David Arquette
American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler
David Bowie’s Life On Mars.
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Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”
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Emilia Fox
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I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
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Sinatra's The Best Is Yet To Come.
Julia Stiles
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When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
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View profile →Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
Phoning my dad to tell him we’d won the Edinburgh Perrier award with The League Of Gentlemen in 1997.
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
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