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...not just Bowfinger (in which Murphy played an actor unwittingly cast in a hack film-maker’s movie) but also of Ed Wood — and, sure enough, it turns out Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander scripted Tim Burton...
...Trumpeters Alex Sipiagin and Philip Harper were a contrast between brash modernism and spaced dynamics, Abraham Burton captured the breathy vibrato of swing-era greats on tenor sax, and trombonist Luis Bonilla...
...Solace is found in the company of his Polish-American grandfather Abraham, played by Terence Stamp with an accent that suggests long holidays in east London....
...Directed by Crystal Moselle, 2015 Spectrum It sounds like the kind of gothic Hollywood fairytale Tim Burton might dream up: six brothers shut away since birth in a gloomy tower and aware of the outside...
...The Isle of Man might seem an unlikely place for watchmaking but it is where, from 1982, the late horologist George Daniels — regarded by many as the greatest watchmaker since Abraham-Louis Breguet — chose...
...Directed by Tim Burton, 2014 Entertainment in Video Could it be that Tim Burton saw a bit of himself in the story of an artist who found fame while being criticised for adhering to the same old Gothic-lite...
...It is believed to have been invented by Abraham-Louis Breguet, who incorporated it in to a grand complication pocket watch for Marie Antoinette....
...From a historical perspective, however, the most important offering took the form of an early 19th-century pocket chronometer made by Abraham-Louis Breguet....
...The piece is expected to be hotly contested, as is one of three platinum Breguets made in 1997 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Abraham-Louis Breguet’s birth ($280,000-$410,000), a 2003 Girard-Perregaux...
...The gold, extra flat, pair-cased half quarter repeater features equation of time, power reserve indication, moon phase and calendar and was bought directly from Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1831 by the Marquess...
...Mr Daniels, who died in October last year aged 85, is widely regarded as having been the greatest watch maker since Abraham Louis-Breguet and the prices fetched by his creations did much to support the theory...
...Tim Burton was once the promised director, a man hip to the history and heritage of America while not above “having a go” at them. But to whom does Burton pass the project?...
...A good chunk of it was accounted for by the sale of an exquisite pocket watch from the workshops of the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet....
...In addition to a large number of enamelled pocket watches made for the Chinese, Ottoman and Indian markets in the 18th and 19th centuries, the auction will include a section devoted to Abraham-Louis Breguet...
...Other offerings will include clockmaking tools, scientific instruments, the actual pantograph used by Abraham-Louis Breguet to inscribe his pieces with a “secret” signature, and a bust of Mr Daniels by the...
...valuable Breguet watch for Mr Clutton led Mr Daniels to visit Maison Breguet in Paris and “ …with the introduction to his work, my interest in antiquarian horology was suddenly and obsessively focused upon Abraham...
...In 1853 the explorer Richard Francis Burton, disguised as an Afghan doctor, wrote a relatively workmanlike account of his Hajj until he witnessed its climax in Mecca....
...also achieved by the fledgling auction house Patrizzi and Co for a group of foxed and stained 19th century manuscripts that detailed the horological wisdom of the most important watchmaker of all time, Abraham...
...While most of us go through life trying to make things less problematic, complications have long been regarded as rather desirable in the topsy-turvy world of high-end watchmaking, Simon de Burton writes...
...Interest in the subject is especially strong right now following the sale of a signed letter from Abraham Lincoln for $3.5m at Sotheby’s New York in April, but such stellar prices are the exception rather...
...But late last year a long-lost contender was brought back into the equation when a pocket watch (right) made by Abraham-Louis Breguet as a gift for Marie-Antoinette unexpectedly reappeared, almost 25 years...
...B is for Bezel, the outer ring of a watch that often provides a means of calculating elapsed time; Bracelet, the usually more expensive alternative to a strap; Abraham Louis Breguet, pioneering 18th century...
...In general, Abraham indicates that Shylock is an alien by giving him an excessive fondness for physical gesture....
...Brewed in the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, this beer still contrived to be lively and convincing....
...On the Indonesian island of Sumatra, helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln were delivering aid and evacuating refugees from the devastated west coast....
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