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Thar's a new sheriff in town and he's a Dick! Dick Armey that is, the former Republican House Majority Leader and major mouthpiece (and manipulator) of the (alleged to be) grassroots Tea Party. 

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Please don't try to argue it means anything but that. 

It's like drug dealers. They go someplace to close a deal. Most of the participants are armed, but the dealers bring along these scary looking guys who have Mac-10's or Glock 9's under their jackets ready for use. It's really quite impressive when some short, fat … guy … let's say, walks into the men's room of the Landmark Lanes — as a totally random example — to meet another guy of equally questionable fashion sense and moral character and each one of these guys has two “body guarFind RadioShack Cycling and running devices, heart rate monitors .ds” in tow.Welcome to SKY Cycling, we supply most popular and valuable wholesale products. The bodyguards stand there looking menacing as the two principles conclude their business. 

It's impressive if you put aside your fear of what could happen if someone sneezes wrong or the guy taking a dump in the stall — who no one knew was there — flushes the toilet unexpectedly. Seriously, when that toilet flushes the safeties get switched to the “off” position and the fingers are resting on the trigger guards. Instantly. It's impressive. 

Much as it must have been impressive last September when Dick Armey marched into FreedomWorks with his armed guard and told the people who pissed him off to, “Get the [expletive deleted] out!” 

The Baltimore Post-Examiner's rules of decorum prevent me from using the verbiage that is more appropriate, but this is an upstanding news outlet and they have standards. I'm OK wit dat. 

So what would you do if you were working away taking the hard-earned money of Teabaggers everywhere and the sorta boss walks in with an armed man who looks like he might have been a member of the Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) at one time and tells you, “You're fired! Get out!” 

You'd look at the armed guy and then gather up your things and leave. Or, you'd start crying uncontrollably, which is what four of the people working for FreedomWorks did. Apparently the crying won over Armey who said they could stay. 

The two guys who were marched out at threat of gunpoint came back, Armey was forced to resign and the rest is, as the old saying goes, history. 

Just a show of hands: how many people would take a golden shower for eight million bucks? I'm raising my hand. I've endured plenty of indignity in my lifetime and if I could get paid $8,000,000 for just one moment of it, what the heck. Then I'm done being humiliated cause after that, why care? 

Anyway, that seems to be the story all over the GOP-slash-Conservative universe these days. One faction is fighting that faction; this group of Republican Congressman is stabbing those other Republican Congressmen in the back — hell, the conservative talkers on “The Five” are even arguing amongst themselves over what this fiscal cliff business means. This one thinks that one is wrong, the young guy trying to look too cool for school is acting bored … there's no joy in FoxWorld tonight. 

Hope College women's basketball coach Brian Morehouse figures if his team has another game like Friday on Saturday, it won't be taking home its Holiday Tournament championship. 

Seventh-ranked Hope defeated Finlandia 67-28 on Friday in front of a DeVos Fieldhouse crowd of 565 despite a slow start. 

The Flying Dutch improved to 11-0 and will face Baldwin-Wallace (Ohio) at 3 p.2012 Garmin Cycling Components.m. Saturday. The Yellow Jackets defeated Bluffton (Ohio) 89-45 in Friday's first game. 

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“If we play like we did in the first half, we will lose, and they will score a bunch of points,” Morehouse said. “It was a challenging game for us coming off of Christmas break. We were a little disjointed.” 

The Flying Dutch trailed 5-2 before going on a 14-0 run — with all points coming in the post. Senior forward Courtney Kust had three of them, junior guard Megan Kelly had two and sophomore forward Hannah Doell scored one. It put Hope up 14-5. 

Kust scored eight of her game-high 14 points in the first half when the Flying Dutch scored just one basket outside the paint. 

“All of the posts did a great job of looking for each other,” Kust said. 

It showed. Hope had 17 assists with 11 of them coming in the post. Senior center Meredith Kussmaul had a game-high five assists and senior center Ashley Bauman added three. Sophomore forward Liz Siepker had two. 

“I thought Bauman really was an energizer for us,” Morehouse said. “We played a lot better when we had that energy. She played with a Find all you need to know about Castelli Cycling and learn the latest cycling tips and techniques.tremendous amount of passion.” 

When the post players weren't dishing the ball out, they were grabbing it off of the glass. 

The Flying Dutch outrebounded Finlandia 52-27 with 29 offensive rebounds. 

“We were just going for it,” Kust said. “Once we started getting a few, they were there. Baldwin-Wallace is a good rebounding team.Where To Buy Canada Goose Online, our moncler jackets men Offer Canada Goose Coacts with Lowest Price. It will be a fight.” 

The Yellow Jackets (5-5) grabbed 63 rebounds in their victory. 

“Rebounding is always big,” Baldwin-Wallace coach Cheri Harrer said.Find RadioShack Cycling and running devices, heart rate monitors . “Hope is always great. They are big, athletic and well-coached. It is a huge challenge for us.” 

Jessica Carpenter scored 11 points and Janaya Feaster added 10 for Baldwin-Wallace.Lexi Rohrbach had nine points and 13 rebounds. 

“We needed to play to our standard to get a little confidence going,” Harrer said. 

Hope freshman Maura McAfee had seven points, six rebounds, four blocks and two steals. 

Rebekah Llorens, Kristen Slotman and Kussmaul each added six points. Kussmaul had five steals leading Hope to forcing 30 turnovers. 

Marissa Burke led Finlandia with seven points. Freshman Tianna Borst (Black River) had one point.

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Such is the role of the "Christmas Host" on television each year that the child simply equated the well-known singer with the holiday itself. 

It was a somewhat nervous but happy-looking Finer who popped up on television sets across Sweden this year at five minutes to 2pm. That's when hosts after a short preamble light a candle to kick off the Christmas special broadcast on Sveriges Television (SVT). 

The broadcast runs throughout the afternoon of Christmas Eve, with the host presenting a series of traditional programmes to viewers around Sweden. 

"My nephew was upset that I wasn't going to be home for Christmas Eve,” the half-English half-American singer told Svenska Dagbladet newspaper in the run-up to Christmas. 

"But I'm able to be with and touch people all over Sweden in a way I didn't think was possible." 

She began by telling the viewers the story of her post-office encounter, then it was time for the candle. She had failed to light it during rehearsals and as the producer told her there was three minutes left until going live she felt utter panic. 

It might sound ever so simple, but few have ever lit a candle with almost 4 million people watching. And she did it. No dropped matches, scorched finger tips or fiddling with a limp wick. 

Finer is no stranger to Swedish television viewers. She was only seven when she got a role in the series Maskrosbarnen (The Dandelion Children) and some years later took part in the iconic stories of Bert. 

But singing was always part of her life, and she toured with her sister throughout her adolescence. 

She says that for her, Christmas is less about religion and more about family - and of course, listening to music. Her Christmases mix Swedish traditions with those from her father's England and from her mother's native US. 

She credits them for her tenacity. 

“Both my parents have shown me that anything is possible by moving here and building a life,” Finer told SvD. 

"I'll always feel a certain degree of alienation here because I'm different, not the norm.” 

Yet, if Finer was Swedish Christmas this year, she has for the past few years been strongly associated with the most Swedish of all musical bonanzas – the Eurovision qualifiers Melodifestivalen, which stretches the breadth and width of the country and feeds its fodder to the tabloids on every step of the way.

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Her go-to designer is the legendary Swedish dressmaker Camilla Thulin, who has sewn her made-to-order dresses for almost a decade. If she were to raid any of the Hollywood A-listers' closetsSofia Vergara wearing Christian louboutin high heel shoes. it would have to be “curvy women like Jill Scott, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Oprah.” 

Oprah also gets a peek in on a list of inspirational women that Elle asked her to share. As does Madonna. And her mum. 

The musical inspiration list is a few inches longer: Eva Cassidy, Jay-Z, Anna Ternhem, D'angelo, Ryan Adams… although Stevie Wonder and Tracy Chapman are the ones to snag a joint first place.

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When one of the four-year-old twins, Emme, stepped up, Lopez scooped her up and held her in one arm. Emme's twin, Max, then came on stage and gave his mother a white rose. 

Max, who was sharply dressed in a khaki jacket and white trousers, impressed the crowd when he handed his mother the rose and they began to clap after the surprising appearance. 

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And the exes appeared to get along well: Lopez put her arm around her ex-husband as they exited the stage. 

According to a recent report, Anthony is not the only ex Lopez is still on friendly terms with. Her ex Ben Affleck, revealed that the two stars are still in touch with each other. 

Affleck told the Hollywood Reporter that the former couple have the kind of relationship "where there'll be an email saying, 'Oh, your movie looks great.'"

The "Argo" star admitted that he congratulated the "Jenny From The Block" singer when she landed the multimillion-dollar judge gig on "American Idol." 

"I remember when she got 'American Idol.' I said: 'This was really smart. Good luck.' I touch base. I respect her. I like her. She's put up with some stuff that was unfair in her life, and I'm really pleased to see her successful," Affleck said. 

2012 was an amazing year for “tribute albums” and fundraising projects for good causes. 

The four-disc set “Chimes of Freedom” offers a stunning array of all Dylan songs, performed by a cast of thousands of your favorite stars (Dave Matthews, Alabama Shakes, Jayhawks, MMJ, etc.). It's not that expensive to download the whole set ($20), and the proceeds benefit Amnesty International. 

“Turn the Tide: Songs For the last Call at the Oasis” is a two-CD set of 20 unreleased original tracks set sold in support of the global water crisis (from ATO Records). 

“12/12/12” is the benefit music to raise funds for Hurricane Sandy relief. Another wonderful 2012 benefit album is “Rhythms del Mundo: Africa,” a collection of popular rock songs by bands such as Coldplay, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mumford & Sons, REM and others, reinterpreted with layers of African instrumentation. 

Tribute albums include a few to bring attention to the 100th birthday of Woody Guthrie. The album “New Multitudes” features Woody's writings adapted as lyrics to music by Jay Farrar (Son Volt), Yim Yames (Jim James of My Morning Jacket), and others.Is my authentic north face jackets truly ? 

“Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection” is a 150-page large-format book with three CDs containing 57 tracks, including Woody's most important recordings such as the complete version of “This Land Is Your Land,” “Pretty Boy Floyd,” “I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore” and “Riding in My Car.” 

The set also contains 21 previously unreleased performances and six never-before-heard original songs, including Woody's first known — and recently discovered — recordings from 1939. The package was produced by Grammy-winner Jeff Place (of Edgewater) and Robert Santelli (executive director of The Grammy Museum). 

Don't settle for just a few favorites in 2013. Delve into the richness and appreciation of a world of music. Be a music sports fan if you'd like and learn as you go about the musicians and how music is made.

1. Am I spending too much time with the people I love? 
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As any single person knows, close friends and family try to help you by asking you a lot of questions, like: "Why are you so picky? What do you want?" These inquiries may cause you to stay up at night, wondering why you are so picky or what you want exactly… because you don't know why or what. You'll feel more and more unsure about yourself, and keep circling around these issues. 

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3. Do I have a love success pattern? 
The greatest thing about love, I believe, is that it's the most democratic of human experiences. Anybody can do it, and just about everybody does it (with the exception of sociopaths). What some of us forget to value or recognize is that even if we aren't doing it in a romantic way, we're doing it in other ways -- and doing it well. 

Look at the people you love and who love you back. Now take out the family members, because you didn't choose them. This leaves your friends. Narrow these down to the three you have the strongest relationship with, the ones who you trust in any situation. At first glance they may seem dissimilar. For example, one may be a quiet stay-at-home mom, another an outspoken interior designer, still another a wisecracking novelist. But your relationships with these three will have a few things in common, even if at first glance these qualities aren't obvious. Going back to the pals above -- which, okay, are my pals -- I have to point out that all three are wildly independent people who are also pee-your-pants funny. And… not the best dressers. 

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Two men used a crowbar to break open a podium holding around $2,000 in cash and change at the north Carson City Walmart on Saturday afternoon. 

The two men allegedly pried open drawers on the podium, located in front of the cash registers abutting the women's clothing section. The first man approached the podium from the women's section around 2:04 p.m. and used a small, forearm-length crowbar to open the drawers and take the money, before leaving the store, according to the Carson City Sheriff's Office. 

The two then allegedly circled the same podium at the Reno Damonte Ranch Walmart around 3 p.m. Saturday but were chased out of the store by employees. Their car was described as a late 1990s white Ford Taurus. 

The young man, dressed in a dark hoodie or jacket, wore dark cuffed jeans, red and black shoes with white soles and a red beanie under a dark baseball cap with a San Francisco logo. 

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The two men also allegedly took around $2,000 on Dec. 19 from the cash podium at the Reno Kietzke Lane Walmart. 

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Even with the holidays, Gayle has adapted. Gayle said it was peculiar to go to a buffet for Thanksgiving. 

"Thanksgiving was always the day that no matter where you were in the world, family would come together," Gayle said. "I would go over to my parents' and wake up to the smell of turkey. We'd eat breakfast, play games, check the turkey." 

Instead, Gayle and her cousin waited in line at the Sam's Town buffet. 

"It was good, but it wasn't my mother's," Gayle said. "And I didn't have leftovers to do turkey soup.Register to enjoy the benefits of christian louboutin platform pumps Online Boutique. At least I was with family." 

Gayle was raised Jewish but is a practicing Buddhist. During the holiday season, she said she always observes Hanukkah. 

"I was unpacking my boxes and I found my menorah," Gayle said. "I kept it aside." 

Gayle placed it in the window and went through each night, as she had done every year of her life. 

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While Las Vegas is a tourist destination drawing millions of visitors yearly, the city also serves as a place people come to start their lives over. 

According to the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research 2012 report, the average age for newcomers in 2011 was 41. 

Of the relocators, about 34.5 percent are employed full time, 32.5 percent are unemployed, 15.1 percent are retired and .9 percent are students. 

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According to the report, 42.5 percent have a high school diploma or a GED diploma, 24.4 percent have some college experience but no degree, 11.8 percent have an associates degree, 6 percent have a bachelor's degree and 3.2 percent have a graduate degree. 

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Leanne Proniuk and her family moved to Henderson on Nov. 15 from Canada after a job opportunity came up for her husband. 

"We wanted to reduce our debt significantly," Proniuk said. "Plus, we weren't having family time. I was working weekends and he was working through the week." 

Proniuk had been to Las Vegas before and had her doubts about the city. 

"It is the city of sin," Proniuk said. "My first thought was, 'I am not raising my children there.' " 

But after realizing that there were suburban communities beyond the Strip, some of her fears were lifted. 

"It has been a very positive experience so far," Proniuk said. 

For one thing, Proniuk, who is used to Canadian winters, loves the change in weather. 

"I love that I can wear flip-flops in December," Proniuk said. "I think it's ironic that here, people dress their children in earmuffs, mittens and what I think looks like a parka while my daughter is in a spring jacket." 

Proniuk is still getting used to cultural differences. 

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Proniuk doesn't know if it is because her subdivision is newer, but she said the higher walls in her backyard add to her not being able to get to know her neighbors. 

Even when she picks her 5-year-old daughter up from school, there is no chitchat among many of the mothers. 

"Don't get me wrong. I have met some wonderful ladies," Proniuk said. "But it seems many are buried in their iPhone. Maybe it is the changing of the times." 

Despite that, Proniuk has met some friendly people. 

"I know Canada is known for being friendly, but people in the service industry have been incredibly friendly here," Proniuk said. 

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"We put up our Christmas tree and it just didn't feel the same," Proniuk said. "We are going to be missing our friends and family big time this year." 

Judy Kinal spent her life trudging through the snow of Buffalo, N.Y., where she was born and raised.

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Inside the old town hall, until two years ago the seat of local government and now a theater, conference center, banquet hall and overall hub of activity, Tom Mahoney was taking care of some last-minute business Monday afternoon before closing up early for Christmas Eve. 

He's got "Hotel Transylvania" queued up to start a one-week run on Thursday. 

"We always show family movies from Dec. 26 through the 31st. The kids enjoy them on their school break," said Mahoney, the building and theater manager who started there 30 years ago as a fill-in projectionist. 

It is important, Mahoney, said to rely on these traditions and routines to help heal a community shattered by the mass shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14. 

One mile away, down Church Hill Road, the spacious Blue Colony Diner was doing a booming business all day. 

The waitresses managed to hold several conversations at once while plunking down orders of chocolate-chip pancakes and bagels with lox, and keeping coffee cups filled to the brim. 

"I lost five pounds when I was off because I don't keep junk food in the house," a waitress announced. "I came back to work and gained it all back.' 

"I have to," another server says to a colleague. "If my brother didn't come with us, he'd have no place to go for Christmas." 

A little farther down Church Hill Road, in the village of Sandy Hook, where the Pootatuck River flows past converted mill buildings, two young women emerged with white shopping backs from The Toy Tree, a trendy gift shop across the street from the Sandy Hook Diner, which has been there since 1935. 

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When those two young women came out of the Toy Tree, they merged with a throng – a stream of pilgrims walking on each side of Church Hill Road, heading to the memorial that snaked around the corner onto Washington Avenue. Five police officers stopped cars so people could cross. The line of traffic was backed up Church Hill Road a couple of miles to the junction of I-84. 

The memorial consisted of layer upon layer of stuffed teddy bears, flowers, wreaths, and notes and painted posters to the victims, from Ohio, Philadelphia and all over. 

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The man nodded and said, "Beyond words." 

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A few minutes later, when the woman was paying her tab at the cash register, she noticed a green sign with white letters tacked on the wall: "We are Sandy Hook. We choose love." She looked at the harried man behind the cash register, who was moving a mile a minute, and said: "So sorry for your losses." 

It seemed to catch the man by surprise. He looked for a moment at the woman, this traveler for whom Newtown was a comforting rest stop. "Thank you, ma'am," he said. 

And over at Edmond Town Hall, Tom Mahoney's heart is broken 

"We just need time to be by ourselves," said Mahoney, a friendly man with a quick smile that darkened when he spoke about the evil wrought on the town he loves. 

"It's going to take time. It will be a sad Christmas for this community." 

Like so many in Newton, Mahoney has a personal connection to the tragedy. 

"I volunteered at Sandy Hook Elementary," Mahoney said. "Nine years. Mondays. In the library. I know all of those people. I checked books out to those kids. I can't get them out of my mind." 

Outside the old town hall building, down the stone steps, another memorial was drawing still more pilgrims all day. 

A young boy stared at one of the clusters of stuffed animals, handwritten notes and flickering candles. 

His face creased. His father, a compact man in a North Face jacket, noticed his son's expression. He walked over, placed a hand on the boy's head, and gently guided him toward his mother. As the father walked, his older son came over and suddenly embraced the man. The father stopped and draped his arm over the older boy's shoulder. 

At the Newtown post office, workers were rushing to keep up with the crush of letters, cards and packages from people all over the world who were showing their support and sympathy. 

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Dugas said the local postal workers and letter carriers also share a connection to the community. 

One carrier's route includes families of five of the children who died in the school, she said. 

"[The carrier] bought lemonade from them in the summer and she knew them since birth," Dugas said. "Their way of helping the families is to deliver the good wishes from around the world. They're part of the healing process."

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He's a Curran, in other words, a family synonymous with Baltimore politics. 

There's been a Curran holding a seat in the same northeast district of the City Council (with a brief interregnum) since 1953. 

Between his dad, J. Joseph Curran Sr., his brother Martin E. “Mike” Curran and Bob, the family's tenure on the City Council will stretch across six decades in the new year. And Bobby's current term – his fifth – won't be over until December 2016. 

Bossing Around 

Back in 1953, when Bobby was 3 years old and his dad was appointed to the Council following the death of Sam DeWees (there's a rec center named after him), Baltimore was ruled by political clubs and family dynasties. 

George W. Della Sr. presided over South Baltimore by virtue of the Stonewall Democratic Club. Tommy D'Alesandro Sr. held sway over Little Italy and Highlandtown. Jack Pollock was the boss of Park Heights through his Trenton Democratic Club. 

On the Westside,Where To Buy Canada Goose Online, our burberry bags Offer Canada Goose Coacts with Lowest Price. Irv Kovens pulled strings from the back room of his furniture store, while Victorine Q. Adams was making headway in the world of white-only “b'hoys” clubs with her own Colored Women's Democratic Campaign Council. 

All of these organizations are now defunct, the families and bosses associated with them ancient history. All but the Currans. 

The Currans have blossomed since their low point of 1959 when Joe Sr. was thrown under the bus (or in those day, trolley) as the D'Alesandro machine was ambushed by Kovens and his confederates (Irving “Tubby” Schwartz and Philip Goodman), only to return triumphant to the Council in 1963. 

These internecine struggles among city Democrats were dubbed “donnybrooks” and covered with great gusto by the old Evening Sun and News-American. 

Never Again 

A Curran has never lost a local city election since then. 

In 1977,Buy Fashion monster beats cheap with big discount! Bobby's brother, Martin E. “Mike” Curran, succeeded Joe Sr., who had become a City Hall martyr when he suffered a heart attack watching fellow Councilman Dominic M. Leone gunned down by a distraught restaurant owner carrying a .39-caliber revolver in a paper bag. 

The Leone assassination took place on April 13, 1976; Curran died of heart-related complications 10 months later. 

Mike reigned for 22 years, then handed over the keys to Bobby. 

History's other great political dynasties were known to confer these handed-down powers through bejeweled swords or golden scepters, but this was Baltimore. 

Bobby got the letterman jacket with the city's seal from Mike after his easy victory in the 1995 Democratic primary.

The walls of Maureen's Bar at Dublin's Olympia Theatre are festooned with signed photographs of celebrities who have performed there. 

“Look, there's Kelly Marie,” she chuckles. staring for a brief moment at a photo of the Scottish disco diva whose career peaked in 1980 with guilty pleasure Feels Like I'm in Love. This is Wood all over. She is fascinated by those on the margins of the showbiz world,A new addition to the Canada Goose Kensington Parka collection . the wannabes and might-have-beens who, at best, haunt the rackety end of the tour circuit, and at worst,More Cheap Canada Goose Solaris Parka for sale. disappear in a haze of disappointment. 

These failed dreamers populate Loving Miss Hatto. It's fitting that it's being shown over Christmas, as Wood has become something of a seasonal institution over the past decade or more. There has been the occasional Christmas sketch special, the award-winning Eric & Ernie (which Wood co-produced and starred in) and a couple of surprise appearances in family classics Ballet Shoes (she was a deeply sympathetic Nana) and The Borrowers. 

Loving Miss Hatto, which Wood wrote and produced, has charm in abundance, though it is a less obviously crowd-pleasing work. It tells the true story of a seemingly sweet suburban couple, William Barrington-Coupe (known as Barrie) and his wife Joyce Hatto who, at the start of the millennium, duped the classical music world by passing off recordings by different piano virtuosos as Joyce's own; she had been a failed concert pianist whose career was definitively ended by a disastrous recital at the Festival Hall in the Fifties. Starring Alfred Molina and Francesca Annis (with Rory Kinnear and Maimie McCoy playing the couple in their younger years), Loving Miss Hatto is a story of thwarted ambition, enduring love, suburban secrets and new technology. The couple were eventually found out in 2006 when James Inverne, then editor of Gramophone magazine, led an investigation into the veracity of the recordings. Using the Gracenote database, available on iTunes, he identified the recordings as the work of other artists. It is an irresistible fusion of old-school trickery and new-fangled technology. 

“It's a very English story,” explains Wood. “It's a story of things not being said, ofThis Canada Goose Manitoba Jacket will meet your current mountaineering expectations. a couple who colluded in this scam but who never spoke to each other about it. I think this silence between them kind of made everything all right.” Hatto died of cancer just as suspicions were beginning to be aroused, but “Barrie” is still alive, lingering in his Royston home, a shamed but potentially litigious presence. Wood did not consult him when writing the script. 

“Why would I want to?” she asks, genuinely surprised. “Joyce and Barrie are my invention. They are a work of fiction.” 

Today,This is my review of my Canada Goose Montebello and how it ... the handsome Olympia is standing in for London's Wigmore Hall and Wood is very much in production team mode, consumed by a big black puffa jacket; the signature blonde bob sitting neatly on top of her clear-skinned, even features. She is also, initially, a little reticent and frosty. When I ask at what point she had the idea that the story of Hatto would make a good drama, she responds testily: “I didn't. It wasn't my idea.” 

She does, however, soften, and there are shards of kindness peppered throughout the conversation. She glows with pride at the mention of Daniel Rigby,Shop the latest replica shoes on the world's largest fashion ... her former lodger, whom she cast as Eric Morecambe in last year's biopic Eric & Ernie, for which Rigby won a Best Actor Bafta. “He's on Broadway now. I'm so chuffed for him.” She also confides that she doubled her workload when her son, Henry, went to college. (“I knew I was going to be terribly lonely without him.”) It's a rare moment of intimacy. Wood, who divorced Geoffrey Durham – aka the Great Soprendo – in 2002, rarely talks about her private life.