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DESIGNED BY PATTINSON Actor Robert Pattinson, who will next be seen in the HOBBY HIGH spooky thriller The Lighthouse, recently said he has Writer Margaret Atwood, a two-time Booker Prize winner, recently took an interviewer’s hand and started started designing clothes for men and women as a reading her palm, saying: “You’re quite stubborn. You don’t care about wallpaper, Molly.” Celebrities often hobby. “My style is infl uenced by the cities have hobbies that may not seem to match their public persona, like Tom Hanks as a vintage typewriter I go to, sourcing fabrics and local skills. What I do is pretty multifaceted, clothes collector or Julia Roberts knitting sweaters on film sets. for men and for women, things that I :: Sourabh Gupta BINGO! make with friends,” he told Homme Numero magazine. CRISTIANO Cristiano Ronaldo, the QUENTIN & DUKES OF HAZARD Portuguese football star, loves bingo, the Quentin Tarantino, the maker of Once Upon A Time in Hol- numbered card game WHAT’S UP lywood, once said he liked collecting and playing board games. TOM LIKES TO MS ROBERTS IS of chance. He was said FERNANDO’S His collection includes The Dukes of Hazzard and Dawn of the BUSY, KNITTING to have received the TYPEWRITE Dead. “I’ve been collecting all this s**t for years… game as Christmas gift Tom Hanks, who likes playing SLEEVE? Then I fi nally decided I wanted to start collecting Filmstar Julia Roberts is also once and he has been TOM & WILL ARE something new. So, I started with board games,” a knitter, a skill she honed the everyman of Hollywood, Fernando Alonso, the former at it ever since. “It can FENCING, SIR is into manual typewriters Formula One driver, is an he said in an interview to Rolling Stone. while waiting for her shots at be very exciting Tom Cruise and Will Smith, the two ev- — collecting them and typing amateur magician and uses fi lm sets. "It's just great to because you can be ergreen Hollywood stars, like to fence out memos and letters the old- tricks of hand to impress all make things. To have a there waiting for a pile of yarn and make it as a hobby. Apparently, it was fashioned way. “Everything and sundry. The Spaniard long time for just Cruise who introduced Smith you type on a typewriter is said to have learned into something," she was the one number once quoted as saying. to pick up the pointy swords sounds grand, the words the magic tricks from to make the game (known as foil, epee and sab- forming in mini-explo- his uncle. Perhaps he complete,” he was er) and do the careful back and sions of SHOOK SHOOK was also inspired by Nigel quoted as telling a forth moves to outmanoeuvre SHOOK. A thank-you Mansell, another Formula One Portuguese paper. the opponent. note resonates with the champion from 1992, who is a same heft as a literary proper magician. masterpiece,” he wrote in The New York Times.

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