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  Book 1 featured over a hundred personalities who have, more or less made a name for themselves in what must surely be one of the most difficult “games” in the World. Most of us, in Ceylon (at the time), only treated “Showbiz” as a part-time occupation. I remember it well. Even some of the “big-bands” & top-musicians used to “hit the stage” on a part-time basis. Everyone had to have a full-time job, showbiz being the “cream on the cake, if you like.      Ishan Bahar, the compiler of “AHOS” (1) was an extremely talented & well-known showbiz personality who decided on the crazy idea of documenting the “stories” of this particular genre of “Western-style” Artistes, which he did, & very well, with the assistance of ” the man with the horn”, Dallas Achilles, Television Personality & “Englebert-style Entertainer” Derrick J,  & , making up the third “D” was ...

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Father’s day    Many Australians observe Father’s Day on the first Sunday of September. It is a day set aside for people to show their appreciation for fathers and father figures. Acts of appreciation are done in different ways and may include a special gift, a day out to the movies, zoo, a picnic in the park or a special lunch or dinner at a restaurant or at home among the family. The story below is one with a difference where a person not only plays the roll of a father but also as a mother. It really did touch my heart; I hope it does the same to you. ...

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