Grant, Cary

'Archibald Alexander Leach (January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986), better known by his screen name, Cary Grant, was an British film actor. With his distinctive Mid-Atlantic accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, witty and charming. He was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time of American cinema by the American Film Institute.'1

As pointed out by Weisenberger and Loranger, the reference at Beyond the Zero: Episode 22 is to the film Gunga Din in which Cary Grant spikes a punchbowl with elephant medicine.3

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Beyond the Zero: [2]

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page numbers

13

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references

  1. ^Wikipedia, Contributors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cary_Grant (accessed: 2007-02-05)
  2. ^Pynchon, Thomas, Gravity's Rainbow (London: Vintage, 2000), p. 13
  3. ^Weisenburger, Steven, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (Second Edition) (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2006), p. 24

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