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Fri 28 December 2007

Book review: Born Standing Up | by Steve Martin

Book review: Born Standing Up

by Steve Martin

28/12/2007 … To those who know him only as the star of such Hollywood pap as Cheaper By The Dozen 2 or the embarrassing remakes of Sergeant Bilko and the Pink Panther, it would…

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Sun 06 May 2007

 | by Dave Stone

by Dave Stone

06/05/2007 … There have only ever been two biographies about Tommy Cooper.

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