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...legislative program last week. Pim Fortuyn, the party's charismatic founder, shattered the comfortable consensus of Dutch politics with his critique of the mainstream parties and his tough talk on immigration. Since he was slain just days before last May's election, the LPF has been trying to plumb a line through rough leadership battles, public-relations snafus and tough coalition talks by divining "what Pim would have wanted." Party leader Harry Wijnschenk has only to switch on his mobile phone to be reminded of that: the words "Remember Pim" flash automatically across his screen. Given what an ethereal touchstone...
announcing that “for the Commencers to have Plumb-Cake, is dishonourable to the Colledge” and instituting...
Nolan lives in Los Angeles with his wife (and producing partner) Emma Thomas and their infant daughter. He's writing his next project, a biopic of Howard Hughes. Again he'll plumb the depths of human neuroses and take a funny man to the dark side--in this case, Jim Carrey as the reclusive billionaire. "It's about the extremes to which one man can live--the glamour, the wealth, then the claustrophobic unhappiness," says Nolan with the most benign smile possible...
DIED. SIR JOHN PLUMB, 90, colorful British historian and oenophile; in Cambridge, England. A working-class boy who fell in love with history and became a prolific author of popular books on the Renaissance and the British monarchy, he also produced more scholarly works. He was considered the resident, somewhat cantankerous genius of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he spent his entire academic career...
...fiery Baptist preacher and prominent American self-taught artist; in Rome, Georgia. Finster used his folk art, which ranged from paintings that hung in the Library of Congress to album covers for rock bands like R.E.M. and Talking Heads, to spread his evangelical Christian message. DIED. JOHN PLUMB, 90, natty British historian of the 18th century and best-selling author; in Cambridge. A former master of Christ's College, Cambridge, Plumb was an influential teacher who cultivated a generation of talented British historians. A prolific writer, Plumb had 23 books published between 1950 and 1989, many aimed at a popular...