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Old-School Singer

5 May 2012 1:32 PM, PDT | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »

Roslyn Kind: Coming Home

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

April 28, 2012

Roslyn Kind is an authentic song artist and entertainer. The audience at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts was treated to a full hour-and-a-half of her fine voice and lively presence. Using her magnificent instrument, she beautifully rendered songs, "standards" and otherwise. Her infectious self-delight never faltered as she sang, conversationally spoke of growing up in a nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, and engaged with the audience as if the theater were her living room.

Ms. Kind is that breed of entertainer which sophisticated night-lifers would make it their business to see at the lavish "rooms" of old: El Morocco and the Persian Room in New York, or the Chez Paree in Chicago (all now long gone into history). Today we must to settle for the cabaret and the concert hall, and we are fortunate that »

- Jay Reisberg

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Rewind TV: White Heat; Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey; Qpr: The Four Year Plan – review

10 March 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Juliet Stevenson lends gravitas to drama White Heat, while Kate Humble is no Brian Cox in cosmic science series Orbit

White Heat (BBC2) | iPlayer

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey (BBC2) | iPlayer

Qpr: The Four Year Plan (BBC2) | iPlayer

Grief, bereavement, anguish: these are emotions on which Juliet Stevenson, with her resilient mouth and watery eyes, could apply for dramatic copyright. She wouldn't, though, because you just know that she's too selfless to corner any market, even one in suffering.

Still, if the part calls for a middle-aged woman stoically grappling with heartbreak, who else is a casting director going to call? In White Heat Stevenson played Charlotte, a woman about 10 years older than the actress's own age, who returns to the student house she lived in five decades before. The occupant (whose identity has yet to be revealed) had died and Charlotte was plunged into mournful reflection.

That's not much of a plunge for Stevenson, »

- Andrew Anthony

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Ted Dicks obituary

3 February 2012 4:39 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Composer of witty hits for Bernard Cribbins and the theme for the TV series Catweazle

The composer Ted Dicks, who has died aged 83, was best known for the comic songs Right, Said Fred and The Hole in the Ground. The producer George Martin, who commissioned them, praised both songs for their "clever lyrics and quirky melodies, which hung together so neatly, leaving plenty of space for us to create a sound picture. All we had to do was add the right sound effects and musical arrangements." Dicks also wrote television scripts and theme songs for films and television, including the cult children's series Catweazle (1970-71).

He was born in north London, the son of a postal worker, Fred Dicks, and his wife, Violet. He attended Hornsey School of Art before being called up for national service. Following his two years in the Raf, Dicks won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. »

- Dave Laing

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