2015
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Ben Whishaw Falls In Love
The UK’s BBC TV Channel have just announced that out gay actor Ben Whishaw is to star in a new spy/gay romance miniseries next month called ‘London Spy’. It is the story of a chance romance between two people from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from…
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Marie's Crisis : Show Tunes Heaven
When Show Tune Queens click their heels three times and pray for home we know that they don’t mean Kansas with Toto, but the one place in the world which is the nearest they will ever get to heaven. It’s called Marie’s Crisis Cafe and for the past 40 years (and maybe more?) it’s been New…
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Rock The Kasbah
Veteran funny man Bill Murray is so good at playing miserable old curmudgeons who turn out to be really warm human beings before the final credits roll, that he’s making quite a career out of it these days. Following on the heels of last years ‘St Vincent’, Murray now swaps Brooklyn for Afghanistan but once again…
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Truth
One of the more difficult aspects to swallow regarding the un-level playing fields of the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign were rather scurrilous claims regarding Senator John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. They proved to be totally unfounded but only after they had caused unrepairable damage. At the very same time there questions were raised about the…
