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...young Moore got his start in the entertainment business - first as a chorister and organist in his parish church in Dagenham, near London, then to Oxford on a scholarship as an organist. In 1960 Moore was recruited for a comic accompanist's gig on the seminal London-to-Broadway four-man comedy review Beyond the Fringe, which starred the lanky British comic Peter Cook. Moore and Cook hit it off, and an odd-couple collaboration was born that put the little man on the path to Hollywood stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dudley Moore, 1935-2002 | 3/27/2002 | See Source »

...Shetlanders. Willie Irvine, 50, comes from a long line of fishermen. The father of five is part-owner of Athena, a 72-ft. seine-netter, the only one of its kind in Whalsay. Willie lovingly says of his boat, "We've been together 28 years." Willie and the four-man crew catch cod, haddock and whiting. In good weather he's at sea five days a week and can catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Travelers: Northern Exposure | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

Riding singer-songwriter James Walsh’s tremulous vocals, Starsailor has won acclaim in England as the “next Radiohead” and has even attracted premature comparisons to everybody’s favorite four-man British boy band, the Beatles. To be sure, the group’s sound is deeply rooted in rock-and-roll history. Named after folk-star Tim Buckley’s 1970 album Starsailor, the Manchester foursome bear the noticeable influence of Buckley’s better known contemporaries Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Nick Drake. Their sound also owes something...

Author: By Lee HUDSON Teslik, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pretty, Pale, and Polite | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...adrenaline, he beat Kimura. Hays won $10,000, bought a sled and, once on the track, discovered that "the fight had helped me. My fear factor in the sled is never maxed out, and I can concentrate on the task at hand." He has won in two- and four-man bobs this year and is a favorite in Utah despite the loss of pusher Pavle Jovanovic, who was disqualified for a positive drug test (he is appealing the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just This Side of Loony | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

...just the drive he dislikes. The proceedings themselves also draw his ire. "It's boring. I don't have to be there. Why should I go?" he asks. The court insists he attend most days. A media pack mobs him inside the courthouse, swarming around him as his four-man, one-woman legal team answers questions about the day's battle plan. Then the clerk calls the court to order and the three judges take their seats. Estrada faces the bench from the front row, sagging in a monogrammed barong tagalog, his lips tugged down in a pout, his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Estrada on Ice | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

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