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...year was 1967, and Peter O'Toole was preparing to co-star with Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. One night in London, after a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Toole knocked on the dressing-room door of the young actor playing the brother. "O'Toole was standing there, two sheets to the wind, as they say," recalls the actor. "He said, 'Would you like to be in a film...
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Tony Blair's closest political ally, Peter Mandelson, has been forced for a second time to resign from Blair's cabinet under the cloud of scandal. How badly will this hurt Blair as Britain prepares for election in the spring...
...open a Best Buy retail store, for fear of alienating sponsor Target. Even Hatch was denied the chance to be a host of NBC's Saturday Night Live, and CBS kiboshed his plans for a Survivor book. "Basically, CBS owns the rights to their stories in perpetuity," says journalist Peter Lance, who was to co-write with Hatch. (In his own book, The Stingray, Lance charged that Survivor producers tried to influence the game's outcome--a potential FCC violation--which CBS denies...
Australian Peter Carey, 57, has built a distinguished career out of offbeat, risk-taking novels. His Oscar and Lucinda (1988), which won Britain's Booker Prize, portrayed two improbable 19th century Aussie dreamers obsessed with the notion of hauling a glass church across the outback. In Jack Maggs (1998), Carey produced an engaging variation on Dickens' Great Expectations. And he is up to new tricks in True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; 352 pages; $25), which purports to be a first-person narrative written by Ned Kelly, the outlaw who terrorized and enchanted Australians during the 1870s...