Poems That Make Your Skin Bristle
C live James has excelled at many trades during his long career���critic, memoirist, television presenter���but his first and longest-lasting love has been writing poetry. His poems enjoy a high reputation with readers who value strict form, elegant.
CLIVE JAMES to publish new essay collection this summer
Just weeks after his most recent poetry collection hit the shops, Clive Jamess publishers have announced that he will publish a second book this year, a collection of literary reflections, Latest Readings, due out this summer. James, who was diagnosed.
Carnegie Unveils Music Education Program
Carnegie Hall has teamed up with the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in an effort to standardize music education throughout the United States.. Carnegie Hall partners with Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in establishment of Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program, which aims to set standards in music education and performance throughout US.
Clive James and how death is the greatest meditation.
I have always been a big fan of Clive Jamess work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_James) and was saddened to hear some time ago that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer. True to form, Clive has not allowed��.
For Music Lovers Who Plan, What Next Season Has in Store
Clive Gillinson, who became executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall last year, announced plans yesterday for the halls 2006-7 season, the first in which he has had substantial input. But the basic contours are much the same as in recent seasons. After a workshop by Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, culminating in concerts at Zankel Hall in mid-September, the season will open officially on Oct. 4, with a concert by the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst. The soloists are the bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff, who will sing Mozart arias in this first concert of his Perspectives series, and the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes.. Carnegie Hall executive and artistic director Clive Gillinson announces events for venues 2006-7 season, first in which he has substantial input; listing of scheduled performers and festivals (M)
Books in Brief: Fiction & Poetry
SHOCK WAVE By Clive Cussler. Simon & Schuster, $25.
Ant and Dec repeat Bafta success
Summarising Clive James is a daunting task, said Brooker. Throughout his career hes juggled popular appeal with the high arts. Not many people can claim to have hosted a mainstream Saturday night TV show and published an acclaimed literary .
CHURCH PROGRAMS IN THE CITY TODAY; Clergymen Will Discuss the Presidents Program for Social Recovery.
Many pastors will preach today on the program of President Roosevelt for social and economic recovery. In that connection they will refer to the fifty-third birthday on Wednesday of the President. Numerous other clergymen will devote one of their sermons to a discussion of problems of the day particularly affecting youth, and in a number of churches there will be visiting young ministers to present the message.. excerpt
Clive James to Bafta audience: I retired at the right time ��� video
The writer and broadcaster Clive James has been given a special award at Britains Bafta awards in recognition of his incredible talent. In his acceptance speech, broadcast on the BBC, James says he misses his time working in television but that he.
In search of lost time with my father, CLIVE JAMES | Life and.
Angela Neustatter meets artist Claerwen James and her father, writer and broadcaster Clive James ��� and finds he is making up for all the years he wasnt around for his family.
Media Watch Dog: Murdochphobia and the British election
Clive James, who was born in 1939 ��� the same year as John Howard ��� looks back with favour on Australia in the 1950s and early 1960s. The period has long been dismissed by the fashionable Left who willingly signed up to the Whitlam Fan Club despite the .
Metro Briefing | New York: Officer Charged With Threatening Boy
A city police officer was charged yesterday with taking a 14-year-old boy to his home in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Monday and threatening the boy with a gun, the police said last night. The officer, Clive Peters, who has been an officer for two years and who is assigned to the 105th Precinct in Queens, was suspended and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful imprisonment, menacing and official misconduct. The police said the boy, whose identity was not disclosed, escaped from Officer Peters, and the boys parents then reported the incident to the police. Police officials said Officer Peters was not on duty on Monday, or when he was arrested yesterday. They said motives remained unclear in the case. Thomas J. Lueck (NYT). New York City Police Officer Clive Peters is charged with taking 14-year-old boy to his home in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and threatening him with gun (S)
Bafta tribute to critic Clive James
The career of broadcaster and TV critic Clive James will be celebrated at tonights Bafta Awards. The audience at the event in Londons Covent Garden will see a short-film of his career which includes travel documentaries, landmark series looking at.
Books of The Times; An Eastern Visitor in Londons Impolite Clutches
The Man From Japan By Clive James 173 pages. Random House. $20. Michael Crichton, the author of the sensationalistic potboiler Rising Sun, is hardly alone in his interest in Japan. In fact, as Japan has assumed an increasingly high-profile role in the world of trade and economics, the Land of the Rising Sun has become a ferocious magnet for Western novelists. Brad Leithauser (Equal Distance), Jay McInerney (Ransom) and John Burnham Schwartz (Bicycle Days) have all portrayed young Americans coming of age in Japan, while T. Coraghessan Boyle (East Is East) and Meg Pei (Salaryman) have chronicled the adventures of young Japanese men abroad in the United States. In each case, Eastern and Western customs, values and sensibilities are contrasted and compared; in each case, a heros search for identity is played out in an alien land.
���Holding Court��� by Clive James | The Bully Pulpit
Retreating from the world, all I can do Is build a new world, one demanding less Acute assessments. Too deaf to keep pace With conversation, I dont try to guess At meanings, or unpack a stroke of wit, But just send silent��.
Corrections
An article last Sunday about the literary critic Clive James referred incorrectly in some editions to the location of Colchester, England, where he was interviewed. It is about an hour northeast of London, not west.. Corrections; article about literary critic Clive James referred incorrectly to location of Colchester, England; it is about one hour northeast of London, not west (S)
BAFTA TV Awards 2015 as they happened: Live blog
21:15Great to see Clive James appear via video, try and track down some of his programmes if you can. Clive James. �� Getty Images / Jeff Overs/BBC News and Current Affairs. 21:11Charlie Brooker has arrived, and we cant tell if hes annoyed at missing.
Elaborating the Visceral in the Erudite, and Vice Versa
AS OF THIS WRITING The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 By Clive James 619 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. $35. In one of the rollicking essays in this collection, Clive James hails his countryman Robert Hughes as a representative of Australian expatriate writers at their most exuberant. His writing, Mr. James observes, is the product of an innocent abroad who has consciously enjoyed every stage of his growing sophistication without allowing his original barbaric gusto to be diminished.. Michiko Kakutani reviews book As Of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968-2002 by Clive James (M)
Sentenced to Life review: CLIVE JAMES veers into the sentimental
Clive James, whom the doctors say has a short time to live, has remarked that of the various kinds of literature he has pursued, he wants most to be known for his poetry. The poems are much influenced by his famous memoirs and his literary journalism.
Bafta TV Awards 2015 red carpet pictures: Sheridan Smith, Maisie Williams.
Its Baftas time again, with TV in the spotlight tonight at Londons Theatre Royal. Sheridan Smith, Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman are just a handful of the big names up for major prizes at the star-studded ceremony, hosted by Graham Norton.
CLIVE JAMES: Ive got a lot done since my death | Culture.
Two years after reports of his imminent death, Clive James still has plenty of life left in him. Ahead of a new collection of poetry, he talks about his place in history and dying by inches
This Could Be ‘Heaven,’ or This Could Be ‘Hell’
Clive James takes on a verse translation of Dante’s “Divine Comedy.”. Joseph Luzzi reviews new translation of Dantes The Divine Comedy by Clive James.
CLIVE JAMES reads his poem Early to Bed ��� exclusive video.
Exclusively for the Observer, Clive James reads a poem from his new collection, Sentenced to Life.
Trading Mean Streets for a Land of Make-Believe
THE SILVER CASTLE By Clive James 263 pages. Random House. $23. Clive Jamess last novel, The Man From Japan, was amusing, energetic and oddly affecting. His new novel, The Silver Castle, is amusing, energetic and oddly condescending. It aspires to be a kind of Candide set in contemporary India. It reads more like a comic book, penned with a self-satisfied sneer. The plot of The Silver Castle not only takes its cue from hundreds of earlier bildungsromans, but also specifically recalls The Man From Japan and Mr. Jamess own 1981 autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs. Once again we are introduced to a poor young man equipped only with some pluck and good luck. And once again we are meant to follow this young man as he meets a curious assortment of strangers who will introduce him to an exotic new world and lead him into a series of improbable, picaresque adventures.. Michiko Kakutani reviews book The Silver Castle by Clive James; photo (M)
Stephen Toast wins a Bafta
Matt Berry, Jessica Hynes and Mackenzie Crooks BBC Four comedy Detectorists all won Batas tonight. Berry won a Bafta award for best male performance in his comedy show for his role as actor Stephen Toast in Toast Of London, triumphing over fellow .
Sprinting Toward the End
Is it now obligatory for the terminally ill to work until their final breath?. Dispatch column by Dwight Garner considers whether it is now obligatory for the terminally ill to work until their final breath, in light of productivity of writers like Nora Ephron, Christopher Hitchens and Roger Ebert before they died.
Sentenced to Life review ��� CLIVE JAMESs poems from.
The critic and wits return to poetry is suffused with loss and guilt, yet although his impending death is ever-present in the verse, his humour still shines through.
CLIVE JAMESs Poetry Notebook Review | The New Republic
Clive James was���is���one of the preeminent culture critics of the last 40 years���and a celebrity, to boot. Born in 1939, he left Sydney for London in the early 60s. He made a name writing for publications like the Times Literary��.
Stray Questions for: CLIVE JAMES
Clive Jamess most recent book is Cultural Amnesia.. Clive James (Jerry Bauer) Clive Jamess most recent book is Cultural Amnesia. 1) What are you working on? Im working on the fifth volume of my memoirs. This volume is provisionally called Prelude to the Aftermath and covers my time in British mainstream television from 1982-2000, so it will have a star-studded cast in which [.]
A Star Without a Charm Offensive
Clive Owen’s subtle acting approach, nuanced so theslightest glance registers with the camera, has shaped his finest, deepest work.
We are stardust: the restrained elegance of CLIVE JAMESs Sentenced to Life
It is an ex-sparrow��� ��� we know that Clive Jamess trademark wit will more than carry him through. Indeed, with its mixture of technical verve (James has always been a master of form) and self-deprecating wit to leaven the pathos, it seems that, as he.
Metro Briefing | New York: Brooklyn: Officer Accused Of Propositioning Boy
A New York City police officer was arrested yesterday on charges that he forced a 13-year-old boy into his car and ordered him at gunpoint to strip, the Brooklyn district attorneys office said. Officer Clive Peters, an officer since two years ago assigned to the 105th Precinct in Queens Village, was off duty and in civilian clothes, according to the complaint, when he approached the boy in Brooklyn Heights at 5 p.m. on Monday, showed his badge, ordered the boy into his personal car and attempted to frisk him at gunpoint. After the officer tried to get the boy to remove his clothes, the youth said he wanted to leave. The officer agreed to drive him back but propositioned him. Officer Peters was released on his own recognizance and has been suspended pending a departmental investigation. Michael Wilson (NYT). Police officer Clive Peters charged with forcing 13-year-old boy into his personal car in Brooklyn Heights and ordering him at gunpoint to strip (S)
Poetry Notebook 2006-2014 review ��� CLIVE JAMESs absorbing
Clive James champions the poems that have given him most pleasure in this provocative collection of essays.
KITTY CLIVE.--
Kitty Clive, the daughter of an Irish soldier, who had fought for James Stuart, but subsequently lived in peace under George Guelph, inherited the humor and vivacity of her race. At first she had merely sung between the acts, after the fashion of the day, but eventually her.
Episode 112 ��� Remainder | Virtual Memories
Clive James was diagnosed with leukemia and emphysema several years ago, but the poet, essayist, memoirist, novelist, TV host, and charter member of the Virtual Memories Show Dream List hasnt let his ailments silence��.
Tonight: CLIVE JAMES To Be Honoured By BAFTA With.
Its all in recognition of his outstanding creative contribution to television, with BAFTAs tribute to Clive James including a short film that features highlights from some of the broadcasters best-known work, showcasing his��.
New Festival Will Urge Orchestras to Be Bold
The idea is of Spring for Music, a new annual festival at Carnegie Hall scheduled to begin in May 2011, is to present a variety of leading orchestras chosen almost solely on the basis of the creativity.
CLIVE JAMES honoured at Bafta TV awards
The writer and broadcaster Clive James has been honoured at the Bafta TV awards with a special award in recognition of his ���incredible talent���. James, who was diagnosed with terminal leukaemia five years ago, has continued to work and published his.
CLIVE JAMES adds new poem to valedictory work | Books.
���Your death, near now, is of an easy sort / So slow a fading out brings no real pain,��� writes Clive James in a new poem in which the terminally ill author contemplates how the arrival of autumn will ���end the game��� for him.
Beautiful beyond life. Clive Jamess poetry
Death has been a rich reference in Clive Jamess writing. Back in 2004, in his essay Save Us From Celebrity, he thought about his perfect demise: I want to be knifed to death in an Elle McPherson lingerie commercial. .
Clive James: Ive got a lot done since my death
Two years after reports suggesting his imminent death, Clive James still has plenty of life left in him. Ahead of a new collection of poetry next month, the polymath and former Observer TV critic discusses the poems written to his wife, his place in.
Stars of small screen set for awards at TV BAFTAs ceremony
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is one of the favourites to be honoured for his portrayal of the master detective at Sundays ceremony. The career of broadcaster and TV critic Clive James, who is seriously ill, will also be celebrated at tonights.
Joyces Dubliners Evokes Old Dublin
James Joyce is a mass of autobiography. As an artist he lived off his life, rather like ONeill, and all his works seemed to be locked up in the sights, sounds, memories, incidents and fantasies of the Dublin he grew up in at the turn of the century.. James Joyces Dubliners (Play): Rev of Roundabout Theater production; illus
Why Clive Jamess Japanese Maple is so much more than a.
George Szirtes: Because we know James is dying, his poem ranks alongside Tichborne, Owen or Marvell in the canon of valedictory farewells.
A Grammy Party For the A List
The first time that CLIVE DAVIS, the head of Arista Records, gave an A-list party before the Grammy Awards, Olivia Newton-John was hot. That was 20 years ago. This time around, videos by SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS played in the new, 30-seat screening room in Mr. Daviss apartment on East 57th Street, something that could not have happened at the 19 previous parties. WHITNEY HOUSTON and BOBBY BROWN were chatting with the co-owner of LaFace Records, ANTONIO REID, when TONY BENNETT and CARLY SIMON interrupted to say hello. RONALD O. PERELMAN, the chairman of Revlon, was holding court in one corner. AHMET ERTEGUN, a founder of Atlantic Records, huddled in another.. Scene at party before Grammy Awards hosted by Clive Davis, head of Arista Records; photo (S),
The moments to forget in CLIVE JAMESs most beloved book
Thanks to a suggestion from a post following my recent blog about Stefan Zweig, I have been dipping into Clive Jamess book, Cultural Amnesia. James says that it took him 40 years to write this distillation of his reflections on��.
Twice Over Lightly, With Comedy and Claws
PBS is on a campaign devoted to what it calls lightening up public televisions summer season. Much lighter and the schedule will need sandbags to keep it from floating into commercial ether. Among the trifles on tap: The Story of Lassie, In Search of Angels and Dr. Joyce Brothers Asks, Hows Your Love Life? This is what passes nowadays for alternative television. Tonight PBS weighs in with two new series on the lighter side. One is a sort of sitcom spinning off from a comedy special on Showtime; the other is a talk show imported from the BBC. Both are indeed decidedly offbeat, not the kind of fare likely to pop up on the commercial networks.
In search of lost time with my father, Clive James
I didnt like being a child much.��� She is the daughter of humorist, author and poet Clive James and as a child pined for his time and attention, while he prioritised his work and was often away in a dizzy whirl of sociability and celebrity. The impact.
Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Designer Arraigned On Child Pornography Charge
An Upper East Side jewelry designer was arraigned yesterday on charges of possessing child pornography and drugs and tampering with physical evidence. The designer, Clive Kandel, 53, who pleaded not guilty, could face up to seven years in prison if convicted, officials with the Manhattan district attorneys office said. After executing a search warrant at Mr. Kandels East 87th Street apartment, police officers recovered cocaine, marijuana and a badly scratched CD-ROM with video clips of children engaging in sexual activity, officials said. Mr. Kandel remains free without bail. His lawyer did not return a call for comment. Susan Saulny (NYT). Clive Kandel, jewelry designer, is charged with possessing child pornography and illegal drugs at his Manhattan apartment (S)
Clive Jamess Japanese Maple - Poetry Foundation
At The New Republic Jason Guriel considers Clive Jamess career in poetry and television--and Jamess most recent writings, which address his mortality. From.
CLIVE JAMES: Its awkward Im still alive | Media | The Guardian
Clive James: Its awkward Im still alive. Writer and broadcaster, who wrote a poem earlier this year predicting he would be dead by autumn, says hes embarrassed he is still here. Clive James, author, critic and television��.
Clive James to publish new essay collection this summer.
Just weeks after his most recent poetry collection hit the shops, Clive Jamess publishers have announced that he will publish a second book this year, a collection of literary reflections, Latest Readings, due out this summer.