Word: hughed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...axiom of modern show biz that every scandal is a career move," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. So it is that Hugh Grant may actually have the last laugh after his one-night tour of Sunset Strip. His recent talk show tour to apologize for his encounter with Divine Brown has become very good publicity for his two upcoming films "An Awfully Big Adventure" and "Nine Months." Grant does wonderful work as an actor in the former movie as a vicious, smooth-as-snake-oil director of a theater troupe in postwar Liverpool. Grant is assured, residing inside this rotter...
...British loveboat and one-man charm school HUGH GRANT, for reasons best kept to himself, visits the seediest stretch of Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and invites working girl DIVINE BROWN a.k.a. Pancake a.k.a. Stella Marie Thompson into his rented BMW. They strike a deal that entails his giving her, among other things, $45. At about 1:45 a.m. the local constabulary interrupts. "I did something completely insane," says Grant later. Around the world, people agree. Day's Big Rumor: Brown...
...Blown It, Hugh," admonished the Sun. "Oh Hugh, how could you?" moaned The Guardian. "Grant had the world at his feet, but was caught with his trousers down," said the Daily Mail.An embarrassed Hugh Grant, caught with a prostitute in Hollywood Wednesday, flew home to London to face the music -- as well as his eight-year live-in girlfriend, Estee Lauder model Elizabeth Hurley. Before departing, the British actor left this now-famous explanation: "Last night I did something completely insane. I have hurt people I love and embarrassed people I work with. For both things I am more sorry...
...eyebrows were raised when Long Island LotharioJoey Buttafuocowas arrested last month for soliciting sex from an undercover cop on Hollywood's Sunset Strip. But today, just a few blocks away, it was -- oh no! --British heartthrob Hugh Grant.Police say the demure, 34-year-old actor, best known as the lead in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," invited a "known prostitute" into his car in the wee hours and was later "observed to be engaged in an act of lewd conduct." He's due in a Los Angeles courtroom to face a misdemeanor charge July...
...from it. The most impressive, distinctive music to come out of Britain of late has not been the crunching chords of rock but the soulful sounds of rhythm and blues. The juxtaposition of reserved Britons and emotion-laden R. and B. may seem incongruous to some-like casting Hugh Grant in Panther. Well, burn those stereotypes. English diva Des'ree, with her relaxed vocals and optimistic lyrics, has sold a million copies in the U.S. of her new album, I Ain't Movin', and secured nearly constant airplay on vh1, an American music-video channel intended for an older audience...