Word: gardners
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...when he made the first film, he was a supporting player to his then girlfriend Kate Beckinsale's Selene, a vision in pancake face, blood red lipstick and black leather. Then she went off with the movie's director, Len Wiseman - ouch. Since then, Beckinsale has played Ava Gardner in The Aviator and, more or less, Judith Miller in Nothing But the Truth; Wiseman graduated to directing the very snappy fourth Die Hard movie; and Sheen became an upmarket character star. Now he's top-billed as Lucian the hybrid Lycan...
...butterfly and is addressed to George Hessen, Nabokov’s closest friend. “It was common for Nabokov to draw butterflies in inscribed copies of his books for those close to him,” said Nabokov scholar Professor Leland de la Durantaye, the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English. John W. Wronoski, the owner of Lame Duck, acquired the book from a Soviet emigrate as part of a larger collection of pieces inscribed by Nabokov. “I must have offered to buy the collection 600 times before he sold...
...1950s Cooke's traveling companions were his second wife Jane and their friends, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.) The famous somehow fell into his lap. Cooke was Greta Garbo's unofficial cigarette lighter, though he once said the most beautiful woman he'd ever met was Ava Gardner. They were charmed; he was blessed...
...Grunwald suggested five steps to "help get America back on track" [Nov. 17]. May I suggest a sixth: Democrats and Republicans must put an end to partisan politics and work together to heal our nation. Most Americans are tired of the self-serving games that strangle progress. Nancy Turner, Gardner, Massachusetts...
...that Carpentier's direction of the project provides enough reason for hope. "He is a genius in his field and an internationally respected figure, both as a developer of devices as well as a transplant specialist. Carpentier brings a lot of authority and gravitas to this," says Dr. Gardner. "Predicting success would be premature, but the fact this is Carpentier's project increases the chances it may constitute a big breakthrough...