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London

More interesting things from work…

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I got a kick out of watching this story from the Philippines – they now have a fast food restaurant that serves only spam dishes….yummy. I hope you can have a side order of rice.

Arafat was buried today ….our newsroom carried the videos live fore several stations – from CNN to Sky News.

My producer top-lined me and said I should drop what I was doing in the edit bays…

I ended up in the middle of the newsroom – surrounded by the sounds and images of grieving and chaos in Ramallah. it was incredible.
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London

my job: sit down and watch tv

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Mark: “I am not your helper monkey….”
Oh but wait…today I am….it’s ok….I’m a willing monkey today. In order to help other producers practice hard-hitting journalism – I had the task of reviewing the nominations for the greatest hits of the past year….for a year-end compilation….

I got to review the very cool and wacky features for the life and leisure section – to sum up it in three words: the wierd, the cute and the gross…
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London

More pix from Covent Gardens…

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Mark and I both wanted to visit this open air/indoor market and walk in the footsteps of Eliza Doolittle…

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Audrey Hepburn was so wonderful in My Fair Lady….It’s a shame that the rest of the entertainment community was so set against her for taking the role. Everyone wanted Julie Andrews to reprise her role as Eliza after her performance on Broadway….according to the bio-books I’ve read, Hepburn worked on her singing voice for several months – but the director decided to bring in a professional and so…she had to Britney-Spears it aka Hepburn had to lip-synch her tunes…
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Movies and Xmas lights…

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On Election Night – I did a shoot at this Premiere…

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Ok…no pix with the stars…simply because I was doing the field producing thing…and it just didn’t look professional….but now that I think about it…professional be damned. I should have whipped out my Cannon and snapped some pix of 007….but he was a nice enough guy during my 2 minute interview.

He voted for Kerry.
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