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Sat 04 Apr 2007Hollywood hangers-onTV Review: There are a couple of things I have inherited from my late father that have been particularly unhelpful in my life. One is a persistently damp but stoical old sweater that he wore in the Arctic; the other, a blind incomprehension about finance (he discarded all mail with windows - hence the meagre, if woolly, estate), writes Hilary Fannin.So before I start scrambling my figures and sautéeing my risks (or doing whatever it is that people who can count do), let's leave this week's much-flagged RTÉ documentary about house prices aside for the moment and move swiftly along to Entourage, the popular new US hit from HBO.