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Personalised Baby Blanket
How can you express your happiness to your friends if they have just given birth to a new baby? A large bottle of champagne might go down well with the happy couple and a thoughtful present for the little one will also be warmly received. Unique types of presents are always the best and if you can personalise the present somehow then so much for the better. Ranges of personalised presents exist for tiny babies and they all look utterly adorable. Items like a Personalised Baby Blanket can keep tiny Timmy or little Lucy snug and warm on the coldest of winter nights. Reversible soft fleece blankets can be bought through retailers and they can be embroidered with the baby`s name and date of birth. Both pink and blue blankets can be purchased to cater for little girls or boys and cute little characters are embroidered into the corners. On a pink or light pink Personalised Baby Blanket you might find some cheeky little bunnies. The blue blankets might have teddies in the corner or perhaps a cute little dinosaur. You can show your friends how delighted you are for their new arrival by giving them a pretty and practical Personalised Baby Blanket to keep their little one warm throughout the day or night.

Band Merchandise
Bands use a variety of merchandise to promote their concerts and new albums. At any major concert you`ll see plenty of Band Merchandise on sale and it`ll look great when waved in the arena or placed onto a bedroom wall. Any band that is looking for suitable types of Band Merchandise to help promote their records can find specialist suppliers who print posters and banners, or emboss fridge magnets and bottle openers. Simple types of promotional Band Merchandise like badges can be given away but they`ll help to boost the band`s image and increase ticket sales for concerts. In fact, as promotional pieces go, Band Merchandise like pin badges can be of real benefit for all types of music groups. Pick from any number of the pin badges and you`ll be able to choose sizes and colours or download your own artwork. With a distinctive style on a highly visible item of Band Merchandise like pin badges, your band will be able to reach out to whole new audiences. You can utilise your Band Merchandise to good effect and produce an advertising campaign that will certainly help to get you noticed. Imagine streets filled with people that are wearing your pin badges or fridges that have your band`s name on the front of them? In modern times we have come to rely on items of promotional pieces to help get our message across. Therefore, if you have a struggling band or just want to remind your fan base who you are, Band Merchandise can be marvelous at promoting your group.

As long as actors stay sober on the set, movie studios will generally put up with their off screen behavior. Colin Farell often showed up at six in the morning to work on Swat (2003) so hung over from an all night bender that his bodyguards would carry the nearly unconscious Irishman into his trailer. His co-star Sam Jackson was constantly amazed that the young actor was on time, knew all his lines and was totally professional.

In earlier days before drug testing made it difficult for studios to insure actors like Robert Downey Jr.( known to be just as professional on movie sets as Farrel) the film industry had more tolerance for drunkards. During the making of Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Director Charles Barton put up with Costello`s antics which included starting a pie fight with Dracula (Bela Lugosi), putting a leash around the Werewolf (Lon Chaney Jr.) and walking him around Universal Studios, and pelting ad-libs at Frankenstein`s Monster (Glenn Strange) so the creature kept laughing and ruining takes. A bigger concern was Bud Abbott who would get so sloshed by 2pm that he was incapable of shooting for the rest of the day. Abbott later explained that when he was young, a doctor told him that if he didn`t stop drinking he`d be dead by the age of thirty. The straight man was so worried about the diagnosis he stayed drunk for the next forty years.

Another classic alcoholic was the British actor Robert Newton (1905-1956) who once got so inebriated he showed up to the wrong movie set. The happy producer put the big star in four scenes until people from the movie he was really supposed to be in came to haul him off. His reputation eventually made it difficult for him to find work. Producer Mike Todd interviewed Newton for the film Around The World In Eighty Days (1956). "Your friend David Niven says you are a big drunk." "My friend Niven is a master of understatement." Newton agreed to stay sober during filming and kept his promise.

If you give up drinking you can get something in return. When Lucille Ball was negotiating with CBS to turn her radio show into I Love Lucy (1951-1957) she was surprised to get a call from a character actor she knew named William Frawley. "I hear you need someone to play your landlord." Lucy was in a quandary. She was from the old school where you help your fellow actors out if they are down on their luck. But Frawley was a well known drunk. She suggested he talk to her husband Desi Arnaz Frawley promised Desi he`d never miss time due to drinking. But could Frawley who was an avid baseball fan have time off if the Yankees made it to the World Series? Desi later regretted giving in to Frawley`s wishes, in the fifties the Yankees made it to the Series almost every year.

Sometimes a director could turn an actor`s drunken behavior against him. When John Huston was ready to shoot the first scene in Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (1957), on location in the South Seas island of Tobago, he sent an assistant director to get star Robert Mitchum out of his tent. Mitchum showed up four hours later explaining that he and the AD had got started drinking scotch and the poor man was unconscious back in the tent. Huston smiled," That`s ok Bob. Now let`s shoot the scene where your character, the marine floats into the island unconscious on the raft." Mitchum spent the next four hours suffering in the blazing tropical sun as Huston sitting comfortably in the shade ordered retake after retake. The actor was on time from then on.

But who was the most notorious drinker of all? The Swarm (1978), a disaster film about killer bees, featured Michael Caine, Henry Fonda, Ben Johnson, Slim Pickens and Fred MacMurray, definitely some guys who knew something about putting them down. One day they were joined for lunch at the Warner Brothers commissary by the quiet Olivia de Havilland. There were complaints that no booze was being served. "That`s because of Errol Flynn (1909-1959)", said de Havilland. "He used to get so drunk he couldn`t work so Mister Warner said no more booze." The men wanted to hear more about the famous swashbuckler. "Oh my God, Errol was something. Do you know he once got so drunk he wagered a film crew $500 that he`d have his way with me." The men could see she was a lady and the incident must have been embarrassing for her. Olivia grinned mischievously "Oh it was, it was. And you see that table over there. That`s where he won his bet!"