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...The coffins of Cavendish’s mother and sisters were levered open by soldiers and the dead women’s hair cut off and jokingly refashioned as wigs. Living men fared worse....
...The Pembrokeshire beach was where filmmakers set Shell Cottage, and the death and burial of Harry’s beloved house elf, Dobby....
...“I’ll do Elk, but I will not do Elf,” he said. “It wasn’t one of my great dramatic victories, but I had a great time.”...
...I’ve bought my brother and sister-in-law a massage treatment and, as part of the deal, we will look after the children while they go off and enjoy it....
...The role of hopeless naïf is also a familiar one for Ferrell, though it is less successful here; conjuring the ghost of Buddy, his lumbering man-child in 2003’s Elf, probably isn’t what the producers had...
...Three little sisters in flammable red flamenco dresses swayed alarmingly close to a bank of lit candles. I held my breath....
...As long as you’ve got your elf. Luckily, there are some good green dresses to be found, just now....
...On yellowing pages of broadsheet newspapers, next to completed cryptic crosswords, advertisements for houses for sale and small-scale stories of human tragedy (“Boy, 7, sat on baby sister”), the author of...
...Brought up in Reykjavik, the fourth of five children in a middle-class family, Hauksson’s eldest brother was handicapped from birth so he and his sisters helped look after him....
...In a bid to locate the source of Elf’s pain, Yoli recounts the sisters’ childhoods in East Village, a Mennonite community in Manitoba, Canada....
...Around noon, we reached Libohova, a town where Byron had visited the palace of Ali Pasha’s sister....
...As I walk into the lavish dining room of the Carlyle Hotel in New York, I notice a figure who looks vaguely like an elf....
...For Sedaris, “everything” frequently draws on his family – including his Greek grandma, his actor sister Amy (Elf, My Name Is Earl) and, perhaps most hilariously, his younger brother Paul, the one North...
...She then switched to business, as many French civil servants do, and worked in the chemical industry for Elf and Bostik Findley. She is married and has two children....
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