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Baby Let Me Follow You Down

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My favorite Turkish TV personality is in Berlin, following the Berlinale. A great chance for me to take her out on a romantic dinner. Seems like I've got competition. This years Berlinale is opened by Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light, a documentary about a Rolling Stones concert. Ron Wood from Rolling Stones obviously hits on her on this video, taken on the gala night... http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/modules/habervideo/video.asp?CatID=5&cbVideo=3060&cbQuality=1 But I am determined, I am gonna follow her down... "Baby let me follow you down, baby let me follow you down Well I'll do anything in this godalmighty world If you just let me follow you down."

A Day At The Awards

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I was lucky last year. I had no online tickets, I did not reserved or anything. But I found 2 tickets for " Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man "'s European premiere (and watched it with Blixa Bargeld and Wim Wenders, yes I am trying to show off) during Berlinale. I thought my luck would be with me again, and we would find 4 tickets for the last screening of 300 . Unfortunately, the cinema we went to was also the venue for the Honorary Awards, and the screening was sold out. I am not disappointed, its coming to cinemas in April. We waited outside the cinema, with the hope that we would catch some celebrities. But the only people who came out of the cinema were a bunch of old people who were actually carrying some awards, and no screaming and crying fans or anything of that sort. There was actually one artist-wannabe guy, who was wore an all white suit complete with white leather shoes and a white fur jacket. He unfortunately did not get any contacts with the film industry, but...