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Thursday 08 September 1994 00:02 BST
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A letter addressed to Richard Strauss, Box Number 8363161, has turned up at English National Opera (whose box-office number this is). The writer would like Mr Strauss to become a pen-pal . . . Walter Matthau has beaten Richard Dreyfus and Alan Arkin to the role of Albert Einstein in IQ, in which the mathematician tries to hitch his niece to a car mechanic . . .

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