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...Both Lea & Sandeman and Howard Ripley are offering Daniel and Julien Barraud’s Alliance Vieilles Vignes bottling of Pouilly Fuissé for £105 and £108 for six respectively....
...In The Talented Mr Ripley, tattered Gucci loafers and carelessly creased bespoke jackets, cut to look Roman-made, went a long way to making Jude Law’s turn as a dilettantish American shipping heir so convincing...
...The hall is a peach in the ambitious scheme for Houghton Hall attributed to architect Colen Campbell and built by Thomas Ripley in the then deeply fashionable Anglo-Palladian style....
...Zadie Smith’s blistering debut play remoulds Chaucer’s lusty character, lifting her from the pages of The Canterbury Tales and setting her down in a London pub (lovingly created in Robert Jones’s detailed...
...Ironically, Brown Brothers was forced to split by the Glass-Steagall regulations in the 1930s, and its investment bank spin-off, Harriman Ripley, ended up (though a series of ill-fated mergers) as Drexel...
...In a tense moment in Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr Ripley (1999), Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) looks anxiously down to the square....
...His Lord Stockbridge in Robert Altman’s Gosford Park (2001) — in which he is deathlessly withering to Tom Hollander’s diminutive character — is the pinnacle of this exquisite showreel....
...They filmed scenes from The Talented Mr Ripley on this island, probably because it has the feeling of still looking as it did in the 1950s. This is a city with beautiful mementoes....
...It weaves in echoes of Howards End, Rebecca, Vanity Fair and The Talented Mr Ripley....
...Additional reporting by Robert Armstrong...
...A good 60 per cent of the 100 tasters sniffing away under the Robert Adam ceilings of Chandos House were private customers....
...Robert Buist Randwick, NSW, Australia...
...approach to the job completely divorced from the abstemious Francis (Belardo demands that Cherry Coke be delivered for his breakfast) but Law appears not to have aged a day since 1999’s The Talented Mr Ripley...
...The general trend in burgundy prices has been steeply upwards and, as Sebastian Thomas of Howard Ripley observes, so steep in cases such as Grivot and Clos de Tart that “they have priced themselves out of...
...Francine Stock presents ‘The Film Programme’ on BBC Radio 4 Photographs: Getty/Alamy/Allstar/Mirrorpix Letters in response to this article: Warrant Officer Ripley and an unforgettable line / From Robert...
...Apsley House was built by Robert Adam for the 1st Baron Apsley between 1771 and 1778. It was red brick and refined; the original address was Number 1, London....
...There’s a similar dynamic at play with Tom and Dickie in The Talented Mr Ripley, which has been adapted by René Clément (as Plein Soleil) and Anthony Minghella....
...The house used is actually the Villa Överby designed by John Robert Nilsson, an exquisite Swedish summer house and location scout’s dream....
...So does ex-schoolmate and journalist/memoirist McCormick, though he was less loving as a lad when he formed a rival band, stopping his resentful-ever-after brother Ivan (Robert Sheehan) from joining U2....
...Robert Spencer keeps Dan’s concern from becoming cloying....
...The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Who is your perfect reader? Someone who has read everything I’ve written. What’s your favourite word? Impeachment. When were you happiest?...
...Newby Hall, an 18th-century house designed by Scottish architect Robert Adam, was targeted three times and, during the first and worst of the raids, in the early hours of June 29, an irreplaceable Chippendale...
.... £25.50; Howard Ripley....
...“There are a lot of legitimate reasons why private-equity houses should team up,” says Robert Schlossberg, a partner in the the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer....
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