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  1. Top Sarah Palin Aide Unmasked: Rebecca Mansour Comes Out Of The Shadows

    Thu, 17 Mar 2011

    story , we learn that: -She is a fan of Victorian-era poetry as well as the writer William Faulkner and the films of David Lean . Mansour majored in English and history and minored in philosophy in college. -Her company, Aries Petra Consulting

  2. The Note: Is Donald Trump Serious About Taking On Obama? The $600 Million And $1 Billion Men

    Thu, 17 Mar 2011

    like ‘anti-dentite’ (a dentist hater, from "Seinfeld"). She loves Victorian poetry, William Faulkner and David Lean films. She is especially fond of "Why I Am a Liberal," Robert Browning's 1886 sonnet on liberty.” http

  3. Traveling with the Stars: Mark Burnett

    Fri, 28 Aug 2009

    Bedouin tents in Wadi Rum, Jordan. It's a vast, grand desert surrounded by immense sheer rock faces. This is where David Lean shot Lawrence of Arabia, where the seven pillars of (wisdom) are the seven mountains in a row. Think southeastern Utah

  4. 10 great places to check into movie-hotel history

    Thu, 21 Feb 2008

    it Hotel Alfonso XIII Seville, Spain "This palatial hotel's courtyard stands in for the 'Cairo Officers Club' in David Lean 's 1962 epic Lawrence ofArabia," Reeves says. "Star Wars fans will also recognize the Alfonso as the exterior of Princess

  5. Is Scorsese Oscar Poison?

    Fri, 18 Feb 2005

    Winning director: Milos Forman ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") For "12 Angry Men" in 1958. Winning director: David Lean ("The Bridge on the River Kwai") Sweeping historical epics tend to be winners. And "Gandhi" and "Bridge on the

  6. Excerpt: 'There and Back Again'

    Wed, 13 Oct 2004

    ride of the highest order but as something even more. I'm talking about epic filmmaking not seen since the clays of David Lean or John Ford. I knew that the director, Peter Jackson, was a man of prodigious talent and vision, an artist capable

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  1. Gladiator, Tiger in Tie at BAFTA Noms

    Thu, 1 Feb 2001

    categories: OUTSTANDING FILM Almost Famous Billy Elliot Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Erin Brockovich Gladiator THE DAVID LEAN AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Steven Soderbergh

  2. Gladiator, Tiger in Tie at BAFTA Noms

    Thu, 1 Feb 2001

    categories: OUTSTANDING FILM Almost Famous Billy Elliot Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Erin Brockovich Gladiator THE DAVID LEAN AWARD FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Steven Soderbergh

  3. In the Mood: The Best Valentine's Day Movies

    Fri, 12 Jan 2001

    panache. It's a cliché now, but it's a cliché because it's true: They don't make 'em like this anymore. David Lean is best known for his epics (The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia), but he is also remembered for a

  4. Actor Sir Alec Guinness Dead at 86

    Sun, 6 Aug 2000

    described it as his favorite film role perhaps the best thing I ve done. Guinness had a long film partnership with director David Lean , beginning in 1946 as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations, through Oliver Twist, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr

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