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While the Fiver is in a Roald Dahl questioning mood (Fiver letters passim), I've always wondered (and been too lazy to find out for myself) if modern copies of 'George's Marvellous Medicine' come with some kind of health warning, saying 'please don't try this'? Just in case some no-win no-fee lawyers fancy trying to sue the Dahl estate
While the Fiver is in a Roald Dahl questioning mood (Fiver letters passim), I've always wondered (and been too lazy to find out for myself) if modern copies of 'George's Marvellous Medicine' come with some kind of health warning, saying 'please don't try this'? Just in case some no-win no-fee lawyers fancy trying to sue the Dahl estate
They love the idea. We staged a production of Under Milk Wood in Sadler’s Wells and she came to see that. I’m hoping she will enjoy what we’ve done to Roald Dahl’s stories.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Moonrise Kingdom + Dark Horse
of irony and deadpan slapstick, to focus on family dysfunction with steadily diminishing results. His animated adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox seemed to revive Anderson’s cinematic spirits, and now he returns with one of the best movies of Read more »
Around the web
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Hexen hexen: SUPER RTL zeigt Fantasy-Abenteuer nach dem gleichnamigen Kinderbuch von Roald Dahl mit Anjelica Huston Sendedatum: Montag, 4. Juni um 20.15 Uhr
Köln (ots) - Der kleine Luke wird Zeuge, wie Hexen beschließen, alle Kinder mit Hilfe eines Zaubertranks in Mäuse zu verwandeln. Doch er wird entdeckt - und die hinterhältige Oberhexe demonstriert an ihm die Wirkung des Elixiers... Starregisseur Nicolas from premium presse 5 Read more »
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Moonrise Kingdom: Out of the mouths of babes
Rick Groen From Friday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 01, 2012 12:00AM EDT Last time out, in Fantastic Mr. Fox , Wes Anderson adapted a children’s book by Roald Dahl. Now, in Moonrise Kingdom , he’s made one of his own. Of course, his detractors 12:08 AM from Globe and Mail Read more »
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Roald Dahl was my hero, David Walliams tells Hay audience
COMEDIAN David Walliams kicked off this year’s Hay Festival by naming Cardiff-born author Roald Dahl as his “hero”. The Little Britain funnyman was interviewed by radio presenter Chris Evans on the first big-name event of the 10-day festival, which is ce from Wales Online Read more »
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Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket, Channel 4, review
If the title of (Channel 4) was a wordplay on Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, it was a really quite tenuous wordplay – and it heralded a really quite tenuous programme. It started with a clever enough conceit. Jimmy Doherty – pig farmer and top T from The Telegraph Read more »
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Farewell, Maurice . . . and thanks for scaring us all silly
Heidi Scrimgeour's young sons were enchanted by the children's books of the late Maurice SendakI didn't discover Maurice Sendak's bewitching books until I had children of my own.My son's beloved 'fairy' godmother gave him a copy of In the Night Kitchen f from Independent.ie Read more »
