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13/11/03 - Diary
Matthew Norman
The Guardian
To another gangland spat. John "Gaffer" Rollinson,
the Essex hard man Mr Tony rang at home on receipt of
his pro-war epistle, calls in response to a Daily Mail
item about Saturday's screening of Dodgy Dave Courtney's
film noire instant classic Hell to Pay at the Circus Tavern,
Purfleet. "
As guests arrived in black tie, rival celebrity gangster
The Gaffer... erected a sign denouncing Courtney as a
'wothless [sic] piece of shit'," reports the Mail,
"...and even threw copies of his memoir, Gaffer,
at the bemused crowd." Blimey. "What happened
was," corrects Gaffer, "I erected a stall out
there with my books. Courtney came out and hit me full
in the face with a knuckleduster. And I'm a thug, not
a villain." And after repeating this trenchant piece
of self-analysis several times, he is gone. |
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