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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 »

...have a job if they did what Sprewell did? And they wouldn't be fired or suspended for just a year either. It all comes down to respecting authority. If the NBA lets Sprewell back on the playing court, what will this tell people--that it's O.K. to punch out your boss? I hope the NBA shows some backbone and finally takes a stand on the violence in its game. DOUGLAS KOSZUTA Nekoosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 12, 1998 | 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 »

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