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...Risky Moves At a rehearsal studio above Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, Winsor - who also played the lead in Edward Scissorhands - is running through a series of macabre duets with his partners and victims. The music, by British composer Terry Davies, a long-time Bourne collaborator, is contemporary club scene with a sinister edge. "The show's very fast-paced," says Winsor, who prepared for the role by watching films like Peeping Tom, Matador and American Psycho. "We're making him much more psychopathic than in the book. He spirals completely out of control...
...Britain's intensely secretive domestic intelligence agency. He was contacted "some months ago" by MI5 and asked to help encourage gay men and women to consider careers with the service and set up a network for its existing gay and lesbian employees. The move inspired punning headlines in the British press ("The Guy Who Loved Me") and raised a few eyebrows among older generations, who remember that for many years, gays and lesbians were explicitly barred from working for Britain's intelligence and diplomatic services...
...Until gay sex was decriminalized in 1967, Britain's gay community protected itself against potential prosecution by conducting conversations in a special argot, Polari, a mixture of Italian, Romany and London slang. The British security services are eager to attract candidates with good language skills, but Polari isn't on the list. Still, Summerskill is so confident that MI5's diversity policies are sincere that the agency is listed in Stonewall's latest graduate recruitment guide as a gay-friendly employer. "This wouldn't be happening if we didn't think they were taking some strenuous steps to move forward...
...Worse still: the slump comes just as a rash of new office developments hit the market. With more than 7 million sq ft (650,000 sq m) of speculative office space coming online in the City this year and next, according to Atisreal, British Land may not be the only developer to take a time out. Rival Land Securities, Britain's largest property firm, will decide next March whether to go ahead with construction of a planned 509 ft (155-m) tower around the corner from Leadenhall Building; it too was originally planned for completion in 2011. "It seems...
...delaying the Leadenhall project doesn't mean British Land can relax. A short stroll from that site, two of its other projects, Broadgate Tower and the neighboring 201 Bishopsgate, are scheduled to open early next year. And while tenants are secured for more than four-fifths of the smaller tower on Bishopsgate, more than half of the 35-storey, $570 million Broadgate Tower is still to be leased out. It's a similar story a few hundred yards across the City at the Ropemaker building, British Land's $500 million tower also slated to open next year...