quote:Originally posted by Jack Vincennes: Is anyone else watching the Take That documentary on ITV? I'm enjoying it quite a lot. Mark Owen is oddly sweet even if he does look a bit like a little gnome.
A claim to fame - I was once staying at the K-West in London, when I went to the bar and Mark Owen asked me what band I was with. Thouroughly pleasant chap, even let me finish his wine as he was off to visit friends.
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I just saw Goblet of Fire on the fill-up-your-eyes mahoosive screen at Leicester Square. It were fucking brillyunt. I shall probably go and see it every day for the next two weeks.
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i saw vanderbilt beat furman 81-60 last night. we was shit a tht beginning, bit rusty but then we pwned them in the second half. no dunks. but quality inside high percentage game. they (furman) were quality 3 point shooters in first half. shan foster had a quality game.
and skunchas = looks like an oaf but is actually quite good.
bring on the sec i say. should be interesting and possibly fun.
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I watched the BBC modern day adaptation of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew and it was fantastic.
From the BBC
quote:Katherine Minola is a succesful politician, tipped for the leadership of her party. The only problem is, her awful temper has left her a 38 year old singleton, and everyone, from her party chairman to her sister, wants her to get married. Is passionate eccentric Petruchio the answer to her prayers?
Rufus Sewell was brilliantly charming as the eccentric Petruchio and Shirley Henderson played Katherine Minola the miserable shrew with gusto...
It made me feel all warm and squidgy inside. One of the best things I've seen on TV in ages...
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You were spot on the money there, Kira. I've just watched this and I had to do a little happy dance around the living room at the end. I might even burn it to DVD and keep it.
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I was really sorry I missed that, after sitting through Macbeth and Much Ado... if you could burn me a copy also H1ppy I would have a place for you in my heart, the part currently occupied by Darryn after he sent me that Antbox rip.
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Although I thought Sewell and Henderson did their best, and almost carried it, I thought this production of The Taming of the Shrew was a bit of a mess.
To be fair to the writer you were always going to have trouble doing a contemporary adaptation of this most sexist of the Shakespeare plays and make it work, and the premise(s) on which it sought to do so were at least interesting.
But for me it struggled to make a plausible story from this jumble of ideas, and it's occasional lapses into Shakespeare's language ultimately reminded me of an essential missing ingredient.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: How did it stack up against hitherto unbeaten modernisation 10 Things I Hate About You?
It was about 12% as good.
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im going to see mrs henderson presents in a bit, because
a) its my day off, and i fancy brain candy
b) i want to see bob hoskins' manpart
c) cheerful naked gels with proper bottoms and everything.
last night i tried to watch cinema paradiso, which i got free from out of the grauniad a while ago. i couldnt quite remember when i was watching it if i was right in thinking it had been an astonishing critical success, because if it was then it just goes to show that the critics have access to a better class of crack than we do. after about half an hour i looked at the barely- touched glass of lager on my bedside table and realised that cinemas paradiso was so glutinous, so sick- makingly big- eyedley adorable that it was putting me off my beer. and that is something up with which i do not put. so i watched a video of strictly come dancing from the other week. i have a crush on anton du beke which i cannot fathom, not a sexual crush maybe so much as i just really wish he was my line manager. or something.
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i think it will be amusing, seeing as bob hoskins is just sort of like, a walking penis anyway. not that i dont like him, i have no strong opinions one way or the other. its just that whenever i look at him i think of a penis. he is all sort of stubby, and similtaneously bald and and hairy. it would be very amusing if his penis was long and proud and elegant. that would make me chuckle. i suspect it will be more like a little mushroom though.
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So its not just young, single blokes who do an immediate nudity-mapping upon meeting/seeing/stalking a person. I'm so pleased, I was told it was childish.
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Let us know what you think DD. I saw Bob being interviewed on Jonathan Ross a couple of weeks ago. he was very funny and the film looked quite good...
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I think Ms Pracatan is going to be disappointed by the lack of Hoscock in Mrs Henderson's Present, because from what I saw of the advert his part is discreetly concealed by shadow. Very good review in Time Out though, and it is directed by Stephen Frears (the film not the Hoscock) and therefore almost certainly good (again).
I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang on Wedsnesday and thought it and entertaining enough piece of fluff, with some self-conscious, and possibly self-congratulatory cleverness about it. Kilmer was particularly good in it, sporting superbly gay hair.
I'm hoping to sort out actually getting to see The Beat My Heart Skipped and Factotum between bouts of intoxication this weekend. Yeah, riiight.
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quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: Very good review in Time Out though, and it is directed by Stephen Frears (the film not the Hoscock) and therefore almost certainly good (again).
hmmm. peter bradshaw was coruscating, and i fall somewhere between to and my homeboy pb. but thats maybe because there were only two other people in the cinema so the funny bits lost something.
good bits:
oxford bag trousers and little aran jumpers, japanese print kimonos, mavis from coronation street saying 'titties'. also, some of the bosoms were really tip- top notch.
bad bits:
the bit where mrs henderson is standing on a roof in SOHO looking at roofs burning and searchlights swooping in the EAST END which, perspective wise, seems to be about 20 miles away. 'oh, we're perfectly safe, theyre not flying overhead, theyre in the EAST END'. is this me being a little bit anal by any chance? i dont think if there were bombs falling on dalston and i was in soho i would be gaily skipping about on a roof, its really not very far away and they could always turn round again with some other bombs that they forgot they had up until that moment. but then i am always slightly fascistic about poetic license when it comes to the geography of london.
the bit where bob hoskins is being all 'oh look what youve done you stupid selfish woman!' and youre thinking, well, i think youre being rather unfair there. strictly by rights it was the germans who did that, not mrs henderson. in fact the entire related sub- plot is a bit silly.
will young's tongue! it is quite fascinating.
bob hoskins' midlands fall somewhere between these two, uh, stools. it is not long and proud and elegant but yes, the lighting is subtle.
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K&K - got your emails, have done one copy overnight and the other one should be finished shortly, I'll send them out today since I have to go to the Post Office anyway to send something away for repair.
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Thanks very much. Thanks also to Thorn and VP, I have downloaded series 3, episode 1 of Peep Show, which is much better than I imagined. The guy in the suit reminds me of Ben.
I thought I'd seen this programme before and been disappointed, but now I realise it was The Mighty Boosh.
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