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...she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she’s pretty much smitten. Darling narrates an eerie scene of gazing from her apartment window at the silhouette of Lescaze and his wife behind...
...plastered with thank-you letters penned by the apartheid era's superstars. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a regular visitor to Darling (he takes his wife there for their anniversary), writes: "We need you to continue to hold a mirror to our human condition." Alongside are affectionate faxes from the debonair '80s Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, and photos of "the couple" going hunting. "During the '80s, I started a rumor that he and Evita were having an affair, and even he started believing it," says...
...first he could not have given a name to his goal or, as he also admitted, define it with any accuracy. "I don't know that I've any style at all," he once told an interviewer. "I just patterned myself on a combination of 'Jack Buchanan [a debonair English musical-comedy star of the '20s and '30s], Nol Coward and Rex Harrison. I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be, and I finally became that person. Or he became me. Or we met at some point." In any event, Grant apparently felt that the process of self...
...loathed him on principle. Let me explain: he's charismatic, confident, talented, tall, young, handsome and has lots of hair. The press release issued by his publicist describes him as "debonair with a touch of degenerate dandy." He describes his sound on his MySpace page as "Beck via Queen and Elton John and a touch of Rufus W.[ainwright]." He appears to be having fun. Did I mention the full head of hair? I'd been given an advance copy of Life in Cartoon Motion, Mika's debut album due Feb. 5, but I'd been reluctant to play...
...other Bond woman has displayed such emotional complexity, although a few have come close. Pussy Galore threw a few feminist punches in “Goldfinger,” but eventually succumbed to the irresistible aura of 007—then rendered as a debonair playboy by Sean Connery. Craig’s Bond is less suave and more sardonic; Green’s Vesper also has barbs aplenty up her masculine suit jacket sleeves to sling back at her nemesis and future lover...