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WHAT’S ON 10
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Spanish food at its finest and a lot lot more!
Tapas Bar
Super Saver
Lunchtime £7.95 12 - 5pm
Evening £13.95 5pm - close
Happy Hours! 4 - 7pm
Two 4 one (Cocktails,Wine and Spirits)
polish
focus
Kinoteka festival at
Riverside shows
modern and
classic films
SEE PAGE 24>>
WhAT’s hoT:
WhAT’s MoRE:
March 2009
l AUDREY Hepburn, seen
above, is just one of the
glamorous stars
featured in a display
including some of
the best Hollywood
photos around. The venue is
in the Westfield centre
SEE PAGE 25>>
l WHO is behind this
marvellous mask made
using material from a
borough timber merchant?
Find out inside
SEE PAGE 26>>
Selection of 4 Tapas
Drink of your choice (Any house Wine or soft drink)
Dessert of the day
Open 7 days a week, 9am to midnight
10-12 E�e Road, Fulham SW6 1TB Tel: 020 7384 1264 Fax: 020 7736 5292
www.elmetro.co.uk

22 WHAT’S ON
The Famous
INDIAN CUISINE
Fully Licensed & Air Conditioned
GREAT
CREDIT CRUNCH
OFFER!
30% Discount on lunch
20% Discount on dinner
Indian Food with a difference
Sunday Family Buffet
“eat as much as you like”
for only £9.95 from noon to 6pm
Private party room available
Take-away and home
delivery
10% discount on collection
Free home delivery
Minimum order £15
Open hours:
12-3pm and 6-12 midnight
319-321 King Street,
Hammersmith, London W6 9NH
Tel: 020 8741 4328 /
020 8741 5321
Fax: 020 8741 4328
Mob: 07836 32 5151
www.tandoori-nights.co.uk
LIVE MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT VENUE
Tuesday 24th February 7:30pm - £12.50
M WARD
Alt-country chap will play songs from new album
www.mwardmusic.com
Wednesday 25th February 7:30pm - £20
KIOSK
Persian blues/rock/jazz
www.performers.kodoom.com/en/Kiosk
Thursday 26th February 7:30pm - £7
MY LUMINARIES
High energy guitar hooks and stop-start rhythms.
www.myspace.com/myluminaries
Friday 27th February 7:30pm - £12.50
JONATHA BROOKE + THE STORYS
American folk-rock singer-songwriter
www.jonathabrooke.com
Saturday 28th February 7:30pm - £10
GOT SKILLZ
Music talent event for performers who are either
unsigned or undiscovered.
Sunday 1st March 7:30pm - £12
MATTHEW BOURNE
SONGS OF A LOST PIANO
Broken, battered and bereft, Matthew Bourne
breathes life into the skeletons of 6 discarded
pianos.
www.matthewbourne.com
Thursday 5th March 7:30pm, £10
J TILLMAN
Fleet Foxes drummer and solo artist.
www.myspace.com/jtillman
Saturday 14th March 7:00pm - £12 or £15
CINNAMON CLUB
A night of decadence with an electric line-up of
comedy, cabaret, burlesque, live music and djs.
www.bushhallmusic.co.uk
Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Rd, W12 7LJ
Tickets: 08700 600 100
www.wegottickets.co.uk
WHAT’S ON
THEATRE
Bush Theatre
Shepherds Bush Green
W12 8QD
Box Office: 020 8743 5050
www.bushtheatre.co.uk
l Wrecks, until March 28
Hustle star Robert Glenister
appears in this tale about Edward
Carr, an ordinary man whose
world is shattered by the death of
his beloved wife JoJo.
Picking through his grief,
the doting father of four looks
through his past, piecing together
the story of his life like the
wrecks of the cars he restores.
It is written by Neil LaBute,
whose other Bush Theatre plays
include the War on terror.
l Stovepipe, until April 26
WhEN a diver’s going to the
depths, he has to go slowly.
On the way down, he stops for
a minute or two, treads water.
Lets his body get used to the
conditions.
That’s what Amman, Jordan
is for contractors. After Iraq.
And before. When a mercenary
goes missing en route to Iraq, his
closest surviving friend embarks
on a hunt across the post-war
Middle East.
Stovepipe premiered at the
highTide Festival 08 and is an
indoor promenade performance
at the West 12 centre, The Broadway,
Shepherds Bush. Patrons
are advised to wear comfortable
shoes and dress warmly.
Suitable for 14 years+.
Running time 90 mins, no
interval. Please note that audience
numbers are strictly limited.
Tickets: £15.
Lyric Hammersmith
King Street,
Hammersmith W6
Box Office: 08700 500 511
www.lyric.co.uk
l Spring Awakening,
extended until March 14
IN A world where adults hold all
the cards, three school friends
experience the exhilarating, turbulent
journey into adulthood.
spring Awakening is a vibrant
and poignant story about a brilliant
young student, Melchior,
his troubled friend Moritz, and
Wendla, a beautiful teenage
girl – on a voyage of personal
discovery and sexual awakening.
Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s
www.lbhf.gov.uk
1891 masterpiece of repressed
emotion and adolescent passion,
but driven by a thrilling contemporary
score.
Tickets: £10-£30. 16-25s/
concs: £10. Family, group and
£10 Night tickets available.
l Terry Jones’ Fairy Tales,
March 14
ThE star of Dr Nose travels
through time is back!
Thurtinkle is a wise old
gnome with a big nose, a big
heart and a big appetite for
sniffing out stories.
With author Terry Jones’
witty writing style mixed
with puppets, percussion and
participation, find out why
Thurtinkle loves his beautiful
big nose and laugh at the crazy
antics of two greedy robbers.
Tickets: Adults: £8, children
£6. Ages 4+
l The Overcoat, March 20-
April 11
INSPIREd by Gogol’s
legendary short story, physical
theatre pioneers Gecko create an
intoxicating imaginative world
where a man’s secret thoughts
and dreams spill out into his
everyday life.
Tickets: £10.
l Don’t Let The Pigeon
Stay Up Late! March 21
FOLLOWING Don’t let the
Pigeon Drive the Bus, our
favourite feathered friend is
back with a new story. The Bus
driver says it’s time for bed but
Pigeon wants to stay up late.
With lots of laughs and audience
participation.
Tickets: Adults £8, children
£6. Ages 3+
Riverside Studios
Crisp Road W6
Bookings/information: 020
8237 1111
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
l The New Electric
Ballroom, until March 29
ThREE sisters in a remote
fishing village, trapped in the
years that have passed since
their halcyon days at The New
Electric Ballroom, are still
obsessed by darker memories of
something resembling romance.
Tickets: £18, £23, £25.
Concs: £15, £22, £29.
l Oliver Twist, until March
22
TRAPPEd in a cycle of poverty
and crime, exploited, neglected
and stuck between the horrors of
the workhouse or the streets, life
looks bleak for orphan Oliver
Twist.
Remaining utterly true to
dickens’ novel, this adaptation
will surprise those unfamiliar
with the story and delight those
who know it well.
Tickets: £17, concs £13.
l La Ronde, until March
23
BANNEd for more than 20
years, Arthur Schnitzler’s la
Ronde is a sophisticated, coolly
savage and ironically humorous
fairground ride through human
sexuality. Moved to a hot
Mediterranean climate, the play
charts the love lives of a series
of inter-related characters whose
complex and frequently very
brief relationships eventually
join them all together.
Tickets: £17, concs £13.
l Where’s Lolly? Gone,
March 19 & 21
IN TOdAy’S climate more
than one child in the family is a
financial strain. The government
tests a revolutionary scheme
to remove extra siblings. An
absurd and scarily relevant
piece. Tickets: £10.
The Barons Court Theatre
28A Comeragh Road
W14 9RH
Telephone reservations: 020
8932 4747
Email: baronstheatre@
hotmail.com
l Bouncers, until March
14, 7.30pm
Judd, Ralph, Les and Lucky
Eric invite you for a night on
the town in this hilarious and
outrageous look back at the
80s club scene. Slow dances,
smooth-talking dJs, lagerfuelled
lads, girls dancing
round their handbags, late-night
kebabs – it’s all there.
Admission: £12, concs £8.
l Alfie, March 17-21
ALFIE is not really a bad
sort. For him, life is just about
enjoying everything women
can offer – one night at a time.
With sublime amorality, Alfie
swaggers and philosophises his
way through the play, carefully
rejecting anyone that might
touch him too deeply.
Tickets: £12, concs £10.
l The House of Bernarda
Alba, March 24-29
10 March 2009
A WEEKEND WITH BERNIE
WONderiNg what to do with your time off? Our listings editor Bernadette Bernard gives
her personal pick of the treats on offer.
>> His former Monty Python colleague John Cleese was in the headlines recently after a
rather embarrassing kiss-and-tell, but Terry Jones has quietly been gaining a reputation
for his books. His children’s stories have been turned into a stage version and you can
catch it at the Lyric. Better be quick though – it’s on March 14 for one day only!
>> CULTUre doesn’t have to be about live acts. Or sitting in front of EastEnders, come to
think of it. Why not try one of the many galleries in the borough? This week in What’s
On we feature two displays – one of which, at a timber merchant in Hammersmith,
has only just opened. The work on display now at this gallery off King Street uses
materials found on-site.
if you have any events you would like to see listed contact Bernie at:
handfnews@lbhf.gov.uk or write to her at h&f news, Hammersmith
Town Hall, King Street, London, W6 9JU.
IN ThIS powerful drama
Bernarda, a tyrannical matriarch
rules over her house and five
daughters, cruelly crushing their
hopes and needs. her obsession
with ‘What the neighbours will
say’contributes to the black pain
of the Andalusian family and the
tragic consequences.
Tickets: £12, concs £10.
Irish Centre, Blacks Road,
Hammersmith W6
Tel: 020 8563 8232
www.irishcentrehammersmith.co.uk
l From the Shoulders
Down – starring Richard
Lynch, March 21, 8pm
ThIS critically acclaimed
comic one-man show follows PJ
Mulpeter, now 65 years old, as
he begins his final working day
as a builder’s labourer, having
‘soldiered’ for 50 years.
In a reflective mood he casts
a backward glance at his career
with the pick and the shovel,
digging foundations, mixing
concrete, going to the dances
and the local pub. Contains
some strong language.
Tickets: £8, concs £6.
MUSIC
HMV Apollo
Queen Caroline Street,
Hammersmith
Call: 0870 606 3400
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
l Bharati – the wonder
that is India, March 11,
6.30pm
Tickets: £24-£37.20.
l Michalis Hatzigiannis,
March 14
Tickets: £15-£45.
l Brainiac Live, March 21
Tickets: £15, £16.50, £18.
l James Morrison,
March 30
Tickets: £23.
The Albion
121 Hammersmith Road
West Kensington
www.downthealbion.co.uk
Call 020 7603 2826
l Mark Moriss (Bluetones)
and supports, March 24,
from 7pm
BEST known as The Bluetones
frontman, Moriss is playing an
intimate acoustic set.
For deetails visit:

10 March 2009 www.lbhf.gov.uk
WHAT’S ON 23
PREVIEW HAVANA RumBA!
rumba in the riverside: Dancers from Havana Rumba! in a Cuban street scene
the rumba
rhythms
u Havana rumba! brings
sound of Cuba to riverside
u Show has new music and
dance trends but traditional
styles still have their place
THe Buena Vista Social Club did a lot to
blast the Cuban scene out of Communist
gloom in the 1990s.
despite their massive success and
the resulting boost for tourism, a bit of
a backlash developed, with claims that
the sound was simply a westernised,
old-fashioned version of the Caribbean
island’s culture rather than looking at the
new rhythms.
The fact that one of the band’s original
members, double bass player Orlando
Lopez, died last month, indicates that their
sound – however wonderful and widely
popular – was based in Cuba’s past.
Maybe Havana rumba! will be a
better reflection.
The music and dance show
appearing at riverside Studios from the
end of this month is said to reflect ‘the
past and present of rumba – from the
You
cube:
Havana
Rumba!
promises
a highenergy
show
roots in the African fertility dance which
was once danced by slaves on the sugar
cane plantations to the rumba finding its
way to the shipyards of Havana and
Mantanza to today’s rum-filled rumba
nights in Havana’s streets’.
A young line-up should turn the
spotlight on Cuba’s new generation of
musicians and dancers, while not ignoring
the tradition and history.
Modern salsa and rumba rhythms
share the stage with the relatively new
dance music genre of reggaeton in a
physically demanding performance.
h&f PLaybILL
WHAT Havana rumba!
WHERE riverside Studios,
Hammersmith
WHEN March 31-May 3
TIcKETS £16-£20
http://www.myspace.com/
markmorisssolo
Tickets: free, donations to
Warchild charity.
Bush Hall
310 Uxbridge Road,
London W12 7LJ
Tel: 020 8222 6955
notes@bushhallmusic.co.uk
l Cinnamon Club, March
14
Tickets: £12-£15.
l Gary Go with VV Brown,
March 25
Tickets: £8.50.
l Karima Francis, March
26
Tickets: £8.
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Shepherds Bush Green,
W12
Box Office: 0870 771 2000
www.ticketmaster.co.uk
l Sneaky Sound System,
March 11, 7pm
Tickets: £14.68
l Golden Earring, March
14, 7pm
Tickets: £28.50.
l Elvis On Tour Lee
‘Memphis’ King, March 15,
7.30pm
Tickets: £26.50.
l Sugarland, March 16,
7pm
Tickets: £20.
l Joshua Radin, March 19,
7pm
Tickets: £11.
l Lily Allen, March 26-28,
7pm
Tickets: £21.50.
Riverside Studios
Crisp Road W6
Bookings/information: 020
8237 1111
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
l Havana Rumba, March
31-May 3
ThE young musicians and
dancers of havana Rumba!
bring their show to London
celebrating the emotions of
rhythm, rumba and reggaeton
live on stage.
An intoxicating show
featuring Cuban music
and dances.
Tickets: £20, concs £16.
Groups: £16 for groups of 10+
Irish Centre, Blacks Road,
Hammersmith W6
Tel: 020 8563 8232
www.irishcentrehammersmith.co.uk
l St Patrick’s Night Party
with Hungry Grass, March
17, 7.30pm
huNGRy Grass will bring
you high energy, foot-stompin’
tunes, blistering jigs and reels,
along with many of your
favourite Irish ballads and
plenty of great song covers. The
Pogues, Van Morrison, Thin
Lizzy – all your favourites, to
bring in for you plenty of St
Pat’s cheer. Support: Séasúir.
Late bar.
Tickets: £15.
l The Gloss Glub – A
Tribute to Ronnie Drew,
March 20, 7.30pm
ThIS popular monthly
gathering, with MC Irish
singer-songwriter J Owen, will
present an evening of songs by
The dubliners, as a tribute for
their lead singer and ranconteur
the late Ronnie drew who died
in October 2008. Also open floor
spots including some of very best
singers on the London circuit.
Tickets: £5-£6. Performers
£2.
l St Patrick’s Annual
Community Concert, March
22, doors 2.30pm, starts
3pm
ThE charming ‘St Patrick’s
Annual Community Concert’
presenting Irish singers, dancers
and musicians, including many
competition-winning performers.
All welcome.
Tickets: £5-£6.
l Fidil – Three Donegal
Fiddlers, March 28, bar
open 7pm, doors 7.30pm
FIdIL are this year’s recipient
of the Music Network young
Music-wide Award and they
currently being hailed as one of
the most exciting young ‘trad’
acts to have emerged from
Ireland in a long time.
Tickets: £12, concs £10.
St John’s Church, North End
Road, Fulham
See: www.stjohnsfulham.org
or call 08444 771000 for
tickets
Spring season
l March 15, Felicity Hayward
& Pollyanna Hewetson
(vocal duo)
RECITAL includes Schumann’s
Frauenliebe und leben and
movements from Pergolesi’s
stabat Mater.
l March 22, Alexander
Chaushian (cello) and
Michael Csanyi-Wills
SONATAS by Franck, Brahms,
and Rachmaninov’s Vocalise.
l March 29, Wendy Baker
(soprano) and Ben Woodward
(piano)
uS SOPRANO Wendy Baker,
returns to London to sing arias
by JC Bach and donizetti’s Mad
Scene from lucia di lammermoor.
Concerts begin at 7.30pm
following Evensong (doors open
7pm).
St Michael and All Angels
Church,
Bath Road, W4 1TT
Call 07531 447960 or email
info@addison-singers.org.uk
l The Addison Singers in
concert, March 21, 7.30pm
hAMMERSMITh-BASEd
choir is joined by regular
partners The Bernardi Chamber
Orchestra and four soloists to
perform two contrasting works.
Choral works by American
composer Morten Luaridsen and
Missa solemnis and Mass in C
by Beethoven.
For ticket details call 07531
447960 or email
info@addsion-singers.org.uk
St Paul’s Church,
Queen Caroline Street,
Hammersmith
l Bach’s Mass in B Minor,
March 21, 7.30pm
ThE Easter concert from Fulham
& hammersmith Choral Society
features soloists Julie Kennard
(soprano), Catherine denley
(mezzo soprano), Michael
hart-davis (tenor) and Michael
George (bass).
With Tempus Chamber
Orchestra conducted by Christopher
Bracewell and organist
Andrew Wells.
Tickets: £12 on the door or
£10 advance. For ticket details
call 07958 570979 or email
judith_leigh@hotmail.co.uk
London Oratory School
Seagrave Road, Fulham
l Addison Group of
Singers jazz choir concert,
March 29, 7.30pm
CELEBRATION of the Bossa
Nova style. Percussionist Jeff
Lardner joins the band.
For ticket information email
info@addison-singers.org.uk,
call 07531 447960 or write to
The Addison Group of Singers,
PO Box 63768, London SW6
9AR.
The Telegraph
Telegraph Road, Putney
Heath
020 8788 2011
www.brooksbluesbar.co.uk
l Live blues every Friday
FOR more details see the
website listed above.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Institute of Indian art and
culture
4A Castletown Road, London
W14 9HQ
Information: 020 7381
3086
www.bhavan.net
l Kathak Avartan, March
14&15, 7pm
A WONdERFuL evening of
dance presented by students of
the institute’s Kathak teacher
Abhay Shankar Mishra.
Tickets: £10.
For further information
contact 07984 837806.
l Bhinna Abhinna
(Separate Yet One), March
15, 2.30pm
A FuSION of Western guitar,
percussion and Indian music.
This will be another spectacular
event in an innovative series.
Featuring the guitar virtuoso
Antonio Forcione.
Tickets: Free event.
l Brinda Van, March 21,
6pm
A KARNATIC Vocal and Vina
concert given by students of
the Bhavan’s teacher, Sivasakti
Sivanesan accompanied by M
Balachandar.
Tickets: £20, £15, £10.
DANCE
Irish Centre, Blacks Road,
Hammersmith W6
Tel: 020 8563 8232
www.irishcentrehammersmith.co.uk
l Pensioners’ Tea Dance –
special St Patrick’s Day Tea
Dance, March 19, 1.30pm
Tickets: £5.
l Pensioners’ Tea Dance,
first and third Thursday of
the month
dANCE with live nostalgic
tunes from Ireland.
Bar open 1.30pm, tickets £4.
l Irish Ceili Night, Gasra
Na nGael, March 27
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24 WHAT’S ON
WHAT’S ON
preVIeW kINOTekA fIlm feSTIWAl
www.lbhf.gov.uk
10 March 2009
polish film in focus
u Annual festival has
old and new features
at Riverside Studios
u venue also stages
display dedicated to
great polish director
WIN!
tom derbyshire
Krzysztof Kieślowski is so
much more than a huge Scrabble
score.
Anybody who appreciates
decent films will have heard of Poland’s
most famous director, and if
you haven’t then a series of showings
in Hammersmith could be a
perfect time to find out.
The seventh annual Kinoteka
Film Festiwal spans six venues
across London and Riverside Studios
in Crisp Road is playing a
major role with screenings from
March 12-15 and 21-22. Alongside
the Kieślowski classics expect
the latest features, documentaries,
shorts and special onstage events.
The life and work of the renowned
filmmaker is celebrated
at Riverside with a display of personal
artefacts, photos and poster
artwork, taken from a Polish major
retrospective ‘Kieślowski: Traces
and Memory’.
CLiCK oN
www.kinoteka.org.uk
TickeTS TO OlyMpiA
lA dOlce viTA
iTAliAN lifeSTyle
SHOW>>
dO yOu love italy? Then you
will love la dolce vita.
The annual highlight of
every italophile’s calendar
returns to H&f on March 26-29 at
Olympia exhibition centre.
We have five pairs of tickets to give away for
this four-day lifestyle festival, which is back for
its fifth year, bigger and better than ever.
lovers of all things italian can have an
exclusive look at the latest in italian food, wine,
design, style, property and travel. At the heart
of the show is the piazza where you can dine
at London’s finest Italian restaurants or visit
the mercato to sample the amazing olive oils,
cheeses, pasta, chocolate and wines for which
italy is globally known and loved.
Top italian celebrity chefs will be sharing the
secrets of la cucina italiana at the show’s own
cookery school and wine academy.
fashionistas will love the show’s style section,
a place to pick up exquisite handmade
shirts, bags and jewellery from the best of italy’s
It is a uniquely personal insight
into one of Europe’s most revered
directors and forms part of a 20th
anniversary celebration of his Dekalog
series, with screenings from
both the original Dekalog and new
films commissioned by Polish TV
with contemporary filmmakers’
personal response to Kieślowski
(March 14 and 15).
Other highlights at Riverside
include Malgośka Szumowska’s
sophisticated relationship drama 33
Scenes from Life (March 12). Described
by the Toronto Film Festival
as one of Polish cinema’s rising
stars, Szumowska ‘continues in the
tradition of Kieślowski with a beautifully
observed study exploring the
resilience of the human spirit and
the ties that unite people’.
Also, ahead of its UK release
there is a special preview on March
15 of Tricks, Andrzej Jakimowski’s
award-winning ‘charmer’. This
nostalgic tale of childhood innocence
was Poland’s official entry
for this year’s Best Foreign Language
film for the Oscars.
l See www.kinoteka.org.uk or
www.riversidestudios.co.uk for the
full festival line-up.
A tAste of the sweet life
At lA dolce vitA festivAl
homegrown labels. And for those who want it all
on their doorstep, there’s only one way – to invest
in a new italian holiday home. The experts will be
on hand to show you how.
for more information on the event visit
www.ladolcevitaevent.co.uk
l for your chance to win a pair of tickets answer
this simple question: what is the capital of italy?
Send your answers to la dolce vita competition,
h&f news, Room 6, Hammersmith Town Hall,
king Street, Hammersmith, W6 9Ju or email
handfnews@lbhf.gov.uk. include full address and
a daytime phone number.
closing date is Thursday, March 17.
CLiCK oN
www.ladolcevita.co.uk
reLatioNships:
33 Scenes from Life (left)
and Tricks (above) are two
of the films showing in
Hammersmith during the
Kinoteka festival
h&f plAYBill
WHAT kinoteka film festiwal
WHere Riverside Studios, Hammersmith
WHeN March 12-15 and 21-22
TIckeTS £7.50, concs £6.50. for more
details call 020 8237 1111 or see
www.riversidestudios.co.uk
Bring it Bach
THE borough is being
blessed with some excellent
classical concerts
for spring and the run
continues at St Paul’s
Church.
The Queen Caroline
Street, Hammersmith,
venue hosts the Easter
Concert from Fulham &
Hammersmith Choral
Society: Bach’s Mass in
B Minor.
Soloists are Julie
Kennard (soprano),
Catherine Denley (mezzo
soprano), Michael
Hart-Davis (tenor) and
Michael George (bass).
The music comes from
the Tempus Chamber
Orchestra, conducted by
Christopher Bracewell,
and organist Andrew
Wells.
It is on Saturday,
March 21, and starts at
7.30pm.
Tickets cost £12 on
the door or £10 in advance.
For ticket details
call 07958 570979 or
email judith_leigh@
hotmail.co.uk
The choral society
is a charity and was
formed in 1951. It has
more than 100 members
and the choir performs
at least three public
shows a year. See:
www.fhcs.org.uk

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WHAT’S ON 25
eXHIBITION clASSIc pHOTOgrApHS AT WeSTfIeld
The glam slam
u Latest Westfield pics
exhibition is showcase
of Hollywood celebs
u collection chosen
after six-month search
Kate youde
SOME of the world’s most
glamorous women are gracing
Shepherds Bush this month.
Actresses Marilyn Monroe,
Audrey Hepburn and Brigitte Bardot
are among the Hollywood names
appearing in the photographic
display Fabulous People, Fabulous
Lives at the Westfield centre.
The new collection celebrates
the ‘most uplifting, decadent and
glamorous moments’.
“We spent six months looking at
the entire Getty Images collection
– one hundred years worth of the
world’s best photography,” said
Getty Images Gallery director
Louise Garczewska. “If an image
didn’t make us gasp it didn’t make
the cut.”
Highlights of the glitzy exhibition,
which replaces the London Through
a Lens collection at the shopping
centre, include Terry O’Neill’s
well-known image of actress Faye
Dunaway taking breakfast by the
pool at the Beverley Hills Hotel the
morning after her Oscar success for
Network in 1977. The statuette sits
beside the day’s newspapers.
Photographer Slim Aarons
captured film star Joan Collins
lounging on her pink bed with her
pink poodle in 1955 and author
Truman Capote relaxing with a
cigarette and book in his Brooklyn
Heights apartment in New York
three years later.
In one of a series of images of
Monroe in New York, Michael
Ochs pictured the American actress
leaning over the balcony of the
Ambassador Hotel in 1955. Other
famous faces on display include
Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor,
Frank Sinatra, Roger Moore and
Marlene Dietrich.
Westfield sees the exhibition,
which includes a sale of prints
signed by the photographers,
as ‘an inspiring and captivating
sanctuary from the gloomy news
and grey skies’ of the recession.
“This is our way of helping
to raise the spirits and bring
some joy into our customers’
lives,” said general manager Paul
Buttigieg. “It’s a celebration of great
fashion and style seen through the
eyes of the world’s most talented
photographers.”
Some stores in The Village will
also display prints from the Getty
Images archive to tie in with the
exhibition.
l Fabulous People, Fabulous Lives
runs until Easter. The Getty Images
Gallery, in The Village at Westfield
London, is open noon-7pm Monday
to Saturday and noon-6pm on
Sundays. Entrance is free.
stars iN your eyes: (Clockwise from top)
Faye Dunaway takes breakfast by the pool with the
day’s newspapers at the Beverley Hills Hotel, March
1977. She seems less than elated with her success
at the previous night’s academy awards ceremony,
where she won an Oscar for best actress (TERRY
O’nEILL/GETTY IMaGES)
joan Collins relaxes with her pink poodle on her
pink bed (SLIM aaROnS/GETTY IMaGES)
audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) on the set of the
Paramount musical Funny Face
(BERT HaRDY/GETTY IMaGES)
Elizabeth Taylor sips a drink and smokes a
cigarette during a stop for interviews at jersey
airport en route to nice, april 1957
(STanLEY SHERMan/ExPRESS/GETTY IMaGES)
see doubLe: The similarly talented
identical twins Dylan and Saul Perryman of
My Luminaries PICTURES BY jaMES McIRvInE
reVIeW my lumINArIeS
An inspired
show lights
up Bush hAll
My luMiNARieS have been on the
fringes of greatness since their
formation in 2004.
Back then, i caught them playing
extremely credible alt rock in a tiny bar
near Scrubs lane.
The band i saw at Bush Hall seemed
a very different animal. Although they
have always shown great technical
ability as a live act, their performance
revealed a band at the top of their game.
From the opening bars of their first
song, The Firemen, it was clear that we
were watching something more than
‘just-another-indie-band’.
James ewers’ lead vocals resonated
through the hall’s lavish interior, piercing
through the band’s soaring instrumentals.
The overall effect was reminiscent
of Jeff Buckley, though the sound was
still very much their own.
The quality of the performance
was maintained as they unveiled what
was essentially a live version of their
forthcoming album. Stylistically, the
songs were impressively varied, with
introspective acoustic numbers sitting
happily alongside more grunge-inspired
offerings. in terms of composition, all
of the songs showcased the heightened
melodic sensitivity that lies at the heart
of their appeal.
As well as providing rock-solid bass
and lead guitars, identical twins dylan
and Saul perryman contributed evocative
vocal harmonies to some of the
folkier numbers. Sam Stopford, on
drums, exhibited that rare combination
of ability and showmanship without at
any point becoming showy.
The Bush Hall is one of the largest
venues My luminaries have played to
date and they did themselves proud.
James Mcirvine
dinner dAte
A fuNdRAiSiNg dinner will support
the work of Amnesty international
Hammersmith & fulham group.
The event, for the branch based
at the Books for Amnesty shop, 139
king Street, Hammersmith, costs £15,
including a two-course meal and £5
donation to Amnesty.
it is at café Rouge, 227-229 chiswick
High Road, at 7.45pm on March 31.
l for bookings call 07775 791271 or
email msantosperez@gmail.com

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stand alone: M Ward was better on solo tracks
revieW
m WArd
IT WAS with hushed tones that M Ward fans
eagerly snapped up tickets to his hastily
announced Bush Hall gig in late February.
Mosey on down to the bar and you were
as likely to find hardcore M Ward fans from
Brighton or further afield as you were to find
his Shepherds Bush brethren.
After all, the Oregon-based musician was
only here in London for a rare two-night stand.
Keen to show off tracks from his stellar new
album Hold Time (4AD), Matt and his ragtag
band launched right in with the new stuff.
Rave On and Fisher of Men were quickly
dispatched, while the boys on stage dropped
out or switched between instruments.
But what works so well on disc was
strangely unsuccessful on stage, with the
singer’s smoky, ethereal voice swamped in a
sea of noise and feedback.
Only when Ward was left on stage by
himself did we glimpse a bit of the ole’
Matt magic as he displayed his impeccable,
skillful guitar playing and his nostalgic take
on countrified blues.
Alone, his unusual singing voice – part
lilt and all heart – was clear to hear. But
when his ill-shaven boys returned, they
reverted to their barnstorming ways
and had to settle for a hoedown with
far more simple aims.
It’s hard not to feel a bit
disappointed. What drove the eager
masses to sell out the Uxbridge
Road venue was a chance to hear
the revered singer play his quiet
brand of lyric folk – and what we
got was a deep-fried version of Roll
Over Beethoven. Geoff Cowart
LISTEN TO THIS!
Polly Scattergood
Polly Scattergood
(Mute)
CC
BRIT-SCHOOL grad Polly is a peculiar breed
of musical magpie. She is a good student of
pop music despite not obeying many of its
formulaic rules. Often (mistakenly) called
the Kate Bush of the 21 st century, on her
debut full-length she sounds more like the
missing female member of Erasure. It’s hard
to know whether the kookiness makes Polly
a charming asset or an unfocused hack.
But there is serious potential in this angstridden
21-year-old which is missing from her
scattergun approach to songwriting. GC
eXHiBiTiON TimBer firm lAuNcHeS HAmmerSmiTH gAllery
Gallery is a cut above
u Timber merchant opens exhibition
space in ‘tucked away’ site off main road
u The raw materials are right on the
doorstep, as Caroline Butcher reports
It’s taken over a century, but
one of Hammersmith’s hidden
treasures is finally coming out of
the woodwork.
Timber merchant Moss & Co, tucked
away in Dimes Place just off King Street
since 1885, has opened a public gallery
celebrating the beauty and creative
potential of wood.
Local sculptor Elona Bennett is the
first artist to be featured in the new space
with her exhibition of wood carvings,
On Being, unveiled on February 26.
Elona, 62, who lived in Curwen
Road, Shepherds Bush, for 28 years
before moving to Chiswick in 2006, is
presenting 11 carved pieces inspired by
women and nature for the display.
She works mainly with fruit woods
such as lime, cherry and pear, and
says she has been hooked on its grain
and texture for more than 40 years.
“I love the live beauty and warmth
of wood and the surprises you get
while you’re carving it,” she said.
“You take the grain of the wood
for granted but as you’re working
with it you find that it takes on its
own form.
“The fact that the wood was once
alive means it has a certain power
about it.”
Elona is a fellow of the Royal
British Society of Sculptors and
has completed several high-profile
commissions, including a carving
of health workers’ hands for St
George’s Hospital in south London.
Her exhibition at the Moss & Co gallery
runs until March 28.
During that time, she will present
special woodcarving demonstrations
on-site each Tuesday and Wednesday
from noon-5.30pm, Thursdays from
10.30am-5.30pm, and Saturdays from
9am-11.30am.
The fledgling display space was the
brainwave of Prinul Patel, whose father,
Rasik, is one of five brothers who own
the timber business.
Prinul, 28, is a keen artist himself,
having studied fine art at St Martin’s
College, specialising in painting and
print making.
He said the gallery was part of a
wider plan for the business to get more
involved with the local community.
“I love this site, but it is very tucked
away. We get people coming in saying,
‘We have lived here 20 years and didn’t
know you existed’,” he said.
“We want to get more involved in
the community, let people know we are
here and give them a reason to come
down here.
“I’m also an artist myself and I
know how hard it is to get a decent
space to show your work. I wanted
to make another space available for
local people.”
Artists, carpenters, builders, architects
and antique restorers all rely on Moss
& Co as a specialist importer of a wide
range of timbers from sources around
the world.
“I love the live beauty
and warmth of wood
and the surprises
you get when you’re
carving it
chop
shop:
Elona Bennett
is showing her
sculptures at a
new gallery in
Hammersmith
based at
a timber
merchant,
where she can
find all her
materials. The
display space
was inspired
by artist
Prinul Patel,
also pictured,
whose father
partly owns
the business
PICTURES BY
jUSTIn THoMaS
The historic business holds a
Royal warrant and supplies the Royal
Collection with timber for framing and
backing its artwork.
It’s also a regular supplier to the
National Gallery, Royal Academy,
National Maritime Museum and Victoria
& Albert Museum, and produced the
original ebony magic wand for the Harry
Potter films.
Prinul said: “There are other timber
merchants around London of a similar
size but they don’t offer the same variety
of woods.
“And customers and artists can
actually look through and choose their
own wood, which they really like.”
l Moss & Co is in Dimes Place, 104
King Street, Hammersmith. It is open
from 8am-noon and 1pm-5pm Monday
to Friday, and from 8am-11.30am on
Saturdays. For more information, call
020 8748 8251.
clicK on
www.mosstimber.co.uk
revieW SpONgeBOB SquArepANTS: THe
SpONge WHO cOuld fly! A NeW muSicAl
brought to life: SpongeBob SquarePants and friends in the stage version
show fails
to take off
I CAME to see the show
intrigued at how such an
anarchic, surreal and offthe-wall
animated cartoon
could transfer to the stage.
I brought with me an
open mind and a nine-yearold
daughter for back-up.
I, like many millions of
others, love SpongeBob. I
love the series and I loved
the movie. So the musical –
what’s not to like?
Well this musical, at the
Apollo in Hammersmith,
is a curate’s egg that has
been scrambled. I can
assure you parts of it are
good but the overall effect
is like SpongeBob’s inflated
squarepants when they are
punctured by the Flying
Dutchman’s cannon – a bit
of a let-down.
To be sure, the puppetry
of the Flying Dutchman
scene complete with mad
nodding skeletons’ heads is
a high point. My daughter’s
sides nearly split when the
The Bossa back in town
THE Bossa Nova sound of Brazil is being
celebrated by a Hammersmith-based
musical group.
It has been just over 50 years since the style
sprang up and the jazz choir of the Addison
Group of Singers is aiming to reflect its upbeat
nature at its spring concert on March 29.
Expect songs such as Once I Loved and No
More Blues, written by Antono Carlos Jobim,
the ‘father’ of the Bossa Nova style. There
will be some old favourites such as Blue Skies
and What a Wonderful World, alongside some
scary Dutchman ordered
Spongebob to clean the
pigeon poop from his crow’s
nest. But moments like
these were too rare in the
show’s two hours.
Then the show isn’t quite
sure what it wants to be.
It is part musical and part
panto. Its cast (I counted a
multi-tasking complement
of 10) act, sing and dance
with brio. But in between
the good numbers – Kerrching!
In the Krusty Krab and
a very good pastiche of a
Jan and Dean surf song –
there are limited thrills and
few laughs. The audience
was willing the show to fly
but there was not enough
lift in the wings.
Admittedly it took me a
while to get used to Sponge-
Bob made flesh. I mean
the most famous kitchen
sponge in the world surely
doesn’t have a head. And
where are his goofy front
teeth? Squidward Tentacles,
the doom-mongering foil
to SpongeBob’s optimism,
was played in an irritatingly
camp way, and Sandy
Cheeks had swapped diving
suit for bathing suit. I’m all
for change but…
When you have a series
that can suspend disbelief
so as to allow crustaceans
to drink and bathe at the
bottom of the ocean and
make you laugh and be
charmed all at the same
time, and when you have
a series that can count
among its musical contributors
Wilco, The Flaming Lips
and The Shins, then you
have a lot to live up to.
This musical version may
have legs but as yet it only
has appeal for the younger
end of its audience. It was
an OK night out. My daughter
said it was all right. I
left slightly dismayed that I
still didn’t believe sponges
could fly.
Louise Raisey
newer classics including Don’t Worry, Be
Happy by Bobby McFerrin and All Night Long
by Lionel Richie.
The choir is delighted to have the
percussionist Jeff Lardner join the band for
this concert, which is being held at 7.30pm at
the London Oratory School in Seagrave
Road, Fulham.
l For ticket information email
info@addison-singers.org.uk, call 07531
447960 or write to The Addison Group of
Singers, PO Box 63768, London SW6 9AR.

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WHAT’S ON
exHibiTiON SArAH pAge ANd NATASHA gOmperTS dANce AWArd-WiNNer’S clASSeS
gallery is 38 but
all ages covered
u Sculptor Sarah
specialises in kids’
portraits while pal
Natasha creates
pics of older people
u Duo team up for
Fulham exhibition
CarOLINe butCher
TINy tots meet the elderly in a
portrait exhibition celebrating
both ends of the age spectrum in
Fulham.
Sculptor Sarah Page and sketch
artist Natasha Gomperts have
collaborated on the art display
Portrait or Bust, which will be in
Sarah’s new studio space, ‘38’, at
the Townmead Business Centre,
Sands End.
The duo will unveil the show at
a launch party on March 19 and the
exhibition will be open to the public
from March 20-27.
The new studio and gallery space
mark an expansion for Sarah, who
has been working out of a downstairs
studio, ‘37’, at the same centre in
William Morris Way for
the past five years.
shapINg the future: natasha gomperts (above left) and Sarah Page are displaying their work in Fulham. Left:
an example of Sarah’s sculpting PICTURE aBovE BY jUSTIn THomaS
She works mainly in bronze and
has recently begun to specialise in
children’s and babies’ head portraits
after spending the previous 10 years
casting their hands and feet.
She will unveil a set of about
12 bronze head sculptures in the
exhibition, alongside her friend
Natasha’s sketches of older people.
Sarah said: “It’s really interesting
to see the two extremes in different
media. And it will be amazing for
us to see our work up in the new
studio.”
The 35-year-old sculptor lives
in Clapham and enjoys creating
realistic casts of children’s faces and
expressions at different stages in
their development.
“I try to make the portraits very
sensitive and true-to-life – they’re
not abstract but they are quite
contemporary,” she said.
“I really try to capture their
personality. And it makes me much
happier if the child moves around
or makes faces, rather than just
sitting still.”
Sarah stumbled across her
original ‘37’ studio in the Townmead
centre after failing to find anything
quite as good in Clapham, and she
is happy to be extending her use of
the same site.
“I love it here. There are all sorts
of people who work here and it’s an
absolutely fascinating little hive of
enterprises,” she said.
Sketch artist Natasha, who
lives in Holloway, north London,
specialises in drawing older people
in a variety of charcoal, pencil
and pastel styles.
“There are all sorts of
people who work here
and it’s an absolutely
fascinating little hive
of enterprises
“I have a fascination with older
people – their lives are reflected and
written in their faces,” she said.
She spent six months creating
rapid portrait sketches of a group
of poets as they recited their work
at the Torriano Meeting House in
Kentish Town.
“Most of them were single-poem
drawings of about three minutes
but there were also some guest
artists and those drawings took
20 to 30 minutes,” she said.
“These people are used to
expressing their humanity
and there is something
lovely about capturing
this.”
Natasha will present
about 12 of her poet
sketches in the new art
display, as well as a
larger portrait of an
anonymous Elvis
impersonator and
a series of prints.
l Portrait or
Bust is a free
exhibition and
will be open from March 20-27.
Opening times are 11am-3pm
weekdays, noon-6pm on Saturday
and Sunday, or by appointment on
07966 498 854.
Living for the
thrill of dance
iNTervieW
u He’s been rated
as one of the best
dancers in Poland, and
now Simon Walkowiak
wants others to feel
the same passion
thanks
to his
lessons, he
tells Simona
Sikimic
DANCING has never been more
popular. No longer do blokes
have to be shy about their two
left feet. No longer do girls have to drag
their partner kicking and screaming to
the dance floor.
TV shows have been the driving force
and schools and classes are seeing the
benefits of this new surge of interest
ranging from foxtrot and samba to rumba
and waltz.
Professional dancer and choreographer
Simon Walkowiak is one of the experts
aiming to bring young and old, beginner
and experienced, into his world.
His Profi Dance classes at the Posk
centre in Hammersmith can give
a flavour of what it means to
be performing in glittering
competitions.
And he should know.
His own determination helped
him to come second in both the
German and Polish Open Dance
Championships and be crowned the
undefeated seven-time champion of
Central Poland.
“The greatest feeling in the world
is when the speaker announces your
and your partner’s names as the winning
couple and you can raise the trophy in
front of your family, friends and hundreds
of spectators,” said Simon.
“This is what I live for – the power of
dance can be very cathartic and healing.
It has got me through some very hard
times and I think more people should have
this gift.”
The classes are available to adults and
children aged six and over. Profi Dance
recently hosted dance auditions to find five
lucky girls and boys who will receive free
lessons for a year, and Simon feels it is
very important to start early.
“I love working with children
because if you start young enough
you can train them to move and
carry themselves, which is essential
for a professional dancer,” he added.
“The kids love competing and we travel
all over the country to participate in just
about every contest we can.”
Despite his devotion to youth
competitions, the true secret behind Profi’s
success lies with its older clients.
Simon and his team of fellow coaches
offer a six-week course which promises
to turn any pair of left feet into a taptastic
spectacle fit for a public display – be it the
local nightclub, a friend’s wedding or even
your own.
He said: “I live with passion and teach
with passion. People want to feel the energy
of ballroom dancing and not just learn in a
boring old-school style.
“Energy and great rapport are my
X-factors. It is a wonderful thing to
introduce people to dance.
“Often it is a first-time thing for our
clients. They start off embarrassed but their
confidence quickly builds up.
“People come to make new friends
or to enjoy their time by trying a fun
activity with old ones.
“The atmosphere is always lively and
vibrant and dance is a perfect way of
getting rid of the winter blues.”
“This is what I live
for – the power of
dance can be very
cathartic and
healing. It has got
me through some
very hard times
The course offers great flexibility and
runs from 8-10pm every Monday, Thursday
and Friday at the Posk Centre in King
Street and has now been extended to the
Fitrooms in North End Road on Saturdays
between 2-4pm.
Clients are free to go to any of the
two-hour sessions, ensuring that they
never need to miss a week and all get
full value.
In addition to group classes which cost
£120 for a course of six, Profi also provides
private lessons for a slightly more hefty
£70 a session.
l For more information or to book classes
email london@profi-dance.com or call
07726 459050.
CLICK ON
www.profi-dance.com
NICe mOves: Simon Walkowiak at his
dance class venue in Hammersmith
PICTURES BY daRREn gERRISH

42 WHAT’S ON

eAT TibiTS
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WHAT’S ON 43
living on the veg
reVieW
Tibits, Southern Terrace,
Westfield shopping centre
020 8222 6340
Can vegetarian cuisine ever
be as tasty and satisfying as its
meatier counterparts?
a new westfield restaurant
reckons it’s even better, and is
luring veggies and meat-lovers
alike with its fresh and healthy
fare.
Tibits, in the shepherds Bush
shopping centre’s southern
Terrace, has developed a mouthwatering
buffet selection of hot
dishes, salads and desserts.
It’s the second london
branch for the successful swiss
restaurant chain, following its
central branch in Piccadilly.
The eatery continues the
southern Terrace’s trend of
eye-catching interior design,
adopting a plush boudoir
feel with velvety wallpaper,
enormous pink tasselled
lampshades, sofas, cushions
and drapes.
manager lainey Brown, 41,
said it was a tough call to launch
a vegetarian restaurant during
winter and a recession, but said
once customers tried the range of
foods they were usually hooked.
“even meat-eaters come in
and enjoy the food – sometimes
people think that vegetarian
food isn’t very filling or that it
can be bland or boring, but we
are offering a lot of flavour and
texture,” she said.
The diverse range of dishes is
all available from a central ‘food
boat’, and considering it’s a selfservice
system, the presentation
of dishes is impeccable.
I started my evening at Tibits
with fresh pea soup, which was
warming and delicious, and then
moved on to the main buffet.
among the hot foods, my
favourite dishes were the spicy
driNk fuller’S breWery SHOp
If yOu are a fan of the fuller’s pubs in
the borough such as The Dove and The
Salutation then there is even more now
on offer.
The fuller’s Brewery Shop has reopened
after a major refurbishment.
London’s only remaining traditional
family brewer stocks the full range of
fuller’s award-winning beers, including
some cask beers and a wide selection of
wines, spirits and champagnes.
Some of them cannot be bought
anywhere else – such as the Brewer’s
Reserve oak-aged beer which sold out at
a rate of a bottle every three minutes.
Merchandise from golf wear and rugby
balls to glassware is available at the
store, next to the Griffin Brewery site.
To get there on foot, simply follow the
riverside path along from Hammersmith
until Chiswick Lane South on the right.
The shop is up that road with the brewery
behind. you can’t miss the chimney! It is
off the Great West Road if driving.
ONLy NaturaL: Danja Schonenberger of Tibits in front of the
staggeringly healthy buffet PICTURE BY lEIgh qUInnEll
“Even meat-eaters
come in and
enjoy the food
samosas, little pastry parcels of
potato, peas and curry leaves,
and also the Bolognese lasagne,
which combined soya, cheese,
pasta, and tomato and red
wine sauces.
The potato wedges with
sweet paprika, creamy potato
gratin and beer-battered
onion rings all provided tasty
accompaniments.
Tibits’ huge range of fresh
salads were also very tempting,
and even as a meat-lover I was
particularly impressed with
the bean salad, incorporating
green beans, walnuts, garlic,
coriander and balsamic vinegar,
and also the mushroom
antipasti, a flavoursome mix
of button mushrooms, red
peppers, courgettes, tomato
pesto and chilli.
The Indian chickpea salad
was also excellent, marrying
chickpeas, carrot, mayonnaise,
lemon juice, yoghurt and
curry.
For something a little bit
different I also enjoyed the
quinoa salad, combining the
fluffy texture of white quinoa
with cranberries and curry.
among the dessert options I
indulged in fresh fruit salad and
a more substantial mixture of
yoghurt, fruit juice, wild berries
and Bircher five-grain muesli.
I was also very impressed
with Tibits’ selection of
fruit juices, which are all
freshly-squeezed on-site
throughout the day. The
apple, carrot and ginger
blend was particularly
good and the apple, fennel
and lemon juice was very
refreshing.
The only thing I didn’t love
about Tibits was its choice of
music. I sat, perplexed, through
tracks by dire straits and the
Beach Boys, which seemed
rather incongruous with the
restaurant’s sophisticated
décor and, I would imagine,
its target market of young,
health-conscious
professionals.
But soundtracks aside, I left
the eatery feeling enlightened
as to just how delicious – and
filling – vegetarian cuisine can
really be. Caroline Butcher
CLICK ON
www.tibits.co.uk
aLe aNd
hearty:
The Fuller’s
Brewery
Shop is a
treasure
trove for
beer fans
WHAT’S ON
The Famous
INDIAN CUISINE
Fully Licensed & Air Conditioned
GREAT
CREDIT CRUNCH
OFFER!
30% Discount on lunch
20% Discount on dinner
Indian Food with a difference
Sunday Family Buffet
“eat as much as you like”
for only £9.95 from noon to 6pm
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44 WHAT’S ON www.lbhf.gov.uk 10 March 2009
FILM REVIEW DUpLICITy
IN HER first starring role for eight
years, Julia Roberts appears in
romantic crime thriller Duplicity
opposite British actor Clive Owen.
They star as spies-turnedcorporate
operatives in the midst
of a clandestine love affair. When
they find themselves embroiled in a
high-stakes espionage game, they
discover the toughest part of the job
is deciding how much to trust the
one you love.
Roberts’s return has excited
the film industry – not least as she
starred in a string of massive hits
in the 1990s. Her roles in classic
romantic comedies such as Pretty
Woman, Notting Hill and Runaway
Bride and dramas such as Erin
Brockovich made the studios
hundreds of millions of dollars and
hollywood big-hitter: Julia Roberts
QUICK CROSSWORD
Across
1 Least quick (7)
5 Chooses (5)
8 Song (4)
9 Obvious (8)
10 Period of the French
Revolution (5,2,6)
13 Fairy (4)
14 Thick paper (4)
17 Resolution (13)
19 Disinfectant (8)
20 Taverns (4)
21 Live as a paying
guest (5)
22 Embraced (7)
SU DOKU
Down
2 Pantry (6)
3 Dispute (7)
4 Representation of
abstractions by emblems
(9)
5 Cost (5)
6 Encouraged (7)
7 Works of irony (7)
11 Peculiar to one
profession (9)
12 Fundamental (7)
13 Came to an end (7)
15 Keeps (7)
16 Cause to rebound (6)
18 European river (5)
soLUTIons
ACROSS: 1 Slowest 5 Picks 8 Aria 9 Manifest 10 Reign of
Terror 13 Peri 14 Card 17 Determination 19 Carbolic 20
Inns 21 Lodge 22 Clasped
DOWN: 2 Larder 3 Wrangle 4 Symbolism 5 Price 6 Cheered
7 Satires 11 Technical 12 Radical 13 Petered 15 Retains
16 Bounce 18 Rhone
won Roberts an Oscar. However,
after marrying in 2002, she had
confined herself to supporting roles
and raising three children.
Duplicity is one of a number of
movies that seem to reflect the
straitened financial times and a
deep well of anger at the big
businesses and banks that ordinary
people blame for the recession.
Despite the undercurrent of
financial gloom, it has a light tone
and it manages to keeps the viewer
wondering how the story is going to
develop throughout.
The movie also offers some good,
clean, sexy fun with witty banter
and exotic locations – and it is a
pleasure to see the return of a seriously
talented actress in the shape
of Roberts. Sam Fletcher
CHEMISTS
The following pharmacies
will be open for the
provision of NHS
Pharmaceutical Services
on weekdays until at least
7pm:
l ABC Drugstore
Monday-Saturday
9am-7pm
5 Regal Centre
402 North End Road,
Fulham SW6
020 7381 0017
l ABC Drugstore
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm;
Saturday 9am-1pm
117-121 Wandsworth
Bridge Road, Fulham, SW6
2TZ
020 7736 2962
l Babylon Health
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
57 Uxbridge Rd,
Shepherds Bush
W12 8NP
020 8749 0037
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Friday 7.30am-8pm
Saturday 9am-7pm
Unit 31-32 Hammersmith
Broadway Centre,
Hammersmith W6 9YD
020 8563 7873
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Friday 8.30am-7pm
43 King Street,
Hammersmith W6 9HW
020 8748 7627
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Saturday
7.30am-11pm
Unit 7, Fulham Broadway
Retail Centre, Fulham
SW6 1BH
020 7385 4762
l Barons Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 9am–7pm
Saturday 10am–4pm
3 Margravine Gardens,
Hammersmith W6 8RL
020 8743 6330
l Caregrange Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
Saturday 12am-5pm
9 Goldhawk Road,
Shepherds Bush W12 8QQ
020 8740 9443
l Fontain Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 8am-7pm
Saturday 9am-6pm
290 Munster Road,
Fulham SW6 6BQ
020 7385 0355
l Forrest & Co
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
Saturday 9am-2pm
67 Blythe Road,
West Kensington W14 0HP
020 7603 2493
l Fulham Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
Saturday 9.30am-6pm
608 Fulham Road,
SW6 5RP
020 7736 4126
l Lloyds Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 8.30am-7pm
Saturday 9am-6pm
Richmond Gate,
Richmond Street,
Hammersmith W6 7HY
020 8237 2367
l Goldstrands Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
Saturday 9am-6pm
780 Fulham Road,
Fulham, SW6 5SL
020 7736 3034
l Kanari Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm
682-684 Fulham Road,
Fulham SW6 5SA
020 7731 5587
l Morrisons Pharmacy
Monday-Saturday 8am-9pm
Morrisons Store, 114-116
Concorde Centre,
Shepherds Bush W12 8PH
020 8743 6296
l Oza Chemist
Monday-Friday 9pm-7pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
9 Fulham Broadway
Fulham SW6 1AA
020 7385 9156
l Parmay Pharmacy
Monday-Saturday 9am-7pm
122-124 North End Road,
West Kensington W14 9PP
020 7381 4376
l Pestle & Mortar
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
388 Uxbridge Road,
Shepherds Bush W12 7PA
020 8743 3535
l Pestle & Mortar
Monday-Saturday 9am-7pm
59 South Africa Road,
Shepherds Bush W12 7LL
020 8749 6844
l Tesco Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 8am-8pm
Saturday 9am-2pm
180 Shepherds Bush Road,
Hammersmith W6 7NL
020 7853 7749
l Windwood Chemist
Monday-Friday 9am-7pm
96 Askew Road,
Shepherds Bush W12 9BL
020 8743 3562
The following non-rota
pharmacies are normally
open on Sundays:
HAMMERSMITH
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Friday 8.30am-7pm
43 King Street,
Hammersmith W6 9HW
020 8748 7627
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Friday 7.30am-8pm
Saturday 9am-7pm
Unit 31-32 Hammersmith
Broadway centre,
Hammersmith W6 9YD
020 8563 7873
l Tesco Pharmacy
Monday-Friday 8am-8pm
Saturday 9am-2pm
180 Shepherds Bush Road,
Hammersmith W6 7NL
020 7853 7749
FULHAM
l ABC Drugstore
Monday-Saturday
9am-7pm
5 Regal Centre
402 North End Road,
Fulham SW6
020 7381 0017
l Boots the Chemist
Monday-Saturday
7.30am-11pm
Unit 7, Fulham Broadway
Retail Centre, Fulham
SW6 1BH
020 7385 4762
SHEPHERDS BUSH
l Morrisons Pharmacy
114-116 Concord Centre,
Shepherds Bush W12 8PH
020 8743 6296
Open Sundays 11am-5pm
l Pestle & Mortar
388 Uxbridge Road,
Shepherds Bush W12 7LL
020 873 3535
Open Sundays 10am-2pm
(List provided by local
NHS)