Ben Okri's green-apple, left handed sort of day

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In 1983 Ben Okri, 34, was down and out in London but he is now a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Students come to hear him lecture and ask his advice on their lives. He won the 1991 Booker prize with his novel The Famished Road which has now sold 200,000 copies. Before the prize, just 2,000 copies had been sold. When he wrote his first novel he was living in Africa and 10 publishing houses there would not take his book. Eventually, while he was in England, Longman agreed to take it, paid him 300 pounds sterling and did not publish for two years. It was just around this time he was homeless. His new novel is Songs of Enchantment.

Authors, Writers, Behavior, Okri, Ben

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If it rains you get wet. If it's my film it gets trashed

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Ken Russell, 64, is renowned for shocking viewers with his films. He is making a four-part series of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' for the BBC. He lives in Marylebone, London, England, in a mews next to a second-hand car showroom, although his wife and children live in the Lake District. The script omits bits he would like as it was written for a previous director, so he has collaborated on it himself, with producer Michael Haggiag. It is based on three versions written by Lawrence: The First Lady Chatterley, John Thomas and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Criticism and interpretation, Filmmakers, Movie directors, Movie producers (Persons), Livingstone, Ken, Lawrence, D.H.

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Jennifer's new dawn

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Jennifer Saunders is one of the 1990s female comedy actors and writers. She is 34, born in Lincolnshire, England into an RAF family which moved around the country. She attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England B Ed course to please her family. She met Dawn French there. They answered an advertisement to perform at the Comic Strip in Soho, London, where they met the future stars of 'The Young Ones.' They wanted to follow them into television and learnt on the job, writing their own material.

Personalities, Television comedies, Women comedians, Television comedy writers, Saunders, Jennifer

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