In this week's issue...
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On the latest Spectator letters page you'll find a response by Robert Weide to Toby Young's Status Anxiety column last week. Weide's the director of the forthcoming film of Toby's semi-autobiographical book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, and he objects to Toby's account of the actress Kirsten Dunst's on-set behaviour. As Weide puts it, “After reading unwarranted internet criticism of Ms Dunst for having Toby ‘banned’, I thought someone needed to print the truth.” And that "truth" is? You'll have to click here to find out.
P.S. Also among the new magazine content is Fraser Nelson’s article on immigration, which he previewed yesterday. And Rod Liddle asks: Have we ever faced an enemy more stupid than Muslim terrorists?
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Adam Sargent
September 12th, 2008 3:14pm Report this commentA strange choice of jazz writer (Peter Phillips:Unbridled Talent). A first paragraph with five question marks. A serious lack of knowledge of those jazz musicians with classical training: Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Benny Goodman, Wynton Marsalis and a host more. He concludes with the admission 'I still don't understand how most jazz is arrived at'. Would it be too much to ask for an informed commentator? One Phillip Larkin let loose on this subject is quite enough. Perhaps Phillips should remember Stravinsky's comment. 'Jazz has nothing to do with composed music and when it seeks to be influenced by contemporary music it isn't jazz and it isn't good.
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