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SKF advert review – let’s hope this dull AI Greta Garbo is not the future
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Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI Poor Greta Garbo. Perhaps, in life, she thought her final indignity would be the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore TV sketch from 1970, showing Pete as the legendary recluse stand
Swedish-American actor exhumed for bizarre, humourless 99 seconds that give us another reason to resent AI Poor Greta Garbo. Perhaps, in life, she thought her final indignity would be the Peter Cook and Dudley Moore TV sketch from 1970, showing Pete as the legendary recluse standing on the back of a flatbed truck as it rumbles through the crowded city streets, shouting at everyone through a megaphone: “I vant to be alone!” Continue reading...
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