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The cast is full to the brim with talent, though one member truly stands out; it is difficult to conceive of a more disgusting character than the tobacco-smoking, liquor-swilling, foul-mouthed, ungrateful Sir Brute, and even more difficult to imagine anyone carrying him off to more repulsive perfection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theater Review | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

Back in 1987, the best way to waste time on a Commodore 64 computer was to play the part of a grog-swilling buccaneer in the 17th century Caribbean: getting rich on plunder or trading among British, Spanish and French ports and trying to marry one of the governors' daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Video Games: Cool Games | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

Yet his idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

Gweilo should rescue Booth from relative obscurity, if only for the story behind it. Two years ago, as the author was battling brain cancer, his children asked him to set down an account of his formative years while he still could. Booth finished just before dying in February. He was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Golden Boy | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

Who could the culprit be? Apparently, it’s our job to figure it out. But the crowd doesn’t seem to be too worried about this responsibility—the table of Marinaras sitting behind us are too busy swilling drinks and singing adult renditions of...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, | Title: Typecasts and Tortellini | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

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