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Exhibitions 2

John Wells: The Fragile Cell (Tate Gallery, St Ives, till 1 November) Eminent Edwardian John Spurting J ohn Wells, the writer and comedian, died in January at the sadly early......

Cinema

Dr Dolittle (PG, selected cinemas) Animal crackers Mark Steyn T here was a book out in America recently by Peter Biskind called Easy Rid- ers, Raging Bulls: How the......

Opera

Play it again Michael Tanner T he Proms have begun in a highly oper- atic vein this year, as if to make up for defi- ciencies elsewhere in London. Berlioz's La Damnation de......