Mr. Daldry is an Academy darling, receiving nominations for best director for all of his movies ("Billy Elliot," "The Hours" and "The Reader"), a stunning achievement.
She warned that "picking and choosing" which company darlings receive "corporate welfare" is a "hallmark of corruption" and "socialism".
Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Dr Vince Cable put this to Darling today, but received short shrift.
Darling's statement received a warmer response from Labour MPs, although many of them were very critical of the banks.
Then he listed a few of the Yes Campaign's Utopian claims; "Why don't you do more to repudiate them?" he said, to more murmured approval than Mr Darling's speech received.
Fashion darling Philip Lim, who received rave reviews for his Spring 2007 collection presentation in New York last Sunday, believes in beautiful, fashionable clothes that are believe or not affordable.
For his work on Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege", Curtis received the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award and the Mayflower Cup Award.
Hannah Kent, the award-winning author of Burial Rites and a co-founder of the Australian literary journal, Kill Your Darlings, which receives Australian Council funding, said the wide range of people in attendance at the meeting showed the industry's concern.
In two weeks, Jonathan Franzen has gone from great American novelist (says Time magazine) to literary darling whose work has received an unfair helping of critical praise (says a fellow novelist, Jodi Picoult) to the writer we love to hate (says Newsweek).
"The government has completed its review of the two detailed proposals received," Alistair M. Darling, chancellor of the Exchequer, said at a news conference in London on Sunday.
