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Panic Room
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* Panic Room, the new film from David Fincher, director of Seven and Fight Club, stars Jodie Foster as a rich single mother who is nervous of living in New York City with her teenage daughter.In an attempt to assuage her fears she buys a house which contains a secret steel-lined chamber. The idea is that in the event of intruders the occupants can hide there until the intruders go away. When, inevitably, burglars turn up mother and daughter make for the hideaway. But what the invaders want is hidden in the steel-lined retreat. The safest place in the house has become the most dangerous.
Panic Room is released on Friday 3 May Certificate 15.
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* This week sees the release of Trouble At Willow Gables - a collection of previously unpublished fiction by the poet Philip Larkin who died in 1985. The book includes two girls' boarding school pastiches written by Larkin under the name Brunette Coleman. Coincidentally Denise Deegan's play Daisy Pulls It Off! - a spoof of boarding school fiction - is revived in the West End two decades after its successful first run. What - psychologically - was going on in these gymslip fictions?
Trouble At Willow Gables and other fictions is published by Faber. Daisy Pulls It Off is at the Lyric Theatre in London from Monday 29 April.
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* A recent rash of lonely hearts ads have appeared in the broadsheets. However, any lovelorn callers would have parted with a few quid on the premium phone lines before discovering that the lure of true love was just part of a stealth advertising campaign. The ads are part of a campaign to advertise a film released in Britain next week. Front Row talked about stealth advertising with the advertising executive and industry commentator Barry Delaney.
Front Row has decided not to advertise the film in question.
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* Theatre and opera director Richard Jones doesn't need a stealth advertising campaign to attract publicity for a new production. His name alone is enough to guarantee a fuss. He's about to open a new production of Berg's opera Lulu - based on Wedekind's play about a doomed temptress - at English National Opera. Front Row asked Richard Jones how he first approached an opera he was due to produce.
Lulu opens on Thursday at English National Opera
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Channel 4 has a new breakfast cereal this morning. Bye bye Big Breakfast say 'Good morning' to Rise. But if the Big Breakfast was the full fry-up, is Rise a wholesome museli or a sugary variety pack? Fi Glover sunk her teeth in.
Rise began on Channel 4 on Monday 29 April.
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