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...sense, it's apt that his last film be shown on TV, the medium in which he started his career. Having grown up in the Isle of Wight, he graduated from the University of Hull in North Yorkshire, England, and started writing plays that won him a few awards, before going on to become a TV script editor and writer. After his feature debut, the 1990 comedy Truly, Madly, Deeply, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson, there was the low-key comedy Mr. Wonderful with Matt Dillon and Mary-Louise Parker. Then came The English Patient, which won nine Oscars...
...ever been won by a first-time challenger. That happened in 2003, when the Swiss Team Alinghi defeated Team New Zealand in Auckland, bringing the cup to Europe for the first time since a U.S. boat won the Auld Mug, in a race off the Isle of Wight back in 1851. Africa's yachting tradition is limited, to put it kindly. Though sailors in eastern and western Africa skillfully navigate the seas in traditional craft, yacht racing has been limited in most countries to small clubs with a few dinghies. In South Africa, where yachting is popular in cities such...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Abandoning Ship P&O finally pulled the plug on a scheduled 103-day world cruise by its flagship Aurora after the vessel spent 11 days shuttling mostly between the English port city of Southampton and the Isle of Wight while engineers tried to fix an engine problem. The company's offer of a full refund seemed unlikely...
...Chabon's comic-themed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the move makes sense. The Escapist (Dark Horse Comics), a new quarterly anthology series, collects stories starring the novel's Houdini-like superhero. The first issue includes the Chabon-written origin of the Escapist, with art by Eric Wight, along with several tongue-in-cheek tales by other comic-book writers and artists. Each one evokes a different period of the medium's history: Howard Chaykin turns in a '50s-style hard-boiled story of a red-baiting Senator with a diaper fetish; another, by Jim Starlin, flashes back...
...spacious flat on the Isle of Wight. Frances (Smith), a specialist in the provenance of artworks, gets a visit from Madeleine (Dench), a novelist who's decided to write a non-fiction book - we don't yet know if it will be a true one - about her late marriage. Ex-hubby is off to Seattle with an American thing, and Madeleine has come to do research, to dig the dirt and possibly bury her old rival in it. At first the two have nothing in common but the familiar British condescension toward Americans. ( "Because they're richer than everybody else...