10 FEBRUARY 1990, page 40

Sale-rooms

Rover's return Peter Watson W hen James Christie started his venerable firm, in the days of 18th-century new money, his rooms were the Tramp of their day, where the fashionable......

Television

Pure yuck Wendy Cope L ast week I made a few comments about the extraordinary things that people will laugh at. Thursday evening saw the first episode of a new Comic Strip......

High Life

Tinseltown tough guys Ta k i Athens ack in the good old days when Holly- wood was run by Eastern European Jews who may have been illiterate but knew the difference between......