Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewRoald Dahl’s early years are illuminated in a compact biography mostly purged of unsavoury details “I’m afraid I like strong contrasts,” Roald Dahl said, not long before his death in 1990. “I like villains to be terrible and good people to be very good.” Dahl himself gave a lie to that formulation. He is very easy to cast as a villain: even friends described him as bullying, overbearing, arrogant and impossible; he was a compulsive gambler, a distant and wayward husband, an unforgivable antisemite.

Arts This article is more than 22 years oldThis land is our landThis article is more than 22 years oldGainsborough, Constable, Turner ...a few great painters have shaped the way we see the countryside. Jonathan Jones begins a new seriesThomas Gainsborough eventually became a brilliant flatterer, but when he painted a squire showing off his wife and land in 1748 or thereabouts he had not yet learned to conceal every wart beneath a cloud of perfume and powder.

Netflix Composite UPDATE 12:58 PM PT -- Joe, through his attorney, John M Phillips, tells TMZ, "Carole is obsessed with me. She has spent nearly 2 million dollars (as she testified under oath) in order to shut me down and sell my zoo for only $140,000." Carole Baskin's closing the door on Joe Exotic's former zoo for good -- or at least for 100 years -- by selling the property with the stipulation it can't become a zoo again for a century .

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Learn about Lisa Coleman Net Worth, Biography, Age, Birthday, Height, Early Life, Family, Dating, Partner, Wiki and Facts. Who is Lisa Coleman:Lisa Coleman is a famous Composer. She was born on August 17, 1960 and her birthplace is Los Angeles, CA. Lisa is also well known as, Emmy award-winning musician best known for her work playing piano and keyboards as part of Prince’s backing band The Revolution. She won an Emmy for Outstanding Main Title Theme for her work on Nurse Jackie.