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Agatha Christie created Poirot in her first novel, the 1920 The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and he was in movies by 1931. This mustachioed dandy with a French accent as hokey as Inspector Clouseau's was a perfect fit for Peter Ustinov, who gave Poirot heft and a subversive slyness in three features (including this 1978 caper with Bette Davis and Maggie Smith) and then three spiffy TV films...
...distinguish former mistresses from the other total strangers who greet him in the streets. Although he first describes Paola as beautiful despite her years, this seems to have little hold over Yambo’s attention; he quickly becomes preoccupied with finding out whether he has had an affair with the pretty Eastern European who assists him in his office...
Your article on the country's love affair with the housing market did a fantastic job of pointing out those who played the speculation game and won [June 13]. Such booms, unfortunately, are often followed by busts. Real estate may be safer than stocks or other investments, but to assume that this gold rush will continue forever is naive...
There's much more to this richly detailed, sometimes humorous film: Tom undertakes an affair with his best friend's wife (Aure Atika); he and his Chinese piano coach (Linh Dan Pham) fall in love despite the fact that they don't share a language; he manages to profoundly imperil his father when he screws up an attempt to collect a debt from a Russian crime lord...
Meals at Manila's Malacañang palace are a modest affair. at a recent lunch, the Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and some guests from TIME were fed scrambled eggs, bacon, burgers and fries. It was a menu with a message-that Arroyo is scrupulously guarding the nation's scant resources. It's easy to see why her kitchen is engaged in this game of culinary p.r. Despite a solid growth rate of around 5%, the economy is a mess, hobbled by 11% unemployment, 8% inflation, and a crushing $70 billion in national debt. Adding to the perception that...