Black dog

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Popbitch was a huge fan of Josh Schwartz's The O.C.
and McG's Fastlane. They've come together to make
Chuck, an action comedy about an ordinary geek who,
somehow, gets the CIA's biggest spy secrets
downloaded to his brain. We'll be watching:
Chuck, starts Monday 7th April, 10pm, Virgin1
http://www.virginmedia.com/virgin1/chuck
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"There is no song that can capture the loss that
we have in our hearts." - the family of the late
R&B singer Sean Levert
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* Bono's boots in Imax 3D
* Richard and Judy - “rabbit-like”
* Charts: Estelle is number one
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       >> National treasures <<
       They don't make footballers like they used to

   In the 1970s the Grand National, as an event, was
   dying. We all remember it as halcyon days, with
   Red Rum winning three times. But in 1977, when
   Rummie won his third race, fewer than 10,000
   spectators were there. The race has been
   resurrected, in 2007, the crowd was 68,000. Back
   then Aintree was owned by an eccentric old lady,
   Mirabel Topham, with Ladbrokes having the
   thankless task of managing it for her. One
   poor chap was sent up to the course and given a
   scruffy office with a couple of desks and phones
   and told to sort out tickets, sponsors, hospitality
   - the lot. The only way he got through it was with
   help from a surprising source. Every day, after
   football training finished at Liverpool, Emlyn
   Hughes and Terry McDermott, big horse racing
   fans, came over with a crate of beer and got on
   the phones to make the sales calls. Somehow you
   can't quite imagine Torres and Kewell doing it.

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Livesey Museum for Children has been shut by Southwark
Council. Rio and Anton Ferdinand's mum is a big
supporter, so Southwark residents are hoping the
footballers get behind the campaign to keep it open.
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       >> Short Cuts <<
       Bono's boots look odd at the Imax

hanuman writes:
   “I went to see that U2 in 3D film at the Imax.
   Obviously the thing about Imax is that everything
   is in focus and huge so you tend to notice
   details not picked up on normal film. Such as
   what appeared to be an extra inch-and-a-half
   on the bottom of Bono's boots...”


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Ban's Dive Resort, where Princess Beatrice has been
learning, has a special scuba course-passing ritual.
You wear a mask and snorkel with funnel attached,
and spirits are poured in until you say “stop”.
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       >> Big Questions <<
       What are people asking this week

   Which Eastenders star has developed such a
   close attachment to the bottles you'd find
   behind the bar of the Queen Vic that she's
   a regular guest at her local branch of AA?


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Spotted this week in Tesco, Epping: Jade Goody
“reading the front covers of the weekly magazines”.
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       >> RIP: Tallulah <<
       London loses a legend

   Popbitch lost a wonderful friend this week.
   DJ Tallulah was a London legend, and at the
   forefront of the gay club scene for more than
   30 years. He discovered clubbing when he met
   a queen in a Piccadilly Circus toilet in 1964
   who asked him if he wanted to know what people
   did after dark. He was taken to Le Deuce,
   a gay mod club on D'Arblay St. Tallulah, aka
   Martin Allam, never looked back. From
   friendships with Joe Orton and Kenneth Williams
   to DJing in the heyday of Studio 54 to
   residencies at Shadow Lounge, Heaven and
   Substation Soho, Tallulah showed the world
   there was a way for to be gay and grow old
   gracefully. He was an early supporter of
   Popbitch and headlined our infamous Explode!
   party. We'll always remember that moment
   when he dropped the 12” of Electric Dreams
   into his disco set...

   Our favourite story involved Tallulah's love of
   trade. One night he brought home a rough East End
   boy. The young man suggested that they dress up.
   Excited, Tallulah screamed “yes!”, and ran off to
   his bedroom. He emerged minutes later in a
   sequinned, taffeta ballgown. The callow youth
   looked up shocked and muttered, “I was thinking
   briefs or jockeys?”
  
FYI: Enjoy the celebratory funeral records:
The overture of Gypsy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcQdT8uf8k
Diana Ross' The Boss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D2L0SspO7s

FYI 2: An interview:
http://tinyurl.com/35bu2c


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richjohnston writes: “Les Dennis cheated on his first
wife with Ace off of Doctor Who? I wonder if she
used her metal baseball bat on him...”
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       >> Marital monkey business <<
       TV couple - at it like rabbits?

   Dispatches from a hotel in Kent. A reader says
   he struggled to get any sleep because of the
   noise made by the couple in the next room.
   The headboard was, apparently, banging against the
   wall for hours. The guest asked at reception to
   change rooms but when he went back to get his stuff
   he came face to face with his amorous neighbours
   ... Richard and Judy!


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We tipped the Cheltenham Gold Cup top three (but some-
how failed to win a penny.) Our Grand National e/w tips
Slim Pickings “third last year”, King Johns Castle
“interesting Irish contender” D'Argent “good outsider”
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       >> Celebrity Penis Watch <<
       News from Nottingham urinals

   Our East Midlands correspondent tells us:

   Har Mar Superstar - “nowhere near as big as
   he lets on. Those pants he wears must be stuffed.”

   Alex Kapranos - “Average. Like his band.”

   Steve Lamacq - “Radio face. Tiny cock.”
   “Prince William was in Nottingham recently
   doing some boozing. Am very sorry but I missed
   this opportunity to see a Prince's penis.”


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Blazin' Squad update pt 2  - DJ Tommy B works in the
office service department at Virgin Media TV. “He's
very good with a power drill”. Melo-D and MC Platinum.
work at PPL, in the music licensing department.
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       >> Dogging Merkel <<
       Crafty Putin's puppy power play

   German premier Angela Merkel mentioned to
   Vladimir Putin, on their first meeting, that
   she had a phobia about dogs. So what did the
   crafty Russian do? He made a point of bringing
   his Labrador, Koni, to every single meeting
   he had with her. Obviously she's over the
   moon that Dmitri Medvedev has cats.

Photo: Merkel with Koni:
http://tinyurl.com/2les5p


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Fear of the week: batrachophobia.
Fear of frogs and toads.
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       >> Pumpkins Down Under <<
       Corgan prepares a heart-stopping show

   Smashing Pumpkins have just done a show in
   Australia for MTV. Singer Billy Corgan requested
   for his rider a defibrillator and an ambulance.
   And crew claim they weren't allowed to walk in
   his line of sight while he was playing.


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Lily Allen's new material is said to be “dance-
oriented”. (Her TV show's re-commissioning was on 1st
April. BBC staff thought it was an April Fools joke.)
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      >> Oops! <<
      Live by the sword...

   Liveleak.com is the website that came to
   everyone's attention when it elected to host
   Ken Bigley execution videos. It recently hosted
   Geert Wilders' anti-Islam film, Fitna. The site
   started getting death threats from Islamic
   extremists. It took only about 12 hours for
   Liveleak to take it down. They then got death
   threats from the far-right, accusing them of
   being pro-terrorist. So they put it back up.


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Beyonce and Jay-Z to marry in Manhattan tomorrow?
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       >> Things that make you go hmm <<
       Elephants, dogs, Great Horned Owls

    As exciting as watching clothes dry:
http://gettingdry.blogspot.com

   Elephants are the new chimps - this fella's
   trunk is amazing! Watch him paint. It's
   worth the 8 minutes:
http://current.com/items/88880053_elephant_paints_self_portrait

   Want a dog but don't have the time? Try timeshare:
http://www.flexpetz.com/

   Some of the best dating videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5BIuhQBy0

   Thompson Rivers University Campus, Kamloops,
   British Caledonia, Canada. Great horned owls
   nesting in their trees. So they set up
   Owlcam. It's hypnotic:
http://barabus.tru.ca/owlcam/

   Baghdad's music and ballet school is,
   surprisingly, going strong:
http://tinyurl.com/22dgdh

   It¹s the REAL thing. Now that the sun is
   shining, fresh Tees from Real Real Genuine:
http://www.realrealgenuine.com/ProductList.aspx?categoryId=113²


 >> Chart Predictions <<
   New entries/High climbers Sun 06th April

++ Number One
ESTELLE/KANYE WEST American Boy

++ Top Ten
MARIAH CAREY Touch My Body
ALPHABEAT Fascination
THE KOOKS Always Where I Need To Be

++ Top Twenty
COURTEENERS Not Nineteen Forever
PANIC AT THE DISCO Nine In The Afternoon


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Thanks to: AM, dollymixture, LT, SW, WB, DC, party_b,
thirsty_panda, DS, lady Sybil, E, HL, W, C, G,
danceswithmustelids, Spooks, onthehushhush, SW

* And Patrick Lilley and Purplepiepete for help
with the Tallulah RIP story.
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Old Jokes Home:
Q: Did you hear about the bulimic bachelor party?
A: The cake came out of the girl.


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