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I guess you could say the film The Girl in the Café is typical Richard Curtis - doddery english guy falling for lovely woman, and a woman way out of his league. All the usual content is there but I’m a sucker for it and always like his films. This also had a political…edge isn’t the word but you know what I mean…undercurrent - that’s better. Set against the G8 summit the politics were dumbed down but the message still hit home more down to the acting of the two leads - Bill Nighy and Kelly MacDonald. Kelly MacDonald was superb and also had the best quote of the film:

dirty dirty dirty John

I could listen to her saying the word dirty all night but enough of my fantasies. Her speech to the G8 dinner was superb with the clicking fingers every 3 minutes really hitting home. The end was left open - G8 summit in Scotland and what will these 8 men do, but it should have been more. Where was the appeal to support Make Poverty History? Where was the plea to march to Edinburgh? Live 8 has always struck me as ‘disorganised’. This just added to that feeling - I hope the organisation doesn’t let it down.

On this day..

• World Cup 06 - 2006
• LocoRoco - 2006
• Get Recording - 2006
• The best team won - 2004