27 AUGUST 1988, page 36

Television

Deboshed fish Peter Levi S ome days I am longing for a season of John Cassavetes, some days not, but you have to catch these things while they are on. This week-end I was hungry......

High Life

Papa croc Taki know it sounds crazy, but this is the ideal time to visit the Big Olive. During the last two weeks of August the great mass of Athens-dwellers flees its grotesque......

Opera

Bayreuth brutalism Rodney Milnes h e new Bayreuth Ring is nasty, brutish but not, alas, short: spending a week in its company in this particular small town in Germany — one full......