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"That's exactly what I wanted when I first volunteered," laughed Adam, "and I didn't manage to do it, but in the end I got a bit annoyed with myself because that's the symbol of helping the homeless at Christmas – actually feeding them.
"As always, the gays were there first," laughs Rosoman.
At first I laughed, then cold panic kicked in as I realised he wasn't joking about the bombs.
At first I laughed and thought, "This is just too weird," but then I thought it would make life a lot easier; you don't want to be the difficult partner going, "I can't have this, I can't go there…" Also, it's easier to live with somebody who eats the same food.
At first, I laughed it off.
At first, I laughed it off as an amusing aberration.
To be fair, audiences in the cinema where I first saw this laughed a lot, but viewed at home on my TV it played to stony silence.
'I was kind of stunned when I first saw it,' laughs Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, the controversial book about Hollywood in the 1970s.
