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Unfastening the restraints on a new form of humour going by the name of ‘satire,’ came four off cuts from the crème of the public school boy crop. Unwittingly grabbing serious theorists, Jonathan Miller and bespectacled Alan Bennett (Miller from Cambridge and Bennett from Oxford), they were thrown together by the artistic director, at the time, from the Edinburgh Festival; Robert Ponsonby, with short, London born Dudley Moore and chain smoking, professional writer, Peter Cook. The idea was to create a show that gave an insight to the Festival delights. By acquiring the services of four jolly good chaps fresh out of the wooden panelled dormitories, seemed to be the ...

Oh my god you look fabulous, what are you wearing? Who is this gorgeous man? What did you think of this years winners? Every year the stars of Hollywood come out to celebrate their industry with a huge awards ceremony with awards seen as the highest accolade you can get. The Oscars are a big syrupy melting pot of lavish expense, excessive fawning and usually some undeserving films getting acknowledged. Make no mistake, in the past academy awards have been thrown at films that got a mass of publicity and a huge marketing spend regardless of whether they were worthy winners or not. The awards are based on votes cast by members of the academy, made ...

This should be a jewellery write-up, or - even better - a useful consumer review. However, in my trawl through Hon. Proxam's back catalogue I found this and got tempted... ? Do you believe in life after death? Nah. I don't believe in it, I don't want to believe in it and in fact strongly suspect that such a belief - however understandable in small human animals trembling with fear of the big wide universe - is a course of a lot of misery in both social and individual lives. Yes, when I die, that's it. So what? Maybe I am to young but I am not really ...