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Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon To Be Adapted By Steven Spielberg

Mark Hodge | Posted 04.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Francis Ford Coppola, Napoleon, Stanley Kubrick, Oliver Stone, Rod Steiger, Steven Spielberg, UK Entertainment News
Mark Hodge

As for Spielberg's intentions to once again adapt a lost Kubrick masterpiece, the uninitiated may smirk, but there is still no questioning his skill as a director. In fact, while Spielberg could have benefited from his colleague's artistic prudence, his powers as a producer and his ability to get projects made are second to none.

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Mobsters, Museums and the Twin Towers: Tutankhamun and the Illicit Antiquities Trade

Brendan Pittaway | Posted 22.01.2013 | Home
Read More: Egypt, Howard Carter, Boris Karloff, Mohamed Atta, Rolf Harris, Glasgow University, Holocaust, Rosetta Stone, Napoleon, International Council of Museums, Arab Spring, Nazis, Valley of the Kings, British Museum, J Paul Getty Museum, Zahi Hawass, Spielberg, Tutankhamun, Belzoni, Home News
Brendan Pittaway

Dr Zahi Hawass, an egyptologist who styles himself as his country's 'Indiana Jones', has pressed foreign governments, museums and collectors to hand back even those treasures taken and maintained with the best of intentions. The British Museum has long resisted his attempts to return the Rosetta Stone.

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Beethoven and Barenboim at the BBC Proms

Neil Simpson | Posted 29.09.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Kant, Proms, Kenneth Clarke, Goethe, Beethoven, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Barenboim, Schiller, Napoleon, Mozart, UK Entertainment News
Neil Simpson

Kenneth Clark once noted that he could not describe 'civilisation' - but he knew it when he saw it. With Beethoven's fifth, sixth and ninth symphonies, I wouldn't attempt to form any description of what human civilisation is or represents - but I know it when I hear it.

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Are You Prepared For A Zombie, Alien Or Napoleon Invasion? How Councils Spent £31m Answering Ridiculous Questions

PA | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: UK Weird, Napoleon, UK News, Zombies, UK Christmas 2011, Foi, Local Councils, Aliens, Freedom of Information Act, Father Christmas, UK Weird News, UK Politics News

Council officials making preparations for a crash landing by Santa's present-laden sleigh this weekend could have to reveal their plans publicly. C...

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