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Gentlemen in a League of their own; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Column)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20031108
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QUESTION If there were a modern-day League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, who would be in the team?

THE League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery and in cinemas everywhere, is an adaptation of a graphic novel by Alan Moore. The story involves a group of well-known, late 19th-century literary characters who work together to defeat a threat to world peace.

The group consists of a vampire (Mina Harker from Bram Stoker's Dracula), a spy (Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain's Adventures Of Tom Sawyer), an immortal (Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray), ...

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