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Helen McCrory and Damian Lewis Attend Wimbledon 2018 – Day 11

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At Men’s Semi-Finals

by Gingersnap4Helen | helen-mccory.com | July 13, 2018

Arriving in style at the prestigious sporting event, Damian and Helen attended day eleven of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 13, 2018 in London, England for the men’s singles semi-finals.

They watched the Centre Court from the Royal box with a host of other celebrities such as, Aidan Turner, Jenna Coleman, Michael McIntyre and Tim Peake.

Damian was seen having a chat with Bear Grylls before settling into his seat. Behind Damian and Helen sat Anna Wintour and we even caught a glimpse of Barry Gibb.

Friday’s match line-up:

No. 8 Kevin Anderson (South Africa) vs. No. 9 John Isner (U.S.A) at 8 a.m. ET

No. 2 Rafael Nadal vs. No. 12 Novak Djokovic  at 10 a.m. ET, approximately

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We’ll Take Manhattan on BBC Four – Review

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A Drama about David Bailey’s romance with Jean Shrimpton

by Tom Sutcliffe | January 27, 2012 | The Independent

Sutcliffe’s Third Law of Dodgy Dialogue runs as follows: “If an East End character employs both elements of a bit of rhyming slang then they are probably a Cockernee – television’s caricature of an East Ender – rather than the real thing.” Example: a young jack-the-lad photographer asks his assistant: “What happened to that bird from Pinner with the big Eartha Kitts?” If he’d said this at all, surely he would have said “big Earthas”, and left it at that. But, since the audience can’t be trusted to work it out, or, possibly, to know that Kitt follows Eartha, it had to be clumsily signposted in We’ll Take Manhattan, John McKay’s drama about David Bailey’s romance with Jean Shrimpton. Bailey spent quite a bit of time being a Cockernee in this film because one of its themes was the clash between the brash young upstarts who would make the Sixties swing and the old guard who thought it was vulgar for it to move at all.

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