Its not that all good but then I keep on wathcing it.

   Shaun

Angela Johnson <does_anybody@...> wrote:
   Hey all! (ANYONE?! HELLO?)

In college and got 5 mins on the comps and thought I'd see what's
happening on this place...which is, as usual, nothing! :(

But if anyone's out there reading let's start a debate - what are your
thoughts on Saxondale so far??

There's only been one episode and I prefer to wait til I've seen an
entire series before I make a judgement but, on first impressions,
it's...good. lol! There are a few very funny lines and the character
will undoubtedly grow throughout the series. It's just such a shame
he'll never top Partridge!! Steve's giving a great performance though
(even if he does seem to mumble a few lines) and hopefully it'll be a
big hit. And not like Steve's usual big hits of cocaine. lol! GOD.

Ange
xxx







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Just a reminder that Cock and Bull Story comes out on Monday!!

"My immediate concern was for Steve and to ask if the girl was ok and
if there was any damage to the pole." LOL a brilliant line sadly not
included!

Oh and just a small point about this week's episode...when Tommy tells
the story about the pepper pot saying Chessington World of
Adventure...I'd just like to say its World of AdventureS
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessington_World_Of_Adventures)...Not
that it matters but I thought Steve being a perfectionist might have
BOTHERED to check seeing as he places such an emphasise on the
word!...Sorry I used to go at least twice a year to Chessington so in
a sense, Steve is ruining my childhood memories with his
mispronounation.

lol! "Jesus you're OBSESSED."

OH MY CHRIST someone's posted!! Hello Ange!

Saxondale...Wellllllllll..."Can I shock you? I like wine." I
actually really like it!! I mean yeah its a bit slow in parts and
theres no real plot and I have NO idea where Tom is supposed to be
from (what is that accent?!) but I geniunely like it! After repeat
viewings there are some funny gags!
And as for people and the press keep comparing it to Partridge,
saying Tom is like Alan..."GET OVER IT." Like Tom says to his
assistant after he keeps bringing up the whole make-up
incident..."Jesus you're OBSESSED!" (lmao one of my new favourite
quotes!!)

Mads
xxx




--- In stevecooganfans@..., "Angela Johnson"
<does_anybody@f...> wrote:
>
> Hey all! (ANYONE?! HELLO?)
>
> In college and got 5 mins on the comps and thought I'd see what's
> happening on this place...which is, as usual, nothing! :(
>
> But if anyone's out there reading let's start a debate - what are
your
> thoughts on Saxondale so far??
>
> There's only been one episode and I prefer to wait til I've seen an
> entire series before I make a judgement but, on first impressions,
> it's...good. lol! There are a few very funny lines and the
character
> will undoubtedly grow throughout the series. It's just such a shame
> he'll never top Partridge!! Steve's giving a great performance
though
> (even if he does seem to mumble a few lines) and hopefully it'll
be a
> big hit. And not like Steve's usual big hits of cocaine. lol! GOD.
>
> Ange
> xxx
>

Hey all! (ANYONE?! HELLO?)

In college and got 5 mins on the comps and thought I'd see what's
happening on this place...which is, as usual, nothing! :(

But if anyone's out there reading let's start a debate - what are your
thoughts on Saxondale so far??

There's only been one episode and I prefer to wait til I've seen an
entire series before I make a judgement but, on first impressions,
it's...good. lol! There are a few very funny lines and the character
will undoubtedly grow throughout the series. It's just such a shame
he'll never top Partridge!! Steve's giving a great performance though
(even if he does seem to mumble a few lines) and hopefully it'll be a
big hit. And not like Steve's usual big hits of cocaine. lol! GOD.

Ange
xxx

It's all just so MENTALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

Just me who loves the idea of kinky sex with Steve though? If he
wants to shout 'AHA!' and 'Back of the net!' during then go
ahead! "Now you join in." lol!!

Hope these stories don't make anyone think any less of Steve. (Well
Courtney Love is an appalling choice of 'friend') Cos obviously
he's 'got a BIG problem.' but well, I may be a lunatic but it makes
me like him more. He's so complex, so brilliant, and ultimately very
funny as well as gorgeous so I don't blame him for exploiting the
power of fame to get women in to bed. I'm just waiting for my
turn ;)

That was a very good psycho-analysis of him though from the Daily
Mail. Bet Steve loved it. ;)

"Arguably the best newspaper in the world." lol!

Ange
xxx

Here's the Daily Mail's psychoanalysis of Steve...


ALAN PARTRIDGE has always had a hilariously troubled attitude to
sex. Whether gyrating on the stage of a strip club, wearing nothing
but a leather thong and a comfy multicoloured jumper, or berating a
one-night stand for spilling chocolate mousse on his bedcovers, the
fictional television presenter has never failed to amuse.

He has a disastrous broken marriage behind him, children he hardly
ever sees, a crazy Eastern European catalogue girlfriend and a
disturbing obsession with 'ladyboys'.

The comic message is clear: this man is so pathetic it's hilarious.
Steve Coogan, creator of Norwich's most famous DJ, certainly seems
to think so: he has made three television series about him and is in
the process of writing Alan Partridge, the movie.

Indeed, the comic is so proud of his creation that friends say it is
sometimes hard to see where Coogan ends and Partridge begins. Their
comments are at least partly tonguein- cheek. Nobody could be that
ludicrous in real life . . . or could they? After the extraordinary
revelations of the past week, they might not be so sure.

Coogan, we are told, has recently embarked on a sexual liaison with
Courtney Love, the notoriously unstable, drug-addicted widow of rock
legend Kurt Cobain.

And not only that. She is reportedly pregnant with Coogan's child,
the result of two weeks of wild, drugfuelled sex in a Los Angeles
hotel.

Establishing the veracity of this claim is a challenge worthy of
Hercule Poirot. (She denied it, then disappeared into rehab; he has
described it as 'ludicrous' but failed to rule it out.) But whatever
the truth, the debacle has done nothing to counter the growing
conviction among friends that, when it comes to sex, Partridge is
the mirror image of Coogan.

Let us examine the evidence. Broken marriage? Check. Coogan's
marriage to society beauty Caroline Hickman collapsed last year
after he spent the night with a pair of lapdancers (one blonde, one
brunette).

Child from a broken relationship? Check. In 1996, Coogan was dumped
by solicitor Anna Cole, the mother of his eight-year- old daughter,
after affairs with at least three women, including a topless model.

Leather thongs and ladyboys? Who knows, but according to one of his
old flames, Coogan is 'the kinkiest man I have ever met in my life,
and clinically incapable of fidelity'.

Take in the Courtney Love episode -- he reportedly filled their
hotel room with sex toys and Viagra and wanted a hooker to join them
in bed -- and it is easy to see why friends are concerned that the
comic is spiralling out of control.

So what is it that drives Coogan's appetite for self-destruction?
How can it be that a man who has so much going for him -- his
undisputed comic genius has earned him a fortune in excess of GBP
10million -- seems so inexorably drawn to trouble?

'Even when he has something good going on in his life, he simply
can't help going off the rails,' says a female friend. 'In fact,
that is when he's at his most vulnerable. If he is happy and secure
then that's when he will shoot himself in the foot.

'He's a typical Irish Catholic sensitive soul, with a split
personality. He is a Jekyll and Hyde character in every way
imaginable.

PART of him wants to be the sweet, considerate father; and another
part of him is really quite seedy. After all this time, you'd think
he would have learned his lesson: but he can't help himself.'

It is worth noting that Coogan has not always been renowned as a
sexual predator. He was brought up in a large Irish Roman Catholic
family in Manchester, one of four brothers and two sisters, and was
regarded as 'something of a geek' at school.

'He hides it well, but Steve has a real chip on his shoulder about
that,' says a source who has worked closely with the star.

'At school, and when he first arrived at Manchester Polytechnic
(where he studied drama), he was not very popular with the girls.
They thought he was weedy and a bit of a drip.

'Ever since he became famous, it is as if he has been making up for
lost time. Every time he sleeps with a page three girl or a
stripper, there is a part of him saying: "See, I'm not a geek. I can
have any woman I want."

'The sad thing is that this need to prove himself sexually has
destroyed every meaningful relationship he's ever had.'

The catalogue of indiscretions, beginning after he met Anna Cole, a
35-year-old solicitor, in 1992, makes for depressing reading. The
couple were together for four turbulent years, and by the time their
relationship ended Coogan had already added at least three more
notches to his bedpost.

First there was topless model Nancy Sorrell (now married to another
comic, Vic Reeves), who told how Coogan flung GBP 5,000 in GBP 10
notes on a bed and ordered her: 'Lie on them. Go on, lie on them.'

THEN there was dancer Susan Acteson and record company worker
Katerina Russell -- the latter affair, incidentally, conducted when
Miss Cole was pregnant with their daughter.

And these are just the flings his partner found out about. There
was, in fact, at least one more, with a young journalist.

After Miss Cole finally dumped him, Coogan became concerned that he
was addicted to sex and sought counselling from a psychotherapist
priest. Not for the first time -- and certainly not for the last --
he was consumed with Catholic guilt. He even managed four months of
celibacy.

It was around this time, too, that his career began to take off.
Alan Partridge wowed critics and audiences alike, and a British
comedy legend to rival Basil Fawlty was born. Coogan was described
by one critic as 'the Peter Sellers of the Nineties'.

In 2002 he married Miss Hickman, the great-niece of the late Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Basil Hume, and it seemed he had
finally found a replacement for Miss Cole.

Before they married, she had already forgiven him for straying once -
- again with a lapdancer. But when he did the same thing again after
18 months of marriage, hardly surprisingly she demanded a divorce.

'Steve was absolutely gutted when she refused to forgive him and to
this day he feels that she let him down,' says a friend of the
star. 'For the first time since Anna, he had found someone he
idolised.

'And that's the root of his problem. He either idolises women or
treats them like dirt. It is all to do with his Catholicism: he has
a classic Madonna/whore fixation.

'He put Anna and Caroline up on a pedestal and treated every other
woman he slept with like a prostitute. Despite everything he was
doing behind their backs, he never wanted to break up with either of
them.'

According to a woman who embarked on a fling with Coogan in the
Nineties, this is symptomatic of 'wider personality issues'.

'There are two sides to his personality: the sweet, charming
schoolboy, which is partly real and partly an act he uses to chat up
women, and the manic spoilt star,' she says. 'He is into some pretty
bizarre sexual games: but his real problem is not sex, it is drugs.

'He has a liking for cocaine, and though he tries to resist it, when
he falls off the wagon he just runs out of control.'

Coogan's penchant for the white stuff is well documented. The star
has admitted taking cocaine. Indeed, he ended up in hospital the
first time he tried it after suffering a violent reaction. He even
though he was allergic to the drug. But sadly the warning was not
heeded, and he went on to take it with increasing frequency.

Evidence of his behaviour while on drugs is damning. The Mail has
learned that at a recent party, to celebrate the birthday of one of
his close friends, he infuriated everybody by trying to bed his
friend's mother-in-law.

One friend says: 'Coke turns him into this sexual animal. If he's
talking to you and a woman with big boobs comes into the room, he
just walks away in mid sentence.

'Thankfully, we don't see as much of him any more because he is
mostly living in Los Angeles.'

Coogan moved to the West Coast last year to pursue a career in
Hollywood, and in many ways it has been a positive development in
his life. He reportedly earned GBP 3 million for playing Phileas
Fogg in the big-budget remake of Around The World In Eighty Days.

His reinvention as a serious actor has been boosted further by
appearances alongside Friends star Lisa Kudrow in Happy Endings, and
with Cate Blanchett in Coffee And Cigarettes.

'One of the most positive things is that nobody recognises him
there,' says a friend.

HE CAN walk down the street being followed by a camera crew and
nobody knows who he is. He is quietly obsessive about becoming a
movie star. He really wants to succeed, and goes on at length about
LA being a "blank canvas" and a "brave new world".

'The Americans see him as the quintessential Englishman. A charming,
polite and gently funny individual.

'He is so desperate to make it big in Hollywood that he works very
hard to be charming. And as anyone who has ever met him will tell
you, Steve can be very charming indeed when he turns it on.

'He was very disappointed that he didn't get to play Peter Sellers
in the biopic, but he'll get over it. Steve is incognito and rich.
His friends are Ben Stiller and Robbie Williams. Life is pretty good
at the moment.'

Not everyone is convinced that the move is for the best, however.

One woman, who knew him well at the height of his cocaine use,
says: 'Going to Los Angeles is one of the most disastrous things he
could have done in terms of his mental health.

'He has thrown himself into the LA life, living on cigarettes,
coffee and egg-white omelettes. He has a personal trainer, so he's
lost weight and toned up, and he has had his teeth whitened.

'But underneath it all, Steve does not look well. He is kind of
gaunt and his eyes have lost their sparkle.

'And LA has another, darker side. For all the fitness fanatics,
there are just as many troubled junkies. It is a pretty debauched
city -- and Steve has a dangerous appetite for the seedier side of
life.'

Which brings us, finally, to the tangled subject of Courtney Love
and her alleged love-child.

This is the widow of a heroinaddicted rock star who took his own
life with a shotgun. A longstanding addict herself, she has made a
string of court appearances on drug and assault charges.

She is currently in rehab and will be sent to jail if she fails to
complete the course. And her next job is to play the title role in a
biopic of Deep Throat porn actress Linda Lovelace.

She met Coogan when he was staying at the Sunset Marquis hotel in LA
last month. Reportedly, they embarked on a torrid affair which left
the troubled Love (who, incidentally, is the singer for a band
called Hole) carrying Coogan's child.

She has since denied the reports, though given her erratic behaviour
in recent times, this can hardly be taken at face value. Coogan's
spokesmen, meanwhile, have been trying to make the story disappear --
  but without actually stating that it is untrue.

In these circumstances, most will hope the story is not true. Even
Alan Partridge wouldn't go that badly wrong.

TV STEVE'S DATES WITH KURT WIDOW.

ALAN Partridge star Steve Coogan has been secretly dating rocker
Courtney Love.

The multi-millionaire comic, famed as cheesy telly DJ Partridge, has
been holed up with the wild widow of Nirvana star Kurt Cobain at an
LA hotel.

The pair, above, openly flaunted their romance in front of guests
and disappeared together in a lift -causing it to jam for 15 minutes.

A source said: "Courtney was all over Steve. They were flirting in
front of everyone."

Former Hole singer Courtney, 41, also penned the British funnyman a
bizarre love note, below.

She wrote: "Its so weird and wrong and good and sweet and evil being
with you."

And she signed off: "You are beautiful my little baby -oh and by the
way, I love you too."

Courtney and 39-year-old Coogan are believed to have stayed at the
hotel for two weeks last month.

Dad-of-one Coogan, whose Hollywood career has taken off, was
divorced by wife Caroline Hickman last month after
the "irretrievable" breakdown of their marriage.

The comic has admitted womanising and drug-taking and was last year
caught with a busty lap dancer and her friend after a charity gig.

Courtney got three years' probation in February for assault and
could be jailed if she flouts a no-drugs condition. Last night a
spokesman for Coogan said: "Steve and Courtney are good friends."





"WHATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?."

We can't leave him alone for a minute can we?!

And I'm sorry, 'Hollywood career has taken off'?! "Sounds like
you're being sarcastic."


Anyway... "What a prick."

Can't say I know of an address you could write to, sorry! If I did
then I'd've done it by now! (I mean you can't exactly write to his
HOME address can you...not that I know that obviously, that'd be
mentalllllllll.......) xxx

--- In stevecooganfans@..., Szathmáry Ildikó
<jailjenny2003@y...> wrote:
>
> First of all, thank you so much for letting me join this group. I'm
> new here.
> I'd like to ask if anyone knows about a fan mail address by which i
> could get a signed photo of Steve? thank you very much in advance
> for your help.

--- In stevecooganfans@..., "mad_bowers"
<mad_bowers@y...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the Steve news! I heard he was making The Persuaders
with
> Ben Stiller as well! Should be interesting!
>
> Hello Chez!! How have you been?? Nice to see you back!
>
> I've been so busy with uni I hardly ever get to come on here I'm
> always out filming documentaries! And Ange NEVER comes on here
> anymore!


Right Mads I want you to get a plate and a knife and fork...what I'm
saying is you're going to EAT YOUR WORDS!!! lol! Cos here I am!!
Now I know what you're thinking - no, not THAT - 'ohhh no it's the
loony!!' but I've only come on here because 'you said you had a
fucking chicken!!' lol! ;) Gotta love Dylan Moran!

Anyway, no I just wanted to say hello really!! Cos I really haven't
been on here in ages but I was just online to see if my exam results
are up on the uni web thing and they're NOT so thought I'd come on
cos Mads said Chez is back....welcome back Chez! Didn't forget
you...tried to, but couldn't ;) how are ya?!?!

And hello to everyone else, esp. new members but also the old! :)
Stu - website's looking gooooood! (By that I mean the pics of Steve
on it ;))

So yeah...it's all v.exciting that Steve's in so many new films isn't
it. Is it still bitter of me to wish he'd just stick to telly tho? I
don't want him to get all mega successful and move to America!!
Trying to keep track of films and when they're going to be released
and all that is just too tiring if you ask me!! That said...so
excited about the League of Gentlemen film that's out in April that I
think I literally may need to change my pants when I get home!! ;)

Right, on that bombshell I'm going to go! Also gonna email Mads
before I sign off so do check them u silly sausage jockey ;) if
indeed you're reading this board before ur emails which I doubt but
anyway....my brain's fried with all the studying I've been doing the
past 2 weeks! it's not normal, I tell you!!! I won't mention the 'D'
word tho for fear of being abused Paul Calf stylee for being a
fuckin' student!!

Speak soon everyone (and when I say soon I mean in a few months
probably!) hope all's well!
Loads of love,
Ange
xxx :) xxx

I posted pics from steve's new film 'Happy Endings'.  It should be
released July 2005. I'll organize them later.

Liz

Thanks for the Steve news! I heard he was making The Persuaders with
Ben Stiller as well! Should be interesting!

Hello Chez!! How have you been?? Nice to see you back!

I've been so busy with uni I hardly ever get to come on here I'm
always out filming documentaries! And Ange NEVER comes on here
anymore!

Hope you're all well!

Mads
xxx

An Alan Partridge series will be on BBC America sometime in March or
April according to imdb. Happy Endings w/Steve will have it's world
premiere this week at Sundance. Steve will also be filming Marie-
Antoniette (sp) w/Kirsten Dusnt and will be directed by Sofia
Copalla (Virgin Suicdes; Lost in Translation). Tristam Shandy and
The Alibi are in post-production. That's all the Steve news I have
from this side of the pond. Sorry about the spelling.

Pixiestixxs3

hey dunno if you remember me
i used to come here in 2001/2002
thought it would be cool to come back and chat
ange/mads u still about?
what u guys up to?
speak to you soon
Chez x.

http://www.coogans-run.co.uk

To mark the launch of the new film Coffee and Cigarettes staring
Steve Coogan.

We have 1 copy of the film soundtrack Coffee and Cigarettes on CD and
2 copies of The White Stripes album; Elephant courtesy of
substance001.com

Apology accepted, and I apologize my self. Now lets drop this so we can go
back to admiring Steve.

Lots of Love,
                         Liz


--- In stevecooganfans@..., "Stu" <hullabaloodesign@h...>
wrote:
> hi Liz
>
> sorry if I offended you, i should have learnt by now, that you cant
> cross a woman ! lol
>
> 1000 lines. I MUST NOT CROSS A WOMAN .....
>
>
>
> Stu
>
>
> --- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > DON'T BE SO FULL OF YOURSELF!!!
> >
> > I got them off of google and yahoo when I was doing a news and
> picture
> > search. So stick a broom where the sun don't shine you A** H***!!!!
> >
> > Lots of Love,
> >    Liz
> >
> >
> > --- In stevecooganfans@..., "Stu"
> <hullabaloodesign@h...>
> > wrote:
> > > oih !
> > >
> > > are they off my website !!!!
> > >
> > > lol
> > >
> > > get your own, you mother.....
> > >
> > >
> > > Stu
> > >
> > > --- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
> > > <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > > > I loaded some new pics of steve. They're at the bottom of the
> > > Photos section. If
> > > > I have the time and if members want, I'll do an 80 days folder
> > > w/pics. Let me
> > > > know what everyone thinks.
> > > >
> > > > Pixs

hi Liz

sorry if I offended you, i should have learnt by now, that you cant
cross a woman ! lol

1000 lines. I MUST NOT CROSS A WOMAN .....



Stu


--- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> DON'T BE SO FULL OF YOURSELF!!!
>
> I got them off of google and yahoo when I was doing a news and
picture
> search. So stick a broom where the sun don't shine you A** H***!!!!
>
> Lots of Love,
>    Liz
>
>
> --- In stevecooganfans@..., "Stu"
<hullabaloodesign@h...>
> wrote:
> > oih !
> >
> > are they off my website !!!!
> >
> > lol
> >
> > get your own, you mother.....
> >
> >
> > Stu
> >
> > --- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
> > <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > > I loaded some new pics of steve. They're at the bottom of the
> > Photos section. If
> > > I have the time and if members want, I'll do an 80 days folder
> > w/pics. Let me
> > > know what everyone thinks.
> > >
> > > Pixs

DON'T BE SO FULL OF YOURSELF!!!

I got them off of google and yahoo when I was doing a news and picture
search. So stick a broom where the sun don't shine you A** H***!!!!

Lots of Love,
    Liz


--- In stevecooganfans@..., "Stu" <hullabaloodesign@h...>
wrote:
> oih !
>
> are they off my website !!!!
>
> lol
>
> get your own, you mother.....
>
>
> Stu
>
> --- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > I loaded some new pics of steve. They're at the bottom of the
> Photos section. If
> > I have the time and if members want, I'll do an 80 days folder
> w/pics. Let me
> > know what everyone thinks.
> >
> > Pixs

oih !

are they off my website !!!!

lol

get your own, you mother.....


Stu

--- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I loaded some new pics of steve. They're at the bottom of the
Photos section. If
> I have the time and if members want, I'll do an 80 days folder
w/pics. Let me
> know what everyone thinks.
>
> Pixs

I loaded some new pics of steve. They're at the bottom of the Photos section. If
I have the time and if members want, I'll do an 80 days folder w/pics. Let me
know what everyone thinks.

Pixs

I mean I think this bloke is a writer or
> something but I'm totally clueless as to what he might have done!
> But stupid scheduling though cos Rob Brydon has had to cancel his
> tour cos he's away filming this thing in Norwich! (I'm bitter cos
I
> had tickets to it btw!)
>
>
> I hope he's divorced by now! I've read loads of magazine
interviews
> with him saying he's single, I just dunno how long the legal
process
> takes!





After reading my post back to myself I want to make it clear that I
was talking about Steve being divorced and not Rob Brydon! Was that
clear anyway and this is just a pointless post?!

Btw a lot of new people have joined this group since Steve's role in
the, lets face it, flop film Around the world in 80 days so feel
free any of you to post! What did everyone think of the film? And am
I the only one in thinking that the song that played over the
credits was RIDICULOUS?! Your thoughts are welcome!

Ohh which reminds me, I was reading the Guardian the other day (Why
you ask? "I've NO idea.") and there was a little quote from Rob
Brydon who was joking about how Steve's hollywood career didn't
exactly take off and he said about him "Around the world in 80 days,
back in London in three."
LOL! So true!

Hi thanks for posting! Yeah I read about that Tristram Shandy film
last month, its gonna be Steve and Rob Brydon! I wish Steve would
stop doing films about people I've NEVER heard of though! ("Well
I've NEVER heard of you!") I mean I think this bloke is a writer or
something but I'm totally clueless as to what he might have done!
But stupid scheduling though cos Rob Brydon has had to cancel his
tour cos he's away filming this thing in Norwich! (I'm bitter cos I
had tickets to it btw!)


I hope he's divorced by now! I've read loads of magazine interviews
with him saying he's single, I just dunno how long the legal process
takes!

Ooh this is of no interest to anyone outside the UK, but the new
This Morning opening titles have a short clip of Steve on them!
Can't BELIEVEEE I missed the actual interview he did on the show but
seeing the 1 second clip every morning is a nice thing to wake up
to! Is that sad?! "Stop talking, ok!"





--- In stevecooganfans@..., pixiestixxs3
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I haven't posted in a while, but I thought I would let everyone
know that Steve
> is doing another film w/Michael Winterbottom (director of 24 HPP),
Tristram
> Shandy and it is set to be released in 2005. His other 2 films,
The Alibi and
> Happy Endings are now in post production. If I find any more news
on the new
> films I'll post.... Does anyone know if he is divorced yet? Bloody
shame !!!! j/k
>
> Pixiestixxs3

I haven't posted in a while, but I thought I would let everyone know that Steve
is doing another film w/Michael Winterbottom (director of 24 HPP), Tristram
Shandy and it is set to be released in 2005. His other 2 films, The Alibi and
Happy Endings are now in post production. If I find any more news on the new
films I'll post.... Does anyone know if he is divorced yet? Bloody shame !!!!
j/k

Pixiestixxs3

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>
>   i think this new format is great. it keeps up to date with
everything Steve does. change is definitely good. keeps people
attracted to the website. keep up with the good work
>

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>
>
> What all of a sudden everyone fancies Steve?! "I find that very
> difficult to believe!" I mean whats with the bloody 3am girls
> suddenly finding him attractive?! This is all a crocodile shit!!
But
> Mmmmm @ him being all buff now!! Maybe in the toast he can get
> people to feel his pecs then!...its ok to mention it here cos it
> appears to be only ME who reads and posts!

Hey, I am still here I've just been a bit busy that's all! Well, not
even busy really just...not posting. lol! ANYWAY...yeahhhhhh now
Steve's gone hollywood and not just comedy it's COOL to fancy him is
it?! Well I hope he remembers we've been here from...well not the
START, but we've been here for a ruddy long time supporting the ruddy
gorgeous bastard...lol! But judging by the leotard scenes in Around
the World in Eighty Days he's still got a longggggggggggggg way to go
if he wants to be considered any kind of muscle man! (Any Mr
Muscle "Loves the jobs you hate" jokes anyone?! ;) lol!)


> Anywayyyyyy...also saw this...
>
>  Wicked Whispers
>  WHICH pop star's girlfriend won't be feeling a lot of love when
she
> finds out what he's been up to? The lanky lad tried his cheesiest
> lines out on two blondes on a recent night out - and shared saliva
> with both.
>
>
>
>
> That IS Darius right?! Snogging two birds again! "You dirty
> bastard!" Hey Ange you don't think last Tues it was...No no it
> couldn't have been! LOL!

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"You pushed it too far!!"

Yeah they must mean Darius! But no...no it couldn't have been...but
fuck it, I'm going to pretend it was and that's why it happened! lol!
Oh God...I've just approved a bunch of new members! IGNORE all of
this!! We're mad, we don't know what we're writing half the
time!! :) "Imagine dreaming that and waking up SCREAMING! That's what
happened."

Loads of love,
Ange
xxx :) xxx

Found this....




COOG & THE GANG

Jun 24 2004


Steve muscles in on our girls




HE'S a single man again after a cocaine-fuelled threesome with two
lap dancers finally spelt the end of his marriage this year.

So we expected our favourite funnyman Steve Coogan to be in a less-
than-playful mood at the post-premiere party of his new Hollywood
blockbuster Around The World In 80 Days.

But we couldn't have been more wrong!

To our relief, the Manchester-born womaniser was on top flirting
form - inviting us to feel his muscles when we caught up with him in
the VIP area of London's Cirque club on Tuesday night.

"Living in LA I've gone all Hollywood," he said.

"In one scene in my new film, Alibi, I've got to take my shirt off,
so I'm seeing a personal trainer three times a week.

"I eat egg white omelettes and can't have any pies at all. I even
have to have early nights."

Apart from on Tuesday of course, when he was among the few guests
still there at 1am, along with Corrie's Sally Lindsay, aka Shelley,
and Kate Ford, aka Tracy.

Steve, 38, is so impressed with his new physique he was keen for
Jessica and Eva to give him their opinion.

"Go on - have a feel. Touch this," he said, before grabbing
Jessica's hand and putting it under his jacket so she could feel his
pec. And very big it was too.

And he didn't want to stop there.

"Feel these muscles!" he said, inviting Jessica and Eva to squeeze
his bicep. What a whopper!



Steve - sporting a very dishy short haircut - has already spoken of
his shame at being caught leaving a London hotel after spending the
night with a lap dancer and her pal in April.

That episode led to the end of his marriage to 32-year-old Caroline
Hickman.

But Coogan was on top form at the party and after he tenderly
carried out his sleepy seven-year-old daughter Clare when it was
time for her bedtime, he bounded back to us.

Funnily enough he was keen to talk about his body again.

"I've also got to have fake tan," he said. "No one wants to look at
a pale white English bloke out in LA, so I've been using Mystic Tan
spray."


And we've got a warning for Steve's Alibi co-star, Rebecca Romijn-
Stamos.

The 31-year-old blonde US actress has just split from her husband,
actor John Stamos.

Unsurprisingly, Steve is looking forward to getting to grips with
all 5ft 10in of her.

"It would be great if she has to take her clothes off."

Lucky Rebecca - you have been warned!


















What all of a sudden everyone fancies Steve?! "I find that very
difficult to believe!" I mean whats with the bloody 3am girls
suddenly finding him attractive?! This is all a crocodile shit!! But
Mmmmm @ him being all buff now!! Maybe in the toast he can get
people to feel his pecs then!...its ok to mention it here cos it
appears to be only ME who reads and posts!

Anywayyyyyy...also saw this...

  Wicked Whispers
  WHICH pop star's girlfriend won't be feeling a lot of love when she
finds out what he's been up to? The lanky lad tried his cheesiest
lines out on two blondes on a recent night out - and shared saliva
with both.




That IS Darius right?! Snogging two birds again! "You dirty
bastard!" Hey Ange you don't think last Tues it was...No no it
couldn't have been! LOL!

STEVE COOGAN: I'M SINGLE AGAIN

Jun 14 2004


STEVE COOGAN ON WHY HIS MARRIAGE LASTED ONLY 16 MONTHS

By John Hiscock


THE suite at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel is a world away from
the Norwich Travel Tavern which comedy chat-show host Alan Partridge
made his home.

Deliberately so. Sitting on a plush sofa, Partridge's creator Steve
Coogan reveals for the first time that his marriage is at an end and
he has quit Britain for the bright lights of Hollywood.

The reasons for his flight to the US run far deeper than simply
shrugging off Partridge's Pringle sweater. Coogan, 38, is determined
to bury the drug and drink-fuelled sex scandals of his sordid past.

"I was the village idiot," he says. "Here, I'm a new face with new
opportunities."

His 16-month marriage to 32-year-old society beauty Caroline Hickman
has finally foundered in the wake of his self-confessed drug-taking
and constant womanising.

"Right now, I'm single," he says, "but I have a seven-year-old
daughter who is a very important part of my life. People don't
recognise me here. In England I have a lot of attention and I'm
often pursued by the paparazzi, so it's kind of nice not having to
deal with that."

He fidgets uneasily when confronted with some of the more shameful
episodes which have dogged his personal life. He hit rock-bottom in
April when he was caught with a buxom lap dancer Joanne Young and
her friend Jenny Ryan after a performance at a charity gig at the
Royal Albert Hall.

Joanne revealed that he had joined in the hotel-room antics while
repeating Alan Partridge's comic catchphrases "A-ha" and "Back of
the net".

"I'm such an idiot for doing it," he says. "I did a few lines of
cocaine. It is madness - getting drunk, doing drugs, then going back
to the hotel with two girls."

Today he is promoting his first Hollywood starring role in Around
The World In 80 Days and he clearly does not expect to be asked
about sex, drugs and alcohol.

When I ask him about his alleged intention to seek professional help
for his sex and drug problems, he stammers: "I was misquoted. I
didn't say that. I sought help once before, seven years ago, but I
never made those comments."

His long-suffering wife - great-niece of the late Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Westminster, Basil Hume, is expected to file for
divorce soon because of Coogan's womanising.

Caroline has moved out of their £850,000 double-fronted home in
Hove, West Sussex, to a flat in West London. She insists she doesn't
want his money.

When they married in December 2002 Coogan described it as "the best
thing I've ever done", but their relationship soon foundered under
the weight of his infidelities. There were early warning signs. Just
eight months before they tied the knot, they split up temporarily
and Coogan had brief liaisons with US gossip columnist Catherine
Townshend and lap dancer Terina Newman.

Even before Caroline, the comic genius had set the pace for his
troubled private life. In 1996 he was dumped by solicitor Anna Cole,
the mother of his daughter, after affairs with THREE women.

One, topless model Nancy Sorrell, revealed how Coogan flung £5,000
in £10 notes on his bed and told her: "Lie on them. Go on - lie on
them." Now, sheltered by his virtual anonymity in the US, Coogan,
the fourth of seven children born to an Irish Catholic family in
Manchester, is hoping to immerse himself in work and distance
himself from his messy past. But he is looking forward to showing
daughter Clare his new life in America.

He gives a rare smile: "I think she'll love Disneyland and we'll do
all the tourist things that I haven't done since I've been here.
It'll be fun."

He adds: "I would never abandon England. I love England and I like
working there. " But so far the move to Hollywood has been good for
him. His starring £3million role as pompous adventurer Phileas Fogg
in the remake of Jules Verne's comedy adventure Around The World In
80 Days has set him on the brink of international stardom.

He has finished two other films - Happy Endings with Friends star
Lisa Kudrow and Coffee And Cigarettes with Cate Blanchett, Alfred
Molina and Bill Murray. And he is about to start work on a thriller,
The Alibi.

He says of his role as Fogg: "I was a maverick choice because I'm
not a big international name." And filming his first big-budget
movie was certainly an eye-opener. "One scene was quite surreal -
when I was sitting in the Jacuzzi with Arnold Schwarzenegger on one
side and Jackie Chan on the other," he remembers. "I phoned home to
tell my mum, because it was quite an unusual situation to find
myself in.

"They're both big-muscle guys and I'm not the same shape as either
of them. We had to be in swimming costumes, so before we did the
scene I did as many push-ups as I could to build myself up so I
didn't look too wimpish between those two guys.

"I was in awe of Jackie Chan but in the end he became a friend. We
made each other laugh and he made me feel at ease. He couldn't have
been more sweet. He had an assistant who would peel grapes for him
and take the pips out, which I thought was the height of luxury, and
he would give me half the bowl."

Whether his new-found success in Hollywood will help Coogan put his
philandering days behind him remains to be seen. His off-screen
antics could have easily warranted a triple-X rating, but on it he
is now trying to keep his work suitable for young children.

He explains: "As a parent, you become concerned about the sort of
things children see. A lot of the work I have done in the past
hasn't been child-oriented, and the opportunity to do something like
this that appeals to children is something I really want to do.

Whatever the critics say, the person I want to like it the most is
my daughter. If she likes it, then I don't care what anyone else
thinks."



















Ok Steve has turned into an even bigger ARSEHOLE!! I mean lets
examine the evidence...Firstly, he said he's giving up comedy to
JUST do acting! Which is just RIDIC! Secondly, it looks as if he
wants to up and move to bloody America! Well "THEY WON'T TAKE YOU!!"

And WHAT?! Caroline doesn't want his money?! Just take it you stupid
cow!!! Well I'm just glad she's fucked off back to London!

And Hove is in EAST Sussex..."Prick."

Just thought I'd copy and paste a little bit of Steve info because
I'm up and I can't sleep!








His "infidelity," if you can call it that, comes hot on the heels of
comedian Steve Coogan who was caught having a drug and alcohol-
fuelled romp with a couple of lap dancers.

Coogan was in a hotel room with the girls, snorting coke, indulging
in spanking games and giving one of them oral sex. But a shame-faced
Steve says: "I didn't have full sex with either of them."
Oh, that's alright then.

It reopens the debate on whether sexual shenanigans that don't
involve intercourse are actually classed as being unfaithful.
The answer, one suspects, depends entirely on the context in which
the "infidelity" takes place.

Coogan's wife Caroline Hickman is reportedly furious and has asked
him for a divorce, despite his repeated phone calls begging for
forgiveness.

"Steve is not at a happy stage in his life. Caroline, who he loves
and adores, is about to walk," says a source.

Trouble is, when he was cavorting with a couple of lap dancers, his
wife meant nothing. And if it comes at the end of a long line of
misdemeanours and empty promises, there comes a time when you just
have to cut and run.










I know Steve is a "stupid cow." for doing it and if he doesn't like
it then "don't do it." but awwwwwww @ the repeated phone calls!!
But give up Steve and let the bitch walk!!! Maybe he should have had
a better excuse when he was caught with the lapdancers and said "I'M
EXPOSING MYSELF WHILE WATCHING SOME FREE FANNY, WHAT'S UP WITH *YOU*
CAROLINE?!" lmfao!

Btw...STEVE'S CUT HIS HAIR!!!! He did some gig on Monday as Alan in
Oxford and there are some after show photos and he has it real
short!! I soooo perfered it long though!!

But yeah, thats it really!

Firstly, just thought I'd post the Sunday Mirror article about this
lapdancer's CRAZYYYY sex with Steve...


MY CRAZY SEX WITH STEVE COOGAN

May 2 2004


By Emma Cox, TV Correspondent And Ben Todd, Showbusiness Editor


TV funnyman Steve Coogan reeled off his Alan Partridge catchphrases
as he spanked a lapdancer during a cocaine-fuelled romp.

Joanne Young and her friend Jenny Ryan joined Coogan in a hotel orgy
which sparked the collapse of his marriage to society beauty
Caroline Hickman.

And today Joanne, 22, reveals for the first time what really went on
between her and the curly-haired comedian. She told how kinky Coogan:

-Shouted catchphrases like "ahaa", "back of the net" and "cash back"
while SPANKING her.

-Had a FETISH for her knee-high boots and kissed them from top to
bottom.

-Was fascinated by her INTIMATE body piercing.

-Loved being DOMINATED by the girls.

Millionaire Coogan, famous for his cheesy DJ character Alan
Partridge, met Joanne and Jenny at a star-studded party three weeks
ago.

The comedian spotted the pair in the VIP room of the Embassy Club
after performing a charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall for the
Teenage Cancer Trust.

He later invited them back to his hotel and the trio began an all-
night drinking and sex session.

Joanne said: "Steve had taken our mobile numbers at the party and
literally minutes after we left, he called and asked if we wanted to
go back to his hotel.

"We said yes straight away because we're really big Alan Partridge
fans and thought it would be hilarious.

"We went up to his suite and ordered some vodka and the three of us
just started talking. But it quickly became sexy - he started
kissing me and Jenny and I started ordering him around, telling him
to strip.

"He did whatever we told him to do - even crawling across the floor
to kiss Jen's legs. It was hilarious. He obviously loved being
dominated.

"Then I told him to sit in a chair while I did a dance for him, but
I said he wasn't allowed to touch me or himself. He tried to touch
me a couple of times but I slapped him back and he apologised. He
was really subservient, and it gave me a bit of a buzz to be bossing
him around like that."

The night took a surreal twist when Joanne, who works at a West End
lap-dancing club, ordered Coogan to do an Alan Partridge impression.

She said: "I don't think he really likes doing Alan impressions but
I talked him into it. At one point I was ordering him to spank me in
an Alan Partridge style, so he did a little run-up with a funny walk
and smacked my bum.

WHILE he was spanking me, he was doing some of his catchphrases
like 'ahaa' and 'back of the net'. I was crying with laughter. It
was really weird but he's not that unlike Alan in real life, he's a
bit geeky too, so it felt like I was really with Alan rather than
Steve!

"I couldn't believe he was letting us take the mickey so much, but
he obviously got off on us finding him so hilarious."

The trio later moved to the bedroom where Joanne and Coogan - who
was once treated for a sex addiction - began having sex while Jenny
watched.

Joanne said: "Although he'd been really subservient beforehand, he
got very dominant once we started having sex. He threw me around
into all sorts of different positions, pinning my legs behind my
head and that sort of thing.

"It was pretty vigorous, confident sex, and he lasted a long time as
well. I can't deny that he was good and he's also a very considerate
lover. He knew how to turn me on. He was obsessed with giving me
oral sex - I think it's because I'm pierced down there and he was
fascinated with it. But he's definitely a giver.

"I think he'd have liked Jenny to get involved too but she's got a
boyfriend so she just lay on the bed next to us and watched."

Coogan, who married wife Caroline in December 2002 and has a seven-
year-old daughter from a previous relationship, went home at 7am.
The girls stayed in the hotel for another five hours and had
breakfast before checking out at 12.30pm.

Coogan, who denies having full sex with Joanne but admits the girls
were in his room, phoned her just hours later to check whether she
was OK. Then he phoned again at 1am the following morning to ask her
over to his West London home.

Joanne, who has been single since last summer, said: "I went over
and he was in bed because he didn't believe I would come. He buzzed
me in and I saw he was wearing stripey pyjamas - I couldn't believe
it. I really took the mickey out of him for it, he looked like a
little boy. We started kissing and he began to strip, but I told him
to keep his pyjamas on because they made me laugh. He made me keep
my boots on as well. He kept kissing them and feeling the heels.

"He's definitely a leg man - he was always stroking my legs and
would even kneel on the floor to kiss them. We had sex again and it
was even better this time because we weren't so drunk. I stayed for
a bit longer then went home because I didn't want to stay over in
his family home. He gave me a kiss goodbye and said he thought I was
great."

Days later the Sunday Mirror exclusively reported Coogan and
Joanne's romp - and the next day, Coogan called Joanne to say he
that he and Caroline were divorcing.

Joanne said: "He said it had been on the cards for a while. I was
horrified and said I hoped it wasn't just because of me, but he said
that was just the straw that broke the camel's back for him and
Caroline. He didn't go into details."

Later Coogan denied having sex with Joanne and alleged they had
taken cocaine. The 39-year-old said: "I'm such an idiot for doing
it. I was the village idiot. I did a few lines of cocaine.

"It is madness - getting drunk, doing drugs, then going back to a
hotel with two girls. We went up to the room and had more drinks. We
were laughing and messing about but I didn't have full sex."

But Joanne yesterday branded him a liar and said: "He asked us if we
had any cocaine but we told him we don't do drugs. Then he
disappeared to the toilet and came out with a big grin on his face.

"He was wide-eyed and really agitated after that. He couldn't stop
pacing around. I can't believe he's accusing me of taking Class A
drugs - I wouldn't be speaking out now if he hadn't done that, but
I'm just not that sort of girl.

"I don't normally have one-night stands. I've had very few sexual
partners.

"It was a great laugh and we had a good time together, but he's
ruined it now by lying about me to cover his own back. I've lost
whatever respect I had for him."











And here's an article about Baby Cow in the Times...




Animal tragic
Paul Hoggart chews the cud with Henry Normal, who, with Steve
Coogan, is making some of the darkest comedy in years




British TV Comedy has taken a dark turn of late. Just when you
thought that such shows as Human Remains and Marion and Geoff,
starring Julia Davis and/or Rob Brydon, could not sink to further
depths of existential bleakness, along came the cult triumph Nighty
Night. In it, Davis starred as Jill, a bona-fide sitcom monster who,
delighted that her husband is dying of cancer, sets out to seduce
the husband of a wheelchair-bound neighbour (a Christmas special is
being planned).
This left-turn towards the art of darkness is no accident, since one
company is in the driving seat — Baby Cow, the independent comedy
production company started by Steve Coogan and his old friend and
writing partner, Henry Normal. Their latest comedy, a pitch-black
animation called I am Not an Animal, may be the darkest of the lot.
It opens in an experimental vivisection facility, which has already
sparked complaints from the British Union Against Vivisection, and
features animals who have been genetically modified to speak and
behave like north London yuppies. The medium as well as the message
is a high-risk experiment, using unfamiliar if eye-catching
animation techniques. Audiences, though, might take more than one
episode to latch on to the humour.



As the Chinese calendar might have it, this is the Year of the Baby
Cow. The company is at the cutting edge of comedy, and Baby Cows are
bursting out all over. Not, I hasten to add, literally. Apart from
the shows already mentioned, last week brought the All Star Comedy
Show to ITV, a co-production with Reeves and Mortimer's new outfit,
Pett. Later this month, a wonderfully out-there sitcom called The
Mighty Boosh hits BBC Three. Dr Nebulous, their first Radio 4
comedy, starring Mark Gatiss of The League of Gentlemen, is due on
our airwaves soon. In the autumn, Baby Cow will produce a comedy
called Hooray for Cancer, written by the stand-up comic and former
cancer sufferer Andre Vincent. Meanwhile, Johnny Vegas is lined up
to star in a comedy about a doubtless shabby, drug-dealer.

Normal is sure that their more outlandish shows could have been made
only through an independent company, and that many have only been
possible because of the new role of BBC Three as a testing-ground
for outré ideas. The channel is "a godsend", says Normal, because
its controller, Stuart Murphy, recognises that they must take leaps
of faith and is not afraid to make mistakes. Baby Cow has certainly
helped BBC Three establish its curent reputation as the home of hip
comedy, and is fast catching up with more established comedian-owned
production companies, such as Hat Trick and Talkback.

Normal and Coogan first met 20 years ago at the Thameside Theatre in
Ashton-Under-Lyne, an amiable little satellite of Manchester. "We
used to perform in the bar to about seven people," Normal
recalls. "Lots of up-and-coming acts such as John Thomson and
Caroline Aherne used to go there." (Normal wrote The Mrs Merton Show
and The Royle Family with Aherne). "It was our little corner of the
world. Everybody mixed and got on. There was a bonding process,
which we've carried through."

They formed Baby Cow four years ago while writing the The Parole
Officer together in Brighton, when both had young children. "We
wanted to control our product and get home to see the kids," Normal
muses. "In comedy, a lot is now written and performed by the
comedians themselves. It's akin to singer-songwriters in music.
We're possibly the first generation of producers to come out of the
stand-up comedy circuit, as opposed to, say, Oxford or Cambridge. At
its best, it gives you an authentic voice that is true all the way
through. You've got the star taking the writing right the way
through the performance and into the edit. For Nighty Night Julia
sat in on the edit and we talked her through each of the shots, the
scenes and the cuts with her."

Yet it's not all touchy-feely hand-holding — Baby Cow prides itself
not only on the care lavished on the productions, but also the
ruthless editing. "We probably spend more time in the off-line than
any other company. On Nighty Night we probably chucked about 70
minutes away, including much of the last episode — which was filmed
in Steve's house in Brighton, by the way — because it was too
bleak," Normal recalls. Heaven only knows what that was like.

But the BBC's conversion is complete. Jane Root, the outgoing
controller of BBC Two, told them that she took just one meeting to
agree to commission I am Not an Animal. The show's writer, Peter
Baynham, spent a year on the project, which is animated by Tim
Searle of 2DTV using an unusual photomontage technique, though the
talking animals all have human eyes.

"Essentially, the animals are like the talking classes," Normal
explains, comparing it to Animal Farm. "They know a lot about the
media, but they don't know how to forage for food. If you put the
talking classes in the middle of a forest to fend for themselves
they wouldn't know where to start. For me the greatest equality is
for everybody to be as bad as each other," he explains obliquely,
when I ask if he is worried that the portrayal of Rambo-like animal
rights activists might cause offence. Besides, he claims, the
vivisection setting of I am Not an Animal is "just a back-drop, a
way of understanding why these animals talk".

Normal does not wish Baby Cow to be seen as just there for the nasty
things in life. The other new shows are much lighter in tone,
shooting off in different directions. The All-Star Comedy Show
attempted to reunite alternative and mainstream styles and
performers, though it has had a mixed reception. BBC Three's
forthcoming The Mighty Boosh is a show whose gently daft surrealism
harks back to The Goodies. Like many of his generation, Normal
cannot understand why the 1970s show has never been repeated, and
promises to suggest it to Stuart Murphy.

"Sometimes we're a little bit slow to realise that the current BBC
One or ITV viewer in their fifties or sixties was brought up on
Monty Python and is looking for something just as radical," says
Normal.

The trickier question is whether radical is also funny. We will know
soon enough if the latest herd of Baby Cows are raging bulls,
reliable milkers or a load of old bullocks.

I am Not an Animal begins on Monday, BBC Two, 10pm






I can't believe Steve let Mark act in his house for Nighty Night!!
And "Christ" that means Mark was down in Brighton, probably going to
all the gay clubs and I missed him!!!

And I knew about that Nebulous series wayyyy before it was
publicised!! I also know that the writer Graham Duff bought all
Mark's videos/DVDs so he was able to better write for him!! But I
can't tell you how I know cos if I did I'd have to kill you...and
everyone you know. lol!