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Sometimes his brain would move faster than his tongue, as during solo goals by Diego Maradona in 1986 (when "he doesn't need them" became "he dudnedem") and Ryan Giggs in 1992 (when "beautiful" and "brilliant" morphed into the Bernard Matthews-style "broodiful").
Accompanied by six musicians who played in an array of styles, including pop chamber music and theatrical rock, Mr. Cumming made a persuasive case for himself as all things to all people in pursuit of fabulousness, singing songs associated with Charles Aznavour (the dramatic ballad "She" became "He"), Frank Sinatra (a raucous "That's Life") and Dolly Parton ("Here You Come Again").
It became, he says, impossible for him to stay.
"I became," he told me, "a pain in the neck".
"As successful as he became, he never forgot his roots.
But playing that role became, he admits today, "increasingly painful".
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If he became tired, he often preferred to rest.
"I became discouraged," he said.
"I became somebody," he said.
The Tamil Tigers labelled him as a spy, while his life and that of his family became - he said - "highly vulnerable at the hands of Sinhala extremists".
"You become Americanised," he explains.
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