Manny Pacquiao (right) does not want the public to think of his November match against Brandon Rios at the Venetian Macao’s Cotai Arena as a retirement party. After an 11-month hiatus, the Filipino boxing legend is keen to prove he is still in fighting shape. Having been named by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential people in 2009, Pacquiao has been a congressman in the Philippines since 2010 and even appears on postage stamps in the country. Last year, he was immortalised in a song, Manny Pacquiao, recorded by rapper Victor Vazquez …
The Nobel Prize-winning writer was in the vanguard of the modernist movement in literature. He typically employed a stream-of-consciousness style of writing, which many critics interpret as an expression of his personal life. Writer Carole Seymour-Jones, in her book Painted Shadow, attributes the despairing tone of Eliot’s poem The Waste Land to his difficult relationship with his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood. This unhappy marriage became the subject of a 1984 play, Tom and Viv, which was later adapted into a film, starring Miranda Richardson and Willem Dafoe …