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...faut aller voir" (We must go and see) was the motto aboard legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. With his 1956 Oscar-winning underwater-adventure documentary The Silent World, Cousteau transported millions of viewers to the Indian Ocean islands of Assomption and Aldabra?one of the world's largest coral atolls. Today it's possible to go in person. The Island Sky is a small expedition ship that departs from Mauritius, taking 100 passengers on 12-day-long cruises on these turquoise waters. Wading ashore on Aldabra, home to the world's largest population of giant tortoises...
...Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
...wants it,” Streep says. “She wants to be good.”To Lohan’s credit, the film’s multi-generational ensemble cast and crew carries quite a lot of clout—20-some Oscar nominations among them. According to Altman, it was easy to manage the concentrated star power. “When there’s so many, they police themselves,” he says. Altman shot the film in just 23 days, a relatively speedy production time. And while his techniques may be a little...
...faut aller voir" (We must go and see) was the motto aboard legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. With his 1956 Oscar-winning underwater-adventure documentary The Silent World, Cousteau transported millions of viewers to the Indian Ocean islands of Assomption and Aldabra - one of the world's largest coral atolls. Today it's possible to go in person. The Island Sky is a small expedition ship that departs from Mauritius, taking 100 passengers on 12-day-long cruises on these turquoise waters. Wading ashore Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
...DIED. GENE PITNEY, 65, wholesome, ebullient former teen idol who crooned melodramatic tales of failed romance, topping the charts in the 1960s with hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance and the Oscar-nominated title song for the 1961 film Town Without Pity; apparently of natural causes, while on tour in Britain; in Cardiff, Wales. One of the first acts to be produced by Phil Spector, Pitney got his start behind the scenes, penning hits for artists like Ricky Nelson (Hello Mary Lou), Bobby Vee (Rubber Ball) and the Crystals (He's a Rebel...