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Entries by Jason Holmes from 08/2012

Terence Stamp: Calm in the Eye of the Storm

| Posted 08.03.2012 | UK Entertainment
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Stamp's path through life could have been very different. For an East End lad growing up in post-war London, acting was not on the cards. "I left the East End quite early in terms of other kids my age. My mother made a terrible fuss, but my dad didn't mind at all. But if I was going to try acting, I couldn't have done it had I stayed at home."

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Mary McCartney: Speaking Words Of Wisdom

| Posted 08.14.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Omnibus Press, Linda McCartney, Notting Hill, Beth Ditto, Diane Arbus, Royal Ballet, Paul McCartney, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Ralph Fiennes, Juergen Teller, London, Bar Italia, Iphone, Linda McCartney Photographs, The Beatles, National Trust, Jude Law, National Portrait Galley, Colony Room, Stella McCartney, Mary McCartney, Soho, UK Entertainment News

She peers out from inside her father's sheepskin coat on the cover of his debut solo LP, McCartney. It's 1970 and she's the firstborn child of one half of perhaps the world's greatest songwriting partnership. So enters Mary McCartney into the world of photography: as a subject.

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Tony Parsons: Why I Write

| Posted 08.20.2012 | Huffington Post
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"We all have multiple identities," says Tony Parsons when I ask him whether he feels more of an Englishman or a Londoner, "but I certainly feel like I'm both. But I also feel British.

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Crombie: Coats Maketh the Man

| Posted 08.30.2012 | UK Style
Read More: Savile Row, Aberdeen, America, Covert Coats, Greatcoats, Liberty London, American Civil War, Mayfair, Mods, Far East, Vincent Cassel, Barack Obama, Cary Grant, Duke of Windsor, The Beatles, Harrods, Winston Chruchill, Barneys New York, Conduit Street, Japan, Paul Weller, Jfk, Brown Thomas, Crombie, UK Style News

Crombie's autumn/winter 2012 collection possesses what you would expect from a company that has dressed the likes of the Duke of Windsor, Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, The Beatles, JFK and Barack Obama: and that is ineffable classic style, but with a modern twist. Jason Holmes met Crombie's head of wholesale Gordon Ritchie to try on the king of coats

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Mark Baxter: Backing A Winner

| Posted 08.31.2012 | Huffington Post
Read More: Films, Jenny Agutter, Ealing Comedies, Fifty Shades of Grey, Channel 4, British Cinema, Bob Hoskins, Paul Weller, UK Culture, UK Film, UK Ents, UK Books, Huffington Post News

Mark is your classic Londoner; loyal to his manor, but equally at home in cosmopolitan Soho and in touch with different cultural spheres.

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