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BillF

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  1. OK, but American movies seen by audiences of millions familiarised Brits with American speech from the time of the talkies of 1929 onwards.
  2. Birdman of Alcatraz Phil Schaap Phil Space
  3. Richard Burton Trent Lott Lotte Haas
  4. I recommend this one:
  5. I'll back those comments. I'm not sure that this is true, but if it is, couldn't it be something to do with the amount of exposure we get in Britain to American media, in contrast to the rarity of British media in the US?
  6. Accrington Stanley Stanley Gibbons Ape-like Sweeney
  7. The Spinners Cotton Mather Brothers and Other Mothers
  8. Brian Blade King C Gillette Gilberto Gil
  9. Yes, but they get rid of her 2/3 way through. Saving on the budget?
  10. Halle Berry Sir John Barbirolli Rolly Bundock
  11. "So in Love" from this:
  12. Great clip. I particularly like Thad Jones/Mel Lewis doing Bob's "A B C Blues".
  13. Nat Peck Frank Pick Puck
  14. Eddie Locke The Doors
  15. Sweet Patootie Albert Heath Canned Heat
  16. Released in the UK today and seen this afternoon. A disappointment - melodramatic, as to be expected with Almodovar, but this time straight-faced without the camp humour that makes his often banal stuff tolerable.
  17. Vladimir Bagirov Amanda Tosoff Haydée Politoff
  18. Sonny Greer Jimmy Blanton Ant & Dec
  19. Cole Porter A coal porter* Oliver Sachs * "Now we're going to play a coal porter composition - that's not the Cole Porter, it's by a coal porter" (Ronnie Scott)
  20. Ron Knee Paul Calf Dingle Foot
  21. Les McCann Emmanuel Kant Theresa May
  22. Hal Crook Bob Swindells Acker Bilk
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