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At least WE got it (mostly) right!
After all the controversy around the recent Academy Award Nominations, it’s good to know that WE got it (mostly) right. There may not be enough diversity in this new list of winners published today, but it does at least correct several of the very noticeable omissions from the Oscar list. Especially when it comes to…
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The Lady In The Van
Sometime in the 1970’s Mary Shepard decided to park her beaten up old Bedford van in one of the nicer leafy streets in London’s Camden Town area. The street with it’s expansive Georgian houses was home to several professional upper-middle class Brits that included a smattering of famous people such as the widow of the…
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Elvis & Nixon
On December 21st 1970 Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, turned up at The White House in Washington uninvited and asked to meet President Nixon. Elvis’s luck was in that day as one of the Presidents Aides was a huge fan of the singer and told his boss that such a…
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Viva
There are two very distinct parts to Havana the capital of Cuba . One is the colorful picturesque area that has been freshly renovated and is where the tourists hang out, and the other is the seedy dilapidated streets where the local inhabitants struggle on a daily basis just to make ends. This story of…
