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Poet John Keats, sketched by B R Haydon
Credit: Culture Club
Situated for two centuries in the icy silence of his tomb, in the Cimitero Acattolico, Rome, John Keats at least hasn’t had to confront the Keatsians – the scholars, academics and other buffoons, who have published books and papers about Keats’ Post-Newtonian Poetics, The Etymology of Porphyro’s Name, The Dying Keats: A Case for Euthanasia? and, not forgetting, Keats, Modesty and Masturbation.
Now comes Lucasta Miller’s Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, £17.99), which is one big farrago of cliché, jargon, mixed metaphor and general sloppiness. Page upon page is filled with phrases like under the skin, scruff of its neck, strapped for cash, cocked a snook, one fell swoop, punches far above the weight. Ad infinitum, via, raison d’être, status quo, inter alia and social kudos pepper the paragraphs, along with opined, emotional fallout, hands-on mentor, helicopter parenting, su
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Broadway Records Announces Release of “Marguerite”!
A new musical based on the life of Canada’s first female saint, starring Cady Huffman.
MARGUERITE, a new musical starring Tony, Drama Desk & Outer Critics’ Circle Award winner
Cady Huffman. Pre-orders for the CD of MARGUERITE are available today on BroadwayRecords.com and other major music retailers including Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com ahead of a March 5th release. The digital album is now available wherever digital music is sold and on BroadwayRecords.com.
What’s on TV this weekend: Derry Girls’ Siobhan McSweeney takes the reigns on The Great Pottery Throw Down
The i 1/8/2021 Gerard Gilbert
Friday
8pm, Channel 4
The end-of-the-pier café is packed, nobody’s wearing masks and the opening guest of a new series, Jack Dee, informs Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty that he’s been busy travelling and touring, so this was obviously filmed a lifetime ago. Dee revisits his days as a chef at the Ritz (he lied his way into the short-lived job) and shares memories of family camping holidays in France as a child, with the hosts tracking down the campsite his family stayed at and recreating the effect of a perfect rotisserie chicken, but in a domestic oven. All that and Jamie’s pot roast pork and Jimmy’s samosas.
Mad Max, still packs a mighty punch. While
Mad Max 2 aka
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and the more recent
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) are better known and more widely seen by fans, the movie kickstarting one of the most iconic franchises of all time should not be forgotten. A pioneering sci-fi actioner made well outside the confines of Hollywood,
Mad Maxand its sequels spawned a wave of imitators.
A dystopian nightmare set in and around Melbourne, the Ozploitation masterpiece depicts a time and place bedevilled by demented biker gangs who have taken over the highways. A ragtag group of cops – known as the Main Force Patrol – engage them on the open road, fighting dirty to wrestle back control. The tit-for-tat skirmishes unfolds against a backdrop of social decay and a sense the world is falling apart rapidly. Amid the flesh and metal carnage carnival, a hero will rise, though he must first experience tragedy and the greatest loss.