Soon enough Helen Mirren, appeared on stage to introduce The Kings Speech as a nominee for best picture.

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The Tory leader, David Cameron, even gave his set-piece speech on October 1st from a lectern, calculating that his usual gambit of roaming the stage without notes would be inappropriately showy.

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You make a speech, walk off the stage with your statue, bring it home, and you put it on the mantle.

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