Modesty of a miracle worker
The Express | 7 Jun 1997
Both feted and hated for his powers, the flamboyant psychic Matthew Manning will today hold a mass hands-on session.
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Sex and the Scribe
The Express | 7 Jun 1997
Women inspire him but he can’t find love. He lives by spinning words yet hides behind them… Can anyone understand JP Donleavy?
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Graduate of the school of hard knocks
The Express | 7 Jun 1997
Bel Mooney rose from humble beginnings to become a top author, surviving a succession of traumas along the way.
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I wouldn’t mind one of my daughters deciding she’d become a prostitute
The Express | 5 Jun 1997
His ‘livelihood’ cost him years in prison but it brought him millions, fame and some strange family values. Meet Howard Marks.
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I really believe in marriage. I see my three divorces as a sign of failure
The Express | 28 May 1997
After 40 years of life with little children, dynamic thespian Sir Peter Hall counts his blessings.
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Thriller ace is targeting Blair as his new villain
The Express | 28 May 1997
Millionaire author Frederick Forsyth has been self-professedly publicity shy all his life. But this year, aged 59, Forsyth has become a very public and political animal. Few issues escape his attention as he fires off letters to newspapers, pens controversial articles and joins demonstrations.
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How an expelled, overeating teenager became one of the biggest noises in television
The Express | 28 May 1997
People used to poke fun at Linda Agran. Then she turned the tables…
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Joseph and his amazing fans
The Express | 25 Apr 1997
Christina Davidson, 44, and Jean Selby, 52, have seen the musical of Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 74 times and 64 times respectively. They went both to the matinee and evening performance one day last week, as they do so often.
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A bully? Well, ‘Piranha Teeth’ did hit a few drug dealers
The Express | 25 Apr 1997
The chairman, a rubicund man with a gale-force voice and peeling nose, shakes my hand and runs off. A minute later he sprints past again. “It’s to do with tourism”, he’s bellowing to the minion scuttling behind him. He’s Sir Jocelyn Stevens, chairman of English Heritage, reputedly a monster and one whose nicknames are Piranha Teeth and Terminator 3.
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Law and disorder of the Bath
The Express | 25 Apr 1997
The Marquis of Bath is 65 next month, but the peer with a penchant for polygamy still dreams of siring children on the wrong side of the blanket.
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No regrets for heiress who blazed a trail of scandal
The Express | 25 Apr 1997
As a teen rebel, Tessa Kennedy fled to Cuba. Since then there have been wild years, marriages and bizarre liaisons.
Sir Jocelyn’s temper
The Week | 19 Apr 1997
Although a sign on his office door reads “the floggings will continue until morale improves”, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, Chairman of English Heritage, denies he’s the “fascist cannibal beast” he’s made out to be.
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