Thursday 16 - Wednesday 22 August 2001

Festival Sections

17 Books

17 Gore Vidal 17 Ruaridh Nicoll

20 Comedy

20 Mark Thomas 20 Ricky Gervais

34 Emio Greco 34 Ballett Freiburg

37 Film I

37 Guillermo de Toro 38 Battle Royale 39 Enigma

42 Dr Bunhead

The Front

This week's top twenty Fringe and Festival shows . . . underground movies

. . . the Chanclettes’ favourite camp movies

44 Ben Folds

51 Theatre -

51 The Seagull 51 Steven Berkoff

73 Art

Features

8 Ghost World Terry Zwigotf casts Thora Birch in the big screen treatment of Daniel Clowes’ cult comic book of angsty teenage life.

73 Lyn Lowenstein 73 Serizawa

7.8.1.CIU_bLs.-*'xii: _ . 81 White Rabbit Cowboys 81 Rob Mello

Festival view

88 Jenny Eclair on settling in for another Fringe, and John Fardell with another Festival dream

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13 Mark Steel The Book Festival gets radical with the appearance of political heavyweight Gore Vidal, anti-global campaigner Naomi Klein and comedian Mark Steel.

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