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Stan Laurel

Why it's bad to mix in crop circles

Close-cropped hair when you're not a natural domehead says only thing: that you're as lazy and apathetic as White Van Man If necessity really is the mother of invention, I must have the mother of all haircuts. Twelve times a...

Clicking onto local news

Oct 9 2008 by Crista Ermiya, The Journal WHAT do Lewis Carroll, Newcastle Falcons, Viv Graham and Nico Papavasiliou have in common? They all feature as topics on new website www.wikinortheast.co.uk – launched by The Journal’s...

NewsBiscuit - Government steps in to avoid bankruptcy in family game of Monopoly

A game of Monopoly being played by the Henderson family of Watford took a surprise twist today when the Bank of England stepped in with a rescue package to save one of the key players, Mr Henderson, from what the Chancellor...

The Eternal Card Trick

In Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, four stones over from Stan Laurel's grave, is a cenotaph placed there just before the publication of Penn & Teller's book How to Play in Traffic.Teller scammed, and used lawyers, and a...

The Quick 10: 10 Famous Cemeteries

Welcome to part two of my somewhat random Halloween Series! I love old cemeteries (which apparently makes me a taphophile, which I just learned today). I know that’s a little weird, but as a writer, it sort of makes sense –...

Ga. town keeps Laurel and Hardy's legacy alive

HARLEM, Ga. - A blink-and-you'll-miss-it town in rural east Georgia is the last place you'd expect to find the country's only museum dedicated to the classic comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. But anyone driving along...

Detroit's Bailout: Who Really Needs the Money?

Laurel For a decade the business mantra has been that the American economy had finally evolved. For the financial pundits to prove their point, they needed to look no further than Detroit's continuing [old line] problems in...

Bradford ? Bingley A history of how and when it all went wrong

The nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley brings the curtain down on one of Yorkshire's proudest companies and marks the end of Britain's great building society boom of the last decade. By Harry Wallop Consumer Affairs...

Why Do We Love Buddy Geezer Movies?

excerpt:"Since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy first put on their tramp suits and pancake makeup back in the 1920s, Hollywood has extracted affectionate laughter from audiences according to the ever-reliable formula of the...

READERS' FORUM 9/5 | Jerry Lewis’ mission is inspiring

Not since the days of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin has one man taken on the responsibility of associating himself with a disease. And in the entertainment profession, such a responsibility would otherwise probably mean...

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