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...DIED. RUFUS YOUNGBLOOD, 72; Secret Service agent who threw himself over Lyndon Johnson for protection when President Kennedy was assassinated; of lung cancer; in Savannah, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

...generally superior in the original production. While perfectly sufficient, the present Thomasina (Jennifer Dundas) doesn't bring to this brutally taxing role of doomed prodigy quite the dancing-flame intensity that Emma Fielding did. And the new Septimus (Billy Crudup) has the aplomb but not the haunted intellectual uneasiness Rufus Sewell conveyed. A pleasing surprise, however, is Robert Sean Leonard, playing Valentine Coverly, a modern-day biologist and computer scientist. As Claudio in Kenneth Branagh's film Much Ado About Nothing, Leonard looked thoroughly out of his element while trying to do what stage actors traditionally do--proclaim words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HOUSE OF GAMES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

Hugh's own son Owen (Rufus Sewell) is the soldiers translator, returning to Ballybeg after six years in Dublin. He says to the villagers, "My job is to interpret your quaint, archaic tongue into the King's English...

Author: By Marc R. Talusan, | Title: Broadway-Bound Translations Gets Lost in Its Stars | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

Casaubon, as Dorothea soon discovers, is a pious monster. He rejects both her love and her offer to help with his work. He is uncontrollably jealous of attentions paid her by his impoverished cousin Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a handsome would-be artist turned political journalist. After Casaubon's death, Dorothea discovers that he has added a humiliating codicil to his will: she will forfeit his estate if she marries Ladislaw -- which, at Middlemarch's end, she does anyway. (In an unconvincing final chapter, which the series summarizes in a voice-over, Eliot assures readers that the marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Middlemarch Madness? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

BABE-Y, my honey, my sugar-coated Chaka Khan and the sax-ed UP moanin' & breathin' & shiverin' & shakin' with Rufus, wah-wahed whistled Tell Me Something Good "I have something that sure nuff should set yer stuff on fire," yer staff is higher, and she takes the shit SERIOUSLY, tell me that ya love ME. Tell me that ya love...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Make It Funky | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

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