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Andy Paterson, producer of the film Restoration, which ends with Robert Downey Jr drifting down the Thames in a rowing boat - and arriving in Suffolk, Evening Standard
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John Lydon, former Sex Pistol, on the band's plans to reform
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The Rev Jesse Jackson, explaining his plans to disrupt tomorrow night's Academy Awards ceremony (where only one out of the 166 people up for awards is black), Daily Telegraph
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