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It’s a superbly made, brilliantly edited and deeply interesting TV doco on a strange isolated, talented US photographer of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Made by John Maloof -which I guess is the variation...
It’s a TV doco. about what has died in America and in its politics in the last 30 years and the grievance and resentment (and anger) combined with small brains and big...
What a fantastic performance on Britain's Got Talent (for once)
Makes you proud to be British.
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For those of us in the UK you can now download an app called Safe Car Wash. The aim of this is to help end modern day slavery in car washes. It gathers info and in many cases reports findings to the...
I enjoyed the music of this great ney player from Cairo, when he was here to create a musical scene for a Ramadan TV series. He also found time to make this Ramadan video with Local singer Yasser...
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Personally, I prefer the nose flute of the Incas, it a 60's thing ever since El Condor Pasa.. 8)
Google inform me Omar would be 86 today.
Here's Nick & Omar (p*ssed) at Peter O'Tooles wake, for a joke they tried to call me here,
but as usual I had mislaid my phone again, shame.... 8)
RIP Omar...
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Driving in Monaco back in the early 90's I nearly collided with him on a tight bend. We both laughed and went on our way. A gentleman.
Saw an article in today's London Standard on theatre pubs, two of which are 10 minutes from my home.
Not discounting Sadlers Wells & The Lilian Baylis Studio, the former since c1683.
And not that I...
This unbelievable body painting is created by Mirjana Kika Milosevic. She specializes in skin illusion and special FX makeup
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A few folk I know would benefit greatly from this mind blowing body art by having their head transformed into an enormous penis, thus removing all doubt. :lol:
Saw the Churchill movie at the weekend starring Gary Oldham.
Its received near universal acclaim.
It presents a franker view of Churchill - the drinking, the mental instability - than is commonly...
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Carrie - your question is a good one. Few historians have a sensible answer except that his concentration on the war left him with few post war policies that would win votes. Attlee on the other hand...
Fascinating BBC Hardtalk interview today featuring Zineb El Rhazoui.
I recommend it to anyone interested in the struggle between Islam - which she regards as a form of fascism - and secularism....
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Dusak and Newcastle agree with almost all.
However, satire seems almost dead even though we have the best educated generation in the history of the world. Punch is absolutely dead and Private Eye...
An interesting coverage of the rise and fall of Bassem Yousef's satirical show Al Bernameg. The film is available through various internet outlets....maybe some have subtitles to cover the Arabic...
Over the weekend I came across an old film being shown on TV and decided to watch it, I had last seen it many years ago and probably well before I had made any visits to Egypt. The film was...
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Looks like a very interesting film. I'm going to check it out for sure. By the way, who's the narrator in the trailer? His voice sounds so familiar.
I think you will find it is the British actor Leo...
I've just been catching up with some programmes that I've downloaded from BBC iplayer. For those that have access to it, I recommend the two episodes of Alternativity . The first one is a documentary...
There is a new TV/film documentary that tries to put the bits together in the complicated story. Its got faults but is beautifully made, maybe a bit too poetic, and by arguably the world’s greatest...
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The Civil War one is fabulous, as is it's music; I still have and play the cassette (yes, cassette).
For weeks now, various TV channels in the UK have been showing Christmas movies. I moan that they start showing them too soon but must admit to having already seen more than more fair share. I get a...
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No films on my list, no tele for Christmas. Last time the television was switched on in my home was a couple of weeks ago when I had friends visiting and they wanted to watch the news.
When my kids...
Well top billing everywhere except Egypt – where it is banned. Its won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance film festival and is grossing very well in France....
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Maybe the hotel won't go ahead and maybe the murderer will go broke.
Four Seasons worldwide seems to be controlled by the murderers' mate a Saudi Prince - now locked up in Saudi. I don't think that...
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