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  • DVD & Blu-ray, Peccadillo PicturesVader says "Nooooooooo!" and Ewoks blink audibly as Lucas aims for continuity by making the originals as stupid as the prequels.

    This week's new DVD & Blu-ray releases 2011

  • Peccadillo of mine, I guess … just like my fondness for dressing up in pigsflesh and doing the hokey-cokey.

    Historic, historical: usage and advice 2009

  • President Bill Clinton's great legacy, the "I'm Not Getting Enough Attention Peccadillo", or INGEAP is bringing down important pol's on an almost weekly basis these days.

    Roderick Spencer: Guys, You Will Never Top Him, So Quit Trying! 2009

  • President Bill Clinton's great legacy, the "I'm Not Getting Enough Attention Peccadillo", or INGEAP is bringing down important pol's on an almost weekly basis these days.

    Roderick Spencer: Guys, You Will Never Top Him, So Quit Trying! 2009

  • President Bill Clinton's great legacy, the "I'm Not Getting Enough Attention Peccadillo", or INGEAP is bringing down important pol's on an almost weekly basis these days.

    Roderick Spencer: Guys, You Will Never Top Him, So Quit Trying! 2009

  • Sea Officer, then resident in a neighbouring Colony, that for a mere Peccadillo, order'd his Slave to be ty'd up, and for a whole

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • Sir John Suckling was among the habitués of the place, and his sisters will ever be remembered from Aubrey's pathetically humorous description of their coming "to the Peccadillo bowling-green crying for feare he should lose all [their] portions," as he was a great gamester.

    The Strand District The Fascination of London Walter Besant 1868

  • NEW YORK -- If your idea of Christmas holiday fun includes a caustic comedy with a warm, mushy heart, then the Peccadillo Theater Company's amusing revival of a popular, acerbic play from the 1930s will hold great appeal.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Irving is a five-year veteran of the Shaw Festival where he appeared in Hotel Peccadillo, Mack

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

  • The Peccadillo Theater Company's production is intense and highly enjoyable, an interesting prelude to the "Foxes" revival coming to New York Theater Workshop in

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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