Word: britishism
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...epic “Fillmore Jive,” but it has none of that song’s musical variety or piercing lyrical attack. Jokes that fall flat include “Stolen Pills” and, above all, the bonus track, which features an elderly British woman essentially doing a send-up of a Judi Dench accent while introducing the album. Yet these clunkers are more than compensated for by the album’s highlights: “Cold Change” and “Mighty Mighty Fall” are elegant and refreshingly melodic. Stephen...
...band Boyzone, which has sold about 30 million records since forming in 1993. Gately, 33, died on Oct. 10 of an acute pulmonary edema while vacationing on the Mediterranean island of Majorca with his civil partner Andrew Cowles. Amid gushing eulogies for Gately, Jan Moir, a columnist with conservative British newspaper the Daily Mail, wrote a piece that questioned whether the singer's death was, as the coroner had ruled, due to natural causes. Moir speculated that Gately's gay lifestyle may have played a part. "Healthy and fit 33-year-old men do not just climb into their pyjamas...
...magazines. (For reference, that's nearly the same number of protests that the PCC received about all stories over the past four or five years.) Complainants alleged that Moir breached Britain's press code because what she wrote was inaccurate, intruded into grief or shock and was discriminatory. British police say they have received complaints alleging that the column incited hatred against gays. Moir has defended her article and said she had not meant to offend and that any suggestion the piece was homophobic or bigoted was "mischievous." (See a timeline of the history of gay rights...
...right politician is Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party (BNP), who has called for an end to immigration to Britain and told BNP rallies that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls. Griffin is in the spotlight because the BBC invited him to take part in a television debate on Oct. 22. Critics of Griffin and the BNP - and there are millions of them - argue that giving him and his party airtime simply accords his racist views a legitimacy they do not deserve. The BBC says that because the BNP recently won two seats...
Though Andrew Garfield was born in LA, he has had a British accent since his family moved to England three years after he was born. Unfortunately, the only clip of his acting that FlyBy was able to scrounge up was of him making a blunt proposition to a girl who he likes and who likes him. But...well, she's just...