Even the Queen wasn t spared Prince Philip s bad temper spectator.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spectator.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Donât look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture
Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
Dismiss
Donât look back: the year the world was finally wowed by our culture
As The Sydney Morning Herald celebrates its 190th birthday, three leading Australian writers consider the stepping stones to the development of Sydneyâs artistic culture.
April 23, 2021 â 4.00pm
Save
Normal text size
Advertisement
Everything changed in the 1970s. Until then, for almost three-quarters of the 20th century, London was still our cultural âhomeâ and Australian artists as varied as singer Nellie Melba, dancer Robert Helpmann, pianist Eileen Joyce, and actors Judith Anderson and Peter Finch debuted on its iconic stages in order to make names for themselves. Painters like Sidney Nolan, and playwrights Alan Seymour and Ray Lawler also joined this cultural caravan but apart from our most famous diva, Joan Sutherland
Elizabeth Taylor : La dernière reine ! - France Dimanche francedimanche.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from francedimanche.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This scandalous duchess inspired Vanity Fair – but her life was more like Elizabeth Taylor s
4/5
Catherine Ostler s The Duchess Countess resurrects Elizabeth Chudleigh, branded a bigamist, the greatest anti-heroine of the Georgian era
Anti-heroine: Olivia Cooke as Becky Sharp in ITV s Vanity Fair
Credit: Television Stills
Even good biographies read like bad novels. Catherine Ostler refers to one of her characters “gazing into the middle distance with a faint, enigmatic smile”. There are people in a garden, “observed only by the fluttering moths around the flowerbeds”. Elizabeth Chudleigh, this book’s heroine, was “talked about in coffee-houses, written about in the penny papers, gossiped about by diarists”, and no doubt by sweeps, muffin men, oyster merchants and tallow chandlers besides.
Inside Elizabeth Taylor s eight marriages msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.