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NOEL ("MORNING GLORY") GALLAGHER AGE: 30 HEIGHT: 5 ft. 7 in. OCCUPATION: Playing guitar for Oasis BEST PUNCH: Told Italian radio that the English royals "should all be shot" and that for a Christmas gift he would like to give the Queen "a kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

ELIZABETH ("THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND") WINDSOR AGE: 71 HEIGHT: 5 ft. 3 in. OCCUPATION: Mostly waving BEST PUNCH: Stayed (surprise) silent. But a source at Buckingham Palace told reporters, "Mr. Gallagher should apologize. If he has any class, any at all, he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 12, 1998 | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...Leonard (Get Shorty, Rum Punch) has written what could be called a historical novel. If all its characters seem so turn-of-the-millennium contemporary that you half expect one of them to pull out a cell phone, this could mean that the author has utterly failed to counterfeit the past. Or--take your choice--that he has so successfully blown the dust off history that it reads like tomorrow's front page. At any rate, the hero is a respectable Arizona cowboy and bank robber named Ben Tyler, who is caught running a freighter into Havana with saddle horses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Havana Punch | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Adapted from Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B-Movie Heroine Chic: Tarantino's Hyper-Hip Brew Potent No More | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

QUENTIN ("MR. WHITE") TARANTINO AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Trying to sound like an honorary black man, Tarantino went on television to brag to Keenan Ivory Wayans that he "bitch slapped" producer Don Murphy during a fight at a swank L.A. restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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