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Empire StatesBeat The Odds With Bond

Posted on Wednesday April 28, 2010, 17:50 by Steve Charnock in Empire States
Beat The Odds With Bond

Are you angry that you didn’t back the winning horse Don’t Push It for the Grand National this year? Maybe you’re indignant with an impotent rage because that 45 football team accumulator you put on at the weekend didn‘t come in? Well, don’t fret reader, because your friendly and sideburned tipster Empire McCririck is here to gesticulate wildly, make a series of inappropriate, misogynist comments and help you win back some of that hard-earned cash from the bookies.

Last week it was announced that MGM had suspended filming on the latest James Bond film ‘indefinitely’ (that’s the status of the suspension, not a terrible name for the project) due to the stuido’s financial difficulties. And by ‘financial difficulties’ we don’t mean that they’re into their overdraft a bit, we mean that they are $3.7 billion in debt…

But while there has been no indication that current Bond Daniel Craig will be replaced,...

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