To strive, to seek, to find…

“Iran was dangerous. Iran is dangerous. And Iran will be dangerous…”

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I’m just glad she turned up! Before the show, she allegedly “locked herself in her hotel room after a 48-hour bender and refused to go to the venue,” says The Mirror. You could tell.

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This story is incredible.

There is the innocent victim, a wee hammy called Georgie Porgie.

There is the blameless owner, Peter Pepper.

Then, there is the crack. “Probably.”

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This just in from Gorkana:

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Well well well. That should help with the mortgage.

Here’s AP on the bidding war:

NEW YORK (AP) — The memoirs of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the object of an international bidding war that went on for days, have been acquired by imprints of Random House Inc. in the United States and England.

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“He has a remarkable story to tell,” Knopf chairman Sonny Mehta said in a statement. “His tenure as prime minister was marked by close relationships with Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, and he enjoys a profile in this country that is rare among foreign leaders.”

Funny, that.

[Still wondering about the boy wizards? Not appreciating the J.K. Rowling dig? See Harry Potter's "left-wing hero" credentials here]

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Off to interview the makers of this film, which is about how we’re running out of the cheap, straightforward-to-extract oil that underpins industrialised societies.

Went to the screening last week, and it’s not often you get one of the directors standing up at the start to say…

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Ah, finger-gun photos. This trial has been rather rich in them.

What I am enjoying most about this development, however, is that my most recent boss just broke the update to me earlier this evening in t’pub. Bless her, she really knows what my priorities are.

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Last year’s festival was much fun.

What I got up to, in no particular order:

(The best thing is first though)

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There’s no chance of me being bored when I make the switch from staff to freelance in the next few weeks. I’m going to cover the London Film Fest, which runs 17th Oct - 1st Nov, and press screenings start 1st Oct.

For more info, see my news story, written after the press launch last Thursday. It took place at the Odeon West End, Screen 2, which is absolutely massive - and it was packed to the rafters. There were introductions from the British Film Institute’s head honcho, and the festival’s artistic director, then a half hour reel of clips from a selection of movies. The poor/lucky selection team have sat through 2000 entries for the fest since January. Wow.

These ones look promising to me:

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