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What was the most notorious use of the word on TV when it's either been blurted out or said intentionally? Kenneth Tynan used it in England in a 1965 interview on a BBC talk show, and that was a tremendously prominent thing. The newspapers were outraged. He was then the director of the National Theatre. The BBC was forced to apologize, politicians attempted not only to remove Tynan from his post but to remove the head of the BBC because of it, to prosecute him for using obscene words. In America, it's been used a number of times...
Quotes By: After being announced as the Booker Prize winner: "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air." (BBC...
Quotes About: "Our decision was based on the sheer bigness of the book. The boldness of its narrative, its scene-setting. We thought it was an extraordinary piece of storytelling." - James Naughtie, chairman of the Booker Prize judges, on the selection of Wolf Hall, (BBC...
Quotes By: "Would you please be so kind, this is a press conference in Germany." - Scolding a BBC reporter for asking a question in English rather than German (The Independent, Sept...
...worthiest Venice entry was A Single Man. The first film directed by renowned fashion designer Tom Ford, it provides Firth, best known as the dreamboat Mr. Darcy in the BBC's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice, with the role of a lifetime. No less than Lebanon, this is a film of man in extremis, seen in extreme close-up. Firth's professor, disconsolate over the death of his longtime beau in a car crash, meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but can't find a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. The Southern California setting...