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American Morning
News Making Headlines 'Over There'
Aired August 16, 2002 - 07:47 ET
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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: It's Friday, which means it's time to get ourselves "Over There," and check in with our buddy, Richard Quest, in London to find out what the folks on Fleet Street are writing about in the newspapers around the empire. This morning, a teenage bus-napper, Gwyneth Paltrow whining about British men, and the very tired monarch, and we're not talking about a butterfly here.
Richard -- happy Friday. He joins us now live from London. What you got there?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A Nerf ball.
CAFFERTY: I was just kidding, Richard.
QUEST: Nerf ball! I'll give you Nerf ball! Watch this though. Here we go, listen to this.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, no, help me, help me.
QUEST: All right, let's talk about the stories of the day...
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: ... that we've got for you.
The queen has come to the end of her Golden Jubilee tour around Britain, and what a tour. Now, remember, this woman is 76 plus, right? She has been schlepped from one side of this country to the other, traveled more than 30,000 miles around the country by air. Extraordinarily, she has unveiled 30 plaques, four statutes, visited five gardens, planted nine trees, taken in part and watched 10 parades.
CAFFERTY: All right.
QUEST: This is the best bit, Jack. More than 48,000 people were invited to six garden parties, and consumed 160,000 cups of tea. Now, we're assuming she didn't consume all of those cups of tea, or we probably wouldn't have seen her. I mean, imagine, the queen drinks 160,000 cups of tea, not seen for the next six months.
Anyway, that's the Golden Jubilee. The queen is now starting a nine-week vacation at her Balmoral Estate in Scotland. Incidentally, among some of the other presents that she received, she got corgis, knitted toys, and fruit trees.
Jack? CAFFERTY: What?
QUEST: There is a slur on the British man's character.
CAFFERTY: Yes? From whom?
QUEST: Gwyneth Paltrow. She says British people don't seem to ask each other out. Someone comes up and asks you for dinner, you'll say, sure, it's no big deal. But British men never make it happen. It follows other criticisms from a Canadian journalist, who said that all British men were repressed homosexuals, who are terrified about being left alone with a woman.
Well, now, the British papers are retaliating in all of the tabs. This is the "Daily Mirror," "Sorry, Gwynne (ph), but you nasal, gum- chewing U.S. girls are frighteningly sexless, and just plain dull."
CAFFERTY: Nasty note to follow.
QUEST: Also says -- also says, "I have always found American women tended to verge (ph) just on the frighteningly sexless."
CAFFERTY: Oh, I disagree.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Jack.
CAFFERTY: For what's that worth. You're welcome.
QUEST: I was going to -- you're in trouble there on this one, I'll tell you.
CAFFERTY: Yes, I know.
Let's move along.
QUEST: Finally...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
QUEST: Finally, this has to be my favorite story, though, because it's just so bizarre. A boy of 17 stole a bus in Wales -- you know, a bus...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
QUEST: ... drove around for two hours, picking up passengers and collecting fares. He collected more than $300 in fares. Even though he drove too fast, he hit the sidewalk, and he clearly didn't know the routes, none of the passengers were suspicious!
CAFFERTY: Well, you know, in New York, he'd have just been considered part of the fleet here in New York City.
QUEST: Well, apparently, he told the court that he was depressed, so he stole a vehicle, but not as half as depressed at the passengers were when they found out. CAFFERTY: Indeed. Richard, thank you. Always good to see you. Enjoy your weekend. We'll talk to you next Friday. Richard Quest live from London.
QUEST: Thanks, Jack.
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