Sunday 5 August 2012

Oliver Reed Dies in Pub

The Sun dated Monday May 3rd 1999
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What a shame that the star of ‘The Devils’, Ken Russell’s ‘Debussy’, ‘Women in Love’, ‘The Three Musketeers’, ‘I'll Never Forget What's'isname’, ‘The Trap’ and ‘Oliver!’ and so many others, should be remembered this way – Oliver Reed, the drunken buffoon in a silly hat. 

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I offer no apology for including this more fitting tribute, not from The Sun but a cutting from The Independent – Oliver Reed, the professional film actor.

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Continued from the top of the front page.
On 3 weekends in April homemade nail bombs had exploded in London, they were aimed at Black, Bangladeshi and Gay targets and killed 3 people as well as seriously injuring 139, some permanently. The arrested man, David Copeland, had been a member of both the BNP and the National Socialist Movement but was not acting on their behalf. He was later found guilty of multiple murders and sentenced to at least 50 years behind bars.

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On the 28th April 1999 the journalist, TV presenter and newsreader Jill Dando was shot on the doorstep of her London home. A year after the murder a local man, Barry George, was arrested, charged and tried for the murder. He was convicted but, at a third appeal in 2007, he was allowed a re-trial and was acquitted for lack of evidence. No one else has ever been arrested for the murder.

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Why, oh why, oh why do papers have to use headlines like ‘Ross: Our snake hell’?  I’m sure it was frightening and upsetting for the Ross household at the time, but his daughter didn’t fall into a bottomless pit of serpents for all Eternity. It devalues the word ‘hell’. What is the copywriter to use when trying to describe something truly ‘hellish’ like a war or a famine?

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Call me Phil E Stein but this sketch by Pierre-Auguste Renoir doesn’t look anything special to me. Any traditional art student worth their student loan could do better.

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An edition of The Sun wouldn’t be complete without a picture of Posh and Becks. This was before they were married, moved to America and had 3 more embarrassingly named children.  

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Perfect Icon of the 1990’s? Johnny Vaughan? Paul Gascoigne? Melinda Messenger? Has The Sun never heard of Homer Simpson?

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As usual I include Sport for those strange people out there who actually enjoy it and might find this bit about the 1999 San Marino Grand Prix… what’s the word?.. oh yes… interesting.





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