Richard E. Grant
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2023.
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"Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a "pocketful of happiness in every day." This honest and frequently hilarious...
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Richard E. Grant's acting career has included memorable roles in some of Hollywood's most critically acclaimed films, including Robert Altman's Gosford Park and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. But he attributes his success to his first film role, starring as a flamboyantly pathetic Shakespearean in the underground hit Withnail and I. As Grant explains, "I had no notion that, almost without exception, every film offered since would be the result of...
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 4
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English
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Imagine being so important that when you're displeased with the bathroom decor, your hotel instals a pink marble suite for you instead. Richard E. Grant discovers the lengths that top hotels will go to wow A-list guests. From Elizabeth Taylor's bespoke bathroom at London's Dorchester to Dalí's demands at Paris's Le Meurice. Plus, Grant samples the high life with an eye-watering $5,000 burger.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 5
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Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant invites us to hop on his celebrity coat-tails and check into the world's most exclusive hotels. We visit London's Goring to discover the lengths it's taken to become the British Royal Family's unofficial favorite. Then it's back to LA to see how Hollywood royalty tie the knot, meeting the wedding planner who's organized weddings for Gwen Stefani and Katy Perry.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 1
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English
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Take a tour of the rooms, restaurants and bars where the rich and famous have lived, died and fallen in love.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 3
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What's your worst hotel misdemeanor? 'Accidentally' left with a towel in your bag? Sneaked something out of the minibar? Richard E. Grant's looking for something a little more… scandalous. He finds it at Hollywood's exclusive Chateau Marmont – where Jean Harlow and Clark Gable conducted a steamy affair, Lindsay Lohan amassed a $46k unpaid bill and Howard Hughes got up to no good in the penthouse.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 7
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English
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Oscar-nominated actor Richard E Grant heads on a madcap tour of the Emerald Isle: discovering juicy gossip about Brad Pitt's night-time eating habits at Ireland's 5-star Ashford Castle, snooping hilariously through U2 frontman Bono's bathroom cabinet in his Dublin hotel, The Clarence, and visiting the most bombed hotel in Europe.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 2
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How would you like to spend a night in the hotel where your hero has died? Sounds morbid, but Oscar-nominated actor Richard E. Grant makes this a fascinating romp, breathlessly exploring the Bastille's L'Hotel in Paris where dying Oscar Wilde quipped "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One… of us has to go" to New York's Chelsea Hotel, where Dylan Thomas spent his last days.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 8
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You can be certain that a few hoteliers will think back with alarm about the celebrity secrets they've spilled in this series. It's entirely down to the charm of our host, who is so outrageous and wildly funny that they clearly can't help but spill the beans. Grant finishes up in the French Riviera, the highlight of which is the Hotel Byblos where Bianca and Mick Jagger tied the knot.
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Hotel Secrets with Richard E Grant volume 6
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Imagine if hotel walls could talk… Luckily they don't have to, as Star Wars actor Richard E. Grant extracts juicy details of the dangerous liaisons that have steamed up the windows of the planet's top getaways. From the secret stairway used by one of Tinseltown's most notorious ladies' men, to L'Hotel in Paris, where Serge Gainsbourg whispered more than a "je t'aime" or two.
11) 1st Night
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Fearing he is little more than a city suit, a frustrated amateur opera singer decides to put on an opera, and may just win the hand of a female conductor he's been pursuing.
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This epic fantasy tale, about the history of a land that never was, begins when an ambitious young man steals forbidden knowledge from a sacred plant. He falls to its darker temptations and in so doing, unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind. As his power grows over the years, it falls to people of different ilk and culture to attempt to stop him. Among those who stand against him are a daring tomb-robber, star-crossed lovers, a maniacal necromancer,...
13) A Royal Scandal
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The true story of a royal marriage that fell apart - a story of adultery, bitterness and betrayal. A relationship entered into for all the wrong reasons disintegrates under the eager gaze of the press and culminates in a very public washing of private dirty laundry.
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"Do not try to make George's marvelous medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous. George is alone in the house with Grandma. The most horrid, grizzly old grunion of a grandma ever. She needs something stronger than her usual medicine to cure her chronic grouchiness. A special grandma medicine, a remedy for everything. And George knows just what to put into it. Grandma's in for the surprise of her life - and so is George, when he sees the...
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[2013]
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When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Lannet in the present, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don't like going out onto the streets at night, they don't like making too much noise, and they certainly don't like strangers asking questions. What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth?
17) The iron lady
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2012.
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English
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A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world.
18) Penelope
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2008.
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English
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Penelope Wilhern is born to wealthy socialites. She is afflicted by the Wilhern spell that can only be broken when she finds love. Hidden away in her family's estate, the lonely girl meets a string of suitors in her parent's futile attempt to break the curse. Each eligible bachelor is enamored with Penelope and her sizable dowry, but only until her curse is revealed. Lemon, a mischievous and eager tabloid reporter, wants a photograph of the mysterious...
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In Agatha Christie's classic, A Pocket Full of Rye, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his "counting house" when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.
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