Hints and tips:
...With a script by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, based on the 1933 film, it comprises a fairly slender rags-to-riches success story....
...His name was Vern Underwood Sr, and I’m on the phone with his son. “You’ve given me a tough assignment,” Vern Underwood Jr says when I ask how Americans originally bought in. Underwood Jr is now 83....
...Underwood argues that partly reflects “an awareness of reputational risk that is much greater”....
...Top pieces for sale include a c1935 Underwood in a rare Louis Vuitton Hemingway trunk (£42,595) and a collection of 15 midcentury examples (£2,930)....
...Kim Jong Il, Frank Underwood, or Icarus?...
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...Her predecessor, Barbara Underwood, brought a lawsuit last year against the Donald J Trump Foundation, which later dissolved....
...Manhattan prosecutors last week restated their claim that Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s one-time fixer, arranged those “hush money” payments on his boss’ direct orders — a potential felony....
...Francis Urquhart or Frank Underwood. They have to invent him. It's a bit like, if I had to choose an analogy, playing for Tottenham, moving to Arsenal, remaining popular with both....
...In recent weeks, I have been binge-watching the Netflix show House of Cards (an update of the classic BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs’ novel)....
...Photographs: Underwood Archives/Getty Images; Richard Creamer, Eric Leaf/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Julian Wasser; Bret Hartman for The Washington Post via Getty Images...
...Francesca Hayward and Eric Underwood had fun with their almost larky duet and Edward Watson had a good go at pulling his own leg off but this Michael Clark-style party never really got started....
...Michael Dobbs — aka Lord Dobbs of Wylye — has had several careers: journalist, broadcaster, adman, Conservative party fixer, playwright and, most notably now, author of the novels that became the political...
...Equally ruthless are his wife Claire (Robin Wright) and his chillingly soft-spoken chief of staff (Michael Kelly)....
...Unlike previous artist-label struggles, such as disputes between George Michael and Prince with Sony Music more than 20 years ago, Kesha has made an allegation of a serious crime....
...Indeed there have been in excess of 150 Test cricketers, including Derek Underwood, Michael Clarke, Bishan Bedi and Ashley Giles....
...Francis Underwood, Democrat and sociopath, is president....
...Zenaida Yanowsky, Eric Underwood and Marianela Nuñez made the most of it. “Danse à grande vitesse” is an apt description for Natalia Osipova, who soared through the third movement with Edward Watson....
...This may sound promising, but Jack Underwood’s libretto – over-stuffed with symbolism from Donaghy’s poem and folktales – is highly esoteric....
...Elsewhere in the real estate sector, Steven Underwood made his second trade of the year at Intu Properties having lost 8 per cent on his March purchase....
...The original authors, Andrew Davies and Michael Dobbs, are among the producers overseeing the transfer of the devious machinations of an unscrupulous chief whip from Westminster to Washington....
...Strange insistence Carrie Underwood, the US country music star, says people keep changing her Wikipedia page to say she is Scottish and also a member of a Native American tribe, when in fact she is neither...
...We call it …” He pauses, cracking another smile worthy of Spacey’s Underwood, “ ‘streaming episodic content’.”...
...michael.skapinker@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/michaelskapinker...
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