Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella) debt to Christopher Isherwood, one of his mentors, in creating the character of Holly Golightly: ""Breakfast at Tiffany's" is in many ways Capote's personal crystallization of Isherwood's Sally Bowles." Truman Capote's aunt, Marie Rudisill notes that Holly is a kindred spirit of Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, the central character of his short story "Children on Their Birthdays". She observes that both characters are "unattached, unconventional wanderers, dreamers in pursuit of some ideal of happiness." Capote himself acknowledged that Golightly was the favorite of his characters. The novella's prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote "the most perfect writer of
The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show figures. Prior to this difficulties arose when 2fm's breakfast host, Ian Dempsey moved to Today FM. He now presents a rival breakfast show with the commercial station. "The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show" was launched with sponsors Halifax. In 2007, "The Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show" added 100,000 new listeners to their breakfast show. Whilst on 2fm the duo won an RTÉ Guide Award for "Favourite Radio Show", following the seven PPI Awards they earned whilst working on "104's Strawberry Alarm Clock" for FM 104. Nugent spoke of the strictness that was rife at his now NEW workplace: "You know