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Who's Got The Last Laugh Now?

Jonathan Cecil HA BLOODY HA by William Cook 4th Estate, £8.99, pp. 326 F ew stand-up comedians have achieved real distinction: splendiferous Max Miller — just before my time,......

Beauty And The Beasts

Hugo Vickers BARDOT — TWO LIVES by Jeffrey Robinson Simon & Schuster, £16.99, pp. 384 he text of this biography of Brigitte Bardot is sandwiched between two identi- cal......

Research

Pressed to remember her, I dredge up stuff — Such stuff, unwilling bits of this and that, Trivia unearthed, washed clean in fragments, dumped Into a letter to have done with it.......