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The Eagles have climbed to ninth in the embryonic league table after a nervy 5-3 win over Shepton Mallet at Horsdon Park on Saturday.
And, after also collecting a stunning 4-0 win at Portishead on Tuesday night, Taylor sees no reason why the Eagles cannot challenge for top spot.
“The league is wide open this season,” he said. …
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I don’t know how else to describe the age in which we all live except that it’s more skeptical, less idealistic, less hopeful. So much has changed in the past several decades that a movie like Rob Reiner’s Flipped, a good movie, almost a great movie, is virtually MIA in this year’s Oscar race. Part of it is the cool factor: it’s not a movie that appeals to the loudest movie voices online. …
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Welcome to Ramallah, PA’s Tel Aviv. From here, via short clips and large posters, Palestinian leaders try to convince Israeli public there is a partner for peace. Behind-the-scenes visit to Mideast’s most optimistic campaign
Alon Goldstein
In the hottest week of the year, the hottest in a 100 years, Ramallah is on winter time. …
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Coming to Dublin next week, Neil Hamburger tells deliberately offensive jokes, ruined by a spluttering delivery and a terrible catchphrase - and it has won him a fan base
PICTURE THIS: the 2009 Comedy Carnival in the enchanting Iveagh Gardens, an oasis of loveliness secreted behind the National Concert Hall in Dublin. …
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It mixed scientists, aliens, madmen and a talking skeleton into an epic battle. Viewers marveled at the miracle of Skeletorama. Since the film did so well, writer-director had to give the fans more with The Lost Skeleton Returns Again .
The Lost Skeleton is missing most of his bones at the start of the new film. …
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Barry (no relation) is an auto-taxi — short for autodidact taxidermist — which has nothing to do with motor vehicles. It means he taught himself how to stuff dead animals. And in this age of specialization, his micro-specialty is mice. He is also an artiste : Barry doesn’t just stuff the wee corpses; he costumes and choreographs them in dramatic dioramas full of sociocultural comment. …
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Elliott Sadler demonstrated that he had a truck that could contend for the win at Bristol Motor Speedway, but late-race contact with a competitor led to a night-ending wreck 21 laps later.
With body damage and destroyed front brakes, the No. 2 Grand Touring Vodka Chevrolet Silverado was relegated to a 26th-place finish in a caution-filled race at “the world’s fastest half mile. …
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Saturn Stage with a superb, ridiculously heavy version of ‘Roots’ ringing in our ears. Is there a more metal way for our festival to have begun?
13:40: No time to stand admiring Joe Nunez and co though, as we’re straight backstage to catch up with Papa Roach’s Tony Palermo who fills us in about his favourite drummer, his warming up routine and what’s coming up for the nu-metal stars. …
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Her life was marked by professional triumphs, including a Tony Award-winning debut on Broadway in Lillian Hellman’s 1946 drama “Another Part of the Forest” and a best actress Oscar for her role in the 1963 drama “Hud.”
But for Patricia Neal, the husky-voiced actress with a strong screen presence, life also was marked by personal tragedies: the death of one of her children and brain damage to another, and her own battle to overcome the debilitating effects of a ruptured aneurism in her brain in 1965 that temporarily halted her career. …
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Television Critics Association who just presented three trophies to the Fox series at the 26th Annual TCA Awards. The event honors the best shows on TV.
The musical series took the top prize of Program of the Year, as well as Outstanding New Program, and Individual Achievement in Comedy for Jane Lynch, the villainess of the group. …
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It’s easy to say that no one is making romantic comedies like “Philadelphia Story” (1940) anymore, because it’s true. But is that really the test? Maybe we’re being too hard on contemporary filmmakers who, after all, reflect their times just as much as politicians and journalists do. I’m getting ahead of myself, however, so let’s back up. …
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Big Brother’s Big Mouth presenter, 22, on getting naked with Craig David, why dead celebs are much nicer than live ones, and how he’s a sitcom mastermind
What’s the worst practical joke you’ve ever played?
When I was at school we did a Jackass film and that was pretty bad. It involved me putting my head in a cowpat. …
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Comic Riffs is a blog devoted to the comics fan. Come in, sit down and put your feet up as we celebrate, contemplate, eviscerate and pontificate on cartoons.
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Who knew Kanye West’s sudden embrace of Twitter and the longtime pithy humor of The New Yorker’s cartoons would make for such a viral marriage? …
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We like to keep up on our celebrity pregnancies, you know, just so we can bring something to the water cooler conversations: currently, Christina Applegate Alicia Keys are your two most recently announced celebrity pregnancies. Whenever that news breaks we consult with our favorite online name-generator in hopes of discovering the perfect new name for their kids. …
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