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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” 
Betfair, 20% better odds, and that 25 quid bonus bet:
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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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