I’ve had Moanin’ by Charles Mingus stuck in my head for a few days now. It feels like a piece of music that has been used in a lot of things, but the only ones that I can put my finger on are the Tetley Bitter ‘smoothly does it’ adverts, and Comedian, the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams. What else has it been used in?
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
