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...sideline to making movies, Michael Caine is a prominent restaurateur. But he might have been an expert vintner--for he knows how to wait for good things to ripen. His career, for instance. For nine years he played in British rep theater before getting a meaty film role, in Zulu, at 30; the credit read, "Introducing Michael Caine." He starred in 80 or so movies, good, bad and awful, then in his late 60s hit a gold streak of mature roles and quality films. One of these, The Quiet American, contains his boldest, subtlest work; but the events of Sept...
...birth from his fishmonger father--believes there is a season for every purpose, and vice versa. Growing up Cockney, in the Rotherhithe section of London, taught him to observe life in the raw: to retain those images and that accent, which, along with the spectacles, became his trademark. Doing rep gave him lessons in the star's gift of getting noticed, and the actor's craft of hiding in plain sight. "In rep it's a different play each week," he says. "You'd be the butler one week, the lord the next, the Cockney handyman the week after...
...conventional measure a good talk show. Kimmel, the former co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, is not a strong interviewer. He does not even seem to like his job; he trudges into the theater every night like a weary sales rep who can't wait for Miller Time. The show's booking pull is so feeble that, by its third week, Kimmel had his former Man Show partner, Adam Carolla, as co-host...
Houghton’s brother, Rep. Amory Houghton Jr. ’50, R-N.Y., did respond to an NCWO letter on his membership in the club, but said only the Augusta chair could speak for the organization’s stance on women...
...conventional measure a good talk show. Kimmel, the former co-host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, is not a strong interviewer. He does not even seem to like his job; he trudges into the theater every night like a weary sales rep who can't wait for Miller Time. The show's booking pull is so feeble that, by its third week, Kimmel had his former Man Show partner, Adam Carolla, as co-host...