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The lives of others Trevor Royle selects the best from this year's biographies of the great, the good and the just plain interesting
The Sunday Herald; 12/13/2009; 1278 words; ...Curiously, Jennifer Scanlon's life of Helen Gurley Brown - Bad...99) - manages to be rather prim and proper for all that it deals...postSecond World War world. It's still a great read, though...that number, Martin Stannard's account of her life is another...

Songs for a Party that ended long ago; Songs for a Party that's long over ; Born in East Germany, musician gives a nuanced voice to a vanished state
International Herald Tribune; 12/12/2009; 1227 words; ...ago; Songs for a Party that's long over ; Born in East Germany...KULISHType: NewsJan Josef Liefers's nuanced songs about life in East...Karl-Friedrich Boerne, the prim and priggish medical examiner...the German Democratic Republic's peaceful end. That was no accident...

FRIDAY 18.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 12/12/2009; 791 words; THE AFRICAN QUEEN (S4C, 9am) A prim missionary is forced to flee her home in...school. Drama, based on Truman Capote's short story, starring Patty Duke, Piper...9.30pm) Director Damien Cockburn''s epic Vietnam picture is behind schedule...

A German who grew up in the East sings songs for a world that ended long ago; A German sings to his lost world ; Native of vanished East gives a nuanced view that has struck a chord
International Herald Tribune; 12/12/2009; 1418 words; ...KULISHType: NewsJan Josef Liefers's nuanced songs about life in East...Karl-Friedrich Boerne, the prim and priggish medical examiner...the German Democratic Republic's peaceful end. That was no accident...playwright. "Of course it's a story about East Germany and...

THE ST TRINIAN'S TRIBES; They're based on real-life schoolgirls. So as they return to the big screen, are any YOUR daughter?(Features)
The Daily Mail (London, England); 12/11/2009; 1845 words; ...hunt for the legendary Fritton's Gold, which ensues as the school...you expect her to be dowdy and prim, yet she has a volcanic passion...resourceful girls of St Trinian's are undeterred in their mission...outwit the villain. This time it's the misogynist Piers Pomfrey...