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New Yorker Beth began acting professionally at age 12, coming to prominence as part of the award-winning LaMaMa Troupe. She was part of the Greenwich Village scene during the culturally-amazing 1960s. With her Scottish husband, she co-founded the Troupe's UK branch, touring throughout Europe. Her successful solo career in films & television includes starring roles in Woody Allen's Love & Death; Tales of the Unexpected; Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; and hit series Rock Follies. Acting segued into media journalism as London Editor of Film Journal International; writing fiction & plays; being appointed BBC-TV development executive; & working as exec producer of corporate websites for an international webhouse. Intellect Publishing brought ...more

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Honouring V.S. Naipul

In honour of the sad & recent death of V.S. Naipul, I've just read his early comic masterpiece The Mystic Masseur. Highly recommended indeed, and perhaps surprisingly it helps to really understand the nature of Jane Austen. Alternating narrative passages in gammatically correct English prose with assured dialogues of the patois and jargon of 2nd and 3rd generation Trinadaians of Indian heritage, N Read more of this blog post »
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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