Hardy feels like a broken man and sees his path to emotional recovery in stopping the killer and the network of killers Carroll is recruiting.

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Polanski has been nominated for Oscars for directing "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Chinatown" (1974) and "Tess" (1980), an adaptation of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles, " the Thomas Hardy novel about a young peasant woman whose life collapses after a wealthy older man seduces her.

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It is easy, of course, for a designer who owns 100 pairs of shoes but Mr. Hardy believes that just 10 styles can cover almost any occasion for which a man needs to dress: "five to six pairs dressy, two to three casual, two sporty not counting sandals, " he says.

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