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...aloof and alienated film Ritual, which received an award for Best Artistic Contribution at Tokyo's 13th International Film Festival?a double triumph for Fujitani, since she played the lead. Now, she's busy trying to finish her second novel. "It's tough," she confides over a glass of rye whiskey in a Tokyo bar. "I'm really just very lazy...
...them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye...
DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
...sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured as a soldier during WW II, he first experienced the mental illness that was to haunt him for the rest of his life. When the The Goon Show ended in 1960, Milligan became a comedy-show...
...Richard Parsons, one of Levin's two deputies and the man he wanted to succeed him as CEO of AOL Time Warner, was being avidly recruited to be CEO of food-and-tobacco giant Philip Morris. In a car ride back from a corporate retreat at the Hilton Rye Town, in the New York City suburbs, Levin urged his protege to stay...