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...Motson drove to Hereford with two of their players, his friend Ricky George and Billy Meadows. Minutes before time, part-time carpenter Ronnie Radford rocketed home Hereford’s equaliser from 35 yards....
...The Witchfinder is set in the Alan Partridge territory of Norfolk, and the show’s writers (Neil and Rob Gibbons) and Key have been heavily involved in the past decade of Partridge-related output....
...Alan Yentob. Let them bleed!” Populism washed up on both sides of the Atlantic. Maybe our society would be increasingly divided into two camps, as the US is. But two things changed....
...But office buildings in subprime locations (think of Ricky Gervais’ operation in the TV series The Office) might be converted into homes, just as derelict factories became lofts in the 1980s....
...Alan Partridge subsidises my work with Michael Winterbottom!”...
...In contrast, the triangular crossfire between Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington is celebrated as comedy at its most potent and unforced....
...Another UK company using escape rooms to assess potential hires is Hyper Recruitment Solutions, a science and technology recruiter co-founded by Lord Alan Sugar....
...“To be honest, without sounding like Alan Partridge, ‘I bounced back’....
...“The first time I went to The Ivy [restaurant] was with Alan Yentob in 2001. I paid but let him keep the receipt,” Ricky Gervais, star of sitcom The Office, once quipped....
...It was a time of legends — Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese and Willie Mays....
...Alan Milburn observes in his foreword to the report: “ours is a small nation characterised by a large divide”....
...The braggadocio rhetoric of Tony Hancock; the ingratiating laddishness taken ad delirium by Ricky Gervais in The Office … Then along comes cinema to crush the joke....
...Other members of the board include Ricky Burdett, a professor of urban studies at the London School of Economics, Joanna Shields, chief executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation, and Alan Penn,...
...The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts. It taught me that the world is entirely the opposite of what I thought it was. When did you know you were going to be a writer?...
...The maker of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Twizzlers has successfully increased prices in the last year to combat higher commodity prices....
...Part of the reason was the success of Ricky Gervais....
...Hershey, which makes brands such as Reese’s, Twizzlers and Kit Kat, has been focused on the US, with only 10 per cent of its revenues coming from overseas....
...This lovably disgruntled bachelor – a combination of Alan Bennett and an ageing Sherlock Holmes (in pet detective vein) – has our hearts as surely as does his dog....
...But in the graceless guise of extra-turned-sitcom-star Andy Millman, Ricky Gervais somehow made the UK the global epicentre of showbiz self-examination....
...Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd and Jack Nicholson star in a rom-com with too much rom (winsome) and far too little com....
...Russell Whitehead as Frederic, the unwilling pirate apprentice, is chunkily affable, and Ricky Rojas is a Pirate King by way of Zorro – El Musical....
...QED: Alphagen Capella (Gartmore) Roger Guy (1.4%) MTD (1.64%) YTD BlueTrend (BlueCrest Capital) Leda Braga (4.23%) MTD 5.99% YTD Brevan Howard Alan Howard 0.82% MTD 0.53% YTD Eminence Fund Ricky Sandler...
...In part it’s a comedy of embarrassment, a Scandinavian-ensemble answer to Ricky Gervais or Alan Partridge. Yet the very obliquity keeps wrong-footing us....
...He’d turned me on to the recordings of Alan Lomax” – the collector and musicologist – “songs people wrote to explain their lives to themselves. They lost children, they lost crops....
...“It’s not a jump for companies sourcing and selling in the developing world to realise that the demographics are huge,” says Mr Reese....
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