Tag Archives: Five Great Things

Five Great British Supermodels Who Deserve A TV Biopic

By | Posted on February 28th, 2012

To celebrate the occasion of Karen Gillan’s astonishing portrayal of Jean Shrimpton in We’ll Take Manhattan, here are five more Great British Supermodels who deserve their own moment of dramatic historical recreation.

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Being Whoman: Five Acting Crossovers Between ‘Doctor Who’ And ‘Being Human’

By | Posted on February 20th, 2012

Russell Tovey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuogEwWS8O8

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Five Interpretations Of New York By Londoners

By | Posted on February 16th, 2012

It’s fashion week in New York, which means the city is awash with skinny people dressed like a peacock’s fancy dress party, and a lot of them are going to be a little bit lost in the big city for the first time. So, to help ...

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A Consumer’s Guide To British Chocolate

By | Posted on February 7th, 2012

Let’s not mess about, British chocolate is, by and large, better than American chocolate. Even our language around chocolate serves to bear this out.

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Five American Expressions The British Don’t Understand

By | Posted on February 6th, 2012

“Bite me!” What is this? A gesture of masochistic defiance?

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Five Great British Sports Crazes Americans Don’t Understand

By | Posted on February 3rd, 2012

Sport should be a universal constant. The idea of watching athletic people competing in a ritualized form of combat (albeit one which substitutes inflated bladders for swords and shoulder-pads for armor) goes back as far as society ...

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Five Great Ringo Starr Songs

By | Posted on January 31st, 2012

It is all go in Beatleworld at the moment, with Sir Paul McCartney’s new album out next week and Ringo Starr’s latest, the imaginatively-titled “Ringo 2012″ out today. But while we’re all sure what Sir ...

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Five Bizarre Things About British Television

By | Posted on January 30th, 2012

British TV is just like American TV, except the accents are different. And there are fewer shows about animals doing funny things.

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Five American Actors Who Should’ve Sacked The Voice Coach

By | Posted on January 16th, 2012

After last week’s pat on the back for those Hollywood stars who’ve got a real ear for the cadences of at least one of the many British dialects, here’s the corresponding roll call of shame. Five actors, fine at the ...

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Five American Actors Who Can Do A Decent British Accent

By | Posted on January 13th, 2012

We British are notoriously chippy about Americans attempting one of our accents. We think nothing of our actors swanning over there and attempting to be House or Superman, but the spectre of Dick Van Dyke casts a long shadow over our ...

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