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As he prepares to star in an all-black Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, he tells Maddy Costa about his absent father, elderly sex – and why his stutter was his salvation 'I am a redneck, too...Photograph: Linda Nylind The septuagenarian walking slowly through...
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Mavis Gallant 'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write' Mavis Gallant at Le Dôme restaurant in Paris. Photograph: Paul Cooper A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box...
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N.Y. — Actress Cynthia Nixon is lobbying New York lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage and says she hopes to marry her partner in New York next year if the law is enacted. The self-described lifelong New Yorker is engaged to Christine Marinoni. Holding...
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A New Yorker will collect $26 million that he won in a Friday the 13th lottery. Lottery officials said Tuesday that the winner is from Wyandanch, on Long Island. He ignored friends who told him it would be unlucky to play on that day. The name of the...
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The deadline has come and gone for underclassmen to declare eligibility for the upcoming April 2009 NFL Draft. Leaving behind the world of academics, Cheerleaders or in some cases Song Girls for greener pastures (think money). Among the players...
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New York iPod tax calls for fee on downloaded music by The Associated Press Sunday December 21, 2008, 5:22 PM File photo Under Gov. David Paterson's proposed budget, New Yorker's would face an "iPod tax" -- a fee on downloaded music. N.Y. -- Gov. David...
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Paterson, according to published reports, has discussed the Senate seat with Cuomo and said the attorney general told him he needed to resolve some matters before deciding whether to enter the fray. Cuomo Thursday refused to comment on what he described...
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A teachers' union said it supports President-elect Barack Obama in trying to tie pay raises to student performance. Many teachers dislike the idea; Obama was booed when he mentioned it at union meetings in 2007 and again this year. Yet Randi Weingarten,...
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Guy Ritchie has enjoyed an emotional reunion with his children. The film-maker hugged eight-year-old Rocco before picking up his adopted three-year-old son David Banda and carrying him through Gatwick Airport. Ritchie's boys are spending time with him...
Tags: Guy Ritchie, Madonna (entertainer), Gatwick Airport, London, Christopher Ciccone, New Yorker
But what sent him over the edge and made him realize he had to speak out was when he opened his New Yorker three weeks ago and saw a picture of a mother pressing her head against the gravestone of her son, a 20-year-old soldier who had been killed in...
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