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By the time books were an industry in the eighteenth century, advance ‘blurbs’ were too, displayed at the front of a book. These had reached such effusive heights that in the opening pages of Shamela, his 1741 satirical riposte to Samuel Richardson’s smash hit Pamela, Henry Fielding writes a mock endorsement from ‘John Puff, Esq.’. Comic parody quo
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Tomorrow, we shoot a wedding scene where Bond, pursued by villains, roars in a speedboat across a 200-yard-long lawn on which a bridal pair are taking their vows. Alas, the local radio picked up the news and wrongly announced that we needed extra wedding guests. It will be chaos.
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Oupi Goupi is shared by many, from film theorists who drew parallels between Lakaka’s work and that of Godard to cartophilists who are collecting newly produced Goupiland Pokémon-coded cards.
