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MIMI AND TOUTOU'S BIG ADVENTURE
The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
By Giles Foden
Knopf. $24.
This enjoyable book comes with the movie-style tag line: "The
incredible true story that inspired the classic film 'The African
Queen.'"
Strictly speaking, this is true. C.S. Forester had a vague idea of
the events Giles Foden describes in this book when he came, in 1935,
to write the novel on which the film was based, and the director John
Huston may have known ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
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The Real 'African Queen'
The Washington Post
; MIMI AND TOUTOU'S BIG ADVENTURE The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika By Giles Foden Knopf. 241 pp. $24 Giles Foden's enjoyable book comes with the movie-style tag line: "the incredible true story that inspired the classic film 'The African Queen.' " Strictly speaking this is true. C.S. Forester
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African Queen here
Chicago Sun-Times
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A strange man in Africa Anthony Daniels enjoys this tale of the eccentric First World War battle that inspired 'The African Queen'
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden Michael Joseph, pounds 16.99, 320 pp pounds 14.99 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 NOTHING IS so risible as the passions and enthusiasms of the recent past. We find it difficult, or impossible, to recall without an
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`African Queen' Could Capture Your Heart, Too
Chicago Sun-Times
; ... weekend and extends through March 5 in the education building on Lake-Cook Road outside Glencoe. Carolyn Ulrich is a Chicago free-lance writer. Send garden news to: Cultivated Gardener, Homelife, Chicago Sun-Times Features, 401 N. Wabash, Chicago 60611.
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Find Lily the Fink; My African Queen is nicked from its plot.(Gardening)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Byline: BILL CHUDZIAK EVERY garden should have at least one lily - and obviously the rat who nicked my prized African Queen last week agrees. However this heartless felon, who left a huge hole in the border, also lacked brains as well as morals lilies hate disturbance of any sort so, odds-on, it
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Bogart's African Queen to dock in Michigan town for fund-raiser
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; The boat Humphrey Bogart shared with Katharine Hepburn in the Hollywood classic "The African Queen" is dropping anchor in this east central Michigan town -- at least for a couple of weeks. The boat, also called The African Queen, was to arrive on a trailer Tuesday, a day before the steamboat will
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THE AFRICAN QUEEN TO GET UP STEAM FOR HARBORFEST.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: PAUL CLANCY, STAFF WRITER VIRGINIA BEACH -- She glides into view like a memory. Bogart on deck, kicking her in the slats to keep her boiler steaming, Hepburn at the tiller, guiding her through the rapids. It's the African Queen, the real thing, or at least the most famous one, the
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Gift Ideas: `Trek,' `African Queen,' `The Real West'
The Washington Post
; The video industry, ever anxious this time of year to fill any gaps on Christmas-gift lists, is offering an array of holiday releases. They range from a gift set of all six "Star Trek" movies to a digitally remastered video of "African Queen," in a set that includes a copy of the movie script, plus
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SIGHT OF OLD AFRICAN QUEEN BRINGS TEARS TO EYES OF HOLLYWOOD MOVIE MOGUL'S WIDOW.(LOCAL)
The Virginian Pilot
; Byline: PAUL CLANCY, STAFF WRITER NORFOLK -- Cameras should have been rolling. The clunky old metal boat that bears the name of one of the most famous movies of all time inspired a moment of pure cinema on the city's waterfront Wednesday. ``We're going down the rapids now, kids Betty Spiegel, wife
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Dubbed Oscar's African queen, Whoopi is millennium's winner
New York Amsterdam News
; New York Amsterdam News 03-31-1999 Dubbed Oscar's African queen, Whoopi is millennium's winner ... star of his movie "Life Is Beautiful." Article copyright The Amsterdam News. ******************************************************** Ethnic NewsWatch ...
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