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From
America's favourite actress to Britain's top dog name in 21 steps
Number
of years in a row that Julia Roberts has picked up the People's Choice Awards as
America's favourite motion picture actress 5
Number
of film she appeared in during 1992, the year in which she won the award 0
Number
of People's Choice Awards she has won in total 9
Number
of Americans polled between September and December each year to find the
country's favourite 6,800
Number
of People's Choice Awards favourite actor awards won by this year winner,
Mel Gibson, in the past 14 years 5
Number
of actors who have shared between all of the 28 'favourite actor/favourite
actress' awards since 1990 9
Number
of time the painter LS Lowry turned down honours from the Queen, including a
Knighthood 5
Price
at which Pablo Picasso's Boy with a pipe, painted in 1904 when he was 24,
is expected to sell for in a 5 may auction in New York £38m
Price
of Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet sold in a private sale through
Sotheby's in 1997 £50m
Price
of the most expensive photograph known to have been sold Man Ray's Glass
Tears (1932-1933), bought by San Francisco collector John A Pritzker in 1999
£720,000
Number
of British Men who smoked a pipe 399,440
Estimated
average number of people who take ecstasy each week in Britain 2m
Average
cost a an ecstasy tablet in 1984 £25
Average
cost a an ecstasy tablet in 2000 £7.50
Average
cost a an ecstasy tablet in 2004 £2.78
%
drop in ecstasy users last year, according to the government 21
%
more likely that regularly ecstasy users are to suffer memory blanks, most
commonly lapses in following TV plot and forgetting to pass on message 23
Cost
of dream Workshop, a Japanese toy from the inventor of dog- and cat- translator
machines that enables people to orchestrate their dreams at night £75
Number
of hours it gives you before gently waking up with sift light and soft music, so
you remember your dreams 8
Number
of dog translating machines, named Bowlingual, that Japanese prime minister
Junichiro Hoizumi gave last year to Russian president Vladimir Putin 2
Position
of Charlie on a list of most popular 'dogs/cats' names in the UK 1/2
Compiled
by TomTempleton
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CBS People choice/Gallup (The winners: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, To Hanks, Harrison
Ford, Sandra Bullock, Jodie Foster, Whoopie Goldberg, Tom Cruise) 7 The Guardian
8 Sotheby's 9,10 Art News 11 ONS 12 Newcastle University /Journal of
Psychopharmacology 13-15 Mix-mag 16 Home Office 17 Newcastle University /Journal
of Psychopharmacology 18,19 Takara 20 The Guardian 21 CBBC
Published in the
Observer Magazine (01-02-2004)
The Observer Website
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