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James Fox (journalist)
James Fox (born 19 November 1945) is a British journalist best known for his book, '' White Mischief,'' and for co-authoring ''Life,'' the best-selling memoir of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards. Life and career Fox was born in Washington, D.C., U.S. and worked as a journalist in Africa as well as reporting for London's ''Sunday Times''. His first book, ''White Mischief,'' is an account of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941. He researched the book with Cyril Connolly in 1969 and it was later adapted into a film by Michael Radford in the 1980s. Fox also wrote ''The Langhorne Sisters'', also known as ''Five Sisters: The Langhornes of Virginia''. He married the fashion designer Bella Freud Isobel Lucia Freud (born 17 April 1961), better known as Bella Freud, is a London-based fashion designer. Her work is known for its playful and often humorous use of language. Life and career Freud was born in London, England. She is the daugh ... in 2001. They ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bella Freud
Isobel Lucia Freud (born 17 April 1961), better known as Bella Freud, is a London-based fashion designer. Her work is known for its playful and often humorous use of language. Life and career Freud was born in London, England. She is the daughter of Bernardine Coverley and artist Lucian Freud, and the great-granddaughter of the inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Her maternal grandparents were Roman Catholics of Irish descent, but her mother was no longer observant, while her father's family were Jewish atheists. She identifies as Jewish. Her sister is Esther Freud, who wrote the memoir of their hippie childhood in Morocco, ''Hideous Kinky''. Freud was married to journalist James Fox in 2001. They have a son. The couple separated in 2017. In October of 2024, Freud launched her fashion podcast ''Fashion Neurosis'', beginning with an episode with American fashion designer Rick Owens. See also * Freud family References External linksBella Freud Website* 1961 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Mischief (novel)
''White Mischief'' is a nonfiction book by British journalist James Fox, first published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in 1982 and in paperback in 1984 by Penguin. The book is an account of the unsolved murder in 1941 of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, a British expatriate in Kenya. The title is a pun on the title of Evelyn Waugh's novel '' Black Mischief'' (1932). The book was adapted as a film of the same name in 1987. Synopsis Part novel and part journalistic report, the book is divided into two distinct sections. Initially presented as a classic murder mystery, the first part of the story focuses on the dissolute lifestyles of the wealthy elite in colonial Kenya. Casual affairs, wife-swapping, habitual drunkenness and cocaine abuse were all common. The main protagonists are the victim, Josslyn Hay, a handsome womanising aristocrat; his beautiful married lover Lady Diana Broughton; and Diana’s much older husband Sir Delves Broughton. Although the identity of the murderer h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1962. Active for over six decades, they are one of the most popular, influential, and enduring bands of the Album era, rock era. In the early 1960s, the band pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. Their first stable line-up consisted of vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, and drummer Charlie Watts. During their early years, Jones was the primary leader. Andrew Loog Oldham became their manager in 1963 and encouraged them to write their own songs. The Jagger–Richards, Jagger–Richards partnership soon became the band's primary songwriting and creative force. Rooted in blues and early rock and roll, the Rolling Stones started out playing Cover version, covers and were at the forefront of the British Invasion in 1964, becoming identified with the youthful counterculture of the 1960s. They then f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Richards
Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. His songwriting partnership with the band's lead vocalist Mick Jagger is one of the most successful in history. His career spans over six decades, and his guitar playing style has been a trademark of the Rolling Stones throughout the band's career. Richards gained press notoriety for his romantic involvements and illicit drug use, and he was often portrayed as a countercultural figure. First professionally known as Keith Richard, in 1978 he fully asserted his family name. Richards was born in and grew up in Dartford, Kent. He studied at the Dartford Technical School and Sidcup Art College. After graduating, Richards befriended Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart and Brian Jones and joined the Rolling Stones. As a member of the group, Richards also sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British Sunday newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK (formerly News International), which is owned by News Corp. Times Newspapers also publishes ''The Times''. The two papers, founded separately and independently, have been under the same ownership since 1966. They were bought by News International in 1981. In March 2020, ''The Sunday Times'' had a circulation of 647,622, exceeding that of its main rivals, ''The Sunday Telegraph'' and '' The Observer'', combined. While some other national newspapers moved to a tabloid format in the early 2000s, ''The Sunday Times'' retained the larger broadsheet format and has said that it intends to continue to do so. As of December 2019, it sold 75% more copies than its sister paper, ''The Times'', which is published from Monday to Saturday. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Valley Set
The Happy Valley set was a group of mostly British and Anglo-Irish aristocrats and adventurers who settled in the "Happy Valley" region of the Wanjohi Valley, near the Aberdare mountain range, in colonial Kenya between the 1920s and the 1940s. During the 1930s, the group became infamous for its hedonistic, decadent lifestyles and exploits amid reports of drug use and sexual promiscuity. The area around the town Naivasha, on the shore of Lake Naivasha, 92.8 km (57.7 mi) north west of Nairobi, was one of the first to be settled in Kenya by Europeans and was one of the main hunting grounds of the 'set'."Naivasha, Kenya" (tourist information), go2africa.com, 2006, webpageGo2A The colonial town of Nyeri, to the east of the Aberdare Range, was the main town of Happy Valley settlers."Cultural Safari" (concerning Aberdare & Happy Valley settlers), MagicalKenya.com, webpagMK During the mid-2000s, descendants of the Happy Valley set faced publicity due to the legal troubles of Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine ''Horizon (British magazine), Horizon'' (1940–49) and wrote ''Enemies of Promise'' (1938), which combined literary criticism with an Autobiography, autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he aspired to be in his youth. Early life Cyril Connolly was born in Coventry, Warwickshire. He was the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly (1872–1947), an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, by his Anglo-Irish wife, Muriel Maud Vernon, daughter of Colonel Edward Vernon (1838–1913) J.P., D.L., of Clontarf Castle, County Dublin. His parents had met while his father was serving in Ireland, and his father's next posting was to South Africa.Jeremy Lewis, ''Cyril Connolly: A Life'', Jonathan Cape, 1997. Connolly's father was also a malacologist ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Mischief (film)
''White Mischief'' is a 1987 British period crime drama film directed and co-written by Michael Radford. It dramatises the events of the Happy Valley murder case in Kenya in 1941, wherein Sir Henry “Jock” Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll. The film stars Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, Geraldine Chaplin, Ray McAnally, Murray Head, John Hurt, and Trevor Howard. The screenplay is based on the non-fiction book '' White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll'' (1982), by James Fox, which originated from a newspaper article published in 1969.''White Mischief: The Murder of Lord Erroll'', by James Fox, Vintage Books, 1998, Shooting took place on-location in Kenya and at Shepperton Studios. At the 42nd British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (for Joss Ackland) and Best Costume Design. Plot Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Radford
Michael James Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' starring John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his final role), the Shakespeare adaptation '' The Merchant of Venice'', the true crime drama '' White Mischief'', and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama '' Il Postino: The Postman'', for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life and career Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langhorne Sisters
Colonel Chiswell Dabney Langhorne (November 4, 1843 – February 14, 1919) was an American railroad industrialist. He was the father of Nancy Witcher Langhorne and the maternal grandfather of both Joyce Grenfell and Michael Langhorne Astor. Early life Langhorne was born on November 4, 1843, in Lynchburg, Virginia, at Point of Honor. He was the eldest son of John Scarsbrook Langhorne and Sarah Elizabeth (née Dabney) Langhorne. His father inherited Langhorne Mills in Lynchburg along with the bulk of his father Henry's property. His maternal family owned the Edgemont plantation. The family had been wealthy planters and slaveowners before the American Civil War. The Confederate General Jeb Stuart was a relative. The Langhorne family lived in greatly reduced circumstances after the war. However, during the next quarterncentury, "Chilly" made a new fortune by working first in the tobacco auctioneering business and then in railroads. Career As a young man, Langhorne served briefl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (magazine)
''Vanity Fair'' is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States. The first version of ''Vanity Fair'' was published from 1913 to 1936. The imprint was revived in 1983 after Conde Nast took over the magazine company. Vanity Fair currently includes five international editions of the magazine. The five international editions of the magazine are the United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015). History ''Dress and Vanity Fair'' Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing the men's fashion magazine ''Dress'' in 1913. He renamed the magazine ''Dress and Vanity Fair'' and published four issues in 1913. It continued to thrive into the 1920s. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues. Nonetheless, its circulation at 90,000 copies was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
