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Newsnight Review - 8 June 2007

  • Newsnight
  • 8 Jun 07, 05:00 PM

drowsy203.jpgKirsty is joined by Johann Hari, Rachel Holmes, Jonathan Freedland and Anthony Horowitz.

MEMORY ALMOST FULL by PAUL McCARTNEY
We review Paul McCartney's new album - Memory Almost Full. It's named for the text that pops up on your mobile phone and just to reinforce the fact that the former Beatle is fully conversant in new technology, he is now part of the YouTube generation, where you can see snippets of conversation with Macca, his pop video and rehearsal sessions. The CD is also his first release on the Starbucks label Hear Music, and mines his past and his writing days with John Lennon.

MICHAEL TOLLIVER LIVES by ARMISTEAD MAUPIN
Armistead Maupin first introduced us to the liberal gay San Francisco scene in the late 70's with the start of his Tales From The City series. Now over 20 years on, he revisits some of his characters in Michael Tolliver Lives. Michael, the gay gardener, now in his 50s, lives with HIV and is married to a much younger partner. Their lives are bound up with biological family - Christian fundamentalists - and a "logical family" gay, straight, transgenerational and transexual with whom they work, rest and play.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
The first smash hit musical out of Toronto is some accolade, but The Drowsy Chaperone is just that - now in London's West End, by way of Broadway where it picked up five Tony Awards. The star billing goes to Elaine Paige who plays the sozzled spinster of the title, but the middle aged, cardiganed, musical-loving geek in the armchair at the corner of the stage is a star too.

H脡LIO OITICICA: THE BODY OF COLOUR
The Brazilian artist H茅lio Oiticica was a leader of the modernist avant-garde art movement in his country in the 60s and 70s and was obsessed with colour until his premature death in 1980. His inspiration was artists such as Malevich, Klee and Mondrian but he went further in his desire to liberate colour into space. Now Tate Modern is holding the first major UK exhibition of his work in 35 years entitled The Body of Colour - including work the Tate has recently acquired.

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  • 1.
  • At 01:27 PM on 09 Jun 2007,
  • Jason wrote:

Hi,
Can anyone tell me what the music was on the end credits of the current newsnight review ( June 8 ).

kind regards

  • 2.
  • At 02:23 PM on 09 Jun 2007,
  • Andy P wrote:

A bit of a shouty one, this edition, but all pannellists good. Lively.

  • 3.
  • At 07:21 PM on 09 Jun 2007,
  • csharp wrote:

as ever it is divine to enter the newsnight review jacuzzi even if we cannot be certain that all the bubbles are being made by machine.

  • 4.
  • At 08:25 PM on 09 Jun 2007,
  • rob wrote:

i enjoyed newsnight review this week, good pannelists and not too much shouting over each other this time!

  • 5.
  • At 05:02 PM on 12 Jun 2007,
  • M.Lin wrote:

Yes. I too really enjoyed this review. Agree that all the pannelists were good and Kirsty Wark did a great job of holding it all together. I agree it was ebulliant and that there was a little all-talking-at-once but nothing was lost in that somehow. Many thanks.

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