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Word: obie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Coronets, 1949); Professor Marcus (The Ladykillers, 1955); Colonel Nicholson (The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957) General Yevgraf Zhivago (Dr. Zhivago, 1965); Adolf Hitler (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, 1973); Professor Godbole (A Passage to India, 1984); Sigmund Freud (Lovesick, 1983); George Smiley (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 1980); Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi (Star Wars, 1977); King Charles I (Cromwell, 1970); Prince Feisal (Lawrence of Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIFE Remembers | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

Audience member Uju J. Obi '04 said the show "had so much energy and vibe; it felt like the real Apollo Night...

Author: By Fabiana Silva, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Inside and Out, BSA Event Gets Crowd Dancing | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...early '90s producers Aaron Spelling and Darren Star were the Obi-Wan and Luke of empty-calorie entertainment. They teamed on the teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210 and its spin-off Melrose Place, Spelling lending young Star his powerful name and expertise, Star supplying fresh ideas to the eminence glitz who gave us Dynasty and The Love Boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pointe, Counterpoint | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Guinness would search the globe for new accents and characters: Japanese (A Majority of One), Bedouin (Lawrence of Arabia), Russian (Doctor Zhivago), Indian (A Passage to India). His transparency made it easy for him to incarnate specters; he was Marley's Ghost in Scrooge and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars--the role that heaped on him the annoyance of multigenerational fame. But "the force" was not with Guinness; delicacy and subversive wit were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessings in Disguise: ALEC GUINNESS (1914-2000) | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...another fellow carrying around a sign that read "Nominate Jimmy Carter to Unite the Reform Party." And there was Jim Bourassa, founding chairman of the Arizona Reform party, who wears on his jacket not a political button but a large photograph of recently-deceased actor Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Bourassa says the photo gives him otherworldly powers to wrest political might away from Buchanan. "We're using the Force to save the party," he says with a straight face. "I am Arizona's Luke Skywalker." Well, if John McCain's not using that shtick anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reform Party's Two-Ring Circus Leaves Town | 8/13/2000 | See Source »

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