Christopher Lee
Summary
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (born 27 May 1922) is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars series, and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998).Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948, and was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2009.Lee was born in Belgravia, Westminster, England, as the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Geoffrey Trollope Lee of the 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps and his wife Contessa Estelle Marie (ne Carandini di Sarzano).
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“What Comes After UX?” - Cennydd Bowles at UX People
Last week I helped host Zebra People’s UX People, a day long conference featuring talks and practical workshops. You can download all my notes from the day in an ebook for iBooks, for Kindle or as a PDF. On currybetdotnet I’ve already published my notes on talks by Christopher Lee Ball, Jonty Sharples and Mel McVeigh.
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“Seeding UX into the DNA of an organisation” - Mel McVeigh at UX People
Last week I helped host Zebra People’s UX People, a day long conference featuring talks and practical workshops from the likes of Cennydd Bowles, Christopher Lee Ball and Oli Shaw. You can download all of my notes from the day in an ebook for iBooks, for Kindle or as a PDF.
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“Test or be damned” - Jonty Sharples at UX People
Last week I helped host Zebra People’s UX People, a day long conference featuring talks and practical workshops from the likes of Cennydd Bowles, Christopher Lee Ball and Louise Oakham. You can download all my notes from the day in an ebook for iBooks, for Kindle or as a PDF.
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“Experience Principles” - Christopher Lee Ball at UX People
Last week I helped host Zebra People’s UX People, a day long conference featuring talks and practical workshops from the likes of Cennydd Bowles, Jonty Sharples and Oli Shaw. You can download all of my notes from the day in an ebook for iBooks, for Kindle or as a PDF, and here is what I made of the opening talk by Christopher Lee Ball.
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Trailer Mash 01-27-12
This is a direct quote from the first line of Adweek's Trailer Mash" is what you'll read should you find this story via a retweet bot on Twitter. Our mash this time (above, by Kate Rose) unites Sam Worthington and Katherine Heigl as though the worlds of Man on a Ledge and One for the Money were the same, which in a real way they are.
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Weiner Receives Cool Reception From Closest Allies
WASHINGTON — Disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner faces a cool reception from even some of his closest allies in Congress as he clings to a once-promising political career.
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Leaked excerpts from WikiLeaks tell-all bring new gossip about Assange (The Cutline)
The Cutline - Over at our sibling blog, The Lookout, Brett Michael Dykes writes about WikiLeaks defector Daniel Domschiet-Berg's revelations about Julian Assange. The gossip site Gawker, fresh off its scoop that brought down Republican Congressman Christopher Lee several days ago, obtained leaked excerpts from the former spokesman's forthcoming tell-all.
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'The Daily' Updates Its Glitchy App--And Shows It Can Keep Up With News
If The Daily launched last Wednesday with breaking news sensibilities and an app that worked It would still have detractors who think it’s too expensive to develop, not “internet” enough, and doesn’t break ground on the iPad.
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'The Daily' Updates Its Glitchy App--And Shows It Can Keep Up With News
If The Daily launched last Wednesday with breaking news sensibilities and an app that worked It would still have detractors who think it’s too expensive to develop, not “internet” enough, and doesn’t break ground on the iPad.
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Media Decoder: Gawker's Scoop Draws Eyes to a New Format
Gawker had just unveiled a new layout, widely panned by readers, when it broke the story that triggered Representative Christopher Lee's resignation.
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