock band Led Zeppelin had the privileged fans accommodated by London’s O2 Arena ecstatic listening to 16 of its greatest hits. It was something not … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Notes
Tagged Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, Bill Wyman, Jason Bonham, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, O2 Arena, Robert Plant
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Led Zeppelin at the O2 Arena as it happens
By Ray Bennett Something about a dirigible Led Zeppelin might be playing in their long-awaited reunion tonight at the big Ahmet Ertegun charity show but if there is any excitement inside the O2 Arena you wouldn’t know it from the … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Notes
Tagged Ahmet Ertegun, Bill Wyman, Led Zeppelin, O2 Aerna
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Remembering Renée
I met Renée Rich by the pool at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City in 1982. We got together a year later and married in England in 1984. We lived in Toronto, Los Angeles, Boise, and West Palm Beach. We … Continue reading
Of Canterbury, choristers and cowboys
By Ray Bennett Roy Rogers cost me both a singing career and belief in the church. I am reminded of this because the BBC Young Chorister of the Year competition final airs on Radio 2 this evening at 8 o’clock … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Notes
Tagged BBC Young Chorister of the Year, Canterbury Cathedral, Joel Whitewood, Roy Rogers
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Malcolm McDowell’s Lindsay Anderson film at bfi
By Ray Bennett Mike Kaplan’s film of Malcolm McDowell’s splendid one-man show “Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson” opens at bfi Southbank today and will run through Nov. 18. McDowell will be at bfi on Saturday Nov. 10 and … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Notes
Tagged 'Never Apologise', BFI, Festival de Cannes, Lindsay Anderson, Malcolm McDowell, Mike Kaplan, Screen on the Hill
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THEATRE REVIEW: Ringwood players’ ‘Allo, ‘Allo
By Ray Bennett On any given weekend, enthusiastic players from more than 2,500 amateur theatre companies around Britain get together to put on a show and last weekend, I went down to Hampshire by the New Forest to see the … Continue reading
Posted in Notes, Theatre
Tagged 'Allo, Andy Steeds, Julie Lax, NODA, Peter Ansell, Poppy Garvey, Richard Bennett, Ringwood Musical and Dramatic Society, Sheryle Daniels
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Feat of clay: Terracotta Army marches on
By Ray Bennett The exhibition of China’s 2,000-year-old terracotta warriors at the British Museum is everything it’s cracked up to be. Some 100,000 tickets were sold in advance of the six-month display of a small group of the immense army … Continue reading
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Tagged 'The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China', British Museum, Discovery Channel, Lion Television, Terracotta Army
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Ye Olde Steak House: a fond farewell
By Ray Bennett I’ve eaten in a great number of restaurants in my life, good, bad and indifferent, but only two ever captured my heart. One is Dan Tana’s on Santa Monica Boulevard, the most enjoyable dining establishment in Los … Continue reading
Posted in Memory Lane, Notes, Places
Tagged Eric Sykes, Irma Deeg, Jimmy Edwards, Kurt Deeg, Windsor ON, Ye Olde Steak House
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Recalling … lunch with Richard Jaeckel in Detroit
By Ray Bennett The London Chop House in Detroit, Michigan, was a favorite spot for celebrity interviews on the publicity circuit, which was how I came to share a table one day in 1973 with Jo Don Baker and Richard … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Memory Lane, Notes, Recalling ...
Tagged '3:10 to Yuma', 'Sometimes a Great Notion', 'The Dirty Dozen', 'The Outfit', Glenn Ford, Joe Don Baker, London Chop House Detroit, Paul Newman, Richard Jaeckel
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Joni Mitchell still has that ‘Shine’
Cigarette in hand, Joni Mitchell was in fine form on the BBC’s Sunday morning public affairs program “The Andrew Marr Show” today. Speaking from Los Angeles, Mitchell was unapologetic about releasing “Shine,” her first album in about 10 years, through … Continue reading →