Blanco, 44, will be the youngest-ever inaugural poet and the first Hispanic or gay writer to take the role, according to organisers.

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According to the Internet Movie Database, director and writer Kerry Conran has barely worked since the film flopped.

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The volume of MMR coverage was also "huge", with 1, 257 stories in the national press in 2002, according to science writer Dr Ben Goldacre.

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According to Wikipedia, Brooks is one of the biggest-selling fantasy writer alive, with over 21 million copies of his books in print, including 24 Shannara books (and counting).

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The real reason for the change in jokesters' targets, according to William Cook, a comedy writer, is that audiences' tastes have changed.

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According to a report by Barb Darrow, an industry analyst and senior writer with GigaOm, IBM may be the only seriously interested party.

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