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Newspaper editor, Marcus Payne, has discovered that Nigel plays fast and loose with his sources. A letter in Latin proving that Anne of Cleves was actually a man is an outright fake.
Marcus agrees to shelve this career-destroying revelation if Charles can dig up some shocking and rather more tabloid-compatible filth about Nigel's private life.
Meanwhile, Prentiss McCabe is saddled with Big Brother contestant Teresa, recruited as a client because she stripped in the shower.
She is now revealed as a bully and a bore and demands that Martin supervises the promotion of her huge and appalling novel.moreless
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QUOTES (3)
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Charles: ...Meanwhile he'll be relishing the illusion that he's shafted me, but Martin, what am I not? Martin: A man to be shafted. Charles: Precisely.
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Jamie: Permission to speak among consenting adults?
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Charles: (on the phone with Martin) No money shot,but he pulls a face like jeremy Irons being buggered by a car horn.
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A 2nd whiteboard brainstorming session- Nigel Harting: Poss. Career Moves Daily Mail columnist Lecture Tour- Zimbabwe Have Some Children
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One whiteboard brainstorming session- Theresa's Novel: Title Suggestions In The Hands Of Nuns Bare Feet and Empty Bottles TB Or Not TB? -------------------- Loving Torment No Hot Ashes Sodom And Begorrah
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Jamie: (on the phone) Imagine Christine Hamilton on acid.--refers to the chatshow hostess/author/former MP's spouse; the lady's a no-guff/shoot-from-the-hip kind of candid gal.
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Allison called a newpaper columnist and had suggested substitutions for her client's list of "ultimate dinner guests;" in place of Pol Pot, the genocidal dictator of Cambodia and head ofthe Khemer Rouge, she suggested Patricia Routledge, an actress known for her role as snobby Hyacinth Bucket ("pronounced boo-kay") in Keeping Up Appearances. Famous names that Allison was okay with were Dick Whittington, a panto character based on a one-time Mayor of London, and Napoleon, Emperor of France/King of Italy/exile of Elba and St.Helena.
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Martin: (to Allison)...how would you feel about reading Theresa O'Leary's magnum tedious?--refers to, and twists, the usual magnum opus (a great work or an artist's finest piece) into meaning "the greatest bore", essentially.
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Jamie: ...we're talking about Mary Archer without the sense of fun--refers to the almost direct lifting of Lady Archer's marital woes for the better part of two decades and giving them to Sarah!
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Cosi fan tutte is the opra Charles has on in his car as he goes to hide Sarah. The opera is all about hiding one's identity and testing people's faithfulness; it could be a nod not only to the Harting's situation- and charles' because of his fake sex scandal about Harting, but also to the world of public relations and spin doctoring.
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