Clive James

...critic for The Observer, then as now one of the world's great papers, where his work appeared alongside Clive James's groundbreaking television criticism. "Clive's great thing was to do running jokes from week to week", a pleasure the...

In this article: Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, YBAs, Tracey Emin, Canberra, Bruce Chatwin, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and Sunday Times

...Carew, August Wilson, John Muir, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Elspeth Huxley and David Foster Wallace. Among living authors, none of Tim Parks, Clive James, Alexander McCall Smith and John McPhee makes the cut. They might with some justification be...

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A man called Hide Saitocorrect, owner of a karaoke bar in Tokyo, who on Wednesday heard My Way for the 25,000th time (Clive James, as so often, had it nailed, many years ago in this very paper, when he pointed out that the only person...

In this article: Anglicans, David Cameron, Dweebs, Edinburgh, Meringue, God, JavaScript, and Eton

...apparent modesty as a promotional tool, might usefully study the career and interviews of the poet, memoirist and TV presenter Clive James. "Showbusiness has fuelled my work as a poet and a critic," he explained this week. "It got me out of...

In this article: Waste, Hilary Benn, London, Guy Fawkes, Over-consumption, and Recession

The focus on MPs' integrity is a red herring, as it usually is in British politics The writer, Clive James, once wrote that while most sequels begin where the original ended, Jaws Two began where the original blockbuster film had begun.

In this article: Tony Blair, Labour, Democracy, Jacqui Smith, and Gordon Brown

...still emerge as the star, could satisfy his craving. What better to call the show than simply Clive James on Television? The essential Clive James is to be found, however, at the opposite pole of public exposure, in his poems. Opal Sunset...

In this article: Ian Hamilton, Anthony Thwaite, Pete Atkin, Philip Larkin, Craig Raine, London, and Australia

...critics such as Peter Craven, who faulted it for too much ''progressive inclusion'' of Aboriginal writings. Last month Clive James was invited to speak at the British launch where, much to the publisher's horror, he also wondered aloud...

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"Granted that it's too easy and a cliche to connect your work with your life in such a direct manner," Australian critic Clive James demurs to Polanski in the opening frames of " Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," the probing...

In this article: Roman Polanski, The Pianist, Chinatown, Jack Nicholson, The Tenant, Docket, Warsaw Uprising, and The Tragedy of Macbeth

...Manson has an affair with a young female employee. Andrea Newman's psychological drama was adapted for television in 1976, prompting reviewer Clive James to comment: "By the end, everybody had been to bed with everybody else except the baby."

In this article: Trevor Eve, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, and ITV

...about family life and how, with a new show at Edinburgh and his fifth volume of memoirs out soon, he still has plenty to say. Clive James: I think marriage civilised me Photo: MARTIN POPE Clive James issues more warnings than a swine...

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