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Sunday Times Magazine August 2nd 2009
DID YOU KNOW? The jailed record producer Phil Spector tweets from his cell. Marilyn Monroe’s ghost on Broadway; and the man who travelled across Britain on his bus pass
RELATIVE VALUES – The property tycoon and ex-jailbird Gerald Ronson and his daughter Lisa, marketing director of his company
OPEN MINDS – The arts are just for the privileged few, and the poor are paying for the pleasures of the wealthy, says Stephen Pollard
ONE YEAR ON – When Kelly Knox who was born without a forearm, won Britain’s Missing Top Model show, she hoped that the modelling jobs would flood in. But all too soon, discrimination reared its ugly head
SHORT STORY – In the first of our series of summer reading for children, Michel Faber brings us the mischievous tale of a boy who is bullied by his bedroom furniture
A LIFE IN THE DAY – Paul Collingwood English test cricketer, on bonding with the lads brooding over bad times, and celebrating wins
SPECTRUM
A 12-page special featuring winning and acclaimed images from the 2009 lan Parry Scholarship. Including: the brothels of Bangladesh; civil unrest in Kenya, squalor in St Petersburg, infant victims of Soviet radiation poisoning; and eco-pirates ín Antarctica
Features
KATE’S ESCAPE – Hollywood had her down as a vamp and an ice-cool beauty. But as Kate Beckinsale tackles a series of low-budget, high-integrity roles, they’re having to think again
SHIFTING SANDS – Once the epitome of seaside chic, Torquay has become a shabby shadow of its former self. Now a band of entrepreneurs want to take it upmarket. But the bucket-and-spade brigade has other plans
AFRICA’S HEART AND SOL – Sol Kerzner was universally reviled for making millions from apartheid with his Sun City resort. Now he’s back in business-and he’s got Nelson Mandela right behind him
MOTHERS RUIN – In child-custody cases, is the court’s pendulum swinging too far in the father’s favour? Mothers who are losing their children speak out
64 pages. This issue is in very condition throughout.
