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Greek Gods Applaud The Odyssey

Greek Gods Applaud Visual Effects, Ask Whether Anyone Remembered the Tragedy Olympus Hosts Advance Screening of The Odyssey at Leicester Square, Immediately Starts Queueing to Complain LEICESTER SQUARE, LONDON. The Greek gods emerged from a press screening of The Odyssey looking impressed, faintly damp, and quietly furious that Hollywood had spent several hundred million pounds recreating their family drama without so much as a courtesy email. Anyone who has studied Greek mythology at even…

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London’s Comedy Store

The Comedy Store: Where Dinosaurs Went to Die in the 1980s In the early 1980s, The Comedy Store opened its doors in a Soho strip club and immediately set about murdering traditional British comedy with extreme prejudice. While the old guard was still polishing jokes about wives, shopping, and the Irish, a new breed of performer was busy dismantling the entire format like alternative comedy pioneers with something to prove. The Revolution Will Be…