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- IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT MALE BODY - THIN IS IN - SIX-PACK AND MUSCULAR ... - SanFranciscoSentinel.com
- Gabrielle Union boyfriend's divorce finalised
- The Big Bang – what the press said
- 'Doctor Who' - 'Vincent and The Doctor': The joy of painting - HitFix (blog)
- "Vincent And The Doctor" - A.V. Club DC
- 'Doctor Who' - 'Vincent and the Doctor' Recap - TV Squad (blog)
- Moffat on Moffat
- Starry Night
- Doctor Who: The Big Bang - Press Reviews
- Paltrow: 'I missed kids so much I cried'
- Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotland on Sunday
- Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotsman
- Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body - The Guardian
- DS:BB News Extra Day 18 #1
- Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotsman
- World Cup; The Biology of Dads; Budget coverage - The Guardian
- Screen plays: The growth of the live-action spin-offs - Independent
- Mario streaks during 'pool party'
- Kanye West to open BET Awards
- How do you rate Doctor Who: The Big Bang? (5=Fantastic)
- Shabby: 'I can't go back to squatting'
- Housemates speculate about food delivery
- Drake 'scared to lose ill mother'
- Beyoncé 'refuses to speak with father'
- Cheryl to do a strip.....for the Beano - News of the World
- Scam Alert!
- Thank you!
- 'Glee' star Chenoweth urges adoption
- How actress Anna Kendrick survived the Twilight zone - Mail on Sunday
- Sandler: 'It's no reunion with Spade, Rock'
- Caoimhe: 'The feelings are one-sided'
- Mena Suvari marries in Italy
- Series 6 Hints
- David wins fish and chip supper
- International Games
- Sandler 'worries about spoiling kids'
- Doctor Who Series Finale - The Big Bang (S05E13) - Episode review - Unreality Shout (blog)
- The Squee Doctors
- Kara Tointon reveals EastEnders boob
- 50 Cent urges young fans to exercise
- How actress Anna Kendrick survived the Twilight zone - Daily Mail
- An exhilarating Doctor Who finale which rescued a so-so series - seenit.co.uk
- Watch Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 13 'The Big Bang' - Daily News and Sport (blog)
- Dave selected for 'pie through fly' task
- Doctor Who fans praise series finale on Twitter - Metro
- Shabby angry about Caoimhe's response
- Big Bang:The First Doctor Who Series Finale With Matt Smith - Suite101.com
- Woman sleeps off three-story fall
- Wimbledon 2010: brutal Robin Soderling crushes Thomaz Bellucci - Telegraph.co.uk
- Doctor Who series 5 episode 13 finale review: The Big Bang - Den Of Geek
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| Gabrielle Union boyfriend's divorce finalised Posted: 26 Jun 2010 02:56 PM PDT Gabrielle Union's NBA star boyfriend Dwayne Wade's marriage is officially dissolved. 
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| The Big Bang – what the press said Posted: 26 Jun 2010 02:05 PM PDT The whole universe seems to be talking about last night’s spectacular finale, The Big Bang, which, according to The Telegraph, was an ”interesting and enjoyable” conclusion to the Eleventh Doctor’s debut series. The Guardian describe the episode as ”a classic modern fairytale”, while SeenIt are full of particular praise for Matt Smith and Karen Gillan, who have “delivered the goods [...]  | ||
| 'Doctor Who' - 'Vincent and The Doctor': The joy of painting - HitFix (blog) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 01:19 PM PDT
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| "Vincent And The Doctor" - A.V. Club DC Posted: 26 Jun 2010 01:07 PM PDT
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| 'Doctor Who' - 'Vincent and the Doctor' Recap - TV Squad (blog) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 01:02 PM PDT
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:04 PM PDT There is a new interview with Steven Moffat on YouTube, with an unexpected interviewer: Moffat's son Joshua! As "armytedd", Joshua discusses the season's structure with his father. The interview also touches on critics' reactions, the importance of timeshifted viewing, and why Moffat no longer visits fan forums. For more videos from the junior Moffat, see "armytedd"'s YouTube channel. http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 12:00 PM PDT The Doctor and Amy meet Vincent Van Gogh. Our TARDIS file tracks the provenance of Vincent and the Doctor. And what did you think? A masterpiece? Or outsider art? Comment in the comments section. And remember (yes, all of you who watched the Season Finale in Britain and elsewhere tonight): NO SPOILERS for future stories not broadcast in North America.  | ||
| Doctor Who: The Big Bang - Press Reviews Posted: 26 Jun 2010 11:39 AM PDT  Press reaction to the 2010 series finale of Doctor Who, The Big Bang, has started to appear on the internet.One of the most high-concept Doctor Who episodes ever, is how The Telegraph describes the episode, with its reviewer praising Matt Smith as superb. The Guardian Blog calls this finale brilliant, a classic modern fairytale unfolding before our eyes and easily the most sentimentally charged finale we've had yet. Metro goes trawling Twitter for fans reaction to the story and finds positive comments. It describes it a thrilling climax to the series which captivated and confused in equal measure. Seenit.co.uk says it was an exhilarating Doctor Who finale after a somewhat mixed run, while Unreality Shout says the episode was stunning, and closes off an incredible series of Doctor Who. It praises Matt Smith as simply brilliant and says Karen Gillan and her little cousin Caitlin Blackwood were fantastic together. Anglotopia says it was a whirlwind episode which didn't disappoint and Den of Geek loved the episode even though it made the reviewer's head hurt. They call Steven Moffat something of a genius as he "peppered his script with quotable quips and lines, and ended his maiden run in the showrunner chair with some marvellous work with Amy Pond." http://gallifreynewsbase.blogspot.com   | ||
| Paltrow: 'I missed kids so much I cried' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:30 AM PDT Gwyneth Paltrow admits that she can't bear to be away from her children for too long while filming. 
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| Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotland on Sunday Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:15 AM PDT
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| Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotsman Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:14 AM PDT
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| Thin is in: in search of the perfect male body - The Guardian Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:09 AM PDT
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| Dalek sells for £2000 at auction - Scotsman Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:06 AM PDT
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| World Cup; The Biology of Dads; Budget coverage - The Guardian Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:05 AM PDT
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| Screen plays: The growth of the live-action spin-offs - Independent Posted: 26 Jun 2010 10:01 AM PDT
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| Mario streaks during 'pool party' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:55 AM PDT Mario accepts a dare to collect alcohol from the house naked as the housemates relax in the pool. 
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:46 AM PDT Kanye West is reported to be opening the tenth annual BET Awards on Sunday. 
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| How do you rate Doctor Who: The Big Bang? (5=Fantastic) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:41 AM PDT 5 TARDIS Groans 100% (2 votes) 4 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 3 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 2 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) 1 TARDIS Groan 0% (0 votes) 0 TARDIS Groans 0% (0 votes) Total votes: 2  | ||
| Shabby: 'I can't go back to squatting' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:40 AM PDT Shabby tells Nathan, Caoimhe and Josie that she may not be able to return to her previous lifestyle. 
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| Housemates speculate about food delivery Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:32 AM PDT The housemates suggest that there may be a new arrival after receiving their shopping delivery. 
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| Drake 'scared to lose ill mother' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 09:16 AM PDT Drake reveals that the most "supportive" person in his life has been his sick mother. 
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| Beyoncé 'refuses to speak with father' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:46 AM PDT Beyoncé is reportedly not on speaking terms with her father Mathew after he fathered a love child last year. 
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| Cheryl to do a strip.....for the Beano - News of the World Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:35 AM PDT
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT Internet scammers are at it again, trying to gain personal information by claiming they have footage of today's upcoming episode of Doctor Who, The Big Bang. According to TheRegister.co.uk, links are online instructing venerable website surfers to fill out a quiz in order to unlock the content. Once the quiz is taken there are of course no clips but the scammers will have managed to gain personal information which they can pass on to marketers. Meanwhile, a number of Doctor Who spam blogs have appeared that are totally unaffiliated with both the official BBC website and various fan sites. These spam blogs offer users the chance to download P2P file sharing software for the large sum of thirty five dollars. The promise is that the users will be able to download free TV episodes, what is not made clear is that the software is actually available for free. Sunbelt security researcher Christopher Boyd commented:
A similar situation arose several weeks ago with the release of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games first installment, City of the Daleks, when several "fake" copies were made available for download to overseas users. These downloads turned out to contain Spyware, Adware and various viruses. There is always a dodgy Doctor Who download available on the internet that's ready to take advantage of you, so think before you click!  | ||
| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT The time has come for us to say a fond farewell to the Doctor after another action-packed series, but we’d also just like to say a huge thank you to all of YOU for sticking with us over the past 13 weeks. Since the new series began, we’ve had over 650 comments on our episode discussions, as well [...]  | ||
| 'Glee' star Chenoweth urges adoption Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:30 AM PDT Kristin Chenoweth wants more families to adopt children from America instead of going abroad. 
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| How actress Anna Kendrick survived the Twilight zone - Mail on Sunday Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:15 AM PDT
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| Sandler: 'It's no reunion with Spade, Rock' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:13 AM PDT Adam Sandler admits that he sees his co-stars regularly as they are all close friends in real life. 
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| Caoimhe: 'The feelings are one-sided' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 08:02 AM PDT Caoimhe confides in Nathan about Shabby's feelings for her. 
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:46 AM PDT Mena Suvari marries fiancé Simone Sestito at a private church in Vatican City. 
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:45 AM PDT Steven Moffat gives some hints on Series 6: "The whole point of the Silence is the next series."  | ||
| David wins fish and chip supper Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:38 AM PDT David wins a fish and chip supper for the housemates in today's 'You vs The Housemates' task. 
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:30 AM PDT
The first game, City of the Daleks, has proven very popular in the UK, with over 500,000 downloads in the first 12 days. Doctor Who: The Adventure Games features the vocal talents of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan as the Doctor and Amy, and Nicholas Briggs as various monsters. BBC Interactive editor Iain Tweeddale commented:
The second episode, Blood of the Cybermen, is available to download for free in the UK right now!  | ||
| Sandler 'worries about spoiling kids' Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:30 AM PDT Adam Sandler reveals that that it is "difficult" raising children while being well-off financially. 
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| Doctor Who Series Finale - The Big Bang (S05E13) - Episode review - Unreality Shout (blog) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:28 AM PDT
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| Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:28 AM PDT S'okay, I didn't actually bother watching the second half. So this will be largely hypothetical. However... ...five days ago, I was standing in front of the window of the local newsagent's. There was a poster advertising "Archaeological Adventures: Dinosaurs" (I've mentioned this on Twitter, but if you don't already know, then it's the perfect thing for an intelligent child or autistic adult who wants to whittle while watching an unfulfilling World Cup match or BBC drama), and also a poster advertising Doctor Who stickers. I ignored the latter, because I'm really not joking when I say that I can't even look at the gormless foetus-face of Matt Smith without wanting to slap it. That thing with Van Gogh looked like the most interesting episode this year, but as soon as he did the "could you breathe a little more quietly?" schtick in the trailer, I literally made an effort to be out on Saturday. (Sidestep One. ITV did a remake of The Prisoner which, by all precedent and reason, should've been unbearable. It was quite good. Jesus! ITV is doing a "cult" reboot, but uses proper actors - Ian McKellen and Ruth Wilson, the latter of whom steals the "Most Attracive Woman in the UK Who Looks Like a Fish" crown from Miranda Sawyer - while Doctor Who does a piss-poor Harry Potter impression with a footballer and a blow-up doll? Gutted.) So I'm in front of the window. And then a little girl, of the kind that Moffat pretends to like when he's stuck in a narrative corner, pulled her mum up to the glass and pointed at the poster. 'I saw that Doctor Who on Shannon's widescreen!' she said. 'It was scary. The Girl One had to run loads...' (Sidestep Two. To anyone who's read my Twitter-log: yes, that's why I've started using the phrase "the Girl One".) '...but the Boy One had to save... something.' The narrative slip is, of course, acceptable from a seven-year-old. However: the Boy One? And, yes, I did indeed turn eyes-left to make sure she was pointing at the photo of Matt Smith. Then I turned eyes-right, sharpish, beacuse I was scared of looking like a paedophile. The Boy One? About a week and a half ago, Stephen Fry (defined by a sometimes-wise critic as "a stupid person's idea of what a clever person is like") attracted venom by critising Doctor Who in the era of Steven Moffat (defined by me as "oh, what a complete arse"). Yet in this epic cage-fighting battle between drivelling self-involved pretend-intellectuals, the most important point seemed to be missed. Fry talked about programmes "like" Merlin and Doctor Who. If you can use those two titles in the same sentence, then something's gone terribly wrong. But then, this is what I've been saying for a loooooong time: Moffat stated that he didn't want to be remembered as "the man who killed Doctor Who", and yet he already did kill it. He killed it in "The Girl in the Fireplace", a rather good episode if you concentrate on what the author genuinely likes - robots and temporal screwing-around - but an abysmal and emotionally-extorting one when you understand that he's trying to redefine the Doctor as a Sexy Immortal and himself as the Sexy Immortal's Agent. I wasn't kidding when I said the the series in 2010 is competing with Twilight, y'know. Doctor Who at its best has been awkward, experimental, and unpredictable. Moffat's version, as laid out in "Silence in the Library", is slick, conservative, and entirely founded on things that have been proven to work. In short... it's like Merlin. Only even stupider. Here's the grand irony, though - (Sidestep Three. How many times have I used the phrase "here's the grand irony"?) - by attempting to squee-up the Doctor, Moffat has destroyed him as a meaningful figure. In "Forest of the Dead" (the Doctor defeats the shadow-nasties by saying "do you know who I am?", thus removing any possible dramatic tension and making him look like the petulant celebrity he's bltantly becoming) and "The Pandorica Opens" (the monsters have spent ages planning this, yet a version of the Doctor of whom even I wouldn't be scared gives himself breathing-space by telling them that he made their mums wee thesmelves), we're shown a Doctor who can do anything he likes because he's... well... famous. He never proves he's clever, or brave, or moral, or indeed, anything at all. We're just told that he always wins, and we're expected to swallow it without question. His fandom-strength makes him the weakest hero in history. That's what I meant by "irony": Moffat tries to make the Doctor a fetish-object, because that's how we think of him as long-term Doctor Who viewers, and because we're the ones to whom he's pandering. (Well, not me. But you know what I mean.) What the author's actually doing is ensuring the Doctor's worthlessness. If you make someone all-powerful, then power's worth nothing at all, especially if you do it just to reinforce fan-opinion of the safe and clean-cut Boy One. And of course, the really horrible thing is that this might - I stress "might" - be my fault. Over the last week, I've been informed by numerous people that "The Pandorica Opens" was a lot like "Alien Bodies". This never occurred to me while watching it, but then, I never saw the link between "Honey to the B" and "Never Ever". However - (Sidestep Four. For the sake of those unfamiliar with late-'90s British pop music: "Honey to the B" was an entirely negligible single by Billie, AKA Billie Piper, engineered as a clone of the glorious "Never Ever" by All Saints. Unfortunately for the future Surprisingly Good Companion, it was such an artless, lumpen, misshapen parody that nobody who actually liked "Never Even" even realised it was supposed to sound like that. It went Top Ten in the UK charts, but at that point, B*Witched would've got to number one by breaking wind into a microphone for three minutes. I'm stating all this from memory, so the details may be faulty.) - I don't think it's true. At least, not in the way they meant: technically, "Pandorica" is a lot closer to "Dimensions in Time" than "Alien Bodies". No, screw technically, "Pandorica" is like "Dimenions in Time". Only on a big budget. And without Big Ron. Still... I remember what Moffat said he liked about "Alien Bodies". He specifically drew attention to the end of Chapter Five, claiming that it was the best cliffhanger he'd ever read. Since he was still capable of wit in those days, I remember the exact way he put it: "And that includes 'Mr Holmes, it was the footprint of a gigantic hound'." Now, that's a compliment and a half, and I felt duly chuffed. Yet I can't help wondering about the consequences. In "Alien Bodies" (and on the off-chance that anyone reading this doesn't know what happens in it, I'll be vague regarding the end of Chapter Five), the Doctor becomes the subject of Doctor Who rather than its medium. I wrote it that way for a specific reason: a lot of very silly people, mentioning no Jon Blums, were trying to "redefine" the Doctor's past after the "half-human on my mother's side" blather of the TV movie. Like the editor of the books at that stage, I didn't give a rat's minge about his past, and thus wrote something about the future. Not just his future, either. But in doing that, I... sort of... turned the Doctor into a fetish object. Literally, in fact, according the the dictionary definition of "fetish". And Moffat read it. And liked the end of Chapter Five. And now he runs a version of the series in which the Doctor is a living fetish object. Even though it completely destroys the series' (pardon me) Prime Directive, by making it about an all-powerful all-male hero-figure rather than a traveller who's just interested in things. And to an extent, I admit it: "Alien Bodies" was stupidly popular because it made the Doctor the subject rather than the medium. Especially because of the end of Chapter Five. And Moffat knew that. And his Prime Directive is to be liked. And the crucial thing to realise about the "Pandorica" arse-fest isn't the plot (if you've found one), but that it puts the Doctor at the very centre of the universe: there's a box, and you're primed to think that he's going to be in it, but it's actually a trap so that he will be in it. It's pitched not as a prison for the Doctor as a character, but for the Doctor as an icon of modern-day telly. So I find myself asking. Did Moffat get that from me? Despite what's been said elsewhere, "Pandorica" isn't structurally similar to "Alien Bodies" at all. Yet his vision seems... uncomfortably close, if for all the wrong reasons. Oh, you know: like Neil Gaimain ripping off Alan Moore, then wearing sunglasses and pretending to be a rock star in LA. This is the question that's bothering me. If you like the eejit but don't like me, then please feel free to say no, I'd honestly like the reassurance. If the reverse, then please lie and say no anyway. Otherwise, I'm going to apologise, just on the off-chance that I'm right. Doctor Who is now more awful than at any point in its prior history, not because the chief-writer-stroke-producer is vastly more inept than any of his predecessors (he clearly isn't), but because he's vastly more cynical. I, for one, would rather have a bad programme that's attempting something - anything - than a programme designed specifically for BAFTA judges and fans of superhero movies [see previous blog-entries]. And if there's even a 1% chance that I laid 1% of the groundwork for this, then I'm so, so sorry. Also, "Alien Bodies" isn't even that good. Well, the prologue's good. I'm proud of the prologue. Could do Chapter Five about eight times better these days, though.   | ||
| Kara Tointon reveals EastEnders boob Posted: 26 Jun 2010 07:16 AM PDT Kara Tointon speaks of the time that her "chicken fillets" fell out of her bra while filming EastEnders. 
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| 50 Cent urges young fans to exercise Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:48 AM PDT 50 Cent insists that children and teenagers need to spend their valuable time in productive ways. 
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| How actress Anna Kendrick survived the Twilight zone - Daily Mail Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:41 AM PDT
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| An exhilarating Doctor Who finale which rescued a so-so series - seenit.co.uk Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:30 AM PDT
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| Watch Doctor Who Season 5 Episode 13 'The Big Bang' - Daily News and Sport (blog) Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:29 AM PDT
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| Dave selected for 'pie through fly' task Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:29 AM PDT Dave is selected to take part in today's 'You vs The Housemates' task. 
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| Doctor Who fans praise series finale on Twitter - Metro Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:27 AM PDT
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| Shabby angry about Caoimhe's response Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:23 AM PDT Shabby discusses with Ife how Caoimhe truly feels about her after Caoimhe begins avoiding Shabby. 
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| Big Bang:The First Doctor Who Series Finale With Matt Smith - Suite101.com Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:15 AM PDT
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| Woman sleeps off three-story fall Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:15 AM PDT A woman falls asleep on a neighbour's couch straight after falling three stories onto a parked car. 
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| Wimbledon 2010: brutal Robin Soderling crushes Thomaz Bellucci - Telegraph.co.uk Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:11 AM PDT
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| Doctor Who series 5 episode 13 finale review: The Big Bang - Den Of Geek Posted: 26 Jun 2010 06:10 AM PDT
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