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Borders explores selling itself

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 21 (UPI) — Book-selling chain Borders Group Inc., has hired two financial concerns to look into future strategies including possible sale of the company.

The company announced Thursday it earned $84.7 million in the fiscal quarter ending Feb. 2, compared with $87.7 million a year ago.

But, the company is up against competition from discount stores, such as Wal-Mart, and online sellers, such as Amazon.com. Nontraditional outlets have surpassed traditional bookstores in sales, The Dallas Morning News reported

“I don’t think it means the superstores are in any sort of trouble at all,” Jim Milliot of Publishers Weekly told the paper.

Borders rival Barns & Noble said it expects to expand this year, opening 35 to 40 new stores, the newspaper said. Chief Operating Officer Mitchell Klipper said Thursday Barnes & Noble was interested in acquiring Borders.

Tests on Boeing Dreamliner reveal problems

CHICAGO, March 21 (UPI) — U.S. aerospace giant Boeing announced that tests on prototype Dreamliner 787 jetliners revealed “the need for some improvements.”

The Chicago-based company released a statement Thursday saying “robust tests,” had discovered flaws in the plane and that “the fix is being installed on Airplanes 1-6,” at their factory in Everett, Wash.

“It is a normal part of the development of a new airplane to discover the need for improvements,” the Boeing statement said.

Boeing has already announced two delays in production schedules for the 787, causing some customers to look into leasing or buying planes elsewhere.

A new production schedule for the Dreamliner is expected by the end of March.

Three in discussions to buy Newsday

NEW YORK, March 21 (UPI) — Chicago’s Tribune Co. reportedly has three possible buyers for one of its most profitable papers, Newsday, and may wish House And Garden Article 13184 to unload it soon.

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Channel 4 to probe knife crime

Ian Wylie

27/ 3/2008

GUN and knife crime on Britain’s streets is to be investigated in a new TV probe.

A group of experts, led by Tony Blair’s barrister wife Cherie, will take evidence from interested parties at hearings in cities across Britain, expected to include Manchester.

The TV commission will produce a report containing practical ideas on how to tackle the problem, as part of

Channel 4’s
Gun and Knife Crime Season.

Mrs Blair - also known as Cherie Booth QC - said: “Like many others, I am deeply concerned that guns and knives are becoming a part of everyday life for some young people in Britain.

“As a barrister and part-time judge, I have to sentence offenders who have committed crimes with such weapons and have seen for myself the misery that they cause, not only to the victims but to themselves and their families.

“As chair of the Street Weapons Commission, I am looking forward to speaking to the individuals and organisations across the UK who deal with this issue and its consequences every day.

“The Street Weapons Commission aims to engage people in the debate and explore ideas based on real-life experience which will help to combat the increasing use of weapons on our streets.”

The season will also include a one-off drama, as well as documentaries and films telling the stories of people directly affected by street crime.

Channel 4’s spring and summer season of programmes also includes a ninth series of Big Brother, again hosted by Davina McCall.


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Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Original Article)

Colin Firth was subjected to ‘every indignity possible’
- including a love scene with a cross-dressing Rupert Everett - in
St Trinian’s. Helen Barlow reports.

Colin Firth can play a wide range of characters. However, with
his strong dramatic skills and droll delivery of lines, he is often
cast as the straight man in comedies around whom all the jokes
revolve. This has never been truer than in St Trinian’s,
where his education minister literally throws Mr Darcy out the
window - or at least a dog bearing the name of his famous romantic
character from the 1995 BBC series Pride And
Prejudice.

“You know, I live for these little satisfactions now, these
little perks: going through life punching Hugh Grant and kicking Mr
Darcy out of the window,” he says.

The Bridget Jones films, including the one where he let Grant
have it, had of course already satirised Firth’s tall and handsome
but rather uptight Mr Darcy. However, nothing would have prepared
him for the St Trinian’s onslaught, where he says he was “subjected
to every indignity possible”, including love scenes with his old
friend Rupert Everett, who plays the headmistress of St
Trinian’s as well as her brother, Carnaby.

“This was Rupert’s project. It wasn’t something that was cooked
up as a double act between us. In fact, I was quite resistant to it
for a while. After all, what’s fun about the education
minister?”

Firth came on board the film, an update of the ’50s Ealing
comedies, when he was able to make a few changes. St
Trinian’s became a huge Christmas hit in Britain and it
wouldn’t be nearly as funny without him.

“Originally the role was so incredibly wet there was nothing
appealing about him. Of course, as soon as he sets foot in the
school, you know he’s going to be eaten alive by the girls and
everybody else.

“I thought it would be more interesting if he’s pretty sure of
himself and is quite arrogant. Then they can take him apart and
it’s facebook directory a little more fun. It gave …continue reading

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Original Article)

St. Trinian’s, the unholy school for girls created by the
cartoonist Ronald Searle, originated during World War II with a
series of drawings of a single delinquent schoolgirl. Two of these
were done when Searle was a prisoner of the Japanese and drawing
became his consolation. Savage humour, it seems, proved a potent
way of dealing with the cruelties of war.

With the war over, he was free to elaborate on the joke and give
life to the increasingly popular St. Trinian’s. In 1952, he wearied
of the whole idea and took the drastic step of blowing up the
school and most of its residents with an atomic bomb. It hardly
mattered. He had sold the film rights, which meant that his monster
was about to take on an independent life. In 1954, Launder and
Gilliatt brought out The Belles Of St. Trinian’s, with
Alastair Sim doubling as the headmistress, Millicent Fritton, and
her shady bookmaker brother, Clarence. Four sequels followed and
now, 28 years after the last one, comes this update.

Directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson conceived the plan
while working on their adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The
Importance Of Being Earnest. It comes as no surprise to learn
that Rupert Everett was the project’s instigator - fired by the
desire to produce his own take on Millicent and Clarence.

Feminist historians of pop culture have never been able to make
up their minds about St. Trinian’s. Is it a black satire on the
rigidities of the British class system or a misogynist plot? By
camping things up and making the headmistress a man in drag, are
the filmmakers insulting career women, perpetrating nudge-and-wink
jokes about homosexuality or simply making mayhem? And should we
care or just lie back and enjoy it?

Everett’s Miss Fritton brings a few new nuances to the argument.
For a start, Millicent has been re-christened Camilla and
transformed into a blonde with a twinkle in the eye and a Duchess
of Cornwall headscarf, worn firmly BARNEY AND FRIENDS dvd knotted on the chin. She
indulges …continue reading

Source: The Age (Original Article)

Proof here that the Americans do not have a monopoly on dud
remakes of old films. This embarrassing, expensive, largely
laughless bargain-basement makeover of the St Trinian’s films of
the 1950s is about a rule-breaking, do-as-you-please girls’ school
populated by hot students in fetish outfits and earmarked for
closure by government squares.
Besides the limp plotting and the grand lack of comic energy,
the promise of seeing all these sexy schoolgirls in fishnets and
short skirts has got to be the weakest movie selling point in
ages.
There may have been novelty in it back in the 1950s, but today
they’re in every second film clip.
And if you’re wondering how such a fine actor as Rupert Everett
got roped into doing two winceworthy roles in this Business Credit Cards clunker, check
the credits. He’s one of the producers.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Original Article)

AS CATE BLANCHETT appeared for the second time on British cinema
screens as Queen Elizabeth I in last year’s Elizabeth: The
Golden Age, another queen was waiting in the wings.

The British actor Rupert Everett appears in full royal regalia
as the virgin queen in his latest film, St Trinian’s, a
modern-day interpretation of Ronald Searle’s 1950s drawings of
naughty schoolgirls.

Everett plays the role made famous by Alistair Sim, who appeared
in the 1950s films of the same name, playing both shady art dealer
Carnaby Fritton and his sister, Camilla Fritton, the school’s
unorthodox headmistress.

It is as Miss Fritton that Everett appears as Queen Elizabeth,
descending the staircase to greet co-star Colin Firth, playing the
strait-laced education minister Geoffrey Thwaites with the line:
“Don’t you think I make a remarkable queen?”

“We knew Elizabeth would come out at the same time, so it
was our little joke,” says Everett, who chronicled his adventures
as an openly gay actor in London and Hollywood in his 2007
best-selling memoir Red Carpets And Other Banana Skins. “It
was very difficult to keep a straight face.”

The film made an estimated $US3.7 million ($4 million) in
Britain in its first weekend, although it was panned by critics in
the United States.

This week the comedy opens in Australia and Everett, who was
co-executive producer, is hoping it will appeal to teen girls -
thanks to its schoolgirl stereotypes such as “emos” and “nerds” and
cast members such as the model Lily Cole and a former star of
The OC, Mischa Barton - as well as their parents, who should
enjoy its British humour and adult references.

Everett provides the lion’s share of the adult humour, from Miss
Fritton’s flirtatious pursuit of Firth’s character to scenes
showing her smoking a joint.

“It is balancing act about how far you can go … I have
these cackling queen friends I wanted to make laugh, while Citibank Credit Cards the
other producers and directors had …continue reading

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is not that bad sometimes… I like Secundus because Rupert Everett played him. Stardust_Secundus 1 (Rupert Everett)

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… production some years ago and seen two film versions (Anthony Asquith’s 1952 production with Edith Evans and Michael Redgrave and Olivia Parker’s more star-studded 2002 version with Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Judi Dench), …

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The Age: Viva La Diva — (Rupert Everett - St Trinian’s). There he wriggles into his Miss Fritton costume: a large quantity of pale pink undergarments, two enormous plastic breasts, and a floral and tweed outfit. …

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A part ça j’ai un nouveau carnet où dedans il ya Antonin en exclu for the very first time et Rupert Everett qui adore son nouveau pull. Tibo arrête la fac et va travailler à McDo à la place, je vais partir au Mexique bientôt (17h40 : le …

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Source: The Age (Original Article)

Blonde, curvaceous, Camilla-like _ Rupert Everett is
back as the new headmistress of St Trinian’s, and tells
Justine Picardie about his latest scrapes.

It is six o’clock on a weekday morning, and Rupert Everett is in
his elegant drawing room preparing himself for a day of filming his
latest role, as Miss Fritton, the headmistress of St
Trinian’s.
Everett is reading a book by the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti
and quotes selected extracts. “What is life?” he says. “Not all the
things that we go through,” he continues, still quoting the guru,
“power, position, prestige, fame, or no fame - that’s not life;
that’s part of our mishandling of life.”
He looks expectant, perhaps hoping for an intelligent response,
but I am distracted by the green plastic carton of Shrek toys on
the parquet floor, a by-product of his playing Prince Charming in
the Shrek movies.
Everett snaps the book shut and pulls another one down from the
shelf, containing the original St Trinian’s cartoons by
Ronald Searle, showing a variety of gin-swigging, cigar-smoking
schoolgirls, apparently hell-bent on wreaking havoc with their
hockey sticks. “St Trinian’s - defender of anarchy,” he
says, “like me. Just remember, one man’s terrorist is another
woman’s freedom fighter.”
And with these somewhat conflicting thoughts for the day, we
depart by car for the film set, a dilapidated mansion in
Buckinghamshire.
There he wriggles into his Miss Fritton costume: a large
quantity of pale pink undergarments, two enormous plastic breasts,
and a floral and tweed outfit. Once his make-up has been applied
and his wig fitted, he looks uncannily like Camilla Parker Bowles,
and reveals a similarly shapely pair of legs.
Sadly, his co-star, Colin Firth, who plays Geoffrey Thwaites,
the Minister for Education, is not on set today, so he cannot be
quizzed on the progress of their on-screen affair, though I do
sneak a look at the photographs that show the pair in bed together,
engaged interest rate calculator in a passionate kiss.
This is …continue reading

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Rupert Everett (in laid-back James Bond mode) is the caretaker of a cemetery where the dead don’t stay dead. Surreal, comical, romantic, tragic and magic all at once and made with a real passion and affection for the genre. …

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Pour l’occasion et pour les fans, vous pourrez retrouver Rupert Everett samedi 22 mars 2008, à partir de 14 heures, à la librairie « Les Mots à la Bouche » 6, rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, 75004 Paris.

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Enjoy whatever festival you celebrate .

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Perhaps the greatest screen adaptation of the character I’ve seen was that of Rupert Everett, who, despite being part of a terrible contemporarily-written Holmes tale, played the character perfectly. …

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E in generale cosa ne pensi di questa convenzione su personaggi originali come Dylan Dog = Rupert Everett, o Ultimate Nick Fury = Samuel L. Jacson? Riprendere e rendere riconoscibile un attore è nel mio caso necessario e indispensabile; …

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Per Ghost Whisperer e Star Trek hai dovuto per forza riprendere i volti degli attori. Ti ha creato difficoltà? E in generale cosa ne pensi di questa convenzione su personaggi originali come Dylan Dog = Rupert Everett, o Ultimate Nick … …

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Rupert Everett: Christopher Marlowe. Judi Dench: Isabel I. Tras vencer todos los obstáculos encontrados a lo largo de su vida, Elizabeth llevò a Inglaterra a años de paz y gran esplendor cultural que hoy se conocen como “La Era …

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The male lead also looked a bit like Rupert Everett (soooo hot! and, of course, so gay!), which helped. And they had a musical number o dolgonosom kulike - dolgonosye, okazyvaetsya, samye dolgovechnye :). Who knew? …

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The gags are funny and a cast of new characters including Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas), Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) and his fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders), who wants Business Credit Cards her son to be King of Far Far Away. …

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Rupert Everett: Christopher Marlowe. Judi Dench: Isabel I. Tras vencer todos los obstáculos encontrados a lo largo de su vida, Elizabeth llevò a Inglaterra a años de paz y gran esplendor cultural que hoy se conocen como “La Era …

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The male lead also looked a bit like Rupert Everett (soooo hot! and, of course, so gay!), which helped. And they had a musical number o dolgonosom kulike - dolgonosye, okazyvaetsya, samye dolgovechnye :). Who knew? …

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The gags are funny and a cast of new characters including Puss In Boots (Antonio Banderas), Prince Charming (Rupert Everett) and his fairy Godmother (Jennifer Saunders), who wants her son to be King of Far Far Away. …

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Rupert Everett, Colin Firth e um elenco de jovens actrizes do qual se destacam Mischa Barton ea nova Bond girl Gemma Artertron asseguram 90 minutos de gargalhadas e boa disposição. Nunca a escola foi tão divertida!

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Rupert Everett, as Prince Charming. Jennifer Saunders, as Fairy Godmother. Aron Warner, as Wolf. Cody Cameron, as Pinocchio/Three Pigs. Christopher Knights, as Blind Mouse. David P. Smith, as Herald/Man with Box …

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Vse dokler se ni kralj Charles II (Rupert Everett) premislil in na oder dovolil tudi ženskam. Tudi simpatični in zagnani Mariji (Claire Danes), ki naÅ¡ega Neda seveda potisne v drugi plan. Ki naÅ¡emu Edu zdela ego in ga spremeni v …

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Yes that is the rather pathetic slogan I sported as a teenager when I belonged to “The anti-Nazi league” . A very elderly gentleman who had numbers on his arm came into the bookshop .He was a regular , he saw my badge and said “that is …

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The Romanov eagle that Rupert wanted on his head represents an empire that wanted control of east and west and pogroms. We all make mistakes , offend people inadvertantly but the Swastika should be banned Worldwide and the holocaust …

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País/Ano: ING/ EUA, 2007 Elenco: Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Charlie Cox, Jason Flemyng, Robert De Niro, Sienna Miller, Nathaniel Parker, Rupert Everett, Peter O’Toole. Direção: Matthew Vaughn Gênero: Aventura Duração: 127 min.

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Je dois d’abord préciser qu’un événement survenu en début de soirée m’a un peu déprimée : sur Canal +, Rupert Everett a annoncé qu’il était désormais 100 % gay. Sous le coup de ANZ Frequent Flyer Card la contrariété, j’ai été plus sévère que d’habitude à …