5 DECEMBER 1981, page 30

Cinema

Martyrology Peter Ackroyd Mommie Dearest ('AA', selected cinemas) L ate one night, I turned on my telephone answering machine, only to hear a demented voice screaming, 'Wire......

Theatre

Comic cuts Mark Amory Richard III (Aid wych ) 84 Charing Cross Road (Ambassadors) i t - T -1 his awful holocaust play, this burn ]. up, this maggot that's introduced to eat the......

Television

Too dreary Richard In grams H aving mocked the SDP to begin with, the media men, in the week of the Crosby by-election, have now become verY deferential indeed, as though aware......