"Ewan McGregor looked after me."

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Life The Guardian's pulled together some of my favourite people to talk about their career firsts . For some reason I'd entirely ...

The Opinion Engine 2.0:
32/31:
Despite the fact that bloggers claim to prefer anonymity, all blogs are intrinsically narcissistic - discuss.

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Question asked by Franchesca Puehler. About Before heading off into the psychoanalytical second half, it’s important to address the in...

"I always saw us having galleries in Liverpool, London, LA or wherever"

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Art The Ceri Hand Gallery is soon to be moving from its base in Liverpool to the capital and Hand herself has given a useful interview to ...

the British Animation British Animation Awards screenings at FACT.

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Plug! I've had an email from FACT Liverpool: "Hi Stuart, Just wanted to let you know about the British Animation British Anima...

He probably had Virginia Madsen in mind when I was writing this.

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Life   Putting Christmas decorations away the other day, I stumbled upon a bag of papers which had been bunged on a shelf during a clear out...

"Romney is kind-of okay, in his Stepford Husband way"

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Politics Elizabeth Wurtzel on Mitt Romney : "I'm not sure why it occurs to no one that the GOP electorate might actually plain ...

The Oxford Paragraphs:
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in
King Arthur's Court

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Books With just a vague memory of the film adaptation starring Bing Crosby, some notion of the influences it has had on Doctor Who, and ...

The Titlebar Archive: Sherlock

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About   I was once rather more proactive about selecting the title bars for this blog (click here to carry out some real blog archaeolo...

The Oxford Paragraphs:
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice

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Books One of the benefits of finally reading a book of which I’ve seen numerous screen versions is in increasing my understanding of the...

the Sugababes are back together

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Music Well look at that. As Popjustice explains, the Sugababes are back together , or One Touch as they'll inevitably be called since...

the "Sugababes" have split up

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Music When Simon asked me earlier if I'd heard the Sugababes news, the last of inverted commas suggested all our hopes had been reali...

"the shape of March Of The Penguins, Miracle on 34th Street and Aladdin"

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TV TV Cream continues the old Off The Telly tradition of annual logs of fare on Christmas Day with some focus on Downton Abbey, a show wh...

"space exploration is often seen as a waste of money with no real benefits"

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Science Inspired by the Republic of the Moon exhibition at FACT Liverpool , C. James Fagan writing for Liverpool's new culture blog Th...

"brown paper towels down into my armpits to soak up the salty sludge"

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TV Amber Benson explains the horror of the pitching process in modern US network television : "Now I have to admit that the pitch pro...

wondering if I'd like to be sent some samples

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Plug! Just before Christmas, the day we put our Christmas tree up actually, I received an email from a PR person working for a new drinks ...

"This little piggy went wee weee wee wee all the way to the bank."

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The Duchess of Cornwall with actress Elizabeth McGovern during the ICAP Charity Day , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

it's still exciting to see my name quoted

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About Around The Globe is Shakepeare's Globe's Magazine and in the latest issue writer Tom Brown (of So Long, Shakespeare ) is ki...

"Brian" and "Cherski"

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TV Claire Danes had something new to say about My So-Called Life in this New York Magazine interview : " My So-Called Life has had s...

"Ugly"

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Art Ugly Renaissance Babies . A tumblr [ via ].

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