"Spiderman" Alain Robert tried to scale the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia again but failed. Supposedly, he has suffered from vertigo before too… "Spiderman" nabbed climbing Malaysian twin towersTuesday March 20, 10:41 AM KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world without ropes was arrested in [...]
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There’s an old doctrine that my former Chairman when I was L.E.K. would on occasion remind us of. That the best strategies are usually the simplest ones. It was heartening, therefore that Michael Grade, the new Executive Chairman of ITV, having recently left his role at the BBC put forward yesterday a strategy for ITV: [...]
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Puzzle of the Day: If The Queen won the Best Film in the Baftas yesterday, and was nominated for Best British Film, why didn’t it win that? (The Last King of Scotland did instead) Links:BBC News: Mirren adds Bafta to awards haul
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One of the most successful stores on the High Street in the UK these days is John Lewis. Set up in 1864 by a certain John Lewis, who owned a drapery store, eventually just one store became a chain of department stores. Unusually, it became a partnership, in which the employees owned the company that [...]
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Angry Alien Productions do a fantastic 30-second bunny parody (sic) of many films, the latest of which is a spoof of Borat. Well, worth visiting, just remember your headphones if you’re in the office! Link: Borat spoof Angry Alien Productions
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