NOT JUST FOR HER OSCAR-NOMINATED ROLE IN LINCOLN BUT also for her cracking portrayal of Nora Walker in Brothers and Sisters, the sadly defunct series about a multi-generational family in an affluent area of Southern California. If Nora Walker were to wear a hat, it would be vintage like her, stylish but comfortable, a little worn and battered but with an unmistakeable jaunty tilt which tells the world that she will survive.
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Hats off to On The Road
FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO IN THE INDUSTRIAL TOWN OF LOWELL in Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac published On The Road, a mesmerising account of the eventful journeys and road trips he and his friends took in the search for kicks, freedom and spiritual purpose and direction. This book and its writer became the touchstone for beat sensibility – not that we had actually read it, of course, but we regarded with awe and interest those who had, or who carried a copy in their jacket pocket. By a kind of osmosis, the spirit of the American road trip entered the psyche of our tribe, and with a bit of trepidation and more excitement, we entered the world of hitchhiking.
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Hats off to the Beat Girls
WHAT WAS A BEAT GIRL? NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BEATLES but she exerted a powerful infuence on those of us whose teenage selves were formed by the legacy of the 1950s and the coming of the decade that swung. Those of us, that is, who wanted more than bubblegum pop music and the bland interactions of our peers who had bought into the stereotypes of mainstream culture.
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50 years of picking your favourite Beatle
YES, IT’S 50 YEARS (OUCH!) SINCE THE CHALLENGE “JOHN OR PAUL?” started a million gymslip fights and feuds. From the beginning The Beatles belonged to everyone, unlike the rock’n’rollers and balladeers and popsters of previous eras. We all learnt to twist and shout, we all longed to be just 17, you know what I mean, and to say that we all had a favourite would be to diminish the intensity of the allegiances to individual Beatles which were as compulsory as long hair and mini-skirts.
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