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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 twice 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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|  | | Listen to Jim White reveal his own celluloid highs and lows
This week - The Matrix Reloaded
The breathless publicity machine for The Matrix Reloaded touches down in London and Jim White talks to the star Keanu Reeves and the producer Joel Silver.
Bend it Like Beckham
Bend it Like Beckham is proving to be a box-office hit in America. Entertainment Weekly hailed it as "funny, buoyant and exhilarating", Time reckoned it "the funniest film of the year". The film's success over there has baffled many, not least the director Gurinder Chadha. Jim White talks to Variety's New York based film critic Michael Fleming about this curious phenomenon.
Steve Martin
Antonia Quirke discusses Steve Martin's career from his latest film, Bringing Down The House, to the Man With Two Brains.
Bob Hope
Bob Hope celebrates his 100th birthday next week. He can certainly afford to throw a birthday party; he has made £400m from a career spanning most of the 20th century. John Baxter and Dick Vosburgh tell Back Row how it all began.
Back Row recommends
In the multiplex:
The Matrix Reloaded
In the art house:
The Missouri Breaks
On video/dvd:
Heaven
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