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These days it seems as if every movie out of Hollywood that makes even a slim profit or generates a modicum of publicity will also spawn a sequel, even if it's the company that holds the rights to the...
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Bela Lugosi seated in a den: "The sparrow flies. But does it go anywhere? Rejoice!"
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Dick Emery was a comic who had paid his dues, and by the nineteen-seventies his hard graft had paid off with one of the most successful comedy shows on television thanks to his Saturday night broadcas...
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Charlie Chaplin was the most celebrated of the silent comedians to emerge from the Hollywood of the nineteen-tens, and had got his big break as part of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone comedies, as an...
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drew his world-famous Peanuts comic strip for nearly fifty years, starting in 1950; his final work was published on the same day as his death in 2000, but even this distan...
ITV noted well the success of its rival channel BBC1 and their festive celebration Christmas Night with the Stars which had begun in 1958, so in 1969 the independent television channel decided ...
