FAREWELL then Barry Cryer. Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd, Les Dawson, Bob Hope, The Two Ronnies, Dave Allen, Kenny Everett, Stanley Baxter and Dick Emery. Not a bad roster of clients to put on your CV. And unlike many comedy writers, Barry Cryer was funny in his own right: he could deliver a […]
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ALL the best partnerships can’t last forever. In showbiz, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin split at the height of their success. In the business world two dynamic duos that delivered some of the world’s biggest corporations are Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Paul Allen and Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google. Here in Britain we’ve
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I DON’T know about you but I rarely view a television advertisement these days and enjoy it. Perhaps I’m viewing the past with rose-tinted spectacles, but TV ads used to be impactful, exciting, engaging and fun. It is no surprise that some of the great film directors like Alan Parker and Ridley and Tony Scott
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