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Brits To Honour Betty White [picappgallerysingle id="9629357"]COMEDY actress Betty White, and actor Jeff Bridges, will be honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles, at BAFTA/LA’s Britannia Awards, on November 4, at the Century Plaza Hotel in LA. White will receive the Charlie Chaplin award for comedy, and Bridges will take home [...]

Secret’s Out On Driver For TV Show Top Gear

THE OPAQUE visor of one of Britain’s most famous helmets has been lifted. The identity of The Stig, the always-anonymous test driver on Top Gear, the wildly popular British television show about cars, has long been kept secret. The BBC had asked Britain’s High Court for an injunction blocking the publication of an autobiography revealing [...]

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[picappgallerysingle id="9503265"] EMMA’S ON ‘THE WALK OF FAME’ Two time Oscar-winning British actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson, 51, has now added to her many accolades, her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “I can’t tell you how thrilled I am,” she declared. Emma won a Best actress Academy Award in 1992, for her performance in “Howards [...]

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MIRREN FILM CHOSEN TO CLOSE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL AWARD-WINNING British actress Helen Mirren who stars in directorJulie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” will have the honour of seeing the film close the 67th Venice Film Festival on September 11, for its world premiere. It will be screened out-of-competion. Mirren, who just celebrated her 65th [...]

Great TV Commercials from the 50s, 60s and 70s

DID YOU ever think you’d hear The Sun newspaper referred to in the same sentence as intelligent? Do you remember the Bond-like-man going through hell on earth just because “the lady loves Milk Tray”? Remember Fannie and Johnnie? . . . or “She Fly’s Like A Bird . . .” Nimble commercial? Well, if any [...]

Mike Tyson Makes Surprise Pre-Season Appearance – At Peterborough FC

[picappgallerysingle id="9351730"]IRON Mike Tyson made a surprise appearance as West Ham won 2-1 at Peterborough in Avram Grant’s first game as manager. The former heavyweight champ, 44, is in the UK giving a series of talks on his life and career in an event they’re calling “Evening With The Baddest Man On The Planet”. He [...]

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[picappgallerysingle id="798517"] ‘BATMAN 3′ ACTOR Michael Caine who played Batman’s butler, Alfred Pennyworth, in the first two “Batman” pics, says that Warner Bros. will begin filming “Batman 3″ next April, to be directed by Christopher Nolan. The studio has announced that the film would be released in July, 2012. The script is being co-written by [...]

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[picappgallerysingle id="7380292" align="left"] ROBERT DOWNEYJR. 65, will be returning to London, late this summer, for the sleuth sequel of his hit movie “Sherlock Holmes.” It is set for release in December, 2011, and he will be reuniting with his former costars Jude Law and Rachel McAdams in “Sherlock 2.” The first ‘Sherlock Holmes’ which was [...]

‘Thinking’ About Football . . . Classic Monty Python Sketch

WITH THE the 2010 World Cup well under way, we thought it very appropriate to view the classic Monty Python sketch, Philosophers’ Football Match, depicting a football match in the Olympiastadion at the 1972 Munich Olympics between philosophers representing Greece and Germany. Starring in the sketch are Archimedes (John Cleese), Socrates (Eric Idle), Hegel (Graham Chapman), [...]

Fawlty Towers – I know nothing!

Manuel and Basil have a painful conversation.

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