EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Julian Barnes angers David Sylvester’s daughters
Novelist Julian Barnes has stirred up a creative hornets’ nest with claims that eminent artwork critic David Sylvester demanded items from artists whose work he was writing about.
In The London Review of Books, Barnes quotes the late Lucian Freud as saying that Sylvester, who died in 2001, anticipated two items from every artist concluding: ‘Critics on the high of their career had develop into corrupt.’
This has infuriated Sylvester’s daughters Xanthe and Naomi, who describe Freud as a malicious gossip who was most likely ‘p***** off’ by their father’s honesty.
In a letter within the present Review, they write: ‘That the LRB printed these assertions so casually and unquestionably is disgraceful.’
In The London Review of Books, Barnes (pictured) quotes the late Lucian Freud as saying that Sylvester, who died in 2001, anticipated two items from every artist
Roy Wood’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’ is superior to Noddy Holder’s Merry Xmas Everybody. Pictured, Noddy Holder, frontman of Slade
Despite widespread acknowledgement that Roy Wood’s ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday’ is superior to Noddy Holder’s Merry Xmas Everybody, Roy stays ungonged whereas Noddy bought an MBE in 2000.
Is the previous Move frontman nonetheless being ostracised for the 1967 promotion of his hit Flowers within the Rain with a postcard of a unadorned PM Harold Wilson in mattress together with his secretary Marcia Williams?
Wilson sued and a High Court decide ordered that each one the royalties from Wood’s chart-topper be donated to Wilson’s charities. Perhaps Harold is on his celestial cloud nonetheless warbling his model of Roy’s ditty: ‘Tis Christmas on a regular basis!’
Reflecting on Radio 4 Today colleague Mishal Husain making headlines this week after saying the phrase s*** seven occasions in below a minute – whereas grilling Home Secretary James Cleverly about his personal unhealthy language – Martha Kearney remarks mischievously to Mishal on-air: ‘If solely they may hear the language you employ off-air.’ Do inform Martha!
Before ascending the Danish throne, Queen Margrethe, finding out at Cambridge, usually travelled to Harrods banking corridor to satisfy future husband Henrik and indulged her ardour for chain smoking.
Returning to the shop as Queen, she was warned by Mohamed al Fayed’s PR Michael Cole that she could not gentle up. ‘I do know’, she instructed him. ‘I owe quite a bit to Harrods so I’m comfortable to conform.’
Before ascending the Danish throne, Queen Margrethe, finding out at Cambridge, usually travelled to Harrods banking corridor to satisfy future husband Henrik
Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed he employed a priest to banish a poltergeist from his mansion
Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s revelation that he employed a priest to banish a poltergeist from his Eaton Square mansion prompts recollection of Franciscan monk Fr Michael Seed’s well-refreshed exorcism of evil spirits from the cellar of Soho’s French House.
Mid-exorcism, after exhausting his provide of sprinkled holy water, Noel Botham, late husband of landlady Lesley, took the priest upstairs to the crowded bar to bless some extra.
Fr Seed, who transformed Ann Widdecombe and John Gummer to Rome, momentarily turned his again on a big wine glass containing newly sanctified Adam’s Ale.
A thirsty buyer promptly emptied the glass.
