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ROGER AND ME When General Motors closed its car plant in Flint, Michigan, the town lost its heart as well as its engine. Trevor Johnston talks to Michael Moore, the man who mortgaged his life to make Roger and Me, the documentary movie that made the wheeler-dealers screech.
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MARTIN MILLAR The Glasgow-born author of three cult crackers is the master of Brixton low-life. Alastair Mabbott sought him out in his London pied a terre.
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RADIO DRAMA Radio Scotland, the station that gives you Art Sutter and advises you to bite the wax, has an ace drama department. With nine new plays working their way through the schedules, Mark Fisher quizzes producer Stewart Conn on how to speak proper to mike.
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GLASGOW 1990 From photographs of Partick to the World Robot Olympics, your May diary to what‘s on in the Euro capital ofculture.
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THE NOTTING HILLBILLIES Pretty straight but by no means dire, Mark Knopfler’s on the road again with a trio ofsweet strummers. Tom Lappin meets one ofthem, Steve Phillips. a laid-back Leeds quesman.
ART ....................... .. 55 CLUBS .................... .. 64 FILM ...................... .. 15 MUSIC .................... .. 29 TELEVISION ............. .. 7O THEATRE ................. .. 45
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CLUBS .................... .. 65 FILMINOEX .............. .. 18 LISTINGS .......... .. 26 KIDS ...................... .. 69 MUSIC CLASSICAL ..... .. 42 FOLK ................ .. 41 JAZZ ................ .. 39 ROCK ............... .. 36 SPORT .................... .. 63 TELEVISION ............. .. 71 THEATRE ................. .. 48 CABARET ........... .. 52 DANCE .............. .. 54
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B HIND THE SCENES..... 73 BOOKS ................... .. 78 CLASSIFIED ............. .. 84 COMPETITIONS ......... .. 87 FOOD ..................... .. 76 LETTERS ................. .. 88 OPEN ..................... .. 67
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