Get out and strut your stuff
Romance
Adapted from “Latin Love Lessons” by Charlotte Higgins, Short Books
We’re not going to get a date by sitting at home. Ovid insists we get out there into the town or city and create our own opportunities to meet people.
Be bold, he cries, talk to those girls hanging out at the temple of Palatine Apollo or in Pompey’s portico — or even at a nightclub.
For girls, never, ever, turn down an invitation to a party, is his advice. …
The new Eliza Doolittle?
Aristocracy
Many will remember Eliza Doolittle played by Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady? She made the leap from rags to Royal Ascot after Professor Henry Higgins took her in hand.
Now we have the heart-warming tale of Angela Kelly from a terraced council house in Liverpool and with a pronounced Scouse accent. Despite starting at Buckingham Palace as the humblest of maids, last week she was given the job title of Personal Assistant, Adviser and Curator to Her Majesty the Queen (Jewellery, Insignias and Wardrobe) …
Ewan McGregor in Othello
Stage Latest
Charles Spencer of the Telegraph is scathing about McGregor. “… believe me, [Nicole Kidman] was worth far, far more than Ewan McGregor as the evil Iago. Indeed I’d be reluctant to part with a tenner for his performance. … Has any major star been quite so boring, for quite so long, as McGregor in the latest batch of Star Wars movies?”
Charming! Especially as the BBC’s Newsnight Review panel were very complimentary about him, describing McGregor as a strong, brooding presence on the stage …

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