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good and evil; Joan Juliet Buck is riveted by HBO's great film Longford.(Television program review)
Byline: Joan Juliet Buck
No screenwriter has ever managed to impose his take on power as clearly as Peter Morgan. He wrote The Queen, pairing Elizabeth II and Tony Blair, and The Last King of Scotland-Idi Amin and a young Scottish doctor. In his The Deal, on British TV, he flayed the relationship between Blair and Gordon Brown. This year, Morgan's play Frost/Nixon (media celeb versus paranoid president) will open on Broadway and later become a Ron Howard film. Morgan, a 43-year-old Londoner, was attracted to each of these couples as a bizarre love story-and the most bizarre of all is the story of a lisping, do-gooder Catholic lord and a peroxide-blonde murderess who was for almost 40 years the most reviled woman in Britain.
Longford, on HBO, is a sharp and disturbing drama on the wintry uncertainties of truth and belief. It stars
Jim Broadbent as the halo-haired Frank Longford (the father of the writers Antonia Fraser and Rachel Billington), a man whose campaign against pornography earned him the nickname Lord Porn and whose obsession with God and ...
- BUCK LEAVES FRENCH VOGUE.(Joan Juliet Buck)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: WWD Socha, Miles December 8, 2000 700+ words
PARIS -- The top editorial job at French Vogue is open. Only days after returning from a two-month leave, Joan Juliet Buck is officially leaving the magazine to return to the U.S. She had been editor of the magazine since June 1994. Jonathan...
- The buck stops at French Vogue. (new editor Joan Juliet Buck hired to boost the...
- Magazine article from: WWD Deeny Godfrey September 16, 1994 700+ words
...a world weary waif? Or a pack photographer who's been slammed in the ribs one time too many? No, they're from Joan Juliet Buck, the new editor of French Vogue, who, until July, hadn't done the fashion show circuit in nearly two decades. Most...
- THE MAN WHO WOULD BE HANNIBAL; Moors Murderer Ian Brady is so obsessed by...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Grove, Trevor December 8, 2001 700+ words
...horror at the atrocities perpetrated by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley is as strong today as...heavylidded eyes. This week, however, Ian Brady has made a bid to force himself on the...the book tells us a great deal about Ian Brady himself - which of course is his real...
- Moors murderer Ian Brady vows to go on with fight for starvation death.(ROP)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) June 11, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Wayne Veysey Moors murderer Ian Brady has vowed to continue his legal fight to be allowed to starve himself to death...rational and fair' when they decided to force-feed Brady. CAPTION(S): Ian Brady at the time of his trial
- It has cost us [pounds sterling]1m to keep Ian Brady on hunger strike for 1,000...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Smith, Martin July 28, 2002 700+ words
Byline: MARTIN SMITH MOORS murderer Ian Brady has now been on hunger strike for 1,000 days - at a cost...requirement that before one FIGHTING TO DIE: Child-killer Ian Brady in 1966 can reach the higher, morally superior European Court...
- KING RAT'S DEATH WISH; Like Hitler and Stalin, Moors Murderer Ian Brady was...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) January 20, 2001 700+ words
...Byline: COLIN WILSON FOR more than 15 months, Moors Murderer Ian Brady has been fighting to be allowed to die. He has been kept alive...his fist at society. This, I soon realised, was the key to Ian Brady. Brought up by adoptive parents, he had twice been on probation...
- Brady's images of evil; These extraordinary paintings, reproduced here for the...
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Oliver, Sarah December 1, 2002 700+ words
...astonishing light. For the pictures were painted by Moors murderer Ian Brady in the early Eighties, providing a unique glimpse into the...was on the wrong track with the Middle Eastern theme, but Ian Brady doesn't surprise me. There is something horribly self...
- IAN BRADY SUSPECTED OF PLOT TO BREAK OUT; DIY knife found on his ward.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) Jones, Gary September 23, 1999 700+ words
SECURITY around Moors murderer Ian Brady has been tightened after a home-made knife was found in his ward. Brady, 61, has been moved to a separate hospital wing and...
