Donald and Hilary fight it out in Washington DC gift shops…
… at the Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery
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… at the Smithsonian American Art Museum / National Portrait Gallery
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At the Hollywood Museum … … I saw the bottle from I Dream of Jeannie … … Lucille Ball’s Emmy awards … … and another pair of ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. (I say another because of the two I saw in Washington DC last year.) But I also spotted some errors. Mistake #1: The character…
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In 1972, the lavish Broadway musical Follies closed after losing close to a million dollars, despite obsessive admirers and a Tony winning score by Stephen Sondheim. At the time, Sondheim may have been surprised if he’d been told that 35 years later, a British techno version of one of the songs from that show (‘Losing My…
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Last month, I walked through Battersea Park … … to The Latchmere pub. I met my old friends Myles and Pete… … for a spinach and ricotta ravioli and chips (and more chips, walk negated). We went upstairs to Theatre 503, one of London’s fringe venues. The play was about Turkish Cypriots (or were they?), a…
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… but not for long. The gardens in question are of Leicester Cathedral … … which now houses the tomb of Richard III. Being the last Plantagenet king, he probably knew a thing or two about dynasties ending, though I guess he only realised it was about to end when he was surrounded and about to get his head hacked…
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As I was in Leicester for the wedding of my friends Sam and Susie, I went to the Richard III Visitor Centre, then to the Cathedral opposite … … where the king’s remains were recently re-interred. Richard wasn’t the only king in that time who had trouble holding onto his throne. His brother lost his in 1470,…
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As a lawyer, I’ve been to many court buildings. The US Supreme Court, which I visited with my Antarctic friend Caroline in August, is the first to have a gift shop. Apart from teddy bears, here’s some of what it sells:
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Skeletons of notorious English kings don’t often get dug up in car parks, which is what happened in 2012, when Richard III was found in Leicester. It must have been difficult to know what to do with him. I’ve always been a bit of a fan. He wasn’t like the man in the Shakespearean play. He made…
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