Containerised freight rule changes weigh heavy on shipping industry, but fills room for World Trade @1, Myton Law seminar (Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce)

Edit Public Technologies 24 May 2016
(Source. Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce). Russ Garbutt welcomes Sam Minall from Myton Law. THE imminent changes to the rules around the weighing of containers which come into force on July 1 ensured a full house at a joint World Trade @ 1 and Myton Law event ... Mr Minall said ... Commenting on the presentation, Serena Leonard and Alan Bates of Jotun Paints Europe Ltd, said. 'These new regulations are going to bring delays and added costs....

Weird pleasures at Midcentury Eclectic film series at Roxie

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 11 May 2016
Weird pleasures at Midcentury Eclectic film series at Roxie Imagine this ... Other highlights include a pair of offbeat British films from the early 1960s, Peter Finch in “No Love for Johnnie” and Alan Bates in the delightful “Nothing but the Best” (the double feature begins at 2 p.m ... “Do the Right Thing” ... ....

Legislators, Hospitals Announce Funding for Rural Healthcare Transformation in Budget (Oregon Association of Hospitals & Health Systems)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Apr 2016
Senator Alan Bates and Representative Nancy Nathanson along with Oregon's rural hospitals announced the inclusion of $10 million in the state's recent budget to fund projects designed to help ensure the sustainability of rural health care ... 'These investments in our rural health will improve lives and economies,' said Senator Alan Bates, co-chair of ......

Literature based movies on works of William Shakespeare, Shakespearean plays

Edit The Examiner 23 Apr 2016
April 23, 2016 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare the world's best selling author (playwright and poet). What makes the works of William Shakespeare the world's best selling after the Bible? The question may never be answered definitively ... Gibson's got awesome back-up support from Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham-Carter (Ophelia), Paul Scofield, Alan Bates and Nathaniel Parker ... Ahh, perfect ... ....

Gabriel Byrne: 'There's a difference between a great star and a great actor'

Edit The Irish Times 21 Apr 2016
Gabriel Byrne is discussing the business of being an Irish actor abroad during the 1980s. He’s got plenty to say. “There was a notion in British casting circles that you had to become a RADA-type actor,” he says. “The era of Albert Finney and Alan Bates had passed. There was nearly an anti-working class thing. There was definitely a prejudice against the Irish actor ... The phrase “good talker” can mean several things ... It’s true ... “Not really ... ....

Sir Arnold Wesker obituary

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
Playwright who presented a vibrant view of working-class life in his celebrated trilogy, and championed proper recognition for Jews in British culture ... His three most renowned works made up what became known as The Wesker Trilogy ... Wesker became known for his social optimism ... Related ... Alan Bates and Diane Cilento had roles in Wesker’s West End success The Four Seasons (1965), and Their Very Own and Golden City (1966) starred Ian McKellen....

the bizarre beauty of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s films

Edit New Statesman 11 Apr 2016
" data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... Among these is The Shout, a bizarre psychological thriller from 1978 starring Alan Bates as a man who can kill with the power of his voice alone, and Moonlighting, an evocative 1982 comedy-drama about Polish immigrants (including Jeremy Irons, splendid and cast extravagantly against type) working as labourers in London....

'The Rose' is very good

Edit The Examiner 05 Apr 2016
The theatrical world is anxiously awaiting the revival of the classic musical “Hello Dolly,” starring now 70 year-old Bette Midler in the role made famous by Carol Channing. Dolly is a diva, but Midler she got her film start by playing a very different kind of diva than Dolly Levi ... Her manager is Rudge Campbell (played by Alan Bates), who is greedy ... ....

Douglas Wilmer obituary

Edit The Guardian 05 Apr 2016
Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the 1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories ... Subsequent theatre roles for which he received strong notices included Warwick in St Joan opposite Siobhán McKenna (1954, Arts theatre, then St Martin’s theatre), Claudius to the Hamlet of Alan Bates (Nottingham Playhouse, then Cambridge theatre, 1970) and Patrick Delafield in David Hare’s Knuckle (Comedy Theatre, 1974) ... ....

AT THE WESTHAMPTON At the Westhampton: Waiting for the show

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 03 Apr 2016
I’m a Maggie Smith fan ... *** ... These are my homies ... We were touched by “The Sands of Iwo Jima,” even though we still think it might be “too soon.” We wish there were more patriotic war pictures like “M*A*S*H.” We are still uncomfortable with love scenes and wish they “left more to the imagination.” The Alan Bates/Oliver Reed wrestling match in “Women in Love” is something we wish we could forget but can’t ... It’s just not fair ... *** ... ....

Peppi, please stop it

Edit The Malta Independent 30 Mar 2016
... that of a human rights lawyer who has defended those whom no one would want to guard.  So the mix of Alan Bates and Emy Bezzina and making the panel fantasise on his nude as they were under hypnosis might have been fine with him and consciously and lucidly agreed to but I still find it displeasing and disconcerting to say the least. ....

Interview: Actress Celia Imrie on her 40 years on showbusiness

Edit Scotsman 26 Mar 2016
Portrait by Rachell Smith ... “I'm out here to hustle ... My wonderful, much missed Alan Rickman read it and said they must put it on at the Citizens', where I spent wonderful times ... “I hope I have some of my mother's spirit because she's in every part I play – when I did Love In A Cold Climate and had the great delight of being married to Alan Bates, I based it entirely on my mother – so her breaking the rules like that, I can only admire ... ....

JK Rowling checks out Orkney's award-winning library in person

Edit The Guardian 07 Mar 2016
It’s a little way from the centre of the books world, but the wit (and tweets) of this enterprising amenity has been drawing some very starry attention, with Rowling gatecrashing their book club this week. The brilliance of Orkney library was recognised this weekend with a surprise visit from JK Rowling ... — Orkney Library (@OrkneyLibrary) January 6, 2016 ... Tonight Ian is Oliver Reed & Stanley is Alan Bates pic.twitter.com/FrGwnZMbvP. ....
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