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“London Has Fallen,” the critically panned sequel to “Olympus Has Fallen,” won the weekend at the Chinese box office, taking in $24.4 million in its first three days in theaters.
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ENGLAND SWINGS: Elvis Costello has turned impresario.
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Since being dispatched from North Korea to London as a foreign service officer, Thae Yong Ho had developed some very un-North Korean tastes, friends say.
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Entertainment & Arts
Top 10 world record prices for paintings: 1. $53.9 million: Vincent Van Gogh’s “Irises,” Nov. 11, 1987, at a New York auction. 2. $39.9 million: Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” March 30, 1987, at a London auction. 3. $20.24 million: Van Gogh’s “Le Pont de Trinquetaille,” June 29, 1987, at Christie’s, London. 4. $11.1 million: Edouard Manet’s “La Rue Mosniers aux Paveurs,” Dec. 1, 1986, at Christie’s, London. 5. $10.4 million: Mantegna’s “Adoration of the Magi,” 1985, in London. 6. $10.3 million: Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Young Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Cloak,” Dec. 10, 1986, at Sotheby’s, London. 7. $10 million: Joseph Mallard William Turner’s “Seascape: Folkestone,” July 5, 1984, in London. 8. $9.9 million: Van Gogh’s “Landscape With Rising Sun,” April 24, 1985. 9. $9.5 million: Georges Braque’s “Woman Reading,” Dec. 1, 1986, at Sotheby’s, London. 10. $7.04 million: Turner’s “Juliet and Her Nurse,” May, 1980, at Sotheby’s, New York.
Nov. 16, 1987
Books
The Perfect Summer England 1911, Just Before the Storm Juliet Nicolson Grove Press: 304 pp., $25 “THIS is a biography of a summer, a particularly lovely English summer, for some the most perfect of the twentieth century.”
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Movies
Ann Skelly stars in the complex psychological thriller ‘Rose Plays Julie,’ about an adoptee searching for her birth parents.
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James Coburn, Danny Aiello, Sandra Bernhard and Richard E.
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Who would it be? Eliza Doolittle? Maria von Trapp? Mary Poppins? Victor/Victoria?
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