18 OCTOBER 2003, page 82

Master Of Allusion

Mark Steyn Q uentin Tarantino's first film in six years opens with the Bride' (Uma Thurman) in silhouette in her hospital bed as Nancy Sinatra sings 'Bang Bang (She Shot Me......

Playing For Laughs

Simon Hoggart Y ou could tell Henry VIII (ITV) was going to be a hoot from the beginning, when Joss Ackland, playing the dying Henry VII in a two-line cameo role, told his son:......