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...Hoping you have an award-winning weekend, or at least one that is worthy of judges’ commendation....
...Marlon James almost missed the 2015 announcement of his win with A Brief History of Seven Killings due to an ill-timed bathroom break....
...He had idolised Marlon Brando and James Dean and longed to escape his domineering father. After finding success, he found women, too — and lost focus....
...In conversation there are distancing strategies, mild digressions and quotes from Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando and Noël Coward, while a smile perpetually plays around his lips....
...pesticide causes cancer, after a California judge slashed the damages awarded in the most costly case so far from $2bn to $87m....
...The dread must be an America of “red” generals and “blue” generals, to go with the red judges and blue judges. He dates the partisan cleaving of the nation to at least the 1990s....
...a girl asks Marlon Brando, as he leans on a bar in The Wild One (1953). Hat tipped over his eyes, he shoots back, “What’ve you got?”...
...The studio didn’t want Marlon Brando as Don Corleone — “After Queimada! he was box-office poison,” says Coppola — but they got him....
...His victory follows last year’s Man Booker win for Jamaican-born writer Marlon James for A Brief History of Seven Killings , which takes a real assassination attempt on Bob Marley in 1976 and spins out of...
...This year’s judges were unanimous in their decision, which took four hours to reach....
...The detentions “carried grave indications of the violation of fundamental rights, such as the right to protest freely and legal due process”, said independent prosecutor Marlon Weichert, of Brazil`s public...
...Last year’s winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, has sold more than 360,000 copies to date in the UK and Commonwealth and is available in 20 languages....
...(And that was without spotting the owner Marlon Abela sipping red wine at the sushi counter.)...
...The Jamaican writer Marlon James has won this year’s Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings....
...There is a madness and desperate grief in Marlon Brando’s gestures as he embraces his murderous son Christian in the documentary Listen to Me Marlon, a sublime, sly achievement....
...People Angela Merkel, FT person of the year Alexis Tsipras Janet Yellen Tsai Ing-wen Banksy Books Bob Marley novelist Marlon James wins Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings...
...“On the basis of the books here that I’ve read, I’d say the judges have done an admirable job.”...
...We will be able to judge that we got it right if it is as good as Death of a Salesman.”...
...Spanish literature, is a former entrepreneur who founded a telecoms company before moving into Haitian politics; Penn, a two-time Oscar-winner, is often hailed as the natural heir to Robert De Niro and Marlon...
...One friend, Lady Judge, who has been a director of the management consultancy since 2005, says: “He is an executive chairman – and he is very executive.”...
...The William Hill judges are fallible. In 2000, Lance Armstrong won for his cycling memoir It’s Not About the Bike....
...[Food and art] are difficult to compare – I wouldn’t use the same standards to judge a painting as a pudding.” …………………………………………………………….....
...The fly-on-the-wall vérité documentaries of the 1960s and 70s bizarrely and disappointingly chose subjects (Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, the Kennedys, Mick Jagger) with experience of performing on film....
...Its judges, too, have ties to the region....
...Madonna, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney, Marlon Brando and, recently if bizarrely, Lady Gaga were guaranteed draws, as was, in the mid-90s, the long-running murder trial of O.J. Simpson....
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