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CultperSon

NEWS4U

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CINEMA: Fun with Woody Allen

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CULTPERSON: Ninja

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PHENOMENON: Right Handedness

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THE MEALS SERIES: Lunch

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SCienCe

SCIENCE: Microbes - the Good They Do

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RELATIONS: Dealing with Being Dumped

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HEALTH: Working with idiots can kill you!

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FUN: A Stupid Person’s Guide to Life

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JOKES: The Male/Female Stages Of Life

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LIFETIME: About Women

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rel ationS

HUMOR: Deja Vu Variants

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BUSINESS: Working Well With Others

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LANGUAGE: List of Portmanteau

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ENTERTAINMENT: Mind Benders

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QUIZ: Mythological Monsters Quiz

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entertainment

LIFEUP: Blonde & Brunette Jokes

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FICTION: Cassandra (by Cathy Kelly)

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NOTABENE: Сколько слов нужно знать

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GRAMMAR: Phrasal Verbs: To Run

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Thai cops punished by hello KiTTy

Police chiefs in Bangkok have come up with a

new way of punishing oficers who break the rules

- an eye-catching Hello Kitty armband 1 .

The armband is large, bright pink and has a Hello

Kitty motif with two hearts embroidered 2 on it.

From today, oficers who are late, park in the wrong

place or commit other minor transgressions 3 will

have to wear it for several days, reports the BBC.

The armband is designed to shame 4 the wearer,

police oficials said.

“This is to help build discipline. We should not let

small offences go unnoticed,” Police Colonel Pongpat Chayapan said.

“Guilty oficers will be made to wear the armbands in the ofice for a few days, with instruc-

tions not to disclose their offences. Let people guess what they have done,” he said.

Further offences would be dealt with using a more traditional disciplinary panel 5 , he said.

The cartoon character Hello Kitty was irst introduced by Japanese company Sanrio in 1974.

The cute round-faced cat has become an Asia-wide marketing phenomenon, with Hel-

lo Kitty products such as stationery, hair accessories and kitchen appliances available

across the region.

smudGe 11 of Jesus sold

An oil stain 12 on a garage floor that

vaguely resembles the face of Jesus

has fetched 13 more than £750 in an

online auction.

Deb Serio found the image on her garage

loor in Forest, Virginia, and sold it on eBay

for $1,525.69, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Ms Serio, a high school teacher, said

she was surprised anyone wanted to buy

the oily slab of concrete 14 .

“I really never thought I’d get any (mon-

ey), to be honest,” she said.

She received hundreds of messages

from around the world from people inter-

ested in the “smudge of Christ”.

The family has now hired a contractor to

remove the section of concrete.

The slab will then be delivered to the

winner of the online auction, who is identi-

ied only as ‘islandoffthecoast’.

An active Lutheran, Ms Serio consid-

ers the smudge a slightly odd occurrence,

rather than a divine sign or miracle.

“There are some people who need this

kind of thing to sort of start them on their

faith journey. I don’t,” she said.

“That’s why I don’t mind parting with it.”

Two rugby fanatics nearly lost out on a £5m lot-

tery jackpot because they did not want to miss the

start of a match.

Paul and Denise Hardware had still not bought

a ticket for Saturday’s draw 6 minutes before Wales

kicked-off 7 against Argentina.

Denise, 46, said: “I left a note on the kitchen table re-

minding Paul to do the lottery but he didn’t have time.

“There were only a few minutes to go before the

match started on TV and I didn’t want to miss it. It

was pouring with rain.

“But it only took a few minutes to nip out and buy a ticket. It’s the best thing I’ve done.”

Paul said: “Denise wasn’t happy having to go out in the rain but I had to be back at work.

If I’d gone down there at a different time we probably wouldn’t have got the numbers.”

The 51-year-old pub chef revealed that a week earlier he saw a shooting star as he left

his snooker club and made a wish to win the lotto.

“Ever since, I’ve been in luck. I won £10 on the lottery on Wednesday and then I found a

£10 note in the street,” he said. “Then, on Saturday, I hit the jackpot. I can’t believe it.”

The couple, from Street, Somerset, were handed their cheque for £4,986,272 by Wales

rugby legend Gareth Edwards on the pitch of the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

all The eiGhTs for baby lulu

GianT leap for manKind

A baby was born in Liverpool at 8.08am on the

eighth day of the eighth month weighing 8lbs after

her mum endured eight hours of labour 8 .

Mel Byrne, 31, gave birth to Lulu with help from

Chinese-born midwife 9 Bea Fung, who helped de-

liver 10 eight babies that day, reports the Daily Mirror.

Mrs Fung said: “In Chinese culture the number eight

is considered very lucky. I was watching the clock as

the birth approached and was counting the minutes

and she arrived at just the right time.

“Straight away I told Mel and Pete their daugh-

Chinese man Bao Xishun has lost his

title as the world’s tallest man to a Ukrai-

nian who is EIGHT inches taller.

Leonid Stadnik, a 36-year-old vet from

the village of Podolanci in the Ukraine, is

now oficially recognised by the Guinness

Book of Records.

Measuring eight feet and ive inches he

has eclipsed the record previously held by

56-year-old Xishun.

Stadnik’s growth spurt 15 started at

age 14 after a brain operation apparently

stimulated his pituitary gland 16 , which

produces the human growth hormone.

He had previously said he did not

want the title of the world’s tallest man

or to feature in the Guinness Book of

Records as a freak.

He said he was not proud of being so

tall and that it had brought him nothing but

problems, including having trouble inding

a girlfriend.

He has been declared an invalid by au-

thorities after doctors said his huge height

is causing him serious health problems.

ter was very lucky indeed.”

Mrs Fung, who has been at Liverpool Women’s Hospital for 33 years, added: “The number

of eights linked to Lulu is incredible. I consider myself very lucky to have been there.”

The couple, from Woolton, Liverpool, already have a two-year-old daughter, Maisy.

Photographer Peter, 30, said: “Bea was very excited and kept telling us how lucky we were

and how lucky Lulu is.

“I think I will be letting Lulu choose the lottery numbers as soon as she is old enough.”

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3 transgression[trxnz`greS(q)n] проступок; нарушение

10 todeliver

[dI`lIvq] рожать

11 smudge

[smAG] грязное пятно

12 stain

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пятно

(закона, обязательства и т. п.)

13 tofetch

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4 toshame

[SeIm]

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зарабатывать

5 panel

[`pxn(q)l] совет, комиссия

14 slabofconcrete

бетонная плита

6 draw

[drL]

лотерея

[spWt] внезапное резкое усилие,

рывок

16 pituitarygland [pI`tjHIt(q)rI`glxnd] гипофиз

7 tokickoff [kIk]

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8 labour

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9 midwife

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medium

llan Stewart Konigsberg,

a.k.a. Woody Allen, was

born in the Bronx on

December 1, 1935 to

Martin Konigsberg and

Nettie Cherry.

At the age of three he got

hooked on movies when his moth-

er took him to see Snow White .

From that day the movie theaters

became his second home.

At his irst year of school he

was put in an accelerated class

because of his high IQ. But he

hated school from day one and

became rebellious. He didn’t do

his homework, was rude to the

teachers and sometimes dis-

ruptive 2 in class. Surprisingly

he was very good in sports (bas-

ketball, stickball, football, base-

ball) in his early years and was

always among the irst picked

in teams in the neighbourhood.

He also liked boxing and even

trained for several months until

his parents asked him to stop.

However, sports and movies

were not his only interests. He

Woody Allen

In 1964, Woody entered the

film industry when he was hired

to do the screenplay What’s

New Pussycat .

His large body of work and cerebral ilm style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have

made him one of the most respected and proliic 1 ilmmakers in the modern era. Allen

writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them.

Early ilms

His irst movie production

was What’s New, Pussycat? in

1965, for which he wrote the

initial screenplay. He was hired

by Warren Beatty to re-write a

script, and to appear in a small

part. Over the course of the re-

write, Beatty’s part grew smaller

and Allen’s grew larger. Beatty

was upset and quit the produc-

tion. Peter O’Toole was hired for

the Beatty role, and Peter Sellers

was brought in as well; Sellers

was a big enough star to demand

many of Woody Allen’s best

lines/scenes, prompting hasty re-

writes. This experience with med-

dling producers, egotistical stars,

became obsessed with magic

and music; later characterising

elements in his movies. At the

age of ifteen he started play-

ing the clarinet 3 and he plays it

daily, ever since.

In 1952 Allan S. Konigsberg

changed his name to Woody Al-

len. He was sixteen and starting

to write jokes which he sent to

several of the major New York

newspapers hoping them to be

used by some of the gossip col-

umnists. From that point on the

wheels started rolling for Woody

as a comedy writer.

After high school, he went to

New York University where he

studied communication and ilm,

but, never committed as a student,

he was thrown off his course due

to lack of punctuality and commit-

ment. He later briely attended

City College of New York.

In November 1958, Woody

began co-writing with Larry

Gelbart for The Chevy Show on

NBC. The show, starring the fa-

mous Sid Caesar, stayed on TV

for ten years. For several years,

Woody was reasonably content

writing for TV, making $1,700

a week. But after seeing Mort

Sahl performing onstage, and

little by little losing interest in

writing TV, he decided to launch

a carrier of his own as a stand-

up comedian.

In 1958, Woody met his fu-

ture managers Charles H. Joffe

and Jack Rollins. Ever since,

they’ve negotiated millions of

dollars worth of contracts on

his behalf with others but no

formal contract exists among

them, only a handshake. They

convinced him to do his own

material onstage.

Woody was a stand-up come-

dian from 1960 to 1968. Allen

turned his weaknesses into his

strengths, developing his neu-

rotic, nervous, and intellectual

persona, becoming more popu-

lar as such with every year that

passed. In 1960 he only made

$75 per week, but in 1964 he was

an established comic in demand

across the country, making $5000

a week, and appeared frequently

in nightclubs and on television.

PSyCHOANALySIS

Allen spent at least 30 years undergoing psychoanalysis,

some three days a week. Many of his ilms contain a psy-

choanalysis scene.

Moment Magazine says “it drove his self-absorbed work”.

John Baxter, author of Woody Allen - A Biography , wrote

“Like Catholic confession, Allen’s form of analysis let the

penitent go free to sin again,” and that “Allen obviously

found analysis stimulating, even exciting.”

Allen says he ended his psychotherapy visits around the

time he began his relationship with Previn. He says he still

is claustrophobic and agoraphobic.

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