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...The state funeral service, which will start at 11am and last around an hour, will be conducted by the dean of Westminster, Dr David Hoyle....
...while those of baser motives fielded their own oracles among dumb, friendly animals: Heidi the cross-eyed possum, Punxsutawney Phil, the real groundhog, Paddy the Irish octopus, who, it transpired, was Patricia...
...Plotting recalls Patricia Highsmith and Boileau and Narcejac, and Swiss director Marcel Langenegger occasionally evokes the shade of the cher maître, Hitchcock....
...is a Hitchcockian McGuffin, the study of one personality absorbing another briefly recalls Altman’s Three Women, and the unthinkable materialising against a background of corruptible well-being evokes Patricia...
...The 1982 television monologue showed the writer and the actress Patricia Routledge at the top of their form and paved the way for the genre of “talking heads” that Bennett would perfect....
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