I thought you were incredible

Bee Wilson: Elizabeth Taylor’s Magic, 16 November 2023

Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon 
by Kate Andersen Brower.
HarperCollins, 495 pp., £25, December 2022, 978 0 00 843582 0
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... on the disease through saliva during his final acting job in Dynasty, which required him to kiss Linda Evans. The producers couldn’t understand why he only wanted to give her a tiny peck rather than the passionate embrace the script called for. After his death in October 1985, aged 59, Taylor planned Hudson’s memorial service and sent a red rose to each ...

What They Did to Our Women

Azadeh Moaveni: Women in Wartime, 9 May 2024

... rape of a young woman called Gal Abdoush, memorialised in the article as ‘the woman in the black dress’, was repudiated by her family after publication. Schwartz, the Intercept has since reported, is a former Israeli military intelligence official. In an interview on an Israeli podcast, she said she had been initially reluctant to take on the ...

I’m just a sound

Ian Penman: Back to the Beach Boys, 23 April 2026

Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys 
by Peter Doggett.
New Modern, 420 pp., £25, November 2025, 978 1 917923 34 7
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... and would record at Gold Star Studios on Santa Monica Boulevard. And for the equivalent of the Black-Cherokee-Irish lead vocalist Ronnie Bennett he would choose … himself. ‘I wanted to be a girl in my voice,’ he once said, ‘I wanted to sing like a girl. Not consciously, but it was all figured out in my brain, waiting for me to do it.’ So there it ...

The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis

Adam Shatz: A Death in Jenin, 21 November 2013

... at a donkey, but instead killed the 12-year-old girl who was sitting on it. Explosives from the black bag were laid on top of the donkey. It wasn’t long before he cracked. At a checkpoint in Jenin, his commanding officer asked him to search an elderly Palestinian man. Later he would claim that the man was a cousin, though he had never seen him before. No ...