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STANDING 6 FEET 4 INCHES TALL, WITH RED MUTTONCHOPS, and a penchant for dressing in full Highland regalia, kilt and all, Gordon Cummings, a big game hunter from Scotland, returned to the U.K. in 1848 with 27 metric tons of wildlife trophies from his excursion in Africa. The man known as the “Lion Hunter” then went on a lecture tour with spellbinding stories of stabbing a hippopotamus to death, battling a 13-foot python, and killing countless species that heretofore were relatively unknown to his fellow 19th-century countrymen.

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Four films you ought to check out.

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Out of the Bose speakers came a sound smoother than Ladakhi cashmere, more powerful than a locomotive, and as delicate as Venetian glass. It filled the cavernous room with beauty, sensually entwined with silky clouds of cigar smoke - a wraithlike waltz of sorts.

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Take away his floor seats at the Lakers, a $150,000,000 collection of 20th century art, and the fact that he prefers National Golf Links over Shinnecock because winds pick up too much by the time he wakes up (who says that?!), he’s an actor, and one of the all-time greats.