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...Helen, the former actress who is the female lead, so to speak, in The Singularities, draws on elements of all the women I have known in my life, beginning with my mother....
...Unlike any other time and place, we can literally hear LA’s patois through its movies — Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall delivering Raymond Chandler’s lines....
...Unlocking a tiny leather case in which a daguerreotype of “Miss Chandler” has been nestling in velvet for more than 170 years, I can’t help thinking how many failures must lie behind their successes....
...“We are not the class society of Britain,” Helen Clark, the former Labour prime minister of New Zealand, said in 2000 as she got rid of the country’s knighthoods and damehoods....
...However, William Chandler, a Delaware judge, in August denied a motion to force Airgas to produce documents relating to the potential management buy-out....
...William Chandler, the Court of Chancery judge expected to step down shortly, has a rare opportunity to order the removal of a pill when the case gets under way on Tuesday....
...Carmen Dravec in Raymond Chandler’s “Killer in the Rain” first appears in nothing but a pair of jade earrings....
...Judge Chandler’s order came a few hours after CVS agreed to add $1.7bn in cash to its bid for Caremark, valuing the company at about $25.5bn....
...Armed with starkly different proposals from the Carlyle Group, the Chandler family and Los Angeles businessmen Ron Burkle and Eli Broad, the company is now in a position to try to negotiate a deal to satisfy...
...Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has joined the Chandler family in its bid for Tribune Company with an eye on taking a stake in New York’s Newsday....
...Helen Mirren’s performance, gonged at Venice, may be the best blend of imperson-ation and acting in movie history....
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