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Reclassifying Films Because of Smoking Content
13th August 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Earlier this year The Motion Picture Association of America in their wisdom decided to rate movies on tobacco use. Now Liverpool Primary Care has got into the act, wanting to reclassify films on their smoking content. Have they gone nuts? Do they sit in boardrooms every day deciding what's best for the public? Do they get a kick on telling what is supposedly good for the public? I am so tired...
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Did Man Ever Land On The Moon?
16th July 2009 | 11 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I was only 6 years old when NASA made their Moon film in a Hollywood studio that fooled the world. I vaguely remember the teachers in my infants school gathering us around a black and white TV and telling us how important this moon thing was. Because no cartoon was on the TV I wasn't interested and anyway, it was a very bad picture. One small step for man, one giant...
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Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle was born in 1963 to Jamaican parents living in London. He spent most of his childhood in a children's home which he left at 14 to live in a hostel in Brixton. At 18 he was involved in the Brixton uprising and went to prison for 3 months. On his release, he continued to perform as a DJ and MC under the name Yardman Irie, moving in the early '90s onto the performance poetry circuit as the Brixton Bard. His second novel, East Of Acre Lane, won the London New Writers Award (2000) The Dirty South is his sixth novel. He received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.
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