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  1. Showbiz News: Liza Settles Harassment Suit; Wicked Beatdown; Jackie O-Peter Cook Affair?

    Thursday | The Village Voice

    ... in the world of former boldface names, Beyond the Fringe member Alan Bennett said of his former colleague Peter Cook in an interview, " I think Peter had an affair with Jackie Kennedy ." Bennett recalled Jackie O "standing next to Peter stroking his ...

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Cabaret, Musical Movies, Pop/Rock, Liza Minnelli

  2. Showbiz News: Liza Settles Harassment Suit; Wicked Beatdown; Jackie O-Peter Cook Affair?Read the original story w/Photo

    Thursday | Village Voice

    ... in the world of former boldface names, Beyond the Fringe member Alan Bennett said of his former colleague Peter Cook in an interview, " I think Peter had an affair with Jackie Kennedy ." Bennett recalled Jackie O "standing next to Peter stroking his ...

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, Cabaret, Musical Movies, Liza Minnelli, Pop/Rock

  3. Pleasure at Her Majesty's: 'The Secret Policeman's Ball' Film Festival at AFI Silver

    Wednesday | Express

    ... and interstitial silliness) staged for an Amnesty International benefit and included sketches from Dame Edna , Peter Cook , Eleanor Bron and the Pythons. As part of the Secret Policeman's Film Festival , a six-day "Ball"-fest, AFI Silver presents " ...

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    Related Topix: John Cleese, Amnesty International, Activism, Charitable Organizations, Eleanor Bron, Silver Spring, MD

  4. Comedy star Cook 'had affair with Jackie Kennedy'Read the original story

    Wednesday Dec 9 | Kildare Nationalist

    THEY say opposites attract but even Cupid would have refused to take a bet on the odds of the uber-glamorous Jackie Kennedy and zany comedy legend Peter Cook being lovers.

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Bedazzled, Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore

  5. Good EveningRead the original story w/Photo

    Tuesday Dec 8 | The Sydney Morning Herald

    ORIGINALITY and spontaneity are the lifeblood of live comedy, which might explain why it's hard to find a pulse in this amiable, handsomely staged homage to the wit of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

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    Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Bedazzled, Eric, Drama Movies, Stephen Curry, Dudley Moore

  6. Comedy star Cook could have had Kennedy affairRead the original story

    Tuesday Dec 8 | Yorkshire Evening Post

    Comedy legend Peter Cook may have had an affair with socialite and former US first lady Jackie Kennedy, the star's pal and former colleague Alan Bennett has claimed.

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Bedazzled, Alan Bennett, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore

  7. Did Peter Cook have an affair with Jackie Kennedy?Read the original story

    Tuesday Dec 8 | The First Post

    t would have to go down as one of the least likely pairings of the 20th century - cult anti-establishment comedian Peter Cook and glamorous socialite and US First Lady Jackie Kennedy . But it has now been suggested that the two may have had an ...

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Alan Bennett

  8. Alan Bennett: turning melancholy into an artRead the original story

    Monday Dec 7 | MediaGuardian.co.uk

    ... amassed quite a collection since his career began in 1960, performing alongside Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore and Peter Cook in the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival. Over the last 50 years he has become one of our most ...

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Drama Movies, The Madness of King George, History Movies, Alan Bennett, Vocal

  9. Busty, brunette and 28Read the original story

    Thursday Dec 3 | Slugger O'Toole

    ... the Fringe book review)' No one had ever heard an impersonation of the Prime Minister before of the kind that Peter Cook did in TV PM. When Harold Macmillan actually turned up to see Beyond the Fringe in the West End, Peter Cook did the impression ...

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    Related Topix: Eton, GA, Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Conservatives (UK)

  10. Ephraim Hardcastle: Who made Katie Price the mane attraction?Read the original story

    Thursday Dec 3 | Daily Mail

    ... afterwards to Greek ship owner Ari Onassis, did Jacqueline Bouvier enjoy a fling with the late British comedian Peter Cook? Playwright Alan Bennett starred with Cook in the 1960 satire show Beyond The Fringe, which JFK and Jackie saw when it ...

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    Related Topix: Horse, Pets, Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies

  11. Good Evening: The Sketches of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

    Wednesday Nov 25 | Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    Since they first teamed up in the early 1960s, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore created magic.

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    Related Topix: Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Bedazzled, Dudley Moore

  12. Chicago ReaderRead the original story

    Oct 25, 2009 | Chicago Reader Online

    ... hilarity Shaffer intended. Also on the bill is a suite of sketches by two legendary British comedy duos, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Featured: Cook and Moore's classic Beyond the Fringe piece about a one-legged man ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Halloween, Theater, Arts, Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Events

  13. Chicago ReaderRead the original story

    Oct 18, 2009 | Chicago Reader Online

    ... hilarity Shaffer intended. Also on the bill is a suite of sketches by two legendary British comedy duos, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Featured: Cook and Moore's classic Beyond the Fringe piece about a one-legged man ...

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    Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Halloween, Theater, Arts, Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies, Events

  14. Chicago ReaderRead the original story

    Oct 4, 2009 | Chicago Reader Online

    ... hilarity Shaffer intended. Also on the bill is a suite of sketches by two legendary British comedy duos, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. Featured: Cook and Moore's classic Beyond the Fringe piece about a one-legged man ...

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    Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Events

  15. The 1959 General Election campaignRead the original story w/Photo

    Oct 25, 2009 | The Conservative Party

    ... 70 per cent. Macmillan's final TV broadcast on 6 October has long been regarded as a classic of its kind, though Peter Cook was later to parody it mercilessly in 'Beyond the Fringe'.A Macmillan had been advised to deliver his address standing, ...

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    Related Topix: Conservatives (UK), Labour Party (UK)

  16. 10/23: "Bedazzled" ScreensRead the original story w/Photo

    Oct 23, 2009 | NBC Los Angeles

    ... we all a little bit in love with Dudley Moore? We'll say nearly all of us are, yes. Though we're also crazy for Peter Cook ("Princess Bride" fans, you know why). To see the two much-missed comedians, together, with Raquel Welch, in Carnaby-cool ...

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    Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Bedazzled, Dudley Moore, Raquel Welch, Tom Jones, Music!, Adventure, Events

  17. In the pipeline..

    Oct 20, 2009 | Mirror.co.uk

    Jonathan Ross is organising a remake of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's classic 1960s laughalongs Not Only... But Also with his celebrity mates.

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    Related Topix: Dudley Moore, Entertainment

  18. Billy Graham address the issue of what happens in heavenRead the original story w/Photo

    Oct 11, 2009 | Examiner.com

    ... ever. Amen!" (Revelation 7:12) One of my favorite films is the movie "Bedazzled", the 1967 version, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, not the 2000 version with Brendan Frazer and Elizabeth Hurley. About halfway through the film, Moore asks ...

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    Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Bedazzled

  19. Jonathan Storm: Very naughty boysRead the original story

    Oct 17, 2009 | Philly.com

    ... In the '50s, Philadelphia's own Ernie Kovacs lived in the world of the absurd. In Britain, radio's Goon Show and Peter Cook's Beyond the Fringe , which Python Eric Idle says "attacked everything that I'd just spent 19 years being oppressed by," ...

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    Related Topix: Comedy, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Entertainment, Television, Life of Brian, Comedy Movies, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle

  20. What British comedy says about usRead the original story

    Oct 2, 2009 | Times Online

    ... place to start is with Beyond the Fringe and the satire boom of the early 1960s, which also gave us Private Eye , Peter Cook's Establishment Club and That Was The Week That Was . Although it has been endlessly discussed, it's still hard to ...

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    Related Topix: Punk, The Goons, Beyond the Fringe, Comedy Movies