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...The ’95 World Cup team was immortalised in the Clint Eastwood movie Invictus and Williams helped Matt Damon, who played Pienaar, with a bit of rugby coaching....
...Mia Wasikowska plays the put-upon Judy, whose puppeteer husband Punch (Damon Herriman) is the talk of their grubby, Terry Gilliam-esque town....
...McQueen says he was driven by a memory of watching Tracy Chapman performing at a Wembley Stadium concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday in 1988....
...It attracted the best drivers in the world: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve....
...In the 1990s, Ecclestone was nominated for a knighthood, with character references from Nelson Mandela and Silvio Berlusconi....
...When in February 1990 Nelson Mandela was finally freed after 27 years’ incarceration, he traded his cell at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town for the home of the Afrikaner insurance tycoon Douw Steyn,...
...In 1954, Sinatra included it on Songs for Young Lovers, his first collaboration with bandleader Nelson Riddle....
...During those decades, the team won nine Formula One constructors’ championships and seven driver’s titles with the likes of Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost and Damon Hill at the wheel....
...Ernest Hemingway, Damon Runyon, Ring Lardner, Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac all worked as sports journalists. Hemingway once got $30,000 from Sports Illustrated for a 2,000-word piece on bullfighting....
...“Our readers have always shopped from our pages,” said Jim Nelson, editor-in-chief of the US edition of GQ, during the launch of the store. “We’re just making it easier for them.”...
...world war movies Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, Gran Torino, his most commercial picture to date, Changeling, starring Angelina Jolie, and Invictus, about South African rugby, in which Nelson...
...Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela in a pious, bromidic, wet-all-over film that slops from triumph to set-piece triumph....
...Damon Albarn’s hip-hop-themed side project were last-minute replacements for U2, forced to pull out after Bono suffered a back injury....
...Covering the songs Shara Nelson made famous, “Safe from Harm” and “Unfinished Sympathy”, fell to Debbie Miller....
...Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, starring Matt Damon, spends 167 minutes midwiving the 20th-century birth of the CIA as the three-decade story ranges from the second world war to the Cuban missile crisis...
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