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Most of the comedies in Laurel & Hardy: Year One starred others, so this set shows the evolution of the dual film by film, getting better as they go along.

Steve Coogan is taking on the role of disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile in the new BBC drama about his twisted crimes, The Reckoing, on TV tonight

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug. 7:1942 - The first U.S. land offensive of World War Two in the Pacific started in the Southern Solomon Islands, on Guadalcanal.1947 - The raft Kon Tiki ran aground on the Tuamotu Archipelago in the Pacific, 101 days after leaving Peru.

San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women staring into the camera.

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