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...He taught swimming to the children of David Niven, Charlie Chaplin and Jean-Paul Belmondo....
...Everyone remembers the red-and-white hot-air balloon in the 1956 film version starring David Niven, but it’s not in Jules Verne’s original book, so it’s not in Laura Eason’s stage adaptation; indeed, Eason...
.../ From Prof Andrew D Roberts...
...The latter, while mainly a parody of Larry Niven’s seminal Ringworld, introduced the concept of a flat, disc-like Earth....
...Based on the 1988 movie starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin (which is in turn based on the 1964 movie Bedtime Story starring David Niven and Marlon Brando), it tells of two confidence tricksters competing...
...One streaker made an appearance at the 1974 Oscars, but thankfully David Niven was there to demonstrate how a real movie star behaves when the going gets weird....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com...
...Robert Gottlieb, a prominent New York-based literary agent and publisher, is one of America’s leading collectors of Russian medals....
...Will I assist Mr Robert? Do tux shirts look better with studs?...
...On the basis that most Zimbabweans consider the regime of Robert Mugabe as illegitimate, your appeasement sickens us to the core....
...Robert Laughlin, senior energy trader at Man Financial, said the rise in oil prices had been “slightly over-hyped”....
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