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Danger Man
A real hero far more realistic than James Bond, Patrick McGoohan gave it a sinister edge, forty years later its still very cool
The maestro Russell Birdwell
Russell Birdwell the great movie PR man was reportedly responsible for some of the most influential cultural engineering of his time. Texas-born Birdwell was a newspaper reporter working the Hollywood beat before breaking into show business around 1925. He was a mighty myth maker and it was he who developed the story about the longest kiss in screen history, way back in 1941 between Regis Toomey and Jane Wyman in “You’re in the Army”. However, I have received an email today from a gentleman called Zeke Nathaniel who is an expert on early Hollywood movies who claims that a good…
DEATH TO ALL SATIRISTS
The Borkowski poet in residence imagines what might really be going on in some Labour MPs’ minds after Peter Hain’s furious reaction to satirist Rory Bremner’s hoax phone call to Margaret Beckett in 2005, in which he pretended to be Gordon Brown and got her to gossip about cabinet colleagues. For more information, click here. Death to all satirists! Down with Rory Bremner. We’ve got a new target to aim at and dismember. Death to all satirists, impressionists and wits. Stone them all with mobile phones or blow them into bits. Death to all satirists who get under our skin…