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...This April, The Sympathizer becomes an HBO mini-series starring Robert Downey Jr....
...JR: There are three things. The first of them, obviously, is it’s a recognition that [Weta founder and Lord of the Rings director] Peter Jackson was a genius, when you go back nearly 30 years ago....
...I was working on a building site, having left school ignominiously – I thought I’d be a poet or some unformulated star – and I’d got into the habit of going out late and getting up late....
...Jackson HouldingUmm, not very, but a bit. Leo HouldingWas it — were you scared at all? Jackson HouldingNo....
...“I don’t know where it came from, but I said, 'I’d like them all at noon to go “Peace and Love”’....
...When John D Rockefeller Jr discreetly began spending the inheritance from his billionaire father in the 1920s, his intentions seemed noble....
...“We are in a moment of a bit of a whirlwind,” said D’atra Jackson, BYP100’s national director, who lives in North Carolina....
...Her delicately cooked, immaculately presented food makes the average meal look like it was plated by Jackson Pollock....
...“President Trump is more of a Jackson Pollock.”...
...Truman’s and Bush Jr’s look like mausoleums, JFK’s could be compared to a rocket launch pad and Reagan’s to a California outlet mall....
...-Donald Trump Jr, on how running for president was a “step down” for his dad....
...Quincy Jones, who would go on to produce Michael Jackson, got the same response when he expressed interest in working with Otis....
...I tried to do what James Brown did in 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated....
...‘Robert De Niro, Sr, Paintings and Drawings 1948-1989’ runs at the D C Moore Gallery in New York until July 31; dcmooregallery.com....
...In the US, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr diverted $750,000 in campaign funds to buy himself treats such as a $40,000 Rolex and a hat worn by Michael Jackson....
...“Once you get – excuse the expression – whites in here, we can’t afford the rent anymore,” says Wayne Jackson, 57, who has come to see the “Mayor for Life”....
...Winston’s brother, William Jr, re-entered the operation....
...For Michael Jackson, Christoforou sketched four styles that spanned his career....
...Jonita Landis, Mark’s mother, had grown up in Laurel and the family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, when Arthur retired....
...Jesse Jackson Jr, the Illinois representative, denied sending an emissary to speak to Mr Blagojevich about filling Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat....
...“But I know what Michael Jackson is and who Michael Jackson is, and I know that in order for me to get there, I got a long, long way to go.”...
...Indeed, to compare Mr Obama’s candidacy with Mr Jackson’s ignores an idealism embodied by Mr Obama that race, in the words of the scholar Shelby Steele, is but a negligible human difference, while Mr Jackson...
...Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, the eminent historian and chronicler of the Kennedy family, died in New York on Wednesday aged 89 from an apparent heart attack....
...Grant - to write and publish his new biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR, Smith’s very large, new book is gracefully written....
...His immediate task is to prove he’s more than just a cute, cut-price Harry Connick Jr, himself a cute, cut-price Frank Sinatra....
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