Word: swann
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...hottest talents in the business. In Pirates he plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying onscreen, you see shades of pirate-movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural. But Bloom was actually the last lead to be cast. "We really needed somebody who could hold his own as the love interest-Errol Flynn...
Although it has been 21 years since the speedy, high-leaping wide receiver Lynn Swann retired from the Pittsburgh Steelers to join ABC Sports, he has hardly gone to seed. At 50, the 5-ft. 11-in. Hall of Famer with four Super Bowl rings weighs just 180 lbs., has a 31-in. waist and keeps himself in shape. And as chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, he talks about why you should...
...billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice of no-man's-land. Campbell, 27, started painting night and the city while a student at Leeds Metropolitan University. "Day pictures don't have the same emotion," he says. When painter Duncan Swann came into the art supply shop in central London where Campbell works the two found points of resemblance - Swann's night vision takes in deserted sports fields. The resulting friendship led to a joint exhibition at Leeds Metropolitan earlier this year. While conceptual artists like Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst...
...This week Dowd attacked the President for his "magnificent obsession" with Star Wars. A very literary spasm of woofing: In the first few paragraphs, she cited the obsessions in Proust's "Swann's Way", Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", Nabokov's "Lolita", Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis," and Melville's "Moby Dick" - a way of signaling that all of us on the right side of the Star Wars issue are bright, literate English majors, and that the presidential doofus on the other of the room, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, is, I mean, George W. Bush! Texas! Little...
Heuet has squeezed the first of Proust's volumes, "Swann's Way," into 72, full-color, large-size pages. When it first appeared in France in 1998 it caused a literary scandal, as only the French can manage. Since then the French version has reportedly sold over 40,000 copies. (Can you imagine Americans caring enough? It brings a melancholy tear...