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Celebrity by prox(imit)y (4.00 / 5)

Prime Minister Julia Gillard congratulates Oscar winner Emile Sherman

JULIA Gillard today acknowledged she would never win an Oscar, but she couldn't help running her hands over one of the prized statuettes.
"Do people kiss it?" she asked Emile Sherman, co-producer of The King's Speech, the film which won Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards.

I lived with his family several weeks in the 80s when my parents shipped me to Australia to learn to speak English...

Wind power

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 12:15:45 PM EST
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I see they've produced a version for America with less swearing, and hence a reduced certificate (and you still have to be older to see it in the US than the UK version perhaps they're scared that monarchism is contagious)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 12:53:13 PM EST
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Went over to the USA recently, so saw the film on the airplane.  It must have been great, if I could see such a bleeped version and still love it.

Karen in Bischofswiesen

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 03:16:14 PM EST
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I think the reedited to reduce the swearing version is going to go around now so, they can get a younger audience, first time around it was more grown up

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Mar 25th, 2011 at 03:18:53 PM EST
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