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Posts by: Ko Banerjea

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Joe Guy – Broader than Broadway

by Ko Banerjea • 7 Jan 08
Journal: Reviews | events

Back in the day (well, the seventies and eighties at least), one of
the more puzzling aspects of the 36 bus ride from Lewisham to
Paddington was the nature and frequency of the sectarian banter
aboard. ‘Blubber…


Control – Touching From a Distance (5)

by Ko Banerjea • 15 Nov 07
Journal: Reviews | film

Courting angst is always an unsettling business but rarely more so than when the flirtation is a salve for other types of meaning. In an age of short termism, where the quick fix is king, there’s something almost quaint about…


Touching from a Distance [4]

by Ko Banerjea • 10 Jun 07

Something unusual happened yesterday in a city built largely on the artifice of celebrity. Millionaire heiress and ‘Simple Life’ star, Paris Hilton was led screaming from an LA courtroom to an uncertain future and the possibility of actually completing her…


Touching from a Distance [3]

by Ko Banerjea • 11 May 07

Anxious? Mixed Bipolar Disorder? Varicose Veins, need Botox, difficulty sleeping? Just a sample of the full page ads littering the front, middle and back pages of LA Weekly which incidentally sees itself as more Village Voice than Sunday Sport. Such…


Touching from a Distance [2]

by Ko Banerjea • 22 Apr 07

‘The Message’ or at least a version of the rhythm track spills out of the Buick’s windows. From my vantage point the sound leaks through from the concerns of another age. I’m sat in the car parked next to it…


Touching from a Distance – [Letter from LA 1]

by Ko Banerjea • 28 Mar 07

Stevie never said, ‘California, just like i pictured it’, so beyond Baywatch, the OC and one too many films, there’s not a whole lot to go on as LAX looms large in the after dinner sky. Virgin Atlantic, appropriately, securing…