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Hilary Mantel's letter to Thomas More: 'We have to lie about you a little in order to like you' 72 'A vulpine genius': Hans Holbein the Younger's 1527 portrait of Sir Thomas More    CREDIT:  MICHAEL BODYCOMB/THE FRICK COLLECTION   Hilary Mantel   10 MARCH 2018 • 7:00AM T he Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall author turns her forensic eye on Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, in a brand new story inspired by Holbein's portrait My dear More… but here’s the first problem. How do I address you? Sir Thomas? St Thomas? Lord Chancellor? I can’t just call you Thomas. Half the men in England are called that. Anyway, I don’t feel that kind of easy warmth, though one of your modern biographers says that most people who work with you end up liking you. Liking you, disliking you, it shouldn’t matter – not to sober historians. But when we see your portrait we respond to you as a man – sad, distinguished, aging, fiercely clever...
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Paul Hollywood: A Baker's Life could have been explosive is broadcast a few months earlier: revi ew         0 Paul Hollywood with his mum Jill at his childhood home    CREDIT:  CHANNEL 4   Gabriel Tate   27 NOVEMBER 2017 • 8:30PM "People love to hate me,” reckoned Paul  Hollywood  in  A Baker’s Life (Channel 4). Maybe not so much after this new series, quite deliberately aimed at softening his image. For a man accused of an occasionally inflated sense of self, he was able to demonstrate hitherto unsuspected depths of self-awareness and even humility. H e chuckled self-consciously while watching his faltering  Great British Bake Off  audition and spoke of his early scepticism about the “very cute” show. Prue Leith discussed his “squidgy centre”. Sandi Toksvig recalled gazing into his eyes: “I suddenly felt a little frisson that I’ve not felt for some years.” This was a...
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Vin Diesel Producer | Actor | Director Born  - July 18, 1967 in Alameda County, California, USA Born as Mark Sinclair, Vin Diesel is an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter. The actor got his first acting break by chance, when at the age of 7 he and his friends broke into a theatre to vandalize it. A woman stopped them and offered them each a script and $20, on the condition that they would attend every day after school.He is popular for his portrayals of Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious film series, Richard B. Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick series and Xander Cage in the xXx series. Diesel is also a producer on sequels in these franchises. The actor is married to Paloma Jimenez and has three children as of 2017.
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