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Sat 02 Feb 2007Microscopic fish in a small pondPresentTense:If you watched the Meteor awards, broadcast on RTÉ2 on Sunday night, you might have seen that one prize was announced by a pleasant woman by the name of Nadia Cameron-Blakey. You may also have noticed that she was introduced as a former Bond girl and star of Batman Begins. That information might have caused the briefest of queries to flutter across your mind, as your subconscious flared momentarily in answer to the question: Nadia Cameron-Who? Only for that to fade, and be replaced once again by the forlorn wish that the audience would stop screaming mindlessly for every nominee.