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...encore performance of one of the great buddy acts of the 1990s - all smiles but with a deadly serious purpose. The Tony-and-Bill Show, which ran for two days last week in the gloriously tacky seaside resort of Blackpool, had just about everyone at the Labour Party conference cheering and stomping and forgetting, at least for a while, about all the issues - privatization, civil liberties, war against Iraq - where so many Labourites have profound disagreements with Tony Blair. These annual rituals are a funny mix of theater, trading floor and reunion. You can see Cabinet ministers getting buttonholed...
...more than three years old. Back in 1998, the European arm of a big American energy company openly and legally gave Britain's ruling Labour party $21,000, paying for two tables at a dinner and sponsoring a reception at the party's annual conference in Blackpool...
Within the past year, guest dancers included Blackpool Youth Latin Champions Eugene Katsevman & Maria Manusova, and International DanceSport Championship finalists Allan and Donna Shingler from England...
...save some of these victims. I shall always have a sense of unease that Diana could have been saved. I hope the French medical community will again look at its protocols for trauma management, which seem at some variance with successful ones used in other countries. RUSSELL MILLNER, M.D. Blackpool, England...
...most entertaining cuts show the Beatles' early gift for parody. You'll Be Mine, a Lennon-McCartney jape from 1960, suggests a Five Satins love song as it might have been tortured by a fourth-rate crooner in a Blackpool pub. John offers a basso-preposteroso spoken verse: "My darlin'...I looked into your eyes, and I could see a National Health eyeball..." The band brought the same proto-camp tone to covers of Three Cool Cats and Sheik of Araby, on a failed audition tape for Decca Records on New Year's Day, 1962. Raw and cheeky, the Beatles...