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Contest uncovers hidden tragedy of impoverished seniors
www.ctvnews.ca
[CTV.ca] - Peter Cook, who runs Seniors for Seniors, an agency that hires younger seniors to run errands for older seniors, is the mastermind of the contest, along with this wife. A few weeks ago, they put out a call to social workers to nominate needy
Christopher Logue
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - On his release Logue, who had already been writing songs for Peter Cook's Establishment Club, found a letter from Richard Ingrams inviting him to contribute to Private Eye. He had inherited from his father an obsession with newspaper cuttings
Hugo 3D, Martin Scorsese, 127 mins (U)
www.independent.co.uk
[The Independent] - Baron Cohen plays him with nasal echoes of Peter Cook's EL Wisty whine, a deeply unfunny performance; it's hard to care about his shy flirtation with a flower seller (Emily Mortimer, with little to do but smile sweetly under a woolly beret)
Guardian: Christopher Logue
[The Guardian] - The experiment continued with Logue's words set to jazz music and sung by Annie Ross at Peter Cook's Soho club The Establishment. Richard Ingrams, the editor of Private Eye, who later took on Logue as a contributor, recalled them "more vividly than the
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