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rediff News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Washington, the Barack Obama administration has said the two sides will unveil a common vision of the future and their desire to work together on challenges like climate change and food security. President Barack Obama's invitation to Dr Singh, for the first State Visit of his administration on November 24, reflects the deepening of bilateral ties,...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Forty years ago there was just one authoritative survey of the history of the Conservative Party, written by Robert Blake, who was subsequently ennobled by Ted Heath. Today the whole story is clear in well-researched detail, and John Ramsden did more than anyone to bring about that change and transform the position.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Kevin Douglas Grant of Neon Tommy has written a piece about writer, editor and critic Steven Mikulan , who lost his job last week after 25 years at the LA Weekly : Until his firing last week, Mikulan was a longstanding employee of the Weekly who had covered some of the biggest criminal trials of the last 10 years in Los Angeles: Robert Blake . Phil Spector . Anthony Pellicano . Anand Jon . He had...
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DVD Talk (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Recommended I know they're not as good as the Hal Roach shorts. But there are pleasures to be found here in the Warner Archive Collection 5-disc set, The Our Gang Collection , which gathers together the final 52 M-G-M one-reelers of the iconic children's series, providing us with our last glances of Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Porky, Butch and Buckwheat as they leave childhood...while giving us an introduction...
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The blog Film (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Roman Polanski behaved badly in 1970s Hollywood. He wasn't alone The arrest of Roman Polanski takes us all back to the movie business's not-so-secret history of shame, the "Hollywood Babylon" era which lasted from the beginning of the 20th century to around the 1970s – or maybe longer. It tended to involve sexual misdemeanours, crazy and illegal behaviour, drugs, murder, and biddable...
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Celebutopia (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Former New York Giants player Plaxico Burress made his way to the Manhattan Courthouse earlier this morning for sentencing and got TWO YEARS in prison for weapons charges! All this drama because this neanderthal shot himself in the thigh! Somewhere in Hollywood, OJ Simpson and Robert Blake are laughing their asses off.
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MattDeanSouthampton (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Clarke the dandy- pictured in 1984. The political conference season is the time that most publishers choose to publish political biographies and memoirs but the gruel is desperately thin this year- one of the worst I can remember. Ion Trewin's " Alan Clarke- the biography " is one bright spot however and all the broadsheets have carried reviews of Trewin's latest work in recent days. Ion's...
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Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith is 38. Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 76. Actor Robert Blake is 76. Actor Fred Willard is 70. Singer-actor Frankie Avalon is 69. Guitarist Kerry Livgren (Kansas) is 60. Actor James Gandolfini (”The Sopranos”) is 48. Guitarist Mark Olson of The Jayhawks is 48. Singer Joanne Catherall of Human League is 47. Actress [...]
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Cotton Rohrscheib's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Be sure to mark your calendars for Tuesday, September 29! That’s the date of our next Central Arkansas Refresh meeting. We will be meeting in our usual location, the basement at The Flying Saucer in downtown Little Rock (see the map below for directions). This past month Robert Blake did a great presentation on [...]
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The United States this week criticised the Sri Lankan government's continued internment of hundreds of thousands of Tamils and Colombo's not taking steps towards a political reconciliation. “President Rajapaksa did meet on Monday with representatives of the Tamil National Alliance, but in general there have been few other concrete steps to re-unite the country and begin to heal the wounds of a...
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The decision by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to place India on its 'Watch List,' for what it said was "the government's largely inadequate response to protecting religious minorities," will not impact in any way on the growing US-India strategic partnership, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake has said.
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake was asked pointedly by rediff.com to respond to a growing perception that Pakistan was hedging on punishing the terrorists behind the Mumbai terror attack and the US was backing off from applying too much pressure on Islamabad because of its strategic interests. Blake said, "First of all, let me say these are really a very complicated...
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rediff News (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
A top Barack Obama administration official on Wednesday asked Pakistan to prosecute those responsible for the terror attacks on Mumbai and make concerted efforts to stop militant infiltrations across the Indo-Pak border. "Both the countries must now undertake a sequenced series of actions to rebuild confidence and cooperation. Such actions must include progress by Pakistan to prosecute those responsible...
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Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
There were so many screeners sent to me this week, a week in which I happened to be laid up (along with my son) with the H1N1 virus (we're fine now, thanks), that this will probably be the first of several posts coming your way this weekend in an effort to clear the decks before the start of the De Palma Blog-A-Thon on Monday. First up, is the Warner Archive Collection with this month's batch of releases:...
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The Evil Beet (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Only in LA could OJ Simpson brutally murder two people and not serve time. Only in LA could Robert Blake kill the mother of his child and not serve time. Only in LA could Rebecca Gayheart kill a nine-year-old jaywalker and not serve any time. Only in LA could Brandy kill a mother of two [...]
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