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A BEN KINGSLEY FILM FESTIVAL |
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I consider myself a unique, special person, so I'm appalled that I'm sniffling with the "common" one of these |
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2005: Pickpocket patriarch Fagin |
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We learn of the loss of Belle Reve, ancestral home of the DuBois family, in this classic 1947 play |
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It's the last name of Harry Potter's pal Hermione |
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"Il Matrimonio Segreto" got the longest one of these ever: Leopold II ordered the whole opera repeated |
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I'm not a rooster, so I hope I'm not coming down with this disease also known as varicella |
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1993: Bookkeeper Itzhak Stern |
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Of Dragonwyck, Gryphonwyck or Unicornwyck, the mysterious mansion in Anya Seton's 1944 bestseller |
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In mythology Hermione was the daughter of Menelaus & her, & must have hoped to look like mom |
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Tchekalinsky, Tomsky & Prince Yeletsky are roles in "The Queen of Spades" by this composeretsky |
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Kitty clawed me, so I may have this mild disease, also the title of a Ted Nugent album |
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1991: Syndicate accountant Meyer Lansky |
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In a Jane Austen novel, this medieval abbey sparks Catherine Morland's Gothic fantasies |
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At age 19 in 1925, Hermione Bulwer-Lytton was acting vicereine of this country |
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Donna Elvira is one of the women seduced by the title character of this Mozart opera |
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Uh-oh... I feel itchy. Hope I wasn't bitten by this outdoor pest, the red larva of a harvest mite |
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2003: Iranian immigrant & new home owner Colonel Behrani |
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Lady Grove is an estate purchased by Uncle Edward in this "timely" British author's 1909 novel "Tono-Bungay" |
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In "Gigi" Hermione Gingold is Maurice Chevalier's partner for this duet; ah, yes... |
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This title Wagner hero blows a mighty horn call & then kills Fafner, who's in the shape of a dragon |
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A blain is an inflammatory swelling; my exposure to icy weather may have given me this kind of "blain"--brrr! |
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2000: Homicidal British gangster Don Logan |
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The hero of this Thackeray novel woos & wins the widow who inhabits Castle Lyndon |
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Hermione suffers from the jealousy of her husband Leontes in this late Shakespeare play |
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This Beethoven opera features the wonderful quartet "Mir ist so wunderbar" |
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