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Poor Mans Dem A mini series like the brilliant BBC/HBO collaboration Five Days is perfect for a little game we like to play at Pinglewood.com, called Poor Man's. You know, like Alex Zane is the Poor Man's Simon Amstell, Anne Hathaway is the Poor Man's Julia Roberts, or Justin Lee Collins is the Poor Man's Jethro. Well, Christine Tremarco (who plays the missing woman, Leanne Wellings) is the Poor Man's Samantha Morton. But unlike the previous examples, this is not meant in a derogatory way. Tremarco is actually very good and simply looks and acts uncannily like Morton, yet unfortunately appears in things like Donovan with Tom Conti, not Minority Report with Tom Cruise. Tremarco and Morton both starred in Carine Adler's groundbreaking 1997 film Under the Skin. And, Charlie Creed-Miles (Morton's ex) stars in Five Days, and he's the Poor Man's Paddy Considine (Morton's co-star in Jim Sheridan's In America). So if you, like us, have a disturbingly accurate photographic memory for actors in 9pm TV dramas, it might lead to you to ponder even more related Poor Man's, or Poor Mans Dem linkage, as we sometimes like to call it. We're sure you all remember the hard-hitting, Kay Mellor-scripted 2003 ITV Drama Gifted, which tackled the timely subject of rapist footballers. Well, Christine Tremarco starred in this with another young actor Kenny Doughty, otherwise known as the Poor Man's Danny Dyer. And that's what makes this game so great, when you can actually come up with a Poor Man's version of someone like the fantastically talentless Mr Dyer. Posted by Alice: 31/01/07