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A security huddle. These four are standing at the bottom of Bow Street, right where the cars would deposit the stars onto the carpet four and a half hours later. This was also the start of the huge queue to get into the pens down the sides of the Carpet, which I followed right around and joined on the other side of the Opera House opposite the Apple Market on the Covent Garden Piazza.

The BAFTAs at the Royal Opera House

February 11th 2007
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts holds its Film Awards annually. Known as the BAFTAs, they are the British version of the Oscars, and the nominees and winners often foreshadow the winners of the larger American event. I decided 2007 was the year to mark my first attendance, albeit from the sidelines instead of the middle of the carpet. I had been warned by some veterans that if ... read more

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