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Jimmy Carr Repeat Offender - the 'you shouldn't be laughing at this but it's just so darn funny' review

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2008-05-05 23:26:00 by Matt A in DARKMATTERS - The Mind Of Matt
...Carr: Repeat Offender Reviewed by Matt Adcock My wife is lovely Not just a total babe but also an excellent judge of how to make her man happy This year to mark my turning 37, she bought me 2 tickets to see Jimmy Carr live at the DVD recording in London no less - of his latest stand up show Repeat Offender Having been a Jimmy Carr fan...
 
 
 
 
 
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Books: Carr Tell-All Published in August

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2008-07-19 22:26:54 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Carr's memoir about doing drugs, The Night of the Gun , is due in bookstores this August. Carr is not only a terrific writer/reporter but Oscar season blogger as well (aka The Carpetbagger). Here's one chapter from the NYT Magazine . This is strong stuff: I remember driving to a dark spot between the streetlights at the rounded-off corner of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Putting The Carr Before The Hollywood

2008-10-13 02:08:08 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
...Carr, but This weeks Media Equation column is actually pretty tone deaf about Hollywood right now The two people he quotes in the piece are amongst the most tone deaf in all the town. Peter Bart shows week after week that he is still living in the past, the only person with any access to information in all of Hollywood who not only didnt know...
 
 
 
 
 
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Daily Beast Update: Carr and Rourke

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2008-10-08 11:12:11 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Carr looks over Tina Brown's Daily Beast and finds much to admire : The Daily Beast, backed by Barry Dillers IAC/InterActiveCorp, is an aggregation of the trivial and the momentous, the original and the borrowed. With a slogan splashed across its home page promising rigorous editing of the culture for complicated times Read This Skip That the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Oscar Watch: Return of the Carpetbagger

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2008-11-24 11:31:00 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Carr is in touch with the online zeitgeist, just read this week's New York Times media column about Google . Carr gets it. And once a year, when he morphs into The Carpetbagger , he gets to shows his stuff to a media world that is struggling to make the transition from print to pixels On December 1, Carr's award-season alter-ego The Bagger...
 
 
 
 
 
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Oscar Watch: Return of the Carpetbagger

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2008-11-24 11:31:00 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Carr is in touch with the online zeitgeist, just read this week's New York Times media column about Google . Carr gets it. And once a year, when he morphs into The Carpetbagger , he gets to shows his stuff to a media world that is struggling to make the transition from print to pixels On December 1, Carr's award-season alter-ego The Bagger...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Walker (2007)

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2007-12-18 14:08:22 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Carr, as he is known, works one day a week at a realtor to the rich and mighty and spends the rest of his time socializing with several society matrons, escorting (walking") them to functions their husbands would rather not or cannot attend, helping them redecorate their homes, and gossiping with them at a weekly game of canasta at their...
 
 
 
 
 
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Bagger Goes (A Little) Native

2008-11-29 21:38:14 by dpoland in The Hot Blog
 
...Carr. Too tired of it all to press his nose up against the glass, he sees the dirt in the corner of the panes and keeps it all in perspective And then, his first two Hollywood missives of the season well, he seems in real danger of getting NYTimes-itis. Whats that? Its when New York Times reporters start to think that they are experiencing is...
 
 
 
 
 
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2008-01-25 00:15:00 by Tanner in Double O Section
...Carré novel Call For the Dead . Ive never read that one, so I cant comment on how successful it is as an adaptation, but as a spy movie, its a pretty darn good one well deserving of rediscovery. Because Paramount owned the rights to the name "George Smiley" for their film of The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (in which Smiley plays a...
 
 
 
 
 
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James Frey's Bright Shiny Morning

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