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unusual facts about The Cook, the Thief, His Wife



1988–89 Los Angeles Kings season

Gretzky himself was considered a "traitor" by some Canadians for turning his back on his adopted hometown, his home province, and his home country; his motivation was widely rumoured to be the furtherance of his wife's acting career.

A Woman of No Importance

This appears to have made Tree all the more determined and thus Wilde wrote the play while staying at a farmhouse near Felbrigg in Norfolk — with Lord Alfred Douglas — while his wife and sons stayed at Babbacombe Cliff near Torquay.

Chen Liting

The actress Wang Ying even performed an English version of the play in the White House for President Roosevelt and his wife.

Cornelius Stirk

In order to capture Stirk, Batman is forced to leave a terrified Gordon with his wife, who brings him to a hospital.

Edvard Radzinsky

His book Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives discusses a number of well known controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role of Stalin in the death of his wife and the murder of Sergey Kirov.

El Jueves

The July 18, 2007 edition of the magazine was sequestered by law on July 20, for an alleged violation of laws 490.3 and 491 on insults to the Crown, since the Prince of Asturias and his wife, who were portrayed with a caricature on the front cover performing a sexual act.

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Indeed this movie, along with Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, were the major contenders that contributed to the final impetus for the eventual creation of the adults-only film rating NC-17.

His Wife's Lover

Ludwig Satz, who also wrote the songs, plays an actor who disguises himself as an old man, wins the hand of a beautiful young woman, then adopts a different persona and tries to seduce her to test her fidelity.

Roger Ashton-Griffiths

He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm and Brazil, A Knight's Tale, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski's Pirates, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and Olivier Dahan's Grace of Monaco.

Sonnet 18

In 2001 Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour recorded Sonnet 18 as a song for his wife, with the music written by him and played on piano by Michael Kamen.

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife

For the majority of the film where Broomfield is unable to get an interview with the Leader himself, his attention is drawn to the driver and his wife (JP and Anita Meyer), hence the title (which alludes to the title of Peter Greenaway's 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover).

Unto the Third Generation

It was the third time director Harry Solter had worked together with Foxe and Lawrence that year, previously working together on His Wife's Child and The Spender.


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