Word: brits
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DiCaprio wasn't the first choice for the role. In the novel, Richard is a Brit, and Boyle had planned to cast Ewan McGregor, the young Scottish actor who appeared in all three of his earlier films (and who stars as the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the upcoming Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace). However, DiCaprio had expressed strong interest in working with Boyle ever since they crossed paths at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996. DiCaprio had recently made The Basketball Diaries, a dark indie film about heroin addicts, while Boyle was there with Trainspotting, a light indie...
...debut album by Scotland's Hefner, contain three injunctions, which characterize Hefner rather well: "If you like this record send us one of yours. Be kind to small businesses. Buy more Beach Boys records." These are good sentiments, well meaning and empty headed. Such is their music. Hefner's Brit-pop inclinations are balanced by Antony Harding's vocals, which careen from Elvis Costello to the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano--although the lyrics never come close to the wit or heart of those...
...firing-on-Fort-Sumter of this little war came when Christopher Hitchens, a lefty Brit who writes for Vanity Fair and the Nation, signed an affidavit against his old friend Sidney Blumenthal, a presidential aide and former political writer who has worked for the New Yorker and the New Republic. Hitchens told congressional investigators that Blumenthal, who left journalism two years ago for the White House, had called Monica Lewinsky a "stalker" at a social lunch last March. It could be a big deal if it helps prove Blumenthal lied under oath when he told impeachment investigators he didn...
...number four in Best Film of the Last 30 Or So Years. Although few of us perhaps could say what a kestrel is--even though it is totally the coolest, supposedly able to hover Harrier-like in the air--we would do well to follow the Brit crits' lead: though not the best example, My Name Is Joe is another acceptable slice of Loach's British social realism...
...speaking of Peterman only at his extreme, though I confess I think the Peterman contribution has been more to the culture of fantasy than to clothing. I search for Peterman moments in real life. For example: A foreign correspondent, old Asia hand, Brit I've known for years, has us up to his tiny, steamy Manhattan apartment for dinner. He makes Peking duck, and when he notices an awkward pause in the conversation, pops his head out of the kitchen and begins an anecdote in that fluting voice of his: "You know, once when I was playing...