Manchester Guardian imitates newspaper.
Mar. 2nd, 2006 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzToday's paper has Christopher Brookmyre's comments on yesterday's article about the oil-rig hotel, a notion which underlay his 1998 novel "One fine day in the middle of the night" (which had a brief mention of a Norwegian mercenary called Roland. References to Uncle Warren are fairly frequent in Brookmyre books).
It was, I believed, a ridiculously far-fetched concept, drawing knowingly upon the implausible excesses of the 80s Hollywood action movie. Anything Joel Silver could do, I could do dafter. But not quite as daft as Mohamed Al Fayed, apparently, who this week has announced he will be undertaking the venture for real.
It was, I believed, a ridiculously far-fetched concept, drawing knowingly upon the implausible excesses of the 80s Hollywood action movie. Anything Joel Silver could do, I could do dafter. But not quite as daft as Mohamed Al Fayed, apparently, who this week has announced he will be undertaking the venture for real.
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Date: 2006-03-02 03:04 pm (UTC)Though much of Croydon's architecture wouldn't look amiss with Thunderbird One docking on it...
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Date: 2006-03-02 03:50 pm (UTC)And it used to have an international airport, y'know. And was rather optimistically marketed in the 60s to film-makers because 'it resembles New York from street level'.
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Date: 2006-03-02 03:25 pm (UTC)http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm
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