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	FRIDAY 16TH JANUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO PRESENTED BY GAVIN ESLER Hello, Quote for the Day: "When you get to my age, life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory." Sir John Mortimer, creator of feisty lawyer Rumpole Of The Bailey, who has died. In tonight's programme we'll be mourning Sir John Mortimer, but we will also be looking at what looks like the long and bloody end-game in Gaza. Ever since the fighting started it has looked as though Israel would like to conclude things before the inauguration of President Obama on Tuesday. Is that what we are seeing? What will, what can, Hamas do? And I would also like to thank the many viewers who contributed Jokes Fit For an Eleven Year Old in response to my heartfelt plea yesterday. I can assure you that the standard is as execrable as ever. Here's a taster from Newsnight viewer Dick Carbutt: Scientists have discovered a food that diminishes a woman's sex drive by 90%... It's called wedding cake. Scroll down to see what Kirsty's up to on Review.
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	PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK For Newsnight Review Ian Rankin, Oona King and Oliver Kamm have mined Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams from My Father, to find clues about what motivates the man who'll be Commander in Chief within days.   Written when he was 33, it details his attitude to race, drugs, and his constant struggle to find his place in the world. But it is his relationship with his father, whom he meets just once in his life, which influences him more than anything else.   If you've read it tell us what think by commenting on our blog here. Then its curtain up for a new talentshowtastic Oliver! starring Rowan Atkinson. It has defied the economic crisis to break all box office records, taking £15 million in advance sales. It's the third musical in which the principal parts are played by talent show winners -Jodie Prenger plays Nancy, and the three rotating Olivers are Lawrence Jeffcoate, Gwion Wyn Jones and Harry Stott.   Andrew O'Hagan's novel Be Near Me, set in his native Ayrshire, has been adapted for The National Theatre of Scotland in a co-venture with the Donmar in London. The script has been written by Ian McDiarmid who also stars as Father Anderton, a cerebral, (heavy) wine drinking Oxford educated, Anglo Scottish priest who comes to a parish in a run-down coastal town near Kilmarnock. He strikes up a friendship with a wild, 15 year old, pill-popping boy, with disastrous consequences. The play has opened in Kilmarnock, moves to London's Donmar Warehouse, then goes on tour across the UK.   Anne Hathaway has made her reputation with a series of light and entertaining films including The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada. But her new film Rachel Getting Married is a much tougher proposition. In this comic/tragedy she plays a recovering drug addict whose past actions have devastated her arty Connecticut family. The drama takes place around the wedding of her older sister played by Rosemary deWitt, when Kym (Hathaway) arrives home after a nine month stint in rehab.     And we'll be paying a special Review tribute to John Mortimer - a sometime panellist on the programme. Do join us at 11pm. Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch the latest programme online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE
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