John McEwen 'Film as Film, formal experiment in film 1910-1975' (Hayward Gallery till 17 June) is, as its subtitle forewarns, different from what is generally called 'Cinema'....

Overblown Peter Jenkins The Churchill Play (RSC, Warehouse) Howard Brenton is much possessed by viole nce. He sees a form of fascism beneath the skin of the society in which...

Escaping Ted Whitehead 131g Wednesday (Warner West End) Kentucky Fried Movie (General Release) 'He was kinda screwed up about women, but he always stood up for his friends!'...

Fiftyish Richard Ingrams It is always a pleasure to see Mr Rene Cutforth on the box. - -He is a battered gravel-voiced survivor from the days when people who presented...

Rich girl Taki New York Gore Vidal, whose bitchiness makes Truman Capote resemble the saintly Hugh Fraser by comparison, once accused the Press of being involved in a...

Poor girl Jeffrey Bernard NOW that Barbara Hutton has followed cold on the heels of Olga Deterding, the time has , ome for me to make a public plea to any )nor little rich...

Back to Front Geoffrey Wheatcroft There were several good bets to have on the general election (and a number of bad ones. Not a month passes but the bookmakers find some new...

No. 1065: Lucky dip Set by P.W.R. Foot: Your wife turns out your pockets prior to taking your jacket to the cleaners, and discovers: a lipstick, a tin soldier, some ants' eggs,...

Chaos rear'st unask'd, Thy horrent swamp, with spacious sugar mask'd, Out of the tepid, dense, lactescent sea! Away! and take with thee This Forage for benighted brutes...

worst time of the day For a wedding reception, and such a reception. Teatime is the cruellest time With the champagne cheap and the fondue tasteless The hearty men winking and...

Sh ouldering the swing doors the saloon he entered. C heerful the chatter as he champed his lunch, P lateful for a ploughman — onion in pickle, Of Cheddar cheese a hearty...

upon the plate — But for all that, you're welcome — take it, do! And if it choke you .. . No, lam content — Let's sit and talk as we were Englishmen — AY, that's the sun, i'...

'It's the Devil,' she said, And making the sign of the cross she cried, 'In the name of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Limb of Satan, avaunt.' But the Devil roared defiantly. 'It...

Bionic? Raymond Keene Gary Kasparov (ex-Weinstein) of the USSR celebrated his 1 6th birthday by winning the Banja Luka International Tournament, held during April in...