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Sunday Times Culture Magazine March 4th 2007
Cover story -Thermopylae, where 300 Spartans saw off the Persian hordes, is the great East-West standoff. Can a low-budget blockbuster do it justice?
Books – As graphic novels boom, are images edging out words, asks Bryan Appleyard
Film – ‘You have a loaded gun, and you’ve got what it takes to blow their heads off’: Quentin Tarantino on why he’ll always do it his way
Art – Renoir and the great outdoors were poor partners, writes Waldemar Januszczak
Theatre – Shakespeare’s Dream crosses to India and takes flight in seven languages
Television – How Grey’s Anatomy gave the medical drama a soapy solution
Music – Feature How important are record producers, and what do they actually do? Richard Clayton rounds up the archetypes: boffin, svengali…
Going for a song – Lynne Truss on Tracy Chapman’s She’s Got Her Ticket, the soundtrack to a solo holiday in the Algarve
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