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...’s as part of Christie’s Classic Week (estimated to fetch £5m-£8m) ‘Self-Portrait with right hand raised’ John Sergeant, c1960, at Florian Härb Face from an Anthropoid Sarcophagus Egyptian, 1070-525...
...Butterfly) interleaves scenes of the sergeant’s court marshal with scenes of Chen’s military experience....
...In the introduction to Crime Beat, a collection of his newspaper articles, he describes how one real-life policeman — Sergeant George Hurt — served as a study for the character of his LAPD detective Harry...
...There, eternally hovering, is stoical farmhand Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts); later come the fixated Boldwood (Michael Sheen) and glinting Sergeant Troy (Tom Sturridge)....
...Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel, a pastoral love story set in 19th-century Dorset, is, perhaps, his best known, due in no small part to the popularity of John Schlesinger’s 1967 film adaptation starring Julie Christie...
...We must ask of Brendan Gleeson’s Sergeant Gerry Boyle: “Is he bad news or good news?” He drinks, swears, overeats and hires hookers. But he also solves crimes....
...Happy to be single, handy with a needle and thread, Agatha Christie’s heroine is always up for babysitting duty. But Miss Marple is also death in female form....
...Sotheby’s has largely withdrawn from selling pop memorabilia, although Christie’s South Kensington and Bonhams continue to hold two sales a year....
...Christie’s sold one in 2000 for £950,000. Why has it taken off?...
...I’ve never been a captain, I’ve always been a sergeant. I’ll stand at the back and I’m subversive. I’d rather be the man at the back who shouts out comments.” Falstaff really....
...This unremarkable Agatha Christie whodunnit, which began its West End life a few months after a young Elizabeth was crowned Queen in 1952, remains in rude good health, a changeless Dorian Grey in a world...
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