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The Times - ‘Don’t insult me, I can tell fiction from reality’, by Theo Wells, aged 14

To me, Grand Theft Auto is about freedom, not violence. As the name of the series suggests, the best way to spend time in this virtual, “no-consequence”, world is to steal yourself a nice car and drive […]

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I don’t usually blog about Madonna, certainly not twice in one week, but I thought this was rather insightful on a larger scale:

Fox 411 - Madonna Film: Kabbalah Propaganda

Condescending? Yes. Unknowing? Oh, you’d best believe it. Naïve? Eminently. The pièce de résistance came after the screening, when one audience member […]

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Me, on Sunday - Don’t Tell Q

The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he lost control around one of the lake’s narrow curves. Augh, he was only delivering it! It didn’t go out in […]

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You’d think that she’d know by now that to duet with someone who can sing would only make people notice she sounds like Madonna.

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BBC - Bond car plunges into Lake Garda

A stunt driver has crashed the car used by movie secret agent James Bond into Italy’s Lake Garda during filming of 007’s latest movie, Quantum of Solace.

Augh!

The driver was delivering the iconic Aston Martin DBS to the film scene in heavy rain when he […]

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The Times - Death to Harry Potter plagiarists! Those who copy and cannibalise good stuff to make rubbish are the real villains, by Natalie Haynes

The real crooks are those who plagiarise and cannibalise good stuff to make rubbish. J.K.Rowling is in court this week, trying to block the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon, […]

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Times Online - Charlton Heston, Oscar-winning star of Ben Hur, dies

sigh

And:

Telegraph - Obituaries - Charlton Heston

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Linked to by LGF:

I’m told #7 Stop-Loss opened to only $1.6 million Friday from just 1,291 plays and should eke out $4 M. Although the drama from MTV Films was the best-reviewed movie opening this weekend, Paramount wasn’t expecting much because no Iraq war-themed movie has yet to perform at the box office. […]

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Fox News - Paul McCartney Ordered to Pay Heather Mills $48.7 Million to Settle Divorce

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A lot of you will have seen this, it’s one of Peter’s absolutely favourite videos on the internet, ever:

Dramatic Chipmunk

And then last night, he found this:

Dramatic Lemur

SFW, and if you watch either of these without your audio on, we can’t ever be friends.

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BBC - Final Potter film split in half

The announcement comes after producer David Heyman admitted it was impossible to cram Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows’ 608 pages into a single movie. “You cannot remove elements of this book,” he told the Los Angeles Times.

SOMEONE’S FINALLY SEEN SENSE.

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The Times - Teenager wants to be Afghan pop queen

Two squeaky clean heart throbs and a demure teenage songstress in a headscarf will battle it out this week for a place in the final of Afghan Star, a television talent contest that has gripped more than ten million viewers from Jalalabad to Herat.

Ten […]

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ABC (Oz) - Chuck Norris the only WMD in Iraq: US troops

Heheh.

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The Times - Dressed to Kill James Bond gets a new tailor

Daniel Craig is taking off his suit! But, swoon not, he is putting on another. The twin worlds of international espionage and gentlemen’s outfitting are reeling at the news, revealed in times2, that 007 has switched allegiances. James Bond is forsaking tuxedos made […]

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Peter showed this to me nearly a week ago and every time I think of it I burst out laughing. Today, walking towards Uwajimaya, passing City Hall? Started giggling uncontrollably. That’s how funny it is.

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