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Sinner takes all ; He's an actor, artist, rabble-rouser and carouser. He's a singer, screenwriter, and has served twice at Her Majesty's pleasure. He's had eight children by six different women. Now he's reinvented himself as a serious documentary maker. Is Keith Allen having a laugh?
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Tea with Keith Allen. Sounds like a laugh - two hours of Earl
Grey and indiscreet chat with the chain-smoking court jester of the
Britpop movement. Marvellous.
Or as people used to say in what one might call his 1990s heyday:
sorted.
Allen is one of those people who like to keep you guessing. One
day he's an artist, the next he's an actor. Then he'll be making pop
records, or popping up in another famous person's anecdote, usually
involving late nights at the Groucho Club. He's i...
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 "South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Interview: Keith Allen - Yob culture; What do the Yob, Charles Dickens, cult soccer anthem Vindaloo and play directors have in common? Penny Thomas found out the answer - Keith Allen.(Features)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: Penny Thomas IT'S a long time since Keith Allen playedTheYob,but somehow it's an image hard to shift when you're after a friendly chat with him. To make it worse,the 49-year-old actor-director-comedian is clearly sat in a restaurant with knife and fork poised over a sumptuous lamb chop.
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Dual theatre role rests easy with creative soul Allen.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: HANNAH JONES SEX, sheep, bedtime stories and a pretend homosexual affair between an actor and one of the world's most notorious artists. It sounds like a Madonna video but in fact this is the fantasy life of actor Keith Allen. He answers his mobile phone not with a hello but a booming,
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Arts: A bloke for all seasons Comedy? Music? Acting? Keith Allen makes it all look easy: `My career plan is that I have no career plan.'
The Independent - London
; Keith Allen has been dubbed "the thinking woman's Oliver Reed". The actor, musician and comedian is almost as famous for his "hellraising" exploits as for his acting, music or comedy. If some more colourful reports of his nights out are to be believed, Allen would give Bacchus himself a good run
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The Thursday interview: Keith Allen - An actor and a character Keith Allen may have curbed his hellraising ways, but the wild man of acting can still talk up a storm, as Brian Viner discovers
The Independent - London
; In Bob Martin, the ITV drama plainly modelled on The Larry Sanders Show - and yet better than such an audacious undertaking has any right to be - Keith Allen plays Bob's sleazy warm-up man, Vinnie. He is Hank to Michael Barrymore's Larry. From Allen's experience of working in telly, the lunacies
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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The Jack the lad who sings his own song; Tales of boozy exploits aside, Keith Allen's back in another sobering role, says Gabriel Roberts.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England)
; The music is blaring out and actor Keith Allen appears to be enjoying the beat. Can you believe it? he laughs and thrusts the CD case into my hand. The track in question is Barbara Windsor duetting with Mike Reid, aka Frank Butcher from EastEnders. They are killing the feel-good classic The More I
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