Tobacco firms paid huge amounts for endorsements from the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. One company paid more than $3m in today's money in one year to stars.
Deals dated from the start of the …
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Yes, I am an Addict
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To have a cake and eat it too
November 8, 2010 by
I'd love to make a cake like this! The cake itself would be simple enough - a pound cake is always easy or, if I'm really lazy, I can buy a couple of plain sponges to play with.
There's a lot more …
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Cherry Blossom
October 26, 2010 by
Spring always makes me think of Cherry Blossoms and particularly the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan. I want to go!
Spring is in April in Japan, roundabouts. Some of the regions have cherry trees …
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Slowly Cooked Perfect Pot Roast
October 17, 2010 by
As a young (much younger) home-maker, mother and food-preparer, I shied away from what I saw as difficult to cook. Like pot roast.
My mother used to cook pot roast in a pressure cooker, a sort of …
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Every Evening I go Batty
October 17, 2010 by
Each evening the Melbourne skyline presents an eerie halloween-type appearance as thousands of bats fly across the city.
The colony is a stone's throw from my little cottage on the creek and I …
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The Great Glitch
June 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The last day of June, 2010 will always be remembered as the Great Squidoo Lockout.
A glitch galloped through the Squidoo system. Did it karoom into the Spam Filter?
It started surreptitiously, …
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