The many interviews, statements, documentary extracts, anecdotes and reflections that make up the book are often fascinating in themselves, but do they hang together?
She's aged 51 here – and in the second of the two documentary extracts, Anthony Dowell, among others, offers illuminating physical analysis of both the symmetrical beauty and rare longevity of Fonteyn's technique (1.31), attributing them to the unusually even, harmonious distribution of muscular stress in her dancing.
The 25-year-old singer broke down in a documentary extract posted online last night (24.04.11) and spoke of how much she fears criticism, admitting she feels like a "loser kid in high school".
The two lives are reconstructed from a couple of TV documentaries about Andrea, extracts from The Arbor performed alfresco on the estate, and an outstanding team of actors (one of them George Costigan, who played Bob in Rita, Sue and Bob Too!) miming to tape-recorded testimony by family, friends and associates of the Dunbar family.
Citizen includes extracts from documentary film scripts, screengrabs of Zinedine Zidane headbutting Marco Materazzi at the 2006 World Cup, JMW Turner's painting The Slave Ship and an essay on Venus Williams.
The jury was also shown extracts from a BBC Panorama documentary which showed pictures of the rusting boiler and the hotel complex.
The film's visual high points are its historical footage (extracted from a 1969 documentary called "Sunseed"), showing Ram Dass in his heyday, the center of hippie lawn parties held on his father's New Hampshire estate.
"Van Sant draws liberally on Rob Epstein's excellent Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), and extracts top-rate performances from Josh Brolin as Milk's murderer, Diego Luna as his lover, and Emile Hirsch as a street kid turned activist.
For the War Room, for example, they were given exclusive access to the BFI's archives, and for current single Everest they have used extracts from the 1953 feature-length documentary, the Conquest of Everest.
His show – a collage of autobiographical standup, extracts from his supposed novel and from a spoof BBC4 historical documentary – couldn't be more jaundiced about our caged lives.
The revelation appears in a Channel 4 documentary, Dead Famous DNA, broadcast next week, in which leading scientists attempt to extract DNA from relics and analyse their genome to solve mysteries associated with them.
