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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....
...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,...
...Part of the reason was the success of Ricky Gervais....
...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....
...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....
...Jake Gyllenhaal plays a greenhorn CIA analyst forced by circumstances to confront his own attitude to torture, and Alan Arkin and Meryl Streep add a touch of class to the proceedings as a decent senator...
...Couture collector and seller Ricky Serbin also believes the current trends are driven by politics and escapism....
...He recognises the debt he owesto people such as coachAlan Storey, manager Ricky Simms and, initially, to his school sports teacher Alan Watkinson....
...Doing that podcast with Ricky Gervais escalated us to such an extent in terms of people thinking, yeah, they know what they’re doing....
...Ricky Ponting goes out of his way to be reasonable and Shane Warne could be seen roundly congratulating Freddie Flintoff for his second innings batting performance - it was all enough to make the likes of...
...The Valiant line-up includes Ewan McGregor, Sir Ben Kingsley and Ricky Gervais. Yet Toy Story, the first of the genre, was released in 1995 by Pixar, the animation company led by Steve Jobs....
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