It occurs to me, putting aside all consideration of who he is as a private indi vidual, that this is who Kevin Spacey is becoming as an actor - a shotgun marriage of two great performers and stars who seem, on the face of it, improbable bedfellows - Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
I wish it were not so, but it is, and when Peter Carey asks if it's even a free speech issue, and calls PEN self-righteous for taking it up, and then attacks the entire nation of France for its arrogance; and when Teju Cole says that Israel is the cause of anti-semitism; then you have some very unfortunate bedfellows indeed.
Open Wed-Sat 1pm-6pm and by appointment Sex, drugs and art make familiar bedfellows, and they all contributed to the formation of this gallery in the heart of Amsterdam's infamous red light district.
Notwithstanding its new more detached, regulatory role (the one Grade apparently couldn't face playing) the Trust under Grade's chairmanship would broadly have been at one with a vision of the BBC that sees popularity and public purpose as good bedfellows not mortal enemies.
… they have always been that way but you have to be businesslike, professional and you to work with people who aren't your natural bedfellows From now on, the Liberal Democrats will not be accepting policies which go beyond last year's agreement with Tories – such as proposals for NHS reform.
Art and commerce have always been necessary bedfellows – at least from the artist's point of view.
In a case of odd bedfellows, Obama has found new Republican allies in pursuing the deal.
Hamas supporters, overjoyed when their ideological bedfellows, the Muslim Brothers, won Egypt's presidential election last June, are aghast that, in power, the Brothers have ceded control of Gaza's borders to Egypt's security forces.Some people in Gaza predict a resumption of the violence of last August, when 18 Egyptian soldiers were killed near the border where Egypt, Gaza and Israel all meet.
The Americans all but admitted they did it.The Taliban would be unlikely bedfellows of IS.
It is hard to know how much trade still gets through, but sanctions have certainly made a serious impact.The debate on their effectiveness has created some strange bedfellows.
For a man who claims to be defending Russian-speakers in Ukraine against fascists and Nazis, the Russian president has some curious bedfellows on the fringes of European politics, ranging from the creepy uniformed followers of Jobbik in Hungary to the more scrubbed-up National Front in France.There was a time when Russia's friends were principally on the left.
