Word: brits
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...Australia” eventually succeeds in constructing itself as an epic film, it just isn’t a very good one.The story of “Australia” is essentially a series of clichés. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an upper-class Brit, gets wrapped up in a caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly on the Australian beef...
...auteur. She dawdles in sketching Bella's high school chums, and her direction of the dialogue will often bore those who aren't mouthing it from memory as the actors speak it. But she chose her leads wisely: the pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here.) Yet waiting has its own delicious tension...
When Stuart Vevers moved to Madrid as the new creative director at Loewe last January, his knowledge of the city was close to nil. "I'd been here once for an interview," says the 34-year-old Brit. "The trip lasted about four hours." Twice weekly Spanish lessons prepared him for a new language but not a new culture. "After living in New York, Paris and London, Madrid is a complete change," he says. "It's about half the size, so at times you feel a bit more like you're in a town." That, combined with the city...
...Gist:Barlow is not a half-assed carnivore. An expatriate Brit who relocated to the Galician town of his Spaniard wife, he launches himself on a foolhardy mission: travel around northwest Spain and eat as much pig as possible. Snout, marrow, heart, bladder, head-all of it. Along the way, he tells the tale of Galicia, a cold, rainy, and stubbornly independent piece of Spain on the Atlantic Ocean. It is "a patchwork of small, low-intensity farms...real working countryside" and home to Don Quixote's Miguel de Cervantes, longtime Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, and the Castro family...
There is something in the water of the British Isles that anyone even half-familiar with rock music is aware of—many have suffered through haggis and gloomy weather for just a taste of it. The Beatles used it to make their afternoon tea and to found Brit Pop; U2 used it to water the roots of “The Joshua Tree” and make Irish rock relevant. Many others have come and gone since then and enjoyed their 15 minutes on the anti-oasis in the North Sea.Until recently, Scotland has had little to speak...