Word: chauffeured
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...Visiting Mrs. Nabokov, Martin Amis notes that as a student at Oxford, he "sometimes wished that E.B. White would call by, in a chauffeur-driven limousine, to offer me a job on the New Yorker. It never happened. But it happened to Updike...
...movies. Dick Van Dyke, now an avuncular 68, portrays a crime-solving physician in the CBS series Diagnosis Murder, and Gene Barry, 74, is back in Burke's Law, a new version of the '60s series about a millionaire police detective who tools to crime scenes in a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce...
...monologues that run endlessly through our mind. They are the eternal observers, God's night watchmen, holy voyeurs. Wenders would probably say they are moviegoers, eavesdropping for a few privileged hours on a world more perilous and beautiful than our own. In a lovely scene, Cassiel comforts an old chauffeur (Heinz Ruhmann, a German movie star since 1926) with memories of his childhood. The angel's knowledge validates these reveries, brings the faraway into reassuring emotional close...
...Wilder first envisioned beginning in a morgue with sheet-covered bodies speaking in voice-over. Although that scene did not wind up in the movie, it helps explain why Sunset Boulevard can be called the film that invented camp. Egomaniacal Norma, her slavish chauffeur Max (who turns out to be her former director and ex-husband) and down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis, who falls into her orbit out of sympathy and a love of luxury, are all a bit ridiculous. Where the London staging took them seriously, the Los Angeles rethink sends them up. Yet it wisely manages...
...check for 50 million yen to Osaka to complete the transaction, but the phone rings. A voice tells Gondo that his son has been kidnapped: the ransom is 30 million yen. Ready to pay any price for his own son, Gondo then learns that the son of his chauffeur was taken by mistake, but the kidnapper wants the money, anyway. At stake is the lifestyle and financial future of Gondo, his wife...