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A Smorgasboard of Doppelgangers!

All God's Creatures
The guy's an
animal!

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Pioneers
Caught on camera
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"In 1986 The UK
satirical magazine 'Private Eye' came under litigation from Robert Maxwell,
then proprietor of the Daily Mirror, who had been the victim of a
photographic lookalike comparing his face to Ronnie Kray's, and who had also
been accused of funding the Labour party in the hope of one day securing a
peerage. 'Private Eye,' thundered Maxwell, 'is a satirical magazine whose
proprietor (Peter Cook) is in the habit of going after innocent
people. I am one of those. But if he steps out of line (here he thumped the
table top) he'll be swatted like a fly. Does it really make a valuable
contribution to our society to destroy both in our own eyes and in those of
the world at large our major national asset of incorruptibility in public
life - to replace it with a belief that the instincts of the piggery motivate
our successful entrepeneurs?'
The magazine lost. A weeping Maxwell told the court that 'Mrs Maxwell and all
our children were utterly shocked to have me, their father, compared to a
convicted major gangster.' In November 1986 the Eye was ordered to pay him
approximately a third of a million pounds, which all but cleaned them out at
the bank."
An extract from
'Peter Cook- A Biography' by Harry Thompson
Some reviews of the site:
"the Paul
McCartney one is uncanny" - Private-Eye Magazine
Private-Eye
"it made
me laugh" - Dave
Gorman (From 'Are you..?')
davegorman.com
"classic
site" Steve
Berry, TVCream Channel Four TV
"it
is funny" -
the bloke who sits next to me
Edward, isyndicate.com
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updated 24.03.03 All artwork copyright 2002 © Christian Furr.
Site designed conceived by Christian Furr
Thanks to all contributors.
Thanks to Neil Adamson, Lee Wilson-Wolfe David Moscrop,
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