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In 1995 The Advocate proudly broke the news that Sir Nigel Hawthorne--who died on December 26 at age 72--was the first openly gay Best Actor Oscar nom...
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University of the West Indies (UWI) vice-chancellor, Professor Nigel Harris (left); president and chief executive officer of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill, [Lowell Hawthorne] (centre) and Chairman of the American Foundation of the University of the West Indies (AFUWl), [Michael Flanigan], sign the Memorandum of Understanding, which will see Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill contributing US$100,000 towards the AFUWf to provide scholarships to students of the UWl. The signing ceremony was held on Thursday, January 28, at the AFUWI Annual fund-raising gala at the Pierre Hotel in downtown Manhattan.
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Here's a few books for your summer reading. A couple might make you think, but that's a chance you'll have to take.
Hankering for an adventure tale in exotic settings with magic and stiff-upper-lip explorers a l H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs or A. Merritt? Jane Lindskold's The Buried Pyramid (Tor, $26.95) might just be your cup of tea. British Capt. Nigel Hawthorne learns of a pharaoh beloved by his people but so humble he orders them not to build a giant pyramid for his burial place. The gods also love him, so much so they build it instead, then to protect it, they bury it in the sand.
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Beatles guitarist George Harrison, actor Nigel Hawthorne and Harry Secombe, one of the stars of "The Goon Show," have been added to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography," Britain's definitive record of the great and the good.
In total, 195 biographies were added to the dictionary in the update published Tuesday. The group included 44 women.
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... Humphrey, the wily civil servant played by Nigel Hawthorne on the British television series Yes Min...
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Though they cannot supplant nor replace other methodologies, films can possibly raise new questions, provide different perspectives, and reveal unique ways of knowing about seminal subject, at least by comparison to the standard fare of academic analysis. Each one, "ethics" and "leadership," draw upon substantially different intellectual literatures, scholarly methodologies, traditional assumptions, and disciplinary perspectives. Film, often far better than social science literature, may provide a more "holistic account" of not only individual lives, but entire situations where ethical leadership is practiced. Finally, ethical leadership includes the use of symbols. Symbols abound throughout, thus giving the story meaning, depth, and power beyond simply "a typical feel-good" movie. List...
... and 1920s to today, and well before the Hawthorne Experimenters in the 1930s discovered it as "the g...Anthony Hopkins. Morgan Freeman. Nigel Hawthorne. Amistad portrays the gruesome hardships...
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Today is Monday, Dec. 26, the 360th day of 2011. There are five days left in the year. The seven-day African-American holiday Kwanzaa begins today. This is Boxing Day.
On this date
...Actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 7...
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LOS ANGELES - It may seem as though Academy Awards voters would be a bunch of fawning monarchists, considering how often the ceremony has been a love fest for all things English. But British kings and queens generally wind up losers at the Oscars.
If "The King's Speech," a saga about Queen Elizabeth II's dad, makes good on its status as best-picture favorite on Sunday, it would become the first film with a British monarch as its central figure to win the top prize in the 83-year history of the Oscars.
...'s "The Madness of King George," for which Nigel Hawthorne also lost for best actor in the title ro...
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Nov. 25
a.m.: HALL "A Season for Miracles'' (1999) Carla Gugino, David Conrad. A woman tries to save her sister's children from foster care by taking them to a small town where she is mistaken for a missing heiress.
... "Call Me Claus'' (2001) Whoopi Goldberg, Nigel Hawthorne. Facing mandatory retirement after 200 y...
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Kevin Macdonald's new film, The Last King of Scotland, based upon the novel by Giles Foden, is historical fiction, tracking the high and low points of [Idi Amin]'s reign, and insinuating [Nicholas Garrigan] (a fictional character) into the thick of it. [James McAvoy] (something of an inexpensive Ewan McGregor, best known for playing Mr. Tumnus in The Chronicles of Narnia) is engaging and funny, an impressionable party boy seduced-along with the rest of the nation-by the power and charisma of Amin, though by the end of the film he is forced to examine his own part in a brutal regime that killed over 300,000 Ugandans. His performance is solid, but this movie is all [Forest Whitaker], a superb actor who embodies Amin-all magnificent charm and sizzling menace.
... the King of Siam in The King and I, and Nigel Hawthorne was given a nod for The Madness of King ...