* November 16 – Michael Billington, British drama critic

Michael Billington wrote in The Guardian that " play gets richer with each viewing ... there is poetry and passion behind the mathematics and metaphysics.

" If this is not great acting I don't know what is ", wrote Michael Billington in The Guardian.

" Michael Billington wrote, " Too much of this film has the hectoring stridency of tabloid headlines ", while Chris Petit in Time Out described it as " slick, ' adult ', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow ", adding that " most of the interest comes in watching such a lavishly mounted vehicle leaving the rails so spectacularly.

* Michael Billington – Critic, author and radio presenter.

He and his wife, who died in October 2002 at the age of 96, had eight children, among them the writers Lady Antonia Fraser, Lady Rachel Billington, Lady Judith Kazantzis, diplomat Sir Michael Pakenham and Thomas Pakenham ( the 8th Earl of Longford ).

Merchant took her stage name as a composite of the actress Vivien Leigh and her brother, who was a merchant seaman ( cited by Michael Billington ).

At first, Merchant took it very well, saying positive things about Fraser, according to her friend artist Guy Vaesen ( as cited by Michael Billington ); but, Vaesen recalled, after " a female friend of Vivien's trotted round to her house and poisoned her mind against Antonia ... ife in Hanover Terrace the Pinters then lived gradually became impossible ".

Critic Michael Billington recalled: " In Redgrave's Vanya you saw both a tremulous victim of a lifetime's emotional repression and the wasted potential of a Chekhovian might-have-been: as Redgrave and Olivier took their joint curtain call, linked hands held triumphantly aloft, we were not to know that this was to symbolise the end of their artistic amity.

Writing for The Observer, Robert Cushman thought that Le Mesurier played the role with " deeply grizzled torpor ", while Michael Billington, reviewing for The Guardian saw him as a " grey, gentle wisp of a man, full of half-completed gestures and seraphic smiles ".

The critic Michael Billington, summarising these events, wrote: " In 1960 the twenty-nine-year-old Peter Hall formally took charge at Stratford-upon-Avon and set about turning a star-laden, six-month Shakespeare festival into a monumental, year-round operation built around a permanent company, a London base and contemporary work from home and abroad.

Summing up this triumphant period, The Guardian critic Michael Billington later wrote: " 1977 the RSC struck gold.

The critic Michael Billington believes that this version is more suggestive of Fletcher than Shakespeare.

Critic Michael Billington believes this version is more suggestive of Middleton than Shakespeare.

* Billington, Michael.

People involved in the arts and born in the town include the actress Kathleen Harrison in 1892 ; Alfred Wainwright, author of the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells, in 1907 ; broadcaster Russell Harty in 1934 ; the internationally renowned Contemporary artist Ross Eccles in 1937, many of his paintings feature Blackburn and Lancashire scenes and landmarks ; the writer Josephine Cox in 1941 who set many of her novels in Lancashire ; the actor Anthony Valentine in 1939 ; the actor Michael Billington, star of UFO in 1941 ; actor Ian McShane in 1942 ; rock musician Tony Ashton in 1946 ; actor Jon Walmsley in 1956 ; film maker Michael Winterbottom in 1961 ; actor Steve Pemberton in 1967 ; actress Wendi Peters in 1968 ; actor / comedian Lee Mack in 1968 ; television host Debbie Travis ; author Tony O ' Neill in 1978 ; television presenter and documentary director Michael Gibson in 1980 ; and singer and actress Diana Vickers in 1991.

Stephen presented London stars such as Edmund Kean, Alexander and Elizabeth Pope ( née Elizabeth Younge ), Mrs. Dorothea Jordan, his brother John Philip Kemble, Wright Bowden, his sister Sarah Siddons, Elizabeth Billington, Michael Kelly ( tenor ), Anna Maria Crouch, and Charles Lee Lewes.

On 26 April 2005, Harold Pinter, who was to win the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year, gave a public reading and was interviewed by his official authorised biographer, Michael Billington, in the studio named for Pinter and located as part of the Faculty of Arts ( School of English and Drama ) in the Mile End campus, to celebrate its refurbishment.

Billington, Michael.

The critic Michael Billington writes of the piece, " It is not a closet gay play but a classic about the mysterious charm of androgeny.

Region 1 DVD release cover, displaying ( left to right ) actors Gabrielle Drake, Michael Billington and Ed Bishop

Colonel Paul Foster ( portrayed by Michael Billington ) is a former test pilot whose plane was critically damaged when SHADO's Sky One intercepted and destroyed a UFO in close proximity to Foster's jet.

During this appearance, Linehan took issue with Today programme presenter Justin Webb over what he saw as the attempted staging of an artificial argument between himself and the critic Michael Billington.

Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist and critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right, coined the term " fusion paranoia " to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he said were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

The critic Michael Medved characterized examples of the " so bad it's good " class of low-budget cult film through books such as The Golden Turkey Awards.

The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved.

A Show of Hands met with strong fan approval, but Rolling Stone critic Michael Azerrad dismissed it as " musical muscle " with 1. 5 stars, claiming Rush fans viewed their favourite power trio as " the holy trinity ".

Acclaimed director Michael Haneke named the film his fourth favorite film when he voted for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll ; director Catherine Breillat and film critic Joel David also voted for the film.

Michael Feingold, an American critic, claims that Wilde drew inspiration for his plot from W. S. Gilbert's Engaged.

In 1904 for the Gramophone ( and Typewriter Company ) he accompanied the tenor Fernando De Lucia in L ' anima ho stanca from Adriana Lecouvreur and in the song Luntananza, an effort which critic Michael Henstock ( in his biography of De Lucia ) declares is hardly inspired by De Lucia's fine performances.

* Michael Winner, Film director and producer, restaurant critic

As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, " It was $ 65 million ... Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

According to art critic Michael Kimmelman, " Busoni shuffled the variations, skipping some, then added his own rather voluptuous coda to create a three-movement structure ; each movement has a distinct, arcing shape, and the whole becomes a more tightly organized drama than the original.

At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.

More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing, " The gallows humor was the melodramatic farce's saving grace ; the film uses its razor-sharp instruments to cut into the hides of the insensitive institutionalized health care providers like Michael Moore's Sicko does in 2007 to the fat-cat HMOs.

Writing about Lubitsch's work, critic Michael Wilmington observed:

* Commenting on Nero Wolfe's prolonges struggle with the powerful crime boss Arnold Zeck, Michael Dirda – book critic for The Washington Post – wrote " I was thrilled when Wolfe finally encountered his own Moriarty in the archvillain Arnold Zeck ,".

It featured Pulitzer Prize winning critics such as Jonathan Yardley and Michael Dirda, the latter of whom established his career as a critic at The Post.

* Michael Dirda ( book critic, Pulitzer Prize )

* William Michael Rossetti ( critic )

In The New York Times, critic Michael Kimmelman wrote that the sales " stretched the accepted rules of deaccessioning further than many American institutions have been willing to do.

Notable residents have included inventor Michael I. Pupin, publisher James Laughlin, critic Brendan Gill and Secretary of the Treasury William Windom.

* J. I. M. Stewart ( Michael Innes ) ( 1906 – 1994 ), literary critic and novelist

One left-wing critic is Professor Michael Mandel, who wrote that in comparison to politicians, judges do not have to be as sensitive to the will of the electorate, nor do they have to make sure their decisions are easily understandable to the average Canadian citizen.

Under Bělohlávek the orchestra won glowing reviews: The Times referred to its " superb musicians ", Michael Kennedy in The Sunday Telegraph referred to a " rich and opulent magnificently played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra " under Bělohlávek, and another Telegraph critic praised the BBC SO's " virtuoso form ".