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...The workings of the Illuminations, by which Blackpool has cannily prolonged its season since 1879, are gone into....
...There are six races on both the Friday and Saturday of the event, while off-track the entertainment includes candlelit carol singing with the Ascot Brass Band and an appearance by Father Christmas....
...Wend your way through illuminations around Kew Gardens, with botanical displays lit up by reflections and flames, and a light-show finale....
...Despicable Me creators, Illumination....
...The move puts the independent company in direct competition with animation heavyweights such as Disney, DreamWorks, Illumination and Pixar....
...Thirteen years is a lifetime in mass entertainment....
...A+E Networks was filming a new series of History’s Greatest Mysteries and couldn’t think of anyone better to perform a few feats of illumination than The Real Fox Mulder....
...It is an ambitious undertaking that will put his upstart animation group in competition with Disney, DreamWorks, Illumination and, of course, Pixar, a unit of Disney since 2006....
...Nintendo also said it planned to appoint Chris Meledandri, the chief executive of animation studio Illumination and producer of the Despicable Me franchise, as a non-executive director pending shareholder...
...I walked from the Millennium footbridge where the illumination is a delight....
...However, Ms Kemsley says the new Dreamland has been designed as a “platform for entertainment that has to change all the time”....
...In Margate, with the gunmetal light coming in from the shingled shore, it gripped me in its illumination. I looked and looked. Which, these days, we seldom do....
...The result was Ice Age and a string of other hits followed before he left to start Illumination Entertainment with the backing of Universal Pictures. Universal owns about half of Illumination....
...Essays are the last, heroic stand for the seriousness of prose entertainment; our best hope of liberating text from texting....
...He may throw little light on his own work but his lack of tact provides its own illumination....
...“Last year, Samsung was ahead, but this year it will be difficult to see one single player taking the lead and LED will become universal,” said Simon Kang, president of LG’s home entertainment division....
...I would also say that worship, when it goes on in church, is not entertainment. It’s not the same as having an emotional experience in a stadium.”...
...If Mr Cameron finds the pressure getting to him, he can always take time off to watch the illuminations or ride the Pepsi Max Big One, still one of the greatest roller-coasters....
...Rose envisaged stripping as a form of innocent amusement; John Barry, on a spy-music instrumental also called “The Stripper”, turned it into sophisticated bachelor entertainment....
...Times Square’s USP was its buzz - hyped up by its illuminations but never reliant on them....
...On September 8, a week after Blackpool once more throws the switch on its 127-year-old Illuminations, Crow and his panel will come to hear arguments about whether a casino should be built on the Golden Mile...
...For the most part, however, the media lights fall more on the celebrities themselves than the people whose condition demands urgent illumination....
...■ Blackpool Illuminations, the promenade lights, have always meant that BPB has an unusually long season. Moving to weekend opening during winter further extends the season....
...after furnishing barely 40 hours of illumination. Woman: You could swap the cruise for a year’s supply of breakfast cereal. Mr Paisley: (slamming door) I bid you Good Day!...
...Our limited and compromised position is that we know fragments of the truth, but present them as illuminations, as a totality....
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