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The Limey is a 1999 American crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, Nicky Katt, and Peter Fonda. [2] The plot concerns an English career criminal (Stamp) who travels to the United States to investigate the recent suspicious death of his ...
The German, [24] the French and the British Commonwealth armies used the name "Tommy" for British soldiers. "Tommy" is derived from the name "Tommy Atkins" which had been used as a generic name for a soldier for many years (and had been used as an example name on British Army registration forms). The precise origin is the subject of some debate ...
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Lem Dobbs (born Anton Lemuel Kitaj; 24 December 1958) is a British-American screenwriter, best known for the films Dark City (1998) and The Limey (1999). He was born in Oxford, England, and is the son of the painter R. B. Kitaj. The pen name "Dobbs" was taken from the character played by Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
She also played the character in that show's short-lived spin off, The City from November 1995 until January 1996. In 1994, she was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer. Through the 1990s, she appeared in many made-for-TV movies, and a role in the 1999 Steven Soderbergh film The Limey (as Peter Fonda's
The Names (1982) is the seventh novel of American novelist Don DeLillo. The work, set mostly in Greece , is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a number of unexplained murders.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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