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The Oscars come to Radcliffe (From Bury Times)
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The Oscars come to Radcliffe
6:00pm Sunday 1st March 2009
IN scenes more familiar to the streets of Hollywood, Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle was mobbed by autograph hunters and the media — at a quiet club in Radcliffe!
Danny, aged 52, whose film Slumdog Millionaire won eight Oscars, was besieged by fans hoping to meet Radcliffe’s famous son at St Mary’s Catholic Social Club, in Pine Street, today.
He said: “This is amazing. You expect it when you’re on the red carpet and in LA, but you don’t expect it here in Radcliffe.”
Danny, a former pupil of St Mary’s RC Primary School and Bolton’s Thornleigh Salesian College, joined his father, Frank, sister Maria, and other relatives and friends at the club to show off his Oscar award for best director.
He had carried the golden statue in a “non-descript blue bag” — instead of the Marks and Spencer carrier bag he had used to take his BAFTA and Golden Globe awards there two weeks earlier.
Full story in The Bury Times on Thursday
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Danny Boyle with his father, Frank, and sister Maria
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