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|  | | | | | | | | Jim White attended Manchester Grammar School and read English at the University of Bristol, though maintains most of his education came on the terraces at Old Trafford.
A founding member of staff at the Independent in 1986, he moved across to the Guardian ten years later, where his contributions have won the sports columnist of the year. A regular on Saturday Review and Front Row, he can also be frequently heard on Radio 5, where he was awarded a Sony Gold award for a documentary about the demise of Wembley Stadium.
Cinema has been a lifelong passion since his dad took him to see Lawrence of Arabia when he was a child and he returned tice a day every day for the next week to see the film over and again. After a youth largely spent oscillating between the football pitch and the local flea pit (his first date was at, bizarrely, 101 Dalmatians: it was all that was on) these days his favourite movies depend on his mood. The Godfather Part Two if in need of an epic, High Society for an uplift of the soul, This Is Spinal Tap when jokes are required. Though his children have shown him that there is not a lot wrong with Toy Story.
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Elliot Gould enjoyed his heyday back in the 70s, most notably in his portrayal of the anti-establishment figure 'Trapper John' Mcintrye in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H. He returns to our screens this weekend as Dr Goldstein in a new film Puckoon, based on the novel by Spike Milligan. He talks to Jim White from his home in L.A.
Surf Movies
Blue Crush is the latest addition to mainstream surf movies, a girl-power flick where the bronzed babe takes on the male world of the Pipeline, a contest where any wave less than 15 feet just isn't worth getting out of bed for. Andy Martin, writer, academic and failed big-league surfers presents the Back Row guide to catching the perfect wave.
Pot Luck
Next week sees the release of an unsettling Spanish thriller Intacto starring Max Von Sydow. It deals with gambling, accidents, escapes and good luck. The writer and philosopher Jonathan Ree has been working out what it all means.
Back Row recommends
In the multiplex:
Far From Heaven
In the art-house:
In This World
On video/dvd:
Big Wednesday
QUIZZES.
Win a CD copy of the Treasure Planet soundtrack released this week.
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RELATED LINKS
Front Row
Saturday Review
Mark Kemode's film reviews on Five Live
BBCi's Film website
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