This Chicago born novelist, short story writer and essayist explored deep themes through his own personal experiences of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia and transcendental experiences. Married five times, Dick published 44 novels and 121 short stories yet spent most of his life in poverty. Ten popular films based on his works have been produced including Blade Runner, Total Recall and The Adjustment Bureau. His fans – who laud his foreshadowing of postmodernity – have recreated him as a remote controlled android designed in his likeness.
Tag: America
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Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)
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Boaty Boatwright (also known as Boaty Boatwright Baker)
This New York based casting director and talent agent has worked on The Man Who Would Be King, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, To Kill A Mockingbird and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Gore Vidal was a “great friend” and Michael Caine once described Boatwright’s Sunday lunch parties as “most interesting”. Hers is considered “one of the most fabulous names in showbiz”. -
Byron Bradshaw: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
20 questions with New York based fashion entrepreneur Byron Bradshaw
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
I’d rather be dead than boring.
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Website of the Week: Sirimo.co.uk
A website that explains the legal restrictions on the rights to take photographs
Knowing your rights when it comes to taking photographs – especially in an age when most have iPhones and other smart devices with camera facilities – has never been more important. (more…)
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Price vs. Patience
Stonebrook Court Manor: The sale of a Californian mansion where it’s more about patience than price
Stonebrook Court Manor in California’s Los Altos Hills has been on and off the market since January 2008. Its owner, a “television executive turned Internet investor” and investment banker named Kelly Porter, though said to be “in no hurry to sell”, has reduced his asking price from £28.1 million ($45 million) to £16.8 million ($27 million) through Arthur Sharif & Associates. (more…)
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Amir Zada: “What’s on your mantelpiece?”
20 questions with financier Amir Zada
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Health, hard work, love and laughter.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Revenge is a waste of time, as is gloating”.
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Being Liberace with the facts
A Cadillac that may or may not have belonged to Liberace comes to auction without much evidence of its provenance
In The Talented Mr Ripley, the detective appointed to discover what happened to Dickie Greenleaf states: “In America we’re taught to check a fact before it becomes a fact”. In the case of a 1930s Cadillac being auctioned by Barrons at Sandown Park in Surrey on the 17th September, this quote ought to have been applied. (more…)
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Skedding off the rails
Professor Alan Sked forms new party
In 1991, Alan Sked, a professor of International History at the London School of Economics, formed the Anti-Federalist League. In 1993, the organisation became what is now known as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) but after leaving what he came to see as a factionalised organisation in 1997, Sked has just formed a new party named New Deal. (more…)
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I cried all the way to the piano
One of Liberace’s pianos heads to auction
Liberace personally played to 25 million fans during his 40-year career and during this time he built up a mammoth collection of pianos. One of them, a Conover pompadour model, will be auctioned by Britannia Piano Auctions in Manchester on 12th September. (more…)