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...Shameful Past," "My Sister Stole My Man," and "Goodbye, Lover." Although the art rarely veers from a "house style," connoisseurs will recognize names like John Romita, later of "Amazing Spider-Man," longtime Mad magazine contributor Mort Drucker, and, in one case, Wally Wood of "Mad" and "Little Annie Fanny" fame...
...choice has used his fame to help people throughout the world," Ghartey-Tagoe teased the crowd before revealing the speaker's identity. "He is the epitome of cool, and he is very instrumental in what he does best...
DIED. AUBERON WAUGH, 61, acerbic British writer, journalist and satirist and son of celebrated novelist Evelyn Waugh; in Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...
Like Lock, Stock, it also stars Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham and has lots of gunplay. It's not exactly an endorsement of the filmmaker's versatility--the jury's still out on whether Ritchie's talent can ever measure up to his matrimonial fame--but Snatch's whiz-bang style does indicate that its director is more than a "toyboy...
DIED. TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ, 71, lithe-limbed ballerina who, while on tour in Copenhagen with husband George Balanchine in 1956, contracted polio, which left her paralyzed at 27 at the peak of her talent and fame; of pneumonia; in New York City. In an eerie foreshadow, Balanchine in 1944 had choreographed a ballet in which he cast himself as a character named Polio and his incomparably elegant muse Le Clercq as a victim who becomes paralyzed...