“The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.”

— Ben Elton , book Stark

"Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight"
Stark (1989)

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English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director 1959

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