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Imagine my shock, then, when he called me up two weeks ago in a complete panic and told me to brace myself for extraordinary news: Sir Alec Guinness, the distinguished British actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, was not dead. Very maturely, I replied, "You wanna bet?" But he was convinced and began to recite the evidence. He had just come home from a family vacation and had seen a copy of a book written by Guinness in 1996. What's more, he read an article in Time magazine which seemed to make it very clear that...
...next bit of news was significantly less welcome. Apparently, Sir Alec is not an entirely contented participant in the Star Wars, which was originally just a nutty sci-fi picture he agreed to work on because of his admiration for George Lucas, eclipsed the rest of his long and distinguished career. Indeed, in his 1985 autobiography Blessings in Disguise, written some eight years after the first part of the Trilogy, Guinness mentions Star Wars only once (that once is a snide comment about how much money it earned him). The conclusion seemed unavoidable: Obi-Wan was whining. My friend added...
Word play figures heavily into all cartoons, and some puns are so bad they're funny, like the placard in the medieval spoof "Knighty Knight Bugs" naming one character "Sir Osis of Liver...
Other panelists included Sir Robin McLaren, former British ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Ezra F. Vogel, Ford professor of the social sciences...
LONDON: Not only is Paul not dead, he is about to be knighted. Paul McCartney will soon become Sir Paul. The former Beatle will be among the 1,035 honored at a Buckingham palace ceremony next summer. Thirty years ago, when the Beatles were made Members of the Order of the British Empire, insulted Brits returned their own honors to Queen Elizabeth II to protest what they called the system's devaluation. Today, the awards are given to any number of ordinary people who have made significant contributions, such as traffic warden Evelyn Greechan, who bravely booked her local police...