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Richard Attenborough started out as the quintessential character actor before conquering Hollywood as a director. Photograph: Camilla Morandi/Rex Features


How he hated being called "Dickie". It sounded like the name of a luvvie lightweight – and Richard Attenborough, the brilliant stage and screen star, and director of the multi Oscar-winning Gandhi, was anything but that. He was always a beaming, cherubic, endlessly charming, endlessly garrulous man: actor, producer, director, world-class networker and committee man, an establishment heavyweight and incorrigible wearer of the Garrick Club salmon-and-pink tie.

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The Garrick Club is a gentlemen's club in London founded in 1831. It is one of the oldest, highly esteemed and exclusive members club in the world and since its ...

luvvie

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Pronunciation: /ˈlʌvi 

  

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(also luvvy)

NOUN (plural luvvies)

British INFORMAL

1often DEROGATORY An actor or actress, especially one who is particularly effusive or affected:everyone is singing his praises—from the luvvies at Cannes to various political figures in the US

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2(as a form of address) variant spelling of lovey.right, luvvie, I’m going to be working till nine

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luvviedom

NOUN

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cherubic

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Pronunciation: /tʃɪˈruːbɪk 

  

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ADJECTIVE

Having the innocence or plump prettiness of a young child:a round, cherubic face

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cherubically

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