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Peter Jonas, departing
managing director of
ENO, Times
(A) pretty chastening experience.
Liz Forgan, Managing
Director of BBC Radio, on
listening to Mark Tully at
the Radio Academy Festival
Tyrannosaurus is eminently believable and as scientifically accurate in appearance and behaviour as current studies suggest. Well, perhaps a little ponderous of gait and too pristine dentally.
Angela Miller of the Natural
History Museum's Department
of Palaeontology on
Jurassic Park, Guardian
Billy Wilder made an awful lot of suggestions during the interval but it was a bit too late to do much about them.
Christopher Hampton,
adaptor of Sunset
Boulevard, Daily Telegraph
I thought the young man was marvellous, but I never look at women on stage.
Shirley Bassey at the same
premiere, Daily Telegraph
Ike in this film is probably more lovable than Ike was in real life.
Martha Southgate on What's
Love Got to Do with It, a film
about Tina Turner, Premiere
I passed through on my last tour . . . and New York seemed to say 'Come live with me'.
Mike Scott, singer,
the Waterboys, Observer
It was as close as you can come to seeing your own funeral.
Gloria Estefan on the road
accident three years ago that
nearly killed her, Observer
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