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Bury every copy of Monuments Men in mines across Europe, so George Clooney can try again

Clooney has cast himself, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Hugh Bonneville and Cate Blanchett in a patchy show that tells, not shows

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

The Monuments Men

12A, Nationwide

You know that old quip ‘I’m not just a pretty face’? I always thought it was meant to be said tongue-in-cheek, with an undertone of self-deprecation. Surely it’s not for those literal instances when a really beautiful person does something really, really smart. It’s for when those of us on the middle-to-lower rungs of the loveliness ladder have flashes of minor inspiration.

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