News on Roald Dahl

Writer-directors wear both hats comfortably

2010-02-23T00:19:20Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "There's a famous story about Billy Wilder," Nancy Meyers recalls of the days when Wilder was a screenwriter but had not yet become a director. "He wrote a (scene) where a man was having ...

Mr. Pusskins, Grubtown Tales win Dahl Funny Prize

2010-02-24T07:27:13Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A tale about a grumpy but loveable cat and a story recounting the madcap adventures of a town of oddballs were the winners of this year's Roald Dahl Funny Prize announced at a ceremony in London on Tuesday.</p><p>"Mr. Pusskins Be...

Clooney, Streep in London for film festival gala

2010-02-24T19:10:37Z

<div id="subtitle">George Clooney, Meryl Streep due on red carpet as 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' opens London Film Fest</div><div><p>Like the London Film Festival, Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is a mix ...

George Clooney in London for film festival gala

2010-02-24T18:52:17Z

<div id="subtitle">George Clooney, Bill Murray on red carpet as 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' opens London Film Fest</div><div><p>Like the London Film Festival, Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is a mix of Brit...

"Fantastic Mr.Fox" gets premiere in London

2010-02-24T18:58:04Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters) - Wes Anderson's animation movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox," starring George Clooney as the voice of the eponymous hero, got its world premiere on Wednesday on the opening night of the London film festival.&a...

Animated Clooney kicks off London film festival

2010-02-24T19:12:13Z

<div><p>LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Wes Anderson's animation movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox," starring George Clooney as the voice of the eponymous hero, has its world premiere on Wednesday on the opening night of the London film festi...

Willy Wonka may star in stage musical

2010-02-24T23:47:36Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Willy Wonka could soon be kicking up his heels.</p><p>Warner Bros. is developing a stage musical based on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the children's classic that it bought...

UK News - June 10, 2005

2009-04-28T23:57:35Z

The Roald Dahl museum and story center opens in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire..Sophie Dahl, supermodel granddaughter of Roald. . Photo from Ian Jones

Copyright 2009 ROALD DAHL'S BFG (BIG FRIENDLY GIANT) WELCOMES BOND AND MAC, TWO CORGIES WHO TURNED UP FOR AN AUDITION AT THE FESTIVAL THEATRE. THE TWO DOGS FOUGHT IT OUT BETWEEN OTHER HOPEFULS TO HAVE A WALK ON PART IN THE PRODUCTION WHICH STARTS TONIGHT

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The Queen with corgies from Roald Dahl's The BFG theatre performance

2009-04-01T12:41:52Z

A RIGHT ROYAL AFFAIR...NICOLA-ANN JAMES, THE QUEEN FROM ROALD DAHL'S BFG (BIG FRIENDLY GIANT) WELCOMES BOND AND MAC, TWO CORGIES WHO TURNED UP FOR AN AUDITION AT THE FESTIVAL THEATRE. THE TWO DOGS FOUGHT IT OUT BETWEEN OTHER HOPEFULS TO HAVE A WALK ON PART IN THE PRODUCTION WHICH STARTS TONIGHT

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Myth-maker at work

2010-03-01T12:28:54Z

<div><p> THE IRREGULARS: ROALD DAHL AND THE BRITISH SPY RING IN WARTIME WASHINGTON by Jennet Conant Simon &amp; Schuster, £18.99, pp. 391, ISBN9780743294584 £15.19 (plus £2.45 p&amp;p) 0870 429 6655</p><p> It is a curious fact, not enough appreciated, that the qualities which make men successful entrepeneurs -- imagination, courage, energy, ambition and so on -- can be nearly useless in politics, diplomacy and war.</p...

The week in books

2010-03-01T19:22:29Z

<div><p>I woke up on the morning we announced the winners of the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize, wondering what might have been the first ever funny book for children. Perhaps it was a chapbook, a pamphlet sold on the streets ... or perhaps it was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest extant collection of nursery rhymes. In 1744, you could buy this for your chi...

Roald Dahl prize winner follows in the master's footsteps

2010-03-01T20:36:06Z

<div><p>A stinky old man who hates children, wildly inventive new vocabulary and wickedly amusing line drawings &amp;#8230; Ring any bells? Andy Stanton has won the first Roald Dahl Funny Prize with Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, the fifth book in a darkly funny series which follows in the footsteps of the master of madcap humour commemorated by the award...

My years with Roald, by the 'love of his life'

2010-03-01T23:30:26Z

<div><p>Roald Dahl's writing hut is just as he left it. Tucked away at the end of the garden, it looks like a dilapidated shed, its paint peeling and faded, its tiny windows dusty with disuse. Inside, the mossy green wing-back armchair in which he wrote nearly all his books takes up most of the space. A drawing by Dahl's son Theo is pinned to the wall, the corners brown and furled. A low table is dotted with objects ...

A place to plot

2010-03-02T05:51:52Z

<div><p> Some people dream of Palladian mansions in Wiltshire, of third homes in undiscovered parts of Puglia, of ozone pools in the basement. Others dream less majestically of mansards and conservatories and allotments. I, however, have a more modest fantasy.</p><p> I work from home: a semi-detached dwelling I share with three children, an au pair...

Dahl museum opens chocolate-bar doors

2010-03-02T05:53:44Z

<div><p>There were three things in life that the writer Roald Dahl could not abide: beards, speeches and museums. </p><p>What the creator of such memorable characters as Matilda, Willie Wonka, and the Big Friendly Giant would have made of the opening of the new Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre in Kingsley Amis once encountered Roald Dahl, in a slightly improbable literary exchange. The latter urged the former to take up writing for children. Amis demurred, but Dahl pressed the point. 'The little bastards would swallow it, ' he insisted.</p><p> Something similar applies to the rest of us and museums. You can put almo...

Philip French's top ten scenes in lifts

2010-03-02T12:49:06Z

<div><p>Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861), a Vermont-born engineer, didn't invent the elevator, but his pioneering work on safety devices introduced the reliable, fast-moving passenger lifts that made possible skyscrapers, modern hotels and large department stores. His Otis Elevator Company, which installed lifts in the

Event preview: Roald Dahl Day, nationwide

2010-02-28T14:57:32Z

<div><p>Perhaps the nation's most-loved children's author before the arrival of JK Rowling, Roald Dahl has his birth date celebrated with a national round of readings and performances which should bring his work to life. London's National Theatre has Dahl illustrator

FASCINATING FACT:

2010-02-28T17:35:23Z

<div><p>The writer of children's classic CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, ROALD DAHL, worked as a British spy in the U.S. during World War II, according to a new biography about the author called THE IRREGULARS. </p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=31944725&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>...