Letter: June 26, 2005 To: Dick, wherever you are. We shall miss you. With Additional Updates – Saturday, July 02, 2005 @ 16:00:00 PM He was a TV matinee idle (his words), but in the 23 years he presented Countdown on Channel 4, he was always full of his usual wit and sometimes painful puns. [...]
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- 27 June, 2005 – 12:26 am UTC
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Two bits of news which have led me to scurry around for completely different reasons on this busy week. The first is my first trophy at work after 4 years. I managed to come second in the final of the annual karting event at Playscape Streatham, setting a fastest lap in the process of 26.12 [...]
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- 26 June, 2005 – 8:57 am UTC
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Yes, it’s June 19th again, which means, as always, I have to first of all wish my best friend, Jing, a very happy birthday. Happy birthday, lass. Then I have to acknowledge Garfield‘s birthday – the orange cat is 27 years old today. And of course, happy birthday to APS, the society in Oxford I [...]
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- 19 June, 2005 – 1:14 pm UTC
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* CLEAN * Maggie Cheung, Nick Nolte Dir: Olivier Assayas – France / UK / Canada – 2004 So what does it take to win at the Cannes Film Festival? Well, Maggie Cheung pulled out all the stops for her win in 2004 in a moving film directed by her ex-husband Olivier Assayas. Emily Wang [...]
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- 14 June, 2005 – 12:06 am UTC
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Annie’s put me to shame by posting up some highlights from her six months in the US last summer. Considering I still haven’t got round to putting mine up yet, I’ve decided to get started on that, although one hell of a week is coming up at work that will get me working most hours [...]
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- 11 June, 2005 – 5:53 pm UTC
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