Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Banished for life to New South Wales, a convict eventually returns to 19th century London, risking hanging if the law discovers him, all because he wants to see Henry Phipps, the young English gentleman he has "made" by sending money from abroad. Does that premise sound familiar? It will to those who have read Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and remember Pip's turmoil when he learns that his elevation in society has been financed by the fearsome felon Abel Magwitch. The novel being described here, however, is Peter Carey's Jack Maggs (Knopf; 306 pages; $24). What the dickens...
...leitmotif. Embarrassingly enough, the inspiration for my latest design obsession came while reading Playboy Magazine. I had purchased the Christmas issue for a friend of mine and I helped myself to leafing through it before delivery. A certain ad caught my eye. The picture showed a gentleman dressed in a tuxedo sitting at a casino table with several sexy women. The text running along the bottom of the ad told me that the man who reads Playboy jets off on weekend get-aways. He drops a lots of money on cars, clothes and cuisine. The handsome "Playboy gentleman...
King Script for 'X Files' Gets Nixed Horrormeister Stephen King was asked to write a script for "The X-Files," but the show's producer, Chris Carter, wasn't blown away by it. "Chris is a real gentleman, but basically he came back to me and said, 'This isn't what we wanted,"' King told TV Guide. Carter wanted King to make the story creepier, and the novelist took another couple of stabs at it. But in the end Carter ended up doing a rewrite himself. The episode airs...
...farm, Duvall is a gentleman farmer who has just finished renovating a barn into a posh party space, with a bar, a pool table and, of course, a dance floor. He can afford it. October Films paid $6 million for U.S. rights to The Apostle. He also earns a nice paycheck on gigs like this year's Deep Impact (sci-fi with Morgan Freeman) and A Civil Action (courtrooms with John Travolta). That leaves something in the bank for his own projects; he and Thornton are planning a Merle Haggard biopic. "The best of it all," he says...
...high school junior. Rick, a senior she knows mildly well, called and invited her to a movie. And not only did Rick pleasantly surprise Nina by paying for the tickets, he also insisted on footing the dinner bill at Pizzeria Uno. This boy is not afraid to be a gentleman...