Screening on 1 January at 6.10pm; 6 Jan at 8.20pm; 7 Jan at 6pm; all at NFT2, London (www.bfi.org.uk) ART The Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination The British Library offers vibrant vermilions, brilliant ultramarines and a surfeit of gold leaf in their display of illuminated manuscripts selected from more than 800 years' worth of Royal collections.
According to the developer, Cogemad, the 23-hectare garden evokes the genius of royal gardener André Le Nôtre with its elegant parterres, gold-leafed fountain, marble statues and hedged labyrinth.
My 10-year-old's favourite parts were the Industrial Revolution and Mr Bean closely followed by the comedy genius of the royal Bond sequence which demonstrated that even the pinnacle of the British establishment can laugh at itself.
"The Rainbow Children," Prince (NPG) — The royal one has always been acknowledged as a genius, but a frustrating genius: since the late eighties, his music, while displaying flashes of brilliance, has also been very uneven.
Writing in the Radio Times, Hewlett quotes one royal commentator who described Bolland as a genius at pulling strings and manipulating the press, but said he was called "Blackadder" by Princes William and Harry.
This arrogant genius had been sacked as superintendent of royal buildings at the end of Henry II's reign, after making too many enemies.
Joan Littlewood (1914-2002) was a dynamic genius, whose Theatre Workshop, resident at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, did as much to reshape the landscape in the 1950s and 60s as the Royal Court.
But you and I know it is you -- with your great voice, your raging beauty, your notorious genius, your animal energy, your little boy vanity, your royal arrogance and that selfishness that permits you no other exit except self-destruction.
Turning Britain's royal octogenarian into a Bond girl was a stroke of cross-marketing genius that profited queen and country both, while also encapsulating the appeal of the 007 brand in the age of aerial drones.
At 15 his genius was clear, doing makeup and hair for the Royals of his city Tehran.
