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...The 47-year-old had long resisted the temptation to join the likes of Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson on breakaway team-based competition LIV, even turning down a nine-digit financial package...
...The Saudi golf drive comes less than two years after the PIF took a majority stake in English Premier League football club Newcastle United....
...Saudi-backed LIV emerged on the golf scene last year spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lure top golfers such as Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson to join its breakaway league....
...He welcomes Lydon’s entry coming from “an Irish diaspora that has never been fully represented — the English-Irish, or the ‘Plastic Paddies’”....
...Schwarzenegger notes that popular actors of the 1970s – Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen – were not big men. Nobody wanted to cast a man like him. “People were turning me down,” he recalls....
...Although the PIF has invested across a variety of sports, including the £305mn acquisition of English Premier League team Newcastle United, its expansion into golf has provoked a strong reaction from the...
...Saudi’s golf experiment goes Trumpian Even if the headliners are Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, maybe no player better reflects the odyssey of the Saudi-bankrolled LIV Golf experiment than Paul Casey...
...Recruiting Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, who’ve both reached the top of the world golf rankings, for reported sums of $200mn and $150mn, was a warning of LIV’s potential....
...Without clarity on these goals “the government’s promised green Brexit looks increasingly out of sight”, said Dustin Benton, policy director at the charity Green Alliance....
...Prior to Mickelson’s self-immolation, there was increasing chatter that the likes of stars Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau and several others were ready to defect for what was rumoured to be guaranteed...
...After the English gained control in the 18th century, Hudson was settled by whalers and became an active port town for more than a century....
...He couldn’t speak English very well. I said, ‘I understand, but what do you do for a living?’ He said, ‘I drive limos’.”...
...He directed Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins in “Antony and Cleopatra” in 1987, Dustin Hoffman in the “The Merchant of Venice” in 1989, and his own daughter, Rebecca Hall, in “As You Like It”, in 2003....
...He studied English at the University of Cambridge, where he started to direct drama and realised he had found his métier....
...Wednesday’s record heat, which had the Aussie contingent whingeing, had subsided to the gentle norms of English summer....
...The most notable example was 2012’s Quartet, Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, based on the play by Ronald Harwood....
...Call it the Dustin Hoffman principle: 30 is the new 20 and 40 is the new 30. (Hoffman was 30 when he played 21 year-old Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate.)...
...Did a 19th-century English doctor called Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) really invent the vibrator? Apparently....
...There’s no English word to replace that.” So why do people go on being shocked by the f-word? “Because they’re middle-class wankers.”...
...When combined with her pugnacious glam-pop feminism, this results in a portrait of Simpson that is stellar beyond belief – English actress Andrea Riseborough plays her as a kind of intellectually prodigal...
...Instead we get foreign-accented (yet confidently idiomatic) English, near-constant coughing, and helicopter shots of isolated figures trudging through mountain and desert....
...Pacino’s characterisation is no kin to the Yiddish-tailor reading of Dustin Hoffman in the last production of the play on Broadway....
...The 13-year-old son of the friend I was staying with said he needed help with The Merchant of Venice – the cover of the book featured a production starring Dustin Hoffman....
...Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay starts gauchely, with Penn’s Milk decanting his memories into a tape recorder (a movie-framing device that should be death-listed)....
...John Osborn, an English craftsman working in Amsterdam, is credited with identifying the thermoplastic qualities of horn as early as the 1620s....
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