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January 2005
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Emily |
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Comments: | Grrrrrrrr ....
Willis link |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 11:05:58 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Almost forgot ... speaking of Bruce Willis, I thought I read that there was going to be a new two-hour "Biography" about him on A&E in February, but I can't find it on the A&E site. However, I did find this -- the official Bruce Willis website, complete with his own blog ("Notes from life"). I haven't had time to wade through this site, but I have a feeling there's a mention of AR somewhere on there.
I couldn't stand BW on "Moonlighting" and I'm not crazy about his politics. But I will give the man his due and say that he was great in all three "Die Hard" movies, and yes, I have seen them all. It's a very guilty pleasure. I saw DH the First before I knew who AR was. I usually don't like big stupid action movies, but I was, as the tag line said, blown away. I also couldn't get Hans out of my head. I love Hans. I really do.
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 11:04:17 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Stole this from another GB. We were wondering a while ago about AR's foreword to the new book about the South African theatre group Dimpho Di Kopane. Someone posted it in its entirety. This is what AR wrote:
"Audiences seem to spend too much time in the theatre wondering what's for dinner. All too often they're watching something vaguely tasteful that can comfortably be filed away for future reference. Occasionally theatre creashes through its own boundaries and redefines itself. Tells us something we didn't know. Provides a shock to the senses. Reminds us that we are alive. I first saw Dimpho Di Kopane in Yiiminangaliso The Mysteries at Wilton's Music Hall in 2001. Their skill and total absence of self-consciousness, added to a love of performing that ran from head to foot of every member of the company, gave the audience an almost vicarious thrill. It continued with Carmen and Ibali looTsotsi The Beggar's Opera and I felt it again when I visited the set of U-Carmen eKhayelitsha as it was being filmed in South Africa. It is clear that the work of Dimpho Di Kopane, Mark Dornford-May and Charles Hazlewood has a kind of joyous inevitability about it. Their time has come. I am glad to be in the audience, clinging happily to their coat-tails." |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 10:34:42 PM |
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Sabine |
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GA |
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Comments: | Vicki: yes, Ricky and RickiNicki are two different people. :-) Ricky is from Austria and RickiNicki is from Germany, currently residing in London.
I was somewhat affected by the ice storm. The power went out for quite a while (luckily we just bought a kerosine heater) and I had quite an adventure driving to work and back home on Saturday. Our satellite went out, so my husband suggested we watch Dogma on DVD, which we did. :-) Thanks for your concern about us Georgians, Vicki! :-) I hope that everyone is safe and is not suffering from too much ice or snow, or heat in Carla's case! :-) |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 09:40:55 PM |
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Vicki |
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Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Speaking of weather....how are all you ladies in Georgia doing after that ice storm? Did it affect any of you directly? {Let's all mentally wish a little cool weather down Carla's way} :0)
Aurora - LOL!! Sorry for the mix-up. I read your post wrong and thought you meant that was one of John McClaine's lines. I also think I'm mixing people on this GB up. Is there a Ricky and a RickiNicki...two different people? If so, sorry. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 09:30:08 PM |
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Sabine |
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GA |
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Comments: | I have to admit that I really like Bruce Willis. I thought he was hysterical in The Whole Nine Yards and I absolutely loved him in The Sixth Sense. :-)
Elaine: I can relate to the bad weather blues. I really miss the sun during the winter months! Kathy: I love the French language. I took it in high school and I wish that I'd had the chance to keep up with it. But at least I did keep up with my English! LOL Good luck with your studies! :-) |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 07:52:05 PM |
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kathy |
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Arkansas |
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Comments: | That is such a sweet picture of AR and Rima. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Claudia, my head is better today there has been a bug going around here, plus I have been doing a lot of reading with microscopic print. It is also very dry and cold here which I've never quite gotten used to coming from balmy California. Have a ton of school work to do--French is going to kill me this semester. I have the utmost admiration for all of you who have had to learn English!!! Just wanted to check in and say Hi to all my AR friends *waves* and see what's new before I hit the books. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 07:29:38 PM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | AFNH, Thanks for the "snapshot" of Rebecca. Now if only I could wangle a night off.... I've been trying to get to see more theatre this year but I'm hampered by working nights. I seem to do more "on" than "off" so I think it is time to change. (I always said I could do several jobs really well: the lady who held that umbrella at the POA prem for example, or the lady holding the mini-fan in the LA filming. I would be really good at those! How about full time "keeper of the umbrella" with duties to follow a certain person around just in case he forgets his mac and it rains!) I'm being affected by the winter blues at the moment too. NOT ENOUGH SUNSHINE! (Excuse me for shouting) Oh well, back to my bed.
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 05:05:02 PM |
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Aurora |
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Comments: | I'll second and third the motion from those who liked BW in Moonlighting but not in action movies. I do approve John McLane's affection for Roy Rogers, though. You gotta like a guy who wanted to be Roy Rogers for the fancy shirts. I guess what annoys me about BW in DH is the way I'm supposed to admire the muscles, sweat, and manly chest. The guy in the suit is just much sexier. p>Vicki--"Get Willis off the screen and give us more of that suave criminal," are my words, not anything in the film. Unless I could get in the film and get next to AR. Sorry I confused you. Claudia and Sue, I was going to recommend the region-tricking software I have on my laptop. It's the same one Claudia has.lol I bought it as DVD Idle Pro, but it looks as if the companies have bought each other up. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 04:46:36 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Hmmmm, I wonder if Dustin Hoffman's stroll around Paris today has anything to do with Perfume...???? |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 04:13:44 PM |
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Gissing's Girl |
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UK |
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Comments: | I'm so glad that someone else liked Moonlighting. I just loved that series and I thought Bruce Willis was great as David. However, I've never liked him in anything else, not even Die Hard.
It would be great if they would release all the episodes on DVD and I can't imagine why they haven't. All the Moonlighting fans out there, copy one of the letters and send it off and we may get some results. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 04:07:25 PM |
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Vicki |
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Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Claudia, thanks for cleaning up the mess I made all over your GB *looks sheepish* I've figured out what I did wrong now.
The first time I ever saw Hugh Grant in anything was in The Remains of the Day and I was very impressed with him even though he had a very small role. The next HG film I saw was Four Weddings and a Funeral which I absolutely adore. I think after that he just got typecast which is unfortunate because he really shines in films like AABA and S&S. I think Rima looks cute in that picture! |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 03:12:56 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | I had the same kind of guilt towards Hugh Grant to Ricky. I couldn't stand him until I saw S&S and even began to respect him as an actor after I saw An Awfully Big Adventure.
He seems to get better and better as long as he stays away from the same cheesy romantic comedies! Question for everyone. Does anyone know about the film Willows
Oh Vicki! I'm very interested in
I thought that it was strange when
I love sequin devil horns! LOL Many many thanks to Malysa for sending me the larger version of the last picture of AR and Rima that I posted. I've said it before and I'll say it again--Rickman has the best fans in the biz. Ask and ye shall receive!  |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 02:43:51 PM |
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Vicki |
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Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Well...don't start throwing rocks, but I have to admit that I am a Bruce Willis fan also. At the time Die Hard was released, BW was in a hugely successful television series called Moonlighting (which, btw, is being released on DVD soon, for more info, try:here (I hope that works, if my html is wrong...please correct it!)
So, needless to say, I love the film Die Hard. It is also when I became a huge AR fan as well. I'll admit that BW has made his share of "stinkers" in his career, but it wouldn't be DH without him...or Alan. As big a fan as I am of his...the first DH movie is the only one I will watch. The other two are pale imitations and I refuse to acknowledge their existence. Aurora, what language are you watching in? In the English version, he doesn't say anything about a "suave criminal". RickiNicki: I think there was an interview out there where AR says that his character and Emma Thompson's are "romantically involved" in the film Judas Kiss. That may be why you were looking for a love story. Alas, it's just hot and heavy flirting. BTW, if you're still looking for devil horns to attract AR's attention, try looking: Here I found these by doing a Google search for red devil horns headband....good luck! I am so surprized that Barchester Chronicles is not already available in region 2. Since it was a BBC production, you'd think it would have been released there first....go figure. Zzzz - walking your cat on a leash? I think my cat would give me one of those, "...you've GOT to be kidding" looks and shut her eyes and continue napping (though, truth be told, she could use a daily walk...she's getting a little pudgy). Kathy, hope you are feeling better today...and Welcome to Pam! Arrgh...trying this again...:0( |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 02:28:34 PM |
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Sue |
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England |
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Comments: | Thanks for that link Claudia, I have saved that and will look into it.:)) |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 12:51:44 PM |
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Ricky |
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Austria |
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Comments: | Thank you, Claudia. I must have something understood wrong, when I read about "Judas kiss" - I'm accusing my Englisch for this ;o( Most information about Mr.AR and his films I've read on English speaking sides and I fear, I'm not always getting the right point *lol*
My husband was more surprised about my buying "such a film like" "S&S" than my buying from "DH",because I never liked Mr.Grant very much. (not his acting, more personal sympathy) But since I have first heard at "S&S" his guys wonderful, sophisticated English (I only sew films in German translation before) I really felt guilty against this actor. And I'm very glad to say: My English has very much improved the last half year - thanks to Mr.AR and all of you! The reason is, that I'm now so much reading at English Homepages. And I'm trying to see as many films as possible (not only AR-films) in English. Most of the time, I have to suggest -if there is the possibility, I useEnglish subtitles, because my reading skills are a lot better than my listening skills. Wish you all a very nice evening :o) Ricky |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 12:08:51 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Ricky, there was no affair between Friedman and Hawkins in Judas Kiss. They were well on their way to one, though....quite hot and heavy too! |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 11:15:44 AM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: |  Hello Pam. Hope you will enjoy our little slice of AR online. The region 1 TMD DVD has wonderful extras on it. There's no interview with AR but Minghella does a fantastic commentary and there is a little Minghella featurette too. I'm crossing my fingers there will be a BC release in region 2....and praying there will be a lot of goodie extras on it like the CMD region 2 release! Ricky--Die Hard is not my kind of film either. In fact, I never watched it in full until after RHPoT and TMD. I wish I could have been fly on the wall to see my son's face the day he called me to see what I wanted for Christmas and I told him the DH DVD. LOL Although he was speechless at that moment, he has grown accustomed to the ARmania by now. Sue, I've never been able to find a free solution to cracking the region thing on DVD-ROM. After long thought about buying a program that would do the trick, I found DVD Region Free I hesitated to buy this because I didn't think I would use it that much but I was highly wrong. kathy--I hope your head ache is gone by now. I can sympathize. I used to have them all the time. Thank goodness they are fewer and further in-between now. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 11:14:11 AM |
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Ricky |
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Austria |
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Comments: | New question of mine ;o( I've recently got Judas kiss, just in German - rate 16 years, 94 minutes.
I have read somewhere in the net, can't remember where, that in the film there is a love affair between Hawkins and Friedman?! I couldn't see any sign of it - well, kidding around, the both, but nothing about love. Maybe the English original is longer? And strange thing, when watching it, my hubby new it before and said, that AR is such a great actor *smile* and that he saw the film on the telly, long ago. I think, I never saw this film because Til Schweiger is in there and I don't like this guy. Ricky |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 10:36:36 AM |
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kathy |
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Arkansas |
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Comments: | Sabine-We can only wish!! *silly smile* |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 10:10:39 AM |
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Sniv |
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Comments: | Yeah Carla he seems to be quite fond of those! lol
And Vicki, thanks for sharing your thoughts about BC - Gah Im trying to find out when it (if that is!) come out on region 2 .... |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 10:03:51 AM |
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Sabine |
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GA |
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Comments: | Just putting in my two cents regarding the weight discussion: there's only one explanation, AR has a twin! One is a little bit thinner than the other. LOL |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 09:29:37 AM |
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Carla |
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Comments: | BTW
I loved Die Hard it waz the movie that got me into AR! i waz in an action faze anything where you wanted the bad guy to win! arrg its too hot here! phew i'm gonna go and pretend i'm in alaska |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 02:09:23 AM |
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Carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Thanks Zzzz i will he is the cutest thing! i just hope my dog gets along with him but so far they seem to be. I'm sorry about your cat the same thing happend to my friend and that was v. sad. And now she has 2 of my kittens so i hope they last longer then the last.
Sniv- you say pies i say dounuts that all he talks about when he talks about America! |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 01:58:44 AM |
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Pam |
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Comments: | Sorry, I forgot to mention, that I finally watched TMD! What a fantastic film. Loved the part when the other "ghosts" showed up with Jamie!! This is a must have to own DVD/VHS film.
Goodnight all-Pam |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 12:29:01 AM |
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Pam |
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Comments: | What a great site. There is so much to check out here and see.
I know what you mean zzzz, about keeping your cat on a leash. The lady that used to live near me always walked her cats outdoors on their leashes too. I love cats and the new neighbor that is there now is a single guy with a really cute cat. Time for bed. Will check back here again. Have to get up early to take my son to school and go to my job. |
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Monday, January 31st 2005 - 12:25:18 AM |
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Zzzzz |
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soap box re: costumes |
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Comments: | AR and his weight. In HPCoS, the buttons on his black top looked a little strained and this is way too common among actors in movies, TV shows, even models show up with "screaming buttons". Everyone notices, so there must be a logical reason...why wouldn't the seamtress notice and fix it?? I did read that AR said after a sandwich he might look a little full. He's skinny, a cracker would make his stomach round, lol. Do costumes shrink under the hot lights or something? BTW: hint for looking skinnier, wear one size too large. I'm too old to wear maturnity clothes, so there goes that "disguise", ha ha. Carla, you have my respect for finding the kittens homes! how wonderful for you that you kept your favorate! (same happened to me, but lost him after one and a half years). I take my cats out on a leash now, really! enjoy your little Sinclair! ^_^ |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 10:36:57 PM |
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kathy |
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Location: |
Head-ache hell |
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Comments: | Been trying to get rid of this headache for 3 days--
Rebeccah is one of my all time favorites--AR would be great as Max--dark brooding type. I am not usually a shoot-'em up movie fan but did enjoy DH I just took some tylenol am going to finish my French and go to bed See you guys. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 08:14:22 PM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Oh, he looks mean and moody;) Trouble is I have seen too many of those take-offs of him on Alastair McGowan and the like doing Celeb houses and being a crawling sycophant that I forget what he is really like!! LOL. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 06:15:33 PM |
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AFNH |
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Comments: | Ohhh James Mason - there's a voice too! Yes it was Joanna David in the one you're thinking about (she's on the cover of my copy of Rebecca). Funnily enough, 6 degrees again, she's Emilia Fox's mother. I've scanned my programme cover, you can find it here. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 06:03:19 PM |
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sue |
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Comments: | Silly me it was Jeremy Brett!! How could I forget?
Apparently there was a 1962 tv version with James Mason too. (Another of my fave actors) |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 05:46:14 PM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Yes, I renmeber the Charles dance version but I preferred one of the earlier BBC versions. Was it Joanna David? Not sure of Max unless it was Michael Jayston. (Have to go google. Dear old Larry will always be my fave even if they did alter the ending in the film. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 05:42:06 PM |
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AFNH |
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Comments: | Sue - did you notice how Charles Dance, who often gets AR's cast-offs, played Max opposite Emilia Fox in the last tv version? AR would be great in that role. The smacker of a kiss NH received from the second Mrs de Winter near the end would be worthy of a 5 star THUD, had AR been playing it! (Not that I'd say "niet" to NH!....) |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 05:15:05 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Location: |
England |
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E-mail address: |
Click below for more new icons!! |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/13145.html#cutid1 |
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Comments: | Thanks for the Rebecca review Fish! Wonder if it will travel to the Yvonne Arnaud, my local theatre? Rebecca is one of my all time fave books and I have seen every version on tv (wouldn't AR have made a great Max?)
Extremely envious of people getting the Barchester Chronicles dvd. I would get the Region 1 dvd if I knew of a way of altering the dvd settings on the pc (I want it for caps of course:))My XP, Power dvd says I can only make 5 different choices on region setting then it will set to default. I know people have set it so they can play anything but I have yet to find out how to do it. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to alter the settings?? |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:58:33 PM |
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AFNH |
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Comments: | Aurora - BW has an extremely small part in my Die Hard too (such a coincidence!).
BTW, glad to see everyone enjoying Barchester Chronicles - it is so good, and very funny. About time it had a DVD release. I'm ordering it in a couple of weeks on Region 1, when I get paid! |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:47:50 PM |
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Ricky |
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Comments: | well, Aurora, as I've got now the DVD "DH" there is no necessary of looking at the film on TV. I also try skipping all the scenes were AR is not in it.
And I think Rima is a great woman. It is hard seeing the beloved one that little! My husband has also other terms of working then I have - this is the reason I have that much time in looking at Mr. AR ;o) I think she's also trying in fulfilling her (spare) time without him as interesting as possible when he is not around. And that for about 30 years. Well, I'm married 20 years in March (being 45) and it is something really hard - so I can feel with her *smile* Ricky |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:44:58 PM |
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AFNH |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | " I think Rima probably has him on a diet." Thanks for that image, Emily! AR is the only man I know who seems to have as much of a yo-yo weight as most women. Granted he will bulk up for some roles, but you can often see the difference. Probably one of the reasons why he is so in tune with us, ladies!
Found a little snippet in UK's Premiere magazine from May 1994 (I can't throw things out!) In an interview with Gary Oldman he says:
Thoroughly enjoyed "Rebecca" yesterday. Elaine, if you can get the time off, go. Very sparse on the stage, very few props except for a few tables and chairs. A lot of use of atmospheric lighting. Near the back of the stage was a slope of what looked like shingle beach and above that a screen, which had various films of seascapes/horizons projected onto it (to imitate Cornwall). I noticed that there was a lot of humour in the script, which you wouldn't associate with the film version. Nigel Havers was very dapper as Maximillian de Winter. Someone who saw it earlier in the week said that he was a bit muffled at times, but I heard him clearly, even though I was up in the gods (the Gallery). Maureen Beattie(previously in Casualty/Bramwell) was extremely good as Mrs Danvers, a darkness seemed to follow her on stage and she brought a real intensity to the role. It is doing a UK tour, then heading over to New York. I really enjoyed it, recommended. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:42:40 PM |
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Aurora |
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Comments: | Ricky, I have grown to love DH. And I don’t like action movies at all. I ffwd through Willis, saying “Give us more of that suave criminal!” When I see DH on TV, I’m always surprised to see so much Willis in it, since I always skip those scenes. In myDH Willis has a small part. merkins.....there’s a (bizarre) blast from the past, for which we can thank the inestimable KBBJ back in the day. Claudia, thanks for the pic of AR and RH. It’s a lovely one. They look so together and happy and animated. Belated happy b-day to Ali-Pat. Glad to hear it was a good'un. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:31:43 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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E-mail address: |
lilith not eve @arcor.de |
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Comments: | I hope, I can manage to get all these great Videos with AR once too, I'm working on it, at the moment I mean Mr.Slope ;o)
Well, I just stopped "Die hard". Well, I like Bruce Willis but I can't understand that HE got the point and became famous as an actor and not AR! This is not the kind of movie I'm that much fond of ;o) But I have seen it more than once before I noticed the name of that good looking and action guy playing Hans Gruber! (well, I only could hear the German voice on telly, forgive me *g*) Normally I only look once at a film - and also this film I always stopped looking at, when Hans G. had fallen down the skysraper ;o) I always was on the bad guy's side, I have to suggest. But it was a long way to becoming an AR-Fan, I have to admit. Well, going back to the stopped DVD, watchint Hans G. Ricky wish you a nice evening. Here it ist 22.16 in the evening |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 04:18:02 PM |
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Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | LOL!! The things you can learn on this GB! Well, at least I've acquired a new name for my brother-in-law's hideous comb-over. Too funny.
Thanks for the sympathy, Claudia. I was pretty upset when it first happened but happily I will have my new disk this week. I watched all 7 episodes of Barchester Chronicles yesterday. I LOVED it! AR was fabulous! Everyone was...an excellent cast. At the end of the DVD they have a brief write-up on the cast members. In Alan's they said that he received an avalanche of fan mail. I don't doubt it. Even as the odious Obidiah Slope he can be appealing. My favorite part: When the 14 children had to thank him...the little girl with the red hair, "God Bless you, Mr. Slop".....*smack*...."Slope". |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 03:45:30 PM |
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RickiNicki |
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Comments: | I really do hope that he'll be confirmed soon. Otherwise I'm going nuts! That really might be a reason for him to come if JS is confirmed! But I couldn't find any red horns yet. Thanks for the information Elaine. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 03:29:29 PM |
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Ali-Pat |
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at work, dang it! |
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Homepage URL: |
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html |
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Comments: | Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes, both public and private. It was a grand occasion!
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 01:23:11 PM |
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kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Martha---thanks for the info on the great merkin debate, I'd been wondering what it was. Actually I'd figured what it was just never heard of the word before. Got a good laugh out of the link you included.--Liked the merkin one guy was given for his birthday. That must be a wild office they work in! |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 11:23:19 AM |
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martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Claudia - You’ve missed the Great Merkin debates?? How did they by-pass this board? They’ve happened on Suz’ board and there was a looong string of smirkin’/merkin/jerkin’/lurkin’/gherkin jokes, limericks and puns at TPPM for a while. (Few of which can be repeated here.) Go here for the Straight Dope on merkins.
Ladies – About the age thing? I was JOKING! |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 09:49:17 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Sorry to have been away but yesterday was a busy one for me. Yes, RickiNicki. I think some red horns and a naughty sitting position just might do the trick! Thanks for keeping us informed about ARVON and RADA, Elaine. I do hope they will re-schedule FEE--it sounded like a really lovely event. Lovely birthday cake, Zzzzz. I'm sure Ali-Pat will appreciate it. Ali-Pat, BTW, is having problems posted here for some awful unknown reason. I hope we can find the problem very soon. AFNH, let us know how your night at the theatre was when you get a chance. Lucy, yes I've finished the book (still working on Perfume.... though...LOL). I think the majority of the actors are perfect for the roles they have been chosen. Especially AR, Bill Nighy, and Stephen Fry. Mos Def is the one I'm having a problem with as well, kathy. I know he was wonderful in StLM but it is hard for me to imagine him as Ford Prefect. I can't wait to see the film. "Merkin", martha? Geez, where did you come up with that term??? I had to run it through Dictionary.com for the definition of that one. At first glance I thought "pickle". Merkin/gerkin...honest mistake. Oh Vicki! I'm sorry that your Amazon order was screwed up! And on an AR order too! That truly sucks! But if its any consolation to you. I have dealt with Amazon for years and they have never ever let me down. As a matter of fact, I bought from a marketseller a couple years back and had problems. Amazon made it good and collected from the seller later. I was really surprised by that. Speaking of StLM--I should have ordered from Amazon instead of straying. I still haven't gotten my copies yet! Its a darn good thing I've seen the film....or I would have been spitting nails by now! That is the site, Ana Julia! Thank you so much and you were fast! I am of the older persuasion and 23 days isn't that big a deal for me. Some people are more sensitive about their age than others--for some reason, I don't think AR is one of them. And I'm with you, Emily.....I wouldn't go back for any amount of gold! The new picture and Rima Horton. I am sure she didn't realize she was in the shot or I think she would have either posed or moved away. We have all had those kinds of shots. The only sad difference between her bad shots and ours is that we have the chance to gleefully tear up the offending picture and negative whereas RH doesn't. Here is one of my favorites of the two together in October, 2003 at a Human Rights Dinner. I hope to find nice larger one of this one day.  |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 07:54:07 AM |
I'm still crossing all that's crossable that he will confirm very soon. The fact that his good friend Juliet Stevenson is going to be there might impress him to go. Of course I know there are a ton of things that JS (bless her) does to benefit others but there aren't many, that we hear of, that both have been invited.|
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Comments: | Carla that scene in HP2 you are talking about I think its because he had the flu that day...
Bless him he still came to work lol There has been a fan report about this now when I come to think about it...Something about this girl (I think it was) who caught the actor bug lol...It was a wonderful report - he fell asleep on the lucky persons shulder on their way home *sighs* Talking about age well yeah Alan is soon 59 (two days before meeeee! lol) I think thats its kinda normal that men in their 50's put on some weight lol...But nice to hear that he might be trying to cut down on the pies ;-) |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 06:11:09 AM |
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Carla |
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Australia |
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Comments: | I hate thinking how old he is (or going to be) thought he isn't that old its still a LONG way from my age... my friends think i am v. strange.
From what i am hearing i'm glad his has lost some waight if that is the case he hasn't been looking the best latly. I have to say the worst i have seen him (well it doen't count coz he was in a movie) in HP2 when you first see him it looks like he wants to throw up but i think that was the makeup and light but that really annoyed me. Oh i'm v. happy well and a bit sad one of my kittens (a cute black girl called Gypsy) was taken to a new home today unfortunatly i got too attached and i was v. upset. But seeing how attached i had gooten to them i got to keep the last one (and lucallly it was my favourite) my Sinclair and now i am v. happy |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 01:45:01 AM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | I won't pretend to know how AR feels about his age, whether he really needs to call himself 58 and 3/4 or if he would be OK with being called 59. I think perhaps some folks like to project their own feelings on him! :(
(Speaking as someone who is perfectly fine with her not-so-young age and glad she's not a kid anymore. LOL!) |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 12:06:36 AM |
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Zzzzz |
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guesses |
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Comments: | IMHO, it could be that AR and Rima want what they've achieved to be strictly their own work; maybe AR wants people to know his sucess as an actor is not because his partner is a politician and Rima wants her own sucess without people thinking she has an advantage because her partner is a respected, sucessful actor. I don't blame them wanting to keep their professional lives separate if that is the case. Also IMHO, when they are photographed together it's like advertizing because the public can so easily be influenced by pictures. Sounds complicated to get overly exposed to the public as an actor and his partner. It's like Big Brother is watching (and taking photographs, too). Finally, she is retired; maybe she'll decide to join AR more frequently. |
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Sunday, January 30th 2005 - 12:06:32 AM |
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kathy |
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Arkansas |
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Comments: | Speaking as someone who is not too far behind AR either I would say he is 58 and 342/365 !!!!*smile* Those of you "youngsters" will understand when you get there!!!
I was also thinking AR didn't look well, but I think he looks tired--probably the end of a long day. It probably is freezing in London this time of year and he has an overcoat on. He might have popped over after a long day working. I think if he did something better with his hair it might make him look healthier. Glad he is slimming down --want all those arteries to remain clear! Poor Rima she really is at the mercy of the cameras no matter how hard she tries to blend into the background. She must be exceedingly wonderful to have been loved for so long. She loves him back so she contributes to making him THE MAN we all admire. Isn't her birthday soon? I wonder if he has had to take on more responsiblities at RADA in the wake of the tragedy with Lord Attenborough's family. I also wonder what kind of toll it took on him to loose 2 good friends so recently in Michael Kamen and Peter Barnes. Sharman Macdonald's play about the Civil War opens in San Francisco June 3. My mother has tickets and I am so jealous. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 11:40:27 PM |
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melissa |
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Comments: | hi....i guess it is just the SPEED at which he has lost weight that surprised me....i don't know....maybe it's the bulk of the clothes, but his face looks gaunt. anyway......where i am it is the middle of summer....dry season to be exact. We only have rainy season and dry season....it is either hot and humid or hot and less humid (here it is NEVER what you would call dry). I it SO NOT dry here, that in school the lessons on static electricity are more theory than experience, because we can never get them to work because of the humidity! guess where i am....! I'll give you a hint. This is the skinniest point of America....you can drive from coast to coast in 1,5 hrs, or you can hop on a boat. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 11:06:17 PM |
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Ana, again |
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Comments: | Oops... I think that the pitt-bull thing sounded really bad. I hope I had not offend anybody. If I did, I'm really sorry. I have my fingers on detention for that, they are naughty... ;·p
PS: Belive it or not I admire Rima Horton. I think she's such an inteligent and nice woman. And if she's not beautiful and tall who cares? I think that she has to have something extraordinary to had been with a man like Alan for 30 years... |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 08:47:24 PM |
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martha |
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north of here |
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Comments: | Speaking as someone not much younger than the Man, yes, it is! Those are his 23 days, and he may not be ready to dismiss them. ;) |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 08:42:21 PM |
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Ana |
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Location: |
In Siberia yet... |
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Comments: | Hey,
Thanks to Claudia and the other girls for the info. You're the best!! About the picture... Lovely, lovely, lovely... Poor Rima, she looks like a pitt-bull! Melissa, where are you from? You sweat buckets with a layer in the middle of the winter??? I think that he's not wearing a lot of clothes, I just see the jacket and something dark below. It's pretty hard to find out if he has lost a lot of weight with the scarf and the jacket. He has thinner neck and face yes. He was so big a while ago (look the video of Hollywood Greats). I suppose it was for StTLM but wow... Then I saw the tummy-pictures of the end of september (buying bananas, haha). What did the tabloids said? The extra skin... Well, we can say the he has not a secret portrait in a hiding place!! Emily, he didn't look unhealthy to me. Maybe not as good as other moments but when I saw him I didn't think that he was ill... However, if you work with people with nourishing disorders (is this the way that you name them?) and to you he looked unhealthy he may had a some gastric problem at the time. And if he did or is doing a diet, good for him!! He needs a wealthier diet!! No more sandwichs... |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 08:41:31 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Oh excuse me. He'll be 59 in 23 days. Huge difference. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 07:37:55 PM |
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martha |
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Comments: | Not quite 59. Not yet. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 07:30:21 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | I think he looks the same as he did in the Autism Benefit pics. I don't think he is excessively thin or looks unhealthy. I think he looked puffy and unhealthy in the Love Actually premiere pics from Nov 2003, but he started losing weight a few months after that. I think he put on some heft to play Blalock in STLM.
He's had the extra skin on the neck for a while now , but you know he is 59, so that's normal. I think Rima probably has him on a diet. Much needed, after those tummy shots from the tabloid a few months ago. And he's eating organic now, according to a couple of newspaper anecdotes I can remember. So let's not worry about him! |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 05:39:45 PM |
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melissa |
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Comments: | Hi guys......that Valmont bear is in desperate need of a makeover....i agree with whomever said that an Elyot bear would have been better (in PJs). Happy birthday Ali-Pat!!! I don't know how cold that gallery was, but he had on so many layers of HEAVY clothes, that it looked ridiculous. Maybe i'm just not used to seeing people with so much stuff on. Here i sweat BUCKETS with just one layer! I am slightly curious about his weight in that picture....he appears to have lost ALOT of weight in just a few months since we last saw recent pics of him.......his neck and face are much much thinner with alot more extra skin. I am probably just paranoid from admiting to many people to the hospital with weight loss....very bad sign....and given his family history...........but he does look thinner doesnt he????? |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 05:04:08 PM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | AFNH- I was hoping to get to see "Rebecca" in Plymouth in Feb but I'm working. It looks really good so I hope you enjoy it.I have a soft spot for NH. Ricky-Nicky, I emailed Arvon and they gave me a list of people who had confirmed- "Actors who have confirmed their attendance include Simon Callow, Juliet Stevenson, Rufus Sewell, Fiona Shaw and Adrian Lester. Mr Rickman has yet to confirm, but naturally we hope he will." If he has been asked, I am sure he will try his hardest to be there. Nice new pic. He looks a real "luvvie" in that. Is that really Rima? I think if I was her I would be taking the scissors to that one - or the crop tool! That's a similar scarf to the ebay pics, isn't it? I received my RADA booklet today and there is absolutely nothing about the concert in it. I still have not had a reply from the box office about it either.I'll keep you all posted. And Ali-Pat, birthday greetings to you, too [tips glass in your direction].
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 12:54:54 PM |
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RickiNicki |
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Comments: | Claudia: that would be really great to wear these horns. Maybe I should be as naughty as Mia to get ARs attention - LOL. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 12:52:18 PM |
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Sniv |
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Comments: | Argh the new Hitchhicker's Guide merchandise looks great! But *sobs* only avaiable in USA, Canada and US territories! *sniff* I hope itll some to Europe some day!
That link to REX - wow there are many nice pics of Alan there! :-) |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 09:46:19 AM |
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kathy |
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Comments: | P.S.
They also said Stephen Fry was fabulous, too. Mos Def didn't get such good reviews but the reviewers did say they were expecting British accents. also, slow on the up-take me...Happy Birthdy Ali-Pat--hope it was fun. |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 02:15:58 AM |
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kathy |
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Arkansas |
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Comments: | Went on the web looking for info on H2G2 because I forgot which part Bill Nighy was playing (Slartibartfast) as I'm about 1/2 way finished with the book. I found a site that had reviews of the test screening that was done in LA as part post-production this is what they had to say about AR and his Marvin voice......
Marvin on the other hand is splendid with his depressed bobble-head stature and sad, glowing eyes. The droll voicing by Alan Rickman is spot-on and is one of the highlights of the film. Can't wait *big smile* |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 02:11:53 AM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | ....""" ..~*~*~ """"".....Happy Birthday,Ali-Pat! |
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Saturday, January 29th 2005 - 01:09:07 AM |
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Ana Julia |
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Location: |
México |
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Comments: | Claudia
You asked for a HP site with videos... I hope this is the one you were looking for... (I really hope it works fine!) Harry Potter videos |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 09:49:27 PM |
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Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | I was so excited this afternoon when I arrived home to see the Amazon.com box on my front porch. I just got my copies of Something the Lord Made and Barchester Chronicles. I decided I couldn't wait and was going to watch StLM first. I ripped off the shrink-wrap, tore off the security tape, and......GASP!.....THE CASE WAS COMPLETELY EMPTY!!! No disk, no promotional paperwork....nothing. Absolutely NOTHING! Well, after I stopped hyperventilating, I immediately went online and gave amazon a tongue-lashing report, asking what they were going to do about it.
In the meantime, I decided to check out BC and make sure there were disks in there (I am happy to report there were and have already finished viewing part One....no sign of Alan yet). Anyway, Amazon has already gotten back to me. They are sending me a new disk - no charge (they better!) and are paying for the return of the empty case. Whew! What an afternoon. I nearly had a heart attack. Well I was all set to enjoy StLM but am consoling myself with BC instead. So far I really like it. I'll tell you what I think after I finish the whole thing. Have a great weekend, everybody and Happy Birthday, Ali-Pat! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 09:48:35 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | ..."red wine sullies its purity" sounds like chemistry class to me, OR haven't you heard that anything can be a weapon (some art critics could get splashy with their red wine, etc). Household cleaners are being blamed for breaking down brass pipes that are used for natural gas in homes.... And extremely expensive tiny portraits have been reduced to smears when the new, unaware owner tries to cleam them ($000,000.00 lost!) Less colorful post: art is fragile! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 08:38:46 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | Eeeeew! Valmonte Bear! send it here, I'll drop-ick it back to you LOL. Valmonte was a disgraceful guy. tsk tsk!! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 08:24:24 PM |
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Kate |
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Location: |
SF |
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Comments: | Actually, you didnt say it, Emily did, earlier. LOL! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 07:49:19 PM |
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martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | (AR's bear looks as though he has a merkin stuck on his nose...)
But I didn't say that. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 07:05:48 PM |
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Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh, yeah, Happy Birthday, Ali-Pat! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 05:04:55 PM |
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Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Claudia, it'd be even nicer to have Alan's voice in "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With." Wink, wink, nudge nudge. :D Have you gotten that far in the book yet? |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 05:01:42 PM |
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AFNH |
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Comments: | BTW Sue - skimmed your post and did a double-take, thought you were selling your soul on eBay in June! Yikes! It's been a looooong week....... |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 04:52:44 PM |
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AFNH |
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UK |
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Comments: | Tried to post a work today, but wouldn't go through - grrrr.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY -ALI-PAT!!! May all your wishes come true! Love the new pic. He certainly seems to be amassing quite a collection of scarves now. I don't think it is the Bowness one, though, that was a thicker, woolier affair (sorry, Emily!). Love a glass or 20 of white wine myself... Excited cos I'm going to see Nigel Havers in Rebecca tomorrow, those who have already seen it say it's a good one. A paranoid android with AR's voice - mind boggles! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 04:45:35 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hitchhiker.... merchandise is already in the works. First Look at Hitchhiker Guide Merchandise! It'd be nice to have a talking Marvin with AR's voice. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 03:58:02 PM |
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Miriam Heijdemann |
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mheijdemann@netscape.net |
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Comments: | Hiya there,
Nice picture of Alan. He smiles so friendly and warm. But who is the person standing in front of the picture with the red hair? I sure like his grey hair there. Thanks for sharing the picture with us. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 03:02:05 PM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh Claudia, I bet the horns would get AR's attention! LOL
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:34:57 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | You're probably right about the notebook, Claudia. He must be in rehearsals for that now.
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:09:29 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Oh, I mean the Old Vic pictures ... you know, after he saw Ian McKellan's "Aladdin' |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:08:20 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Could be something to do with the RC play. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:08:02 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hey RickiNicki...see if you can find some of those devil horns that Mia was wearing in LA! That would be a hoot! LOL |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:02:09 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Someone who was at Bowness tells me that the scarf is the same one he wore there. It also looks like the same one he was wearing in those pics taken outside the NAtional (the ones on EBay).
What I want to know is ... what's in that notebook he's carrying around lately? His unpublished screenplay? The RADA nuclear codes? His to-do lists dating back to 1987?
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:00:58 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | I need some help with a request. A friend lost all her favorites a while back and is trying to find an HP related site that has some music videos on it. A couple of the names were Magic, The Rock, Up, Wonderful. Do anyone of you know right off hand what site that might be? |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:00:49 PM |
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RickiNicki |
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Comments: | Happy Birthday from me, too, Ali-Pat.
Elaine, how do you know that AR is not confirmed for Love Letters yet? I mean he's on the list to be confirmed, isn't he? I think I should be going as Pink Panther. This would be really funny. No, something in red hot would be fine. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 02:00:12 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Maybe so, Sue. But with you, Ali-Pat, and myself--odds are on us that he wouldn't get away! LOL Yes, red wine leaves an awful stain. But white stains as well. H***....even water will leave a stain on some things. I just hate rules--especially when it comes to my drinking! LOL |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 11:57:09 AM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Actually Claudia I think this emotie sums it up!LOL
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 11:44:55 AM |
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martha |
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north of here |
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Comments: | Claudia - red wine stains, white doesn't. I remember reading that in some article about home entertaining. Never serve red wine! ('Specially if you have light colored furniture and rugs.) |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 11:16:41 AM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Bono wouldn't know what hit him!  Hmmm, I know I need to GET A LIFE, but I can understand the fear of smoke damaging the gallery but why red wine??? Shameless plugging is very welcome here, Sue! LOL  We are VERY interested, Julie! Thanks for keeping us posted. I know there is a bit of reluctance with Marc Evans as director but I do hope Snow Cake comes to life. The story sounds so good! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 11:10:03 AM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Sorry my typing has gone to pot! (Not helped by the fact that several of the letters on this 2 yr old Dell keyboard have rubbed clear away!) 'AE' should be 'AR' LOL Plus sorry for all spelling errors too |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 11:01:34 AM |
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Julie |
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Location: |
Michigan |
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Comments: |
Happy Birthday, Ali-Pat!! I came across a message board in Wawa. I posted a message asking about the filming of "Snowcake." I finally got a reply. Here it is: In reply to the post concerning Alan Rickman etc., the movie 'Snowcake' has been approved for funding support and the announcement does indicate Wawa as the site for some of the shooting of winter scenes. It is up to the production company to make that announcement, but it appears there is a good chance it willhappen. I was hoping someone would mention seeing cameramen running around or something. And it sounds like maybe the entire movie won't be filmed there. Thought someone might be interested. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 10:58:13 AM |
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Sue |
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E-mail address: |
Check out my new icons on link below (shameless plug) |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/12805.html#cutid1 |
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Comments: | The mystery of the white wine is solved Claudia!!
Tonight's Evening Standard has piece on last night's 25th Almeida anniversaey (no AE mention though) ".............They saw Simon Russell Beale play Macbeth before going on to a party at the Gagosian Gallery in St.Pancras. The gallery owners let revellers into the space on the condition that there was no smoking or drinking of red wine to sully its purity........." Ali-Pat and Claudia I would love to see U2 with you both!! Can you imagine the fun we would have!!!??? |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 10:38:48 AM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Happy Birthday, Ali-Pat! Hope you'll have a great (AR-filled) day! :-)
Claudia and Emily: thanks for that wonderful new picture! I clicked on Emily's link and saw that Damien Lewis was at the same event. I just loved him as Major Winters in Band of Brothers. :-) |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 10:27:48 AM |
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Ali-Pat |
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Comments: | Thanks for the BD wishes!! The celebration started yesterday as I got my DVD copies of StLM and BC in the mail. Yippee!!! Looking forward to the extras.
You naughty ladies--all that speculation about the goatee (ROTFLMAO)! I still maintain the pjs and robe from Private Lives would have been a better costume. And no beard to wonder about! (Plus the "bear" feet are already there.) Sue--I'm first in line to see U2 with you, but I'm afraid I will have to mortgage the house again for the air fare. Not to worry, I am sure someone will want to go. |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 08:53:26 AM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Ohhhh I love U2, Sue! In fact just last night, I watched Bono, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and others participate in The G8 and Africa: Rhetoric or Action? on C-Span. Bono is a true humanitarian in every sense of the word. Ali-Pat....where are you????? *grin*
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 08:50:09 AM |
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Sniv |
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Comments: | Great thanks for the pic! And yes a new scarf kinda makes me remember a specific scene in Love Actually where Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman exits the shopping center where Alan's character buy that necklace...oh well
Ali Pat big congrats!!! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 08:35:23 AM |
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Sue |
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Location: |
England |
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Comments: | 
TO ALI-PAT!!! I'm with you with the drinks Claudia!! Nice to see AR with a glass or three! I see he has a new scarf on the go!! Well this week has been a reckless one for me. On Monday i booked tix for spacey and just now I have spent a frustrating hour with ticketmaster trying to buy U2 tix for June. Natch they were all sold out except the pricey ones so I "sold my soul to Satan" and splashed out on two £65 tix (plus appalling Ticketmaster mark-up!) and I don't even have anybody to go with. Oh well I have till June and there is always ebay! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 06:42:10 AM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: |  To Ali-Pat!!! I hope your day will be filled with fun, joy, and especially lots of wishes come true! |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 04:48:01 AM |
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Claudia (who is always interested in a good stiff drink!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | White wine in the glass again. Doesn't he know that red wine is much healthier??? Oh and I want to ask about the "Happy Hour--Selected drinks only £1" posted on the Foyer Calendar events. Does anyone know what the selected drinks are?
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 04:45:53 AM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Thanks for the new pic Emily. OK, I know Love Letters is a Valentine's event but why ask everyone to wear red or pink? Can't they just leave it at formal or semi-formal and just decorate in red or pink? The room is going to look like a Pepto Bismo bottle! Here is the info on the RADA concert. Its not on Foyer Events schedule as was FEE when it was announced. You have to go to the Centenary section and check out the event schedule for it. April 17th A Special Centenary Concert will be staged by the RADA Asociates, to mark the end of the Centenary year, at RADA on Sunday April 17th in the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre, under the direction of Richard Digby-Day. Details will be released nearer the time. [Hmmmm, two days before the MNiRC after show talk] Another little interesting thing to watch out for: 2005 will also see the publication of a new book, an official history of the Academy by the distingished journalist Peter Fiddick, which will provide another opportunity for celebration.
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 04:41:42 AM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | New picture of AR at the Almeida Theatre anniversary tonight. None too flattering capture of Rima in the right corner ... |
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Friday, January 28th 2005 - 12:38:32 AM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Good thing I didn't book my plane tix for the Arvon dinner! Nah, I had no intention. So they're making you wear red or pink? Does that mean AR will have to wear red or pink too if he shows up? So let me see if I have this straight -- they're telling you what to wear and then while you're eating, you're all going to have to scootch over so a famous person can sit at your table (picture the remains of dinner, soiled napkins, water glasses with lipstick marks, chicken bones) and read a love poem as you all try not to giggle, faint or make digestive noises. This is sounding more and more like a Victoria Wood skit every day! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 09:58:57 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Emily, I emailed the RADA box office about this but have had no answer. I'm also a "Friend" of RADA and there has been nothing about it in the latest flyer, although the productions booklet has not yet been finalised. I am hoping! FYI, I also heard from Arvon that AR is not yet confirmed as attending- and they have tickets still available. A lot depends on that one thing though! Ricky-nicky tells me you have to wear red or pink! Really not my colour - I look like a marshmallow! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 09:41:12 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | BTW and totally OT just an FYI about the Andrew LLoyd Weber Muscical Woman in White. I am probably the only one on this GB who is a fan but Michael Ball will be taking over for Michael Crawford for 2-3 months who is apparently very sick with the flu. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 09:30:54 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I think the One Enchanted Evening is now April 17. According to the RADA site, there's a "concert" assembled by RADA associates to celebrate the end of the centenary year booked for the 17th. There are no other details. Does anyone know if this concert is a reworked FEE? |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 08:38:32 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I actually love the bear with the exception of that goatee. Bless his heart...it does look like he's been somewhere he shouldn't have been, doesn't it? LOL I suppose it does fit though...we all know how insatiable Valmont was! LOL BTW Emily...you had me in stitches too! Ana, Four Enchanted Evenings (FEE) was a benefit for RADA that was originally scheduled for last November. Due to an overwhelming response and not enough talent to cover the four nights, they opted to re-schedule in the spring with either fewer nights or combine and have one huge night. So far there has been no word of when it might happen. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 08:16:19 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Hi All, I'm glad to hear the reviews on BC my copy of the DVD is coming soon--can't wait. I also bought a copy of Ruby Wax's book How do You Want Me? I heard an interview with her on BBC radio about the book and she is hysterical! I laughed until I cried with her telling the story of calling the ambulance and taking her baby son to the hospital because she thought he was in a coma and he was only asleep. Years of living in England hasn't taken her Chicago accent away!
I can now agree with Elaine et al about the Bears--some of them are down right scary. I'm not a bear person either. The bear from Wicked is kinda cute tho--Glinda the Good Witch. (By the way that is a fabulous musical if anyone gets a chance to go). I am about 1/3 through with H2G2 it is very funny I laughed out loud at the part when the computer is too busy figuring out how to make tea (you mean you want dried leaves in boiling water?)to be able to defend them against the Vogon ship. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 08:04:07 PM |
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Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Oh Emily, that had me in stitches! But now you mention it.... I would not mind so much if it looked like a "teddy bear" but it doesn't somehow. Wonder if AR has seen it! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 07:13:26 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara |
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Comments: | Sorry, make that Aladin not Ali Baba. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 07:04:29 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Siberia* |
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Comments: | Hey
Claudia, beautiful photos... I was missing him!! Thanks. I love the interview. How sad that he doesn't live there anymore, ;·p. So Alan is into feminism? I have a lecturer that is sort of a feminist too (he's gynaecolist) and he's lovely and soooo funny. Is BC avalaible in UK? What happens in UK with guys with big noses? Cause some time ago I heard that to be a good actor you had to have a good voice and big nose (this is Alan!!). I can understand the voice thing but what's the point with the nose??? Do anyone know anything about something called "Four Enchanted Evenings" in London next March? Cause is in Suzanne GB and I have no idea of what is it. Do anyone know any interview in which Alan speaks about his speech problem? Once a woman said that he has talked about it in a lot of interviews but I never see any of them. Do you know any? Brrrr, it's awfully cold here... I hate it!! PS:Hey Carla, I hope that you had a nice National day!! I wish I could be there now... in summer!!! (snif, snif) |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 06:58:39 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Now that Elaine and Claudia have made it safe for dissenters to come out and put in their two cents, I also have to say that the Valmont bear really freaks me out. I don't want to get graphic, but that hair around the snout looks, er, well ... let me put it this way... Are we sure this isn't "The Vagina Monologues" Bear?
Apologizing in advance. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 06:11:59 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | I am another "first time watcher" of BC and I heartily endorse what everyone os saying. It is very enjoyable - and I have only finished disc 1 so far! Claudia, I think that RT interview of AR when he was not yet a "big" name is a classic! In a way, it is a shame we did not really "know" him then! LOL! Sorry, I think the bear is hideous but I'm not a fan of things like that. I know that many are and I'm sure it would be a wonderful thing to have in your collection. Just not "my bag". I can't believe that the pic of AR at "Aladdin" went for £57! Are people mad, or made of money? I put in an early bid (which is unusual for me who usually waits until the last minute) and thought if I don't win, I'll email the guy and ask if he would send me a print if I matched the winning bid - but not at that price! I thought it might go for about £7 or something. It is only a print,after all! I think we fans need to get toether and co-ordinate our ebay bids so that we don't get ripped off! Oh well, off to Photoshop tomorrow to get rid of the watermark on my ebay downloaded copies! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 06:03:33 PM |
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Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh, and Nigel is Nigel Terry, who played Arthur in Excalibur and John in The Lion in Winter. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 04:28:36 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I'd like to add that Clive Swift is also in Excalibur, playing Arthur's foster father. Whenever I see him and Nigel Terry together in a scene, I always shout things like "Ri-chard" and "I always knew our Sheridan would do great things" whenever Nigel draws the sword from the stone. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 04:27:16 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | I loved the photos of AR at the Old Vic to see Ian McKellen (and others of course) in Ali Baba. How about for next Christmas pantomime Alan and Ian team up as the Ugly Sisters in Cinderella. They could have a ball and use their well-known sayings e.g. Ian to Cinderella when she wants to go to the Ball - in his best Gandalf voice "You shall not pass!" and Alan trying on the slipper and it won't fit - "I blame the Government". |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 03:51:47 PM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | LOL ...ah then there are many great actors in it!
Btw I watched Something The Lord Made two days ago...I seriously cant get enough of certain scenes! lol *starts dancing* Its a great shame Alan didnt win for his performance! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 03:03:54 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh I had forgotten about Peter Blythe and Phyllida Law. Also, Clive Swift who plays Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances is in it as well. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:57:16 PM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | LOL Claudia! How nice! Hmm I really wanna buy it now! But Ill have to wait a while since I dont have the money...my dvd player is able to play all regions so thats a plus... |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:54:21 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I'm almost finished watching BC and I have enjoyed every second of it, even the first two episodes before AR appears. It's a comedy with some very profound dramatic moments. Slope is kind of a tune-up for Snape. AR plays leering arrogance like no one else. There were so many little moments of physical comedy from him ... just the way he sticks his beak out and bores his eyes into people, like he's going to eat them!
All of the actors are wonderful. I love Donald Pleasence, and I am in awe of Geraldine McEwan's regal and acerbic presence - she is such a great comic actress. And friends of AR pop up everywhere - Phyllida Law, the late Peter Blythe (who was married to Harriet Walter) ... It's definitely worth buying, if you're not sure. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:53:44 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oops! MotG = Monarch of the Glen |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:47:24 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Or even if you've seen BC long before now and want to add your comments, please do. My favorite scene(s) have to be with AR and Susan Hampshire. I would love to see them in something new. I even went so far as to email the makers of Monarch of the Glen in between the series where Hector got killed off and suggested that AR do a guest appearance on MotG as a love interest for Molly. If Hector had survived, it would have been hilarious to see AR and Hector duel over Molly. Needless to say....it never panned out. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:46:45 PM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Aw Im sorry to hear that Ricky...*pets you*
And Claudia Ill consider it then! Thanks a lot! :-D |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:45:42 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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E-mail address: |
lilithnoteve@arcor.de |
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Comments: | *merde* Just received "Judas Kiss" - and it is only in German. Though he is a great actor I want also to HEAR him, his wonderful andoring voic *sniff*
Thanks to this page that I almost a little can hear his talking in this film *sigh* F..k them - why do they sell DVDs without another language, just the one, that speak people in this f.....g country here :o(( Ricky much annoyed and angry and cursing a lot...... |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:44:40 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh Sniv! I can't recommend the BC DVD enough! Not only is AR simply divine as Slope, the whole film is wonderful. Geraldine McEwan (the witch from RHPoT), Susan Hampshire, and Nigel Hawthorne (whom AR served as dresser at RADA--and starred in From Sleep and Shadow) are in BC and add their special kind of magic to the film. Do get it, Sniv. You won't be disappointed! There have been a great many that have indicated they have not seen BC before now. I would love to read your thoughts after watching it. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:41:58 PM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Sue thanks for the info about IM :-)
And great interview Claudia many thanks! Btw would you recommend buying Barchester on dvd? ...I have downloaded the clip you have uploaded Claudia but Im not sure... |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:29:56 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Claudia, thank you for the article on Obadiah Slope, er, BC. I thought from the little clip you have that the character deserves the Golden Shovel Award.
That bear is darling! Still, it's too bad there's no Snape bear. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 12:27:15 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Sniv - IM is playing Widow Twankey!! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 11:52:44 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Thanks to sonoma for sending me this article, AND in honor of Barchester Chronicles' debut on DVD, I thought I would post a 1984 Radio Times interview with AR. This might be posted in other AR interview archives and if it is, forgive the redundancy.
Radio Times The Barchester Chronicles, Sunday BBC1 Slippery SlopeThe Barchester Chronicles reaches episode three this week and enter left Trollope’s comic villain, the Rev Obadiah Slope. Alan Rickman (above, and as Slope, inset), who made a big impact in the part when the serial was first shown tells D.A.N. Jones that all acting is a political art. Alan Rickman has made a name for himself with television viewers, through his vigorous performance among famous screen stars – Nigel Hawthorne and the Pleasences – in The Barchester Chronicles. He plays Anthony Trollope’s comic villain, the Rev Obadiah Slope. ‘I never could endure to shake hands with Mr. Slope,’ wrote Trollope. ‘A cold, clammy perspiration always exudes from him, the small drops are ever to be seen standing on his brow, and his friendly grasp is unpleasant.’ Slope’s best feature was not his good strong nose, but Trollope would have liked it better if it had not possessed ‘a somewhat spongy, porous appearance, as though it has been cleverly formed out of a red-coloured cork.’ ‘I don’t look in the least bit like Slope,’ says Alan Rickman, with satisfaction, ‘and I didn’t try.’ Still, he is ‘tall and not ill-made’, like Slope. ‘On the whole, his figure is good’ and he has a prominent, thrusting nose in his expressive face. Surely he is physically suitable for playing vigorous comic villains like Slope. ‘Why?’ he asks. ‘Because of my long nose? Oh, I’m all for destroying people’s presumptions about things like that.’ He began quoting Shakespeare. This comes naturally to him, since he has spent much of his life on stage, playing Elizabethan and Jacobean parts at the theatres of Birmingham, Bristol, and Sheffield. He toured Western Europe with Ben Jonson’s rare play, The Devil is an Ass, and Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, in which he played another religious-talking villain, the unjust and lustful Angelo. That was an important part for Rickman. He quotes Angelo (a more serious version of Obadiah Slope) feeling remorse for his lust about honours and renown: ‘O place, O form, how often doest thou with thy case, thy habit, wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls to thy false seeming!’ Ruby Wax, writer of fierce modern fringe-comedies, was visiting Rickman’s West London flat which I called. She wrote Desperately Yours, which Rickman directed in America. ‘It is about the trapdoors and tripwires of a woman’s life,’ he says. ‘One woman is obsessed with political feminism, another with cleaning up, another with stiletto heels, and lipstick. It’s very funny indeed.’ He has also acted in Russia, with a version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. So he has been seen around the world by theatre audiences. But for the mass of British television viewers, Obadiah Slope is Rickman’s part. It was a change from his usual stint of stage classics and fringe experiments. ‘I was handed The Barchester Chronicles script when I was in Busted,’ he says. ‘I sat on this very sofa and was soon rolling about laughing. Slope is a classic rotter - like Tartuffe and Antonio. There is no tragic complexity in Slope, just barefaced cheek and impudence. It’s just terribly funny when you see him going about his business in his own awful way.’ He does find villains pretty funny. Brought up in Acton, he lives not far from his family in the Holland Park area, quite near the Grand Union Canal, along which he has marched in aid for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. At school, pulled between English and art, he eventually became a graphic designer and a found of Design Group. ‘From time to time I draw,’ he says. ‘Not long ago I did a poster for Monstrous Regiment. The monstrous regiment of women’, we remember. Feminism is one of his interests.
Is he a political actor? ‘I think,’ says Rickman, ‘if you set one foot on a stage it’s a political act. To say: “Life is all about cucumber sandwiches – one lump or two?” is as political as anything else.’ When it comes to accepting parts, an actor is ‘the victim of other people’s imaginations. So much of an actor’s life is infuriatingly passive. People say: “I will take that person’s acting and his imagination and put them into something different.” It’s rather like being a graphic designer. A man will hire you to do a drawing and say: “My wife had a very good idea for this”. You nod and smile and then a grim visual pun has to be drawn, to satisfy his wife…..Oh, I’m a performer!’
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 10:28:26 AM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Ah those new pics of Alan on eBay are very nice! And the pic of the bear is sooo cute!
:-D Anyone knows what McKellen is playing in Aladdin? |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 09:26:34 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | That bear is too cute! I want one!!!! :-) |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 08:05:39 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ohhh the little Valmont bear is adorable! I'm having a bit of a problem with the goatee. Something about it just doesn't look right. But the little outfit, boots, and curly "do" are cute as can be! Thanks for the alert Emily and for posting the image, Sue. |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 07:56:39 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Here he is, cute isn't he?? (Click to enlarge)
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 05:46:44 AM |
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Name: |
carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Thanks to everyones wishes for Australia day!
Yes you were right Aurora we do the most steriotipical thing us aussies could do for the day have a barbie and drink cold beers and go swimming. Anyhoo last night i stayed up v. late to watch Morning Glory a Kathrine Hepburn movie from 1933. the character at times reminded me of a grown up stella but there was no p.l character ecsept a really old man who was her acting instructer. i liked the movie but i din't understand the ending. i 'm happy now the computer is letting me download stuff again!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!! I just saw that Valmont bear it is sooo cute i love bears |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 02:09:16 AM |
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Name: |
sonoma |
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Comments: | Yow, that Valmont bear is so cute! I'm sure he'll bring in a good amount for the cause. No bid I could make would be meaningful, but he sure gave me a smile! |
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Thursday, January 27th 2005 - 12:21:32 AM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | The picture of the Alan bear is finally up. He has a little beard and mustache. (It's listed under Les Liaisons Dangereuses, but with a note saying "more information to come"). |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 10:56:04 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Comments: | Melissa--come here and comisserate with us!!
I just watched the sweetest movie--took a break from my homework--it was Jack and Sarah with Judy Dench and Ian McKellan--who plays a drunk very endearingly--if you haven't seen it give it a try it is really sweet--Good ole' Netflix. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 10:36:58 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | hello everyone, in between shifts today.....barely awake I really love that scarf ....it has that 'invisibility cloak' kind of sheen. I have discovered that other women here do not appreciate Alan's voice or talents quite as much as i do....it is not only dissapointing, but slightly embarrasing <:-| They don't sigh at Jamie, swoon at rasputin or drool at Hans or George.....forget PL and others, they've never even heard of them! They don't even think he has a cool voice, except as Snape! Oh well, so much for trying to watch my movies with a bit of non-jealous female company, i'll just have to stick to the playfully-jealous male company (he calls Alan his ulcer) to enjoy these films...of course it means that i have to put up with alot of testosterone ridden crud in return... Riki-Niki (did i spell that right?); Way to go! Have a blast! Take a good long look at him for the rest of us as i said before if i were to be so lucky as to be able to go and have someone (ahem) dedicate a reading to me (by AR of course), i would go into shock from conflict of interest. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 08:47:46 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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E-mail address: |
kathyfowler@conwaycorp.net |
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Comments: | Sue, we must be on the same wave length. I made 2 calls to the UK to book tickets to Philadelphia Story only to find out they are only booking to June 18 right now--I wanted to get ahead of the game because I knew it would be popular. I heard rumers sp? that Laura Linney was to play Katherine Hepburn's part.
I don't get to London until June 23 so if you hear of them booking further into the summer hollar at me--I will keep checking! Love the new pic of AR it must have been very cold that night. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 07:01:55 PM |
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Name: |
Aurora |
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Comments: | Claudia, maybe the story about the auction just wasn't up on the wires yet. Here's one from the San Jose Mercury News. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 06:12:01 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Great pics, Claudia! I love that scarf! :-) |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 04:35:47 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I found these candid shots on eBay. According to the seller, he was at the Old Vic on January 14, 2005 to see Ian McKellen in "Aladdin" My favorite of the batch..... Nice close up but he doesn't look like he appreciated the photographer to much
Also, pooooorrrr “itswetout”--not a single bid on that horrible Private Lives tape!
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 04:08:50 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Happy Australia Day to all Ozzies! :-) |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 02:25:50 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia (who really loves Costner in a good baseball flick!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Costner is doing another ball player film by none other than Mike Binder. Kevin Costner makes a new pitch and it looks like Binder will appear in this one too. Geez, I hope this one will have better luck than Gissing. Also, I heard a blurb on the news this morning (but heck if I can find it on the net) about an authentic letter that Jack Johnson wrote claiming he deliberatly threw the Jeffries fight in 1915 is up for auction. I searched eBay but couldn't find it there. If anyone come across this, please send me the link. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 01:53:39 PM |
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Name: |
RickiNicki |
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Comments: | Happy Australia Day from me as well! |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 11:55:23 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | Happy Australia Day to all our whizzes from Oz though I suppose it is over already there?
Ooh Ralph Fiennes as well as AR?? Wow, better have the paramedics on stand-by. I am feeling chipper as have just booked 2 seats to see Kevin Spacey in The Philadelphia Story in May at The Old Vic. Some dates are already sold out. Spacey plays C.K.Dexter Haven of course, but so far the James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn parts haven't been named. Keeping fingers crossed that they will be somebody exciting. I remember that song Claudia, "I beg your pardon etc etc..." I couldn't stand it!!LOL |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 11:39:02 AM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | *shooos in* Thanks for the info about the Alan teddy bear Claudia..
Gotta go to my music lesson now...cya all! |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 11:21:44 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Happy Australia Day, Carla!
Take us some pictures, RickiNicki! I don't know if I could respect a man who could be bought *grin*, but renting him is a different matter altogether... |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 09:39:51 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Congratulations, RickiNicki! You are going to have a blast at Love Letters! I wonder if country singer Lynn Anderson is a Snape fan???? |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 09:13:05 AM |
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Name: |
RickiNicki |
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Location: |
London |
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Comments: | Thank you everyone. Guess what? I've got my invitation for "Love Letters" AND Ralph Fiennes is also on the list of actors. One more reason to look forward to it. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 08:54:49 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Get to feeling better, Con. |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 08:44:32 AM |
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Name: |
Con |
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Location: |
UK |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ConDuchene |
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Comments: | Hi ! Have a horrible persistent cold, and this site is lifting my spirits. Cheers!
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 08:17:03 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | We care, Carla! Happy National Australia Day to Carla, Judy, and any Aussies that may be lurking! Yes, indeed, Feb. 21 is fastly approaching. It falls on a Tuesday this year. Gee whiz, its hard to believe that January is almost over! |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 08:16:32 AM |
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Name: |
Aurora |
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Comments: | Happy Australia Day, Carla! Actually, what is the proper greeting or expression? Is the holiday accompanied by picnics and barbecues and a speech or two? |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 07:48:43 AM |
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Name: |
carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Well it is Australia day incase anybody cares. (I think i'm the only Aussie here). The day when our young nation was born or somthing similar. Frankly i couldn't care less but i can't seem to escape it as advertising for it has been really over the top esp about buying lamb (which is really expensive here)
On the subject we are ment to be discussing i have to report nothing as... well... i'm not sure what we are talking about i think it is polms sorry i come back when i have something relevent to say |
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Wednesday, January 26th 2005 - 03:03:22 AM |
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Aurora |
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Comments: | I peek in here sometimes. Enjoying the discussion of poem-reading. Ricki-Nicki, I think you’ve made a wonderful choice. I do hope for reports afterwards. Sue, what is that you’re saying about French letters? (You know, in French, they’re English. LOL) 'fraid my piggy bank wouldn't go far toward renting AR for an evening. So sad. And by the way, isn't Feb. 21 fast approaching? |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 07:30:53 PM |
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kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | I'm with you, Emily!
and an evening with is always better than an evening without--even if he has to be rented! Ricki-Nicki I'd do the same thing so have a fabulous time. Remember every second so you can share with us. |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 05:45:59 PM |
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Name: |
Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Alas, Emily.....you can only rent him. *heavy sigh* |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 05:28:27 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I think I'd skip the bear and buy AR himself at the love poem auction. |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 01:50:41 PM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Wow, can't wait to see that, that'll go for a fortune!!!
Shakes piggy-bank, walks away disconsolate!! |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 01:39:31 PM |
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Claudia (who is skipping in the clouds right now!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | YAY!!!! Frankie posted this a little while ago in reference to the Broadway Bears!!! I have just had an email from Scott Stevens, the producer of Broadway Bears, with reference to the Alan Rickman Bear that is to be auctioned on 20th Feb [See http://www.broadwaycares.org/events]. He says: "The Alan Rickman bear commemorates his performance as Le Vicomte de Valmont in LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES. The bear has been finished for some time and our webmaster has the photo already so it shoudl not be much longer I wouldn't think, before it is up on line!" He describes the bear in an earlier mail as "beautiful" :-)
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 01:30:30 PM |
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martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | I just learned that "Lucius Septimus Severus" was the name of a Roman Emperor. Geeeee, do you think it's a coincidence? |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 01:23:16 PM |
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Dany |
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Comments: | Hey @ all,
I'm back again! After nearly two long weeks without internet....I'm back. My PC is completely destroyed but a nice person bought a couple of photos for a book he writes and so i could bye a laptop:D So have a good time.... Dany |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 11:38:37 AM |
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RickiNicki |
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Location: |
London |
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Comments: | @Claudia
Oh and I'm glad that you would do the same because there aren't a lot of people who would do that. Most of them think I'm crazy. LOL |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 10:47:43 AM |
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RickiNicki |
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Location: |
London |
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Comments: | @Claudia
Oh and I'm glad that you would do the same because there aren't a lot of people who would do that. Most of them think I'm crazy. LOL |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 10:47:17 AM |
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RickiNicki |
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Comments: | @Sabine
I'm sure you won't faint in front of AR. But I'm NOT sure if I'm going to faint or not. LOL It is too exciting for me so maybe somebody has to care of me if I'm fainting. Maybe I can bid for somebody to help me if I'm fainting. LOL |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 09:47:43 AM |
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RickiNicki |
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Location: |
London |
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Comments: | @Sue
I enjoy London a lot. And I'm really looking forward to Love Letters. @Claudia This is just what I thought. I can only afford the ticket but I can never afford to bid. LOL. But just sitting there and watching is enough for me. At least I can see him! Fingers crossed that he's going to attend. And of course I will give you full report. |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 09:43:36 AM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Go RickiNicki! Can't wait to hear your report! :-)
BTW, my husband is convinced that I would faint if AR sat next to me and read a love poem. How insulting! I've never fainted in my entire life! LOL |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 09:26:57 AM |
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Claudia (DreamBook is being finicky today!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Welcome back, Sniv! Wonderful news, RickiNicki! If I were in England, I think I would do the same thing. Even though I know I couldn't bid, I would still buy a ticket so I could at least watch the goings on. Who knows, your table may be close to the AR winning table and you might be able to hear his recitation! *crossing finger* for you. Oh and a detailed report would make us so very happy! ;-) And some piccies wouldn't hurt either! LOL |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 08:06:34 AM |
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Sue |
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Location: |
England |
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Comments: | Good Morning RickiNicki. Hope you are enjoying London, don't forget to give us a full report:)))))))) |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 06:40:20 AM |
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RickiNicki |
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Location: |
London |
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Comments: | Good morning everyone,
gee - I haven't been here for ages. Hope everyone is fine! I'm at College at the moment. Love Letters sounds really great, this is why I booked a ticket. I know it's very expensive but I thought that now I have a chance to go, so I hope this will be a special event for me. Does anyone else attend? |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 06:04:17 AM |
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Sniv |
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Comments: | He is wearing contacts? wow...
And Im affraid we wont see the famous night gown scene I read that they have cut that out...*pokes the people who decided that* I had been looking very much forward to that scene, not only because of the night gown lol, but also because thats where we get the first hint that Snape has a past and its not a good one!...Bah! Thanks for the pic Claudia... |
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Tuesday, January 25th 2005 - 03:54:56 AM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Yes, he's wearing contacts. |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 11:28:14 PM |
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kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Just a silly question--is AR wearing dark contacts in his Snape costume? His eyes look darker in the HP movies |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 11:17:00 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Susan: that's great that you got such a quick and nice response! Maybe they actually will use some of your suggestions!
Claudia: thanks for posting that AR in a speedo pic. I really needed that today! :-) |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 08:06:22 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Yes, the beach picture is for real. It appears in Ruby Wax's book called "How Do You Want Me?" Its one of two. The other being..... |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 07:59:05 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | Ana, yes I used Snape because it was just one sentence, but when I replied, doing it all in Spanish was too much for me, so I used English. You say, "don't worry?"? wish I could. :D Well, I guess I'll say the obvious, but just for verification: is that pic of AR on the beach original? his head looks pasted on. |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 07:26:04 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: |  Con! Welcome to our little piece of AR online. I hope you will join us regularly.Thanks for sharing your reply, Susan. That was quick on their part, wasn't it? Since Philip admits that not everything has been confirmed yet, maybe they will use some of your suggestions. |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 03:56:44 PM |
Throwing Sewell into the mix to throw them off was very good thinking! |
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Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | First, thanks so much to everyone who wrote to support my letter to Arvon urging them to choose more beautiful love poetry for their auction. The answer I received is sweet and unclear, like everything I have read from these folks. But some of you wanted to see an answer if I got one, so here it is, with my reply. (Of course, I'm not bidding on anything; I'm in California. And I wouldn't bid on Sewell, much as I admire him, if I could bid on AR--I was trying not to sound too fan-gurly.)
Dear Philip, Thank you for your prompt and kind answer to my letter. I am glad to hear that there will be readings in addition to the four already known. And perhaps I can make my point a little more clearly: I would bid on Alan Rickman or Refus Sewell reading the world-class sonnet "Since There's No Help" or the deeply witty and erotic "To His Coy Mistress." I would not bid on any of the selections presently offered for auction, with the possible exception of the Shakespeare, because it would be disappointing to hear a first-rate reading of less-than-first-rate writing. A reading by Rickman is likely to go for a thousand pounds or more; surely such a contributor and such an actor deserve a love poem more on the level of "The Song of Songs." Very sincerely, Susan Rawlins Dear Susan, Thank you very much for your email, which we have noted with interest. The four readings you refer to are in addition to a whole programme of readings that hasn't been confirmed yet. Your suggestions are excellent and we are very grateful. The four you refer to are part of a sealed bid auction prior to the evening where participants of the dinner may pay for an actor to read their loved one a romantic item at their table. With all good wishes and many thanks again, Philip The Arvon Foundation |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 02:07:20 PM |
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Ana |
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Comments: | Claudia & Sabine: Thanks. Never give up, never surrender! (or something like that, I didn't see it in English yet)
I'm looking forward to see the whole movie but yes, especially Snape with his night gown (yum). Happy news: JK Rowling has got her third child. A girl. Congratulations Rowling-Murrays! Not very cold yet, phew... |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 01:48:35 PM |
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Name: |
Con |
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Location: |
UK |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ConDuchene |
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Comments: | Hi - this is a brilliant site, you must have put a lot of effort into it! |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 11:56:41 AM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I'm rather looking forward to seeing Snape in his night gown. LOL I really hope they keep that scene. |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 09:32:48 AM |
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Sniv |
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Comments: | Hello all!
So sorry for not being online for ages! (or so it feels like) Love Letters sounds like a great event and I wish I could be there - but its a bit expensive for me...and well its in another country too lol Anyone seen the new GoF pics which have been released? There is on of the Dark Mark - I cant wait to see that one on Snape's arm! lol I mean if you think about it - Snape is actually the person we see "most of" in the HP (at least so far) In PS we see his leg *drolls* and in...eh well not that much but then -hopefully- in GoF we will see his arm ...Ok Im weird I know... *hangs head* Ill stop now... |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 08:42:25 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Sorry! Try this Empire link |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 06:40:39 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | For The DaVinci Code fans here is some more casting news at
Empireonline.
I just want to know who is up for the albino monk???? |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 06:38:57 AM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Well i'm back after not being on the net for, what 5 days?
I just read a few postes and everyone is talking about this Johnny Carsons's Bloke and i think i am too young to know who that was but just as i was thinking about who he might have been the tv came on and the news update informed me right then so that was good timing. Yes i know a long post for not much but i am pretty boring and there is nothing interesting that i can tell you all. |
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Monday, January 24th 2005 - 01:36:34 AM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | hi guys.....watched TMD again today, and i got all sentimental and mushy... i was shocked to hear that Johnny Carson died.....i was only in 6th grade when he retired and i remember sneaking into the kitchen way past my bedtime to watch the monolougue on the little 4 inch black and white tv my mother had to 'talk' to her while she cooked. That letter from Cyrano to Roxanne is tooo beautiful..If anyone dedicated that to me i would probably cry. I would be way to embarrased to bid on Alan for myself, but if it were a surprise from my baby, i would turn red as a beet, but then i would go into shock from conflict of interest. heeheehee ;-} |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 08:44:46 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | In the ARExp group, Frankie posted about images of the artwork for the 2006 HP calendar being available a The Leaky Cauldron. Anyway, she wondered where the pic of Snape in a speedo was. So tell me, all you fabulous photo manip artists....where is the Snape in a speedo pic?
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 08:33:38 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | *..*.. ...Shocked to learn here Johnny Carson died. I enjoyed his understated, comtemplative gaze after delivering a joke; was sorry to read years ago, he suffered from panic attacks (extremely painful) which made me feel even more admiration for him. He had a humourous way with animals visiting his show, too. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 07:55:06 PM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | That cartoon is so funny, Claudia! :-)
Ana: I'm really glad you decided to hang around! :-) |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 07:49:05 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Yes, indeed how cute, Ana! The image at the top of this page was taken while he was directing the Winter Guest By the way, I'm so glad to see you're still here, Ana. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 07:37:36 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Susan CA - great letter, hope you get a response. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 07:18:24 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Still here...
Bad news for me, the "russian wheater" is coming to Spain. F**k! It's gonna freeze soon around here... Zzzzz, after your reply in English of what I putted in Spanish I'd started to think that that mysterious Snape was you. Don't worry about that. Claudia, thank you very much for the web sites of Stephen Fry and Sewell. I can only hear those of Fry and Laurie (I love Laurie by the way, he was hilarous in S&S). The problem is that I don't know who's who, lol. Lovely Alan: "The absolute best part of directing was that I didn't have to get to a makeup call at 6 in the morning. It didn't matter how I looked all day." Haha... How cute... |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 07:05:20 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I'm very impressed, Susan! Please let us in on your reply. Since the northeast is buried in snow at the moment, I just couldn't resist digging into my leftover Christmas funnies..... Another a little later. ;-) |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 06:16:08 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
somewhere under the snow |
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Comments: | sonoma – Thanks for the reply. I’ll pass on the info.
Susan, CA – Good for you! DO let us know if you get a reply. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 05:51:28 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hi, guys! Been away for a day-had a nasty hard drive crash. Now I'm back on an ancient laptop with a primitive 288-speed modem.
Love the CdB speech! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 04:28:41 PM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | Inspired by our conversation here the other night in which people suggested much better love poems for the Arvon Love Letters than the ones Arvon says they'll be using, I've sent Arvon the following plea:
Dear Arvon Foundation, [paragraph] Your Love Letters evening is exciting a great deal of interest on the Internet, and I happened to get the chance to read the four selections you propose using. May I suggest some alternatives? Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," Donne's "To His Mistress Going To Bed," Drayton's "Since There's No Help," Auden's "Lay Your Sleeping Head My Love, cummings' "since feeling is first," Aiken's "When Trout Swim Down Great Ormond Street," H. D.'s "At Baia" or "Evadne," Ted Hughes' "Crow's Undersong." This is just what comes immediately to mind, short of women and poets of color, but a start.[parargraph] The pieces I understand you may use are nice, but the Shakespeare sonnet has been read so often that it offers little that is new anymore. The Rossetti is not the most powerfully impassioned work, and the two French pieces have lost much of their linguistic majesty in translation. Dowson's "Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae," on the other hand, reads beautifully and would be immediately apprehended by anyone who would attend an evening such as you are planning.[paragraph] You are offering such a fabulous opportunity to hear some of the finest voices and talents in the English-speaking world; I hope you will give them texts of equal power, scope and excellence.[paragraph] Sincerely, Susan Rawlins |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 04:26:17 PM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | The Kumars hasn't been going that long maybe 3 or 4 yrs but Goodness Gracious Me is quite old. I used to love the way they would have the Indians getting drunk and going "for an English" on a Friday night and being abusive to the waiters. I think some of the guests on the Kumars don't actually know that it isn't a real talk show which makes it all the funier. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 04:23:43 PM |
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sonoma |
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Comments: | martha, if you go to the National Theatre's website, there's a link for "archives" and "video recordings." I had no problem getting an appointment and was the only person there when I went, except for the curator--it's a padlocked office and not like a formal library. The quality of the tape is pretty bad, it looks like it's from the balcony so no, you can't really make out any faces, and the color seemed to come and go and there were lines on the screen, but you could hear everything (I really liked AR's portrayal, but will agree with critics on the sets being distracting). I suspected it was a recycled tape because I could swear I was hearing audience sounds that didn't match, but the curator told me they only use new tapes. Hmm. Anyway, the Archive is not near the National Theatre complex so get good directions--I got lost getting there from the tube station (Oval). The National Theatre tour is great. I showed up just before a tour and got in for half price, GBP 2.50. You tour all the theatres--the Olivier, the Cottesloe, and the Lyttelton, the backstage areas etc. It's an amazing tour and was one of the highlights of my trip to London. To anyone who's going, enjoy! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 04:12:56 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | I guess this dates us, Claudia, but I just got all choked up when I saw the news about Johnny Carson. It was such a treat to be allowed to stay up and watch him on Friday nights (when there wasn't a guest host!). I admire the way he just bowed out gracefully and never lowered himself to coming back. I think Letterman and maybe Conan are his true heirs, not that second-rate Leno. Anyway, Johnny was the king.
My DH and I are hooked on the Kumars now. I cant figure out the schedule though. Some episodes were obviously made years ago, but then the Jools Holland show was newer. I've been watching "Goodness Gracious Me" too -- the same actors, kind of a Saturday Night Live with an Indian-British twist. Soooo funny! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 03:58:19 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I'm truly saddened to hear about the death of Johnny Carson. I remember as a kid, I could hear the television in my bedroom at night and my parents watched Carson every night. I'd force myself to stay awake at least through his monologues and I was never sorry I did. I knew the first time I was allowed to stay up to actually watch him, that I had arrived. My thoughts are with the Carson family. He was a true legend in every sense of the word. Kumar's... is a hilarious talk/improv show. I've been watching them for a while now. Sanjeev's interview with Parky was hilarious! Elaine--they recently had Jools Holland on with Tom Jones and I missed it! This coming week will have Helena Bonham Carter and the previews look pretty good. Hitchhikers.... I wasn't familiar with the books either, Vicki and I just got the first book yesterday. I've been in stitches. Shock of the day: My Sweetie asked what I checked out of the library. I didn't even get the full title of Hitchhiker's... out of the mouth before he started spouting off the authors name and bits and pieces from the books....even quotes from Marvin the Paranoid Android. He even knew that there had been a prior BBC film and that the show was performed on BBC Radio. For a man that spends a great deal of time reading very technical stuff...this pleasantly surprised me. Hmmm, I'm wondering if its to much to hope that he might even accompany me to see the new film when it comes out??? |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 03:09:27 PM |
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Name: |
Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | I do declare....I believe I have the vapors! I just can't imagine holding it together if AR were to read one of those love poems to me personally. I honestly think I would actually melt(I'm sure I would need a drool bib). My God, what would you say when he was finished?....and you would just have to have someone taping it for you (bet they won't allow that) just to relive the moment over and over. Ack!...I don't know if I could handle it.
Everyone has me curious about this Hitchhiker's Guide. I have never heard of it before. I guess I'll have to get over to the library and check it out. I've never really been into sci-fi but this sounds more like satire in a sci-fi setting. I just saw The Kumar's for the first time this week too. What a crack-up! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 02:50:21 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
(don't know, can't see for the snow) |
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Comments: | A while back, someone mentioned a tour of the National Theater Archive where they saw a video of A&C. Said the camera was too far away for faces, but she could hear AR's costume “jingle.” Questions: Is the audio good enough to hear everyone's voices, or is the mike too far away as well? How far ahead do you have to make a reservation? I there a tour of the theater or can you just visit the archives? What does it cost? I have friends going to London who are interested. Any details would be appreciated.
Many thanks! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 12:00:17 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Even though the letter from Cyrano to Roxane is beautiful, I’d still go for Sonnet 18. :-)
I know this is really OT, but since we talked about Stephen Fry earlier… Well, I found this at the Branagh Compendium: And, from a eagle-eared Ken-friend, words from Stephen Fry on BBC Radio 3, talking about writing the libretto for The Magic Flute, to be directed by Kenneth Branagh: "The reason I am talking about this with some passion is that I am currently struggling with a translation of it into English from the German for a film that Kenneth Branagh is doing next year of The Magic Flute; trying to work out if I am allowed to change Isis and Osiris, for example because the production is not going to be a freemasonry sort of production like that. The protagonist [ ] does undergo this sort of rite of passage and that sort of thing but actually Ken Branagh is setting it in the First World War so it's rather hard to drag in Isis and Isarius. I'm not sure I'm going to do that." I was so surprised to read that Stephen Fry speaks German! As a huge Mozart fan I am a little concerned about this project though… The Magic Flute is such a mystical piece, I hope they won’t mess with it too much… And to make this post somewhat relevant: I just watched The Kumars at No. 42 for the first time and I loved it! For those of you who are not familiar with this show: it's a talk show/comedy show on BBC America. One of the guests was Patrick Stewart who was absolutely hilarious. So, I was thinking… wouldn’t it be great if AR was on that show! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 11:31:19 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Oh yes I am passing on the Boney one now and going for Cyrano!!LOL |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 10:34:58 AM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | OK Claudia, that's the one I want him to read to me *fans self*
Also thank you so much for the Judi Dench link. I love her and was so glad she was honored. Do you know what date that was? Even as an older woman she is so beautiful. |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 09:46:11 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | You're welcome Barbara. I've adored Judi Dench for a long time now. Lucky you to have been able to see her on stage. What an actress she is! Thanks to Frankie, we have our last piece that was listed for Love Letters I think my love that it will be tonight! |
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Sunday, January 23rd 2005 - 09:02:46 AM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Location: |
what color should a "hung over" face be? |
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Comments: | (#~o)ugh hicdon't ask -- I'm afraid I may have made a "boo-boo" by posting that one sentence to Ana in Spanish from Snape; I'm sorry about that. I'm too lazy to post a long post in a foreign language, sorry Ana. Sorry, Claudia. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 08:19:49 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ana and Elena: please do not feel that you have to apologize! We just want everybody to feel comfortable here. I do hope that you both will remain a part of our community here!
:-) |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 08:04:39 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Comments: | I agree with adding the English translation if you post in your non-English language (I suggested this on another international site and got chastized for it thoroughly). BTW: I tried unsucessfully to post at another site in traditional Chinese and was looking forward to seeing my post in Chinese characters but the characters were reeeeeally foreign. I'll try here (need I say I love to try new things? :) ÄãºÃ! The above symbol is Chinese for "Hello!" to translate, "copy and paste" what you don't understand, go to a translation site and have it translated to your language of choice. It's fun to read in your own language, but it can give others "homework". |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 07:53:38 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ana and Elena, there is no need to apologize at all. I do hope that "goodbye" and "see ya" doesn't mean you won't be back. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 07:38:34 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Of course, no problem. I understand it.
I apologize for the inconvenience caused. I'm really sorry. See ya! |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 06:24:54 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | I'm sorry.but I did't know that speak in Spanish was a problem .
Don't worry because I finish it. Please,you don't feel threat .Goodbye. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 06:11:50 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Sue, re Play.com If you go to the UK site (which you will automatically) and then click on "International" at the top of the page, you get re-directed to their US/Canada site. If I remember, you can use the same email/password as the UK site. They have never let me down so far and although I still use Amazon a lot, Play's UK free delivery often swings it for me. I am really enjoyingBarchester Chronicles. Have got to the third episode which sees the debut of our man. His first scene is so good. SPOILERS.......................................................Having had the character "set up" by other characters talking about his arrival, AR captures Slope exactly as you would imagine him to be. The obsequious smile he gives as he is introduced to the other clergy is just masterful. I cannot believe that he was not plagued by directors and casting agents after this series. It took another 6 years before he finally hit Hollywood! |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 06:02:37 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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Comments: | thank you Claudia. That's exactly what I feel. A little bit left-out at you call it. Wanting to read something but not be able to do so. I only can read a few Spanish words, most according to the language's relationship to Italian (which I learned for some years) but well only understanding few. And when happening to me, I must suggest - I'm feeling realy stupid. *g* Yes, I'm silly in THAT case, why should I be able to read Spanish *g*
I managed to give "Dark Harbour" back and she ordered it again for me. Hope, the new DVD will work. Today the ordered Dogma arrived in the shop. Nice film. Only few AR in it and I was only able to watch in German, because my husband was watching with me and his English is not good enough for watching English films *sigh* Next chance on Monday (alone in the evening *g*) He was great, I think - he always is ;o) And I realised that Ben Afleck (hope spelling is right) is very good looking. Was the first film watching with him - until today I only new him as being engaged with Jennifer Lopez for some time. *shameoverme* He also did a really good job, I think. :o) RIcky |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 05:23:42 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I’m afraid I’ll have to agree with Claudia regarding the language issue. I love the “international flair” of this GB, but I wouldn’t want anybody to feel left out either.
Maybe long conversations that are not in English could be taken to e-mail. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 05:16:44 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hi everyone! I really hate to do this because we truly love it that we have such a wide international community here. But if you would try to keep your posts to as much English as possible, we would really appreciate it. We certainly don't mind the occasional non-English message, but at the same time, we don't want anybody else here to feel left out. I hope you will understand and not feel unwelcome here because that is certainly not true. Any true fan of AR is welcome here all the time and any time. Thank you for understanding. You all really are the best AR group around. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 04:56:38 PM |
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Name: |
sue |
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Comments: | Ana - Yes I got my Lleighs and Roberts mixed LOL.
The Independent on Sunday 16th January 2005 Saturday 22 Jan Television: BBC2 11.40 Rasputin Uli Edel's award wining drama charting the life of the sinister peasant who styled himself as a bizarre holy man with a taste for wine, women and debauchery. He ended up in St.petersburg, where he managed to wheedle his way into Tsarian Alexandra's confidence in the turbulent years leading up to the Russian Revolution, thanks largely to his apparent ability to heal her son. Alan Rickman is mesmerising in the lead role, causing scandal and dissent in the royal court with obvious glee. Ian McKellan also stars." "mesmerising"?????? |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 04:42:54 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Claudia - oh wonderful the BAFTA tribute to Judi Dench. Thankyou very, very much. As a very young (pre-teen) theatre goer I used to haunt the Old Vic when she was Ophelia to John Neville's Hamlet. I went to see it three times. I also hung around the stage door and got her autograph and she was so lovely. Every time I am back in London I hope I will be able to see her in a play. Best regards. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 04:41:42 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | Ana ,asi si eres de Valencia y viene a Barcelona lo tienes muy cerca para venir.
Lo de los resfriados lo he leido en algunas paginas suyas,el ultimo era cuando le hicieron la foto del Vogue y tambien en NY cuando estaba haciendo PL. No se es que yo he leido que a veces se rebota con la gente por eso decia lo de la paciencia y en algunas fotos tiene mala cara ,sobre todo cuando lo pillan con el carrito de la compra. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 03:55:02 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | No problem on long posts, Ana. I get long winded all the time! LOL If you have Real Player you can listen to Rufus Sewell and Stephen Fry at the following web sites. Sorry, but I couldn't find anything on Andrew Lincoln--but if you have Love Actually, he's in that film. About Rufus There are several sound clips here. The one I liked the best is not quite half way down the page where he recites Ode To A Beautiful Nude from Love Poetry by Pablo Neruda For some of Stephen Fry (and Hugh Laurie too) Jeeves and Wooster lines and Fry and Laurie lines go to Sounds of Stephen Although funny as heck, these lines are to short to hear him adequately and some are distorted because he is yelling. To get a true measure of his voice and speech, try Judi Dench's BAFTA Tribute Stephen Fry hosted this event. Listen to the on-stage chat clip for the best Fry listening. I adore Judi Dench and if any of you are a fan of hers, don't miss this site with her BAFTA tribute. The clip about her and Michael Williams will make you cry. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 02:49:57 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
around 72 ºF |
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Comments: | In Angels & Demons is the full description of Robert Langdom (45 yrs, 5'11, black hair, blue eyes). So, the only AR thing in Landon is the voice and the attractiveness (does that word exist?).
Sue, is LEIGH Teabing (I didn't know how to spell Leigh for a very long time, I have a trauma with this name ;·p) and ROBERT Langdon, hehe. I loved Teabing, he was so hilarous (at the begining...) and I loved Carlo Ventresca too, lol. I thought of Pierce Brosnan or Gabriel Byrne for Langdon (just for the dark hair-blue eyes). I have nothing against Tom Hanks but I would prefer another actor (even Clooney...). I think that Cruise has never been considered for the role (thanks God). Ricky: Yes, always the same... Elaine: I've never seen the audio versions of HP. Anyway, if there's any audio version around there it will be in spanish or valencian, not in English... pity. I will wait to see the movie (I wondar what's the name of the book in spanish...). Thanks for the info. Zzzzz: You're right but I think it happens in a lot of languages. F.e. Colin Firth is married to an Italian woman and in an interview he said that you have to be very careful of some spellings 'cause you could say that you want an "angry penis" instead of "penne arrabiata", which is a type of food (I don't remember what, some type of pasta, of course). You would have to give a look to Polish f.e. This IS a difficult language. By the way, do you speak spanish too? Elena: Català? A mi m'agrada més anomenar-lo Valencià... ;·p. Soc de València. Alan poca paciencia? Yo creo que tiene bastante. Imagínate lo q debe ser ponerte a firmar autógrafos después de protagonizar una obra de teatro de 2 horas y sin haber cenado. Nada apetecible, no crees? Pero lo hacía. Creo q es un tío cumplidor, las fans van a verle y él les firma autógrafos. No es difícil pillar un resfriado en verano la verdad. Es curioso, nunca he leído nada de Alan en el q digan "está constipado". Dnd lo has leído? Dsd luego, si quiere naranjas q se venga pa VLC, vivo en el país de las naranjas!!!! Vitamina C no le va a faltar... Hay muchas comunidades de yahoo y de msn en español sobre Alan (yo tengo una) y una amiga está planeando hacer una página web. Hay una mujer q tiene una página sobre Alan y lo ha ido a ver 27 mil veces. Una de las veces le preguntó cuantos idiomas hablaba. Él se puso bastante cortadito (seguramente no se le dan bien, jajaja) y dijo q supuestamente Alemán y Francés (aparte del evidente) pero q su profesor de Francés debía ser mejor q el de Alemán, jajajajajaja. (Tb he oído q tiene una casa en la campiña francesa (aunque no sé si es cierto) así q supongo q en francés se apañará bastante bien). Uh... long post. Sorry. |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 01:50:01 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh and I had to put TdVC on my list. Since I have to wait for it, I decided to go with the audio version. I wanted the audio version of Hitchhiker's..., as per a suggestion from a friend, but the only copy they have is damaged and I didn't want to wait. I caught another film with Hugh Grant last night. He plays a doctor in Extreme Measures and he was pretty darn good in it. Its not one of those silly romantic comedies I can't stand to see him waste his talent in. I also saw a weird little film with Lindsay Duncan last week too. Its called Grown ups. Has anyone ever seen this? I will be surprised if anyone has. I would have turned it off if it hadn't been for LD and Jane Duvinski (Waiting for God). |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 01:48:20 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I hope all you folks up north are hunkering down for the winter blast. My Dad, in West Virginia, is gettting socked so I know you folks even further north have to be getting it bad. Ricky, I haven't forgotten you on the pics. I'll send them as soon as I can. I finally got to the library this morning and got Hitchhiker's..... and have digested about half of it. Never thought I would laugh so hard at sci-fi stuff. Even GQ didn't have me laughing this hard! (sorry, AR) Most people that ask me who AR is know him from DHard and RHPoT. They say "Yeah, I know that guy!" |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 01:40:58 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Yep, Ricky, happens all the time! I usually get "No! That's the same guy?" LOL |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 01:36:52 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Comments: | Has any of you ladies made the same experience (and me not for the first time!)? My brother in law just brought back "The mummy" (my hubby had borrowed him the DVD and he didn't like it) and "Sense and sensibility" - also not the kind of movie he likes. But he watched S&S till the end, but fell a little bit asleep *lol* He said some not very nice things about Hugh Grant in this role - sheepish and foolish.
Well and he asked for Col.Brandon. Told me, he knows this guy but didn't know where to put him. Not knowing the Harry Potter-Films he knew AR at once, when I mentioned Hans Gruber in DH and Sheriff of Nottingham. Well, always the same, isnt't it? Ricky |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 01:25:56 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | (~~~)...brr ...I'm 98.6 below zero SPOILERS AABA. Is this funny? P.L. and Stella in bed. P.L. repeats "Stella Maris". Stella has a look on her face as though she is watching P.L. with someone else. Yeah, her mother! he's commiting adultery in his heart and she's just walk in on her parents and neither knows about the incest. Well, I guess that's dark comedies for you! |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 11:31:33 AM |
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martha |
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Location: |
Deep Freeze |
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Comments: | Kathy - "Catch Me If You Can" is "based" on fact. Abagnale has a website that's pretty interesting. Guess he wrote the book when he was in his 20s, sold the rights and then years later, the movie was made. Not something he's real proud of. But totaly amazing, none the less.
Sue - If you want to see Leo DiCaprio in one of his best performances, watch "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." Outstanding performance as a retarded teenager, done when he was 19. He earned an Oscar and Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor for the performance, and won three other awards. (Strange movie. Stars Johnny Depp.) |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 08:04:38 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Elaine - you said you got BC and StLM from play.com. I have used them before and they are excellent however I searched for both those titles on their page and found nothing. Have they got some other Region 1 site?? |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 07:00:48 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | I saw Catch Me If You Can over Christmas. A highly enjoyable film. I have never seen DiCaprio film but was pleasantly surprised how good he was in it. Tom Hanks is one of those actors I don't have any particular feelings for but always enjoy when I watch his movies (Road to Perdition, Castaway). I am sure Tom Hanks will do a nuch better job than TC bu he isn't quite how I imagined Prof. Langdon. Don't think I would have liked to see AR in the role though doing another American accent. Hovever I could see AR as Sir Robert Teabing (we know he can handle crutches!LOL) |
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Saturday, January 22nd 2005 - 06:32:51 AM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Comments: | Angels and Demons also by Dan Brown is very good too.
I liked it just as much as I liked DC |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 10:01:29 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Sorry they didn't think of AR for DaVinci Code but I am very glad TC is not the lead I like TH and while I think he probably isn't who I would have chosen for the lead (can't think of WHO i would have picked *smile*) it would have ruined it for me to have TC in it.
Speaking of TH did anyone see him in Catch Me if You Can it was a really good movie. and true, too. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:56:04 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Sabine, he must have been thinking of the voice description. It is just too much of a co-incidence! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:03:46 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Elaine: when I read that description in Da Vinci Code, I immediately wondered if Dan Brown knows AR and had written that part for him in case there ever would be a movie. LOL |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:46:01 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Emily, Tom Hanks would be better than TC, but, the voice does not match! Yes, I think it was the "When Love Speaks" interview, and I have seen it written somewhere, too. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:41:17 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh its so funny that you mention the babelfish connection to "Hitchhiker's", Emily. Almost as soon as Sabine read that, she emailed me about it because she knows how dependent I am of BF! LOL You guys are soooo far ahead of me in reading. Drats! I have got to get caught up with yall. I feel so...... inadequate ;-( |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:18:43 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Elaine, Tom Hanks is playing the lead in "Da Vinci Code". Still nowhere close to that description. Isn't that how one interviewer described AR, his "chocolate voice"? Gotta remember what this was -- British radio interview, maybe for "When Love Speaks"??
Casting directors don't have a clue. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:03:22 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | On another thing, I have started to read the Da Vinci Code now. Am I right in saying that Tom Cruise was being tipped for the lead in this? Well, I came across this description in the first chapter:"Although Professor Langdon might not be considered hunk handsome like some of our younger awardees, this forty-something academic has more than his share of scholarly allure. His captivating presence is punctuated by an unusually low, baritone speaking voice, which his female students describe as "chocolate for the ears"" Does that sound like someone we know? Certainly not squeaky Cruise! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 07:58:42 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Location: |
in "boys night out" widowhood |
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Comments: | Ana, you think English is not a difficult language? ROTFL! one would think it was not difficult, until you see what big misunderstandings it can cause and the funny mistakes that come from words that sound alike but have different meanings. *joke* and do not go near a legal contract! merci beaucoup! (my cats love that phrase!) |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 07:52:42 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | [Holds hands up in awe of multi-lingual gb members] The idea of the auction is brilliant whoever thought it up. But I could imagine some virtual back-stabbing if the "wrong" person won the bid for AR. I'd be so jealous if I lost the bid - and probably would, as I said before, I can only afford £4.50! Think I'd take my boxing gloves.- or a big stick, - or an Uzi! Ana, don't know if anyone has answered you but Stephen Fry reads the Audio versions of the Harry Potter books. Don't know if they would be available to you anywhere? And I now worship at the feet of Play.com. They informed me that my dvds of StLM & Barchester C were in the post on the 18th, and they arrived this morning! That is quicker than UK 2nd class post can do it! Very nice featurette on StLM but I won't spoil it for you. I have never seen BC (apart from the clips here) so am looking forward to watching it from the start. Where shall I find the time? |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 07:35:49 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Hey, I just finished reading "Hitchhiker's Guide", so I now know where the name "babelfish" comes from! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:42:41 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Here's a whole bunch of translation engines: Babelfish.org.
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:17:12 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | Ana una curiosidad ¿de donde eres?
tu tambe parlas catala ? yo hablo catalan en casa y con mi familia pero no lo se escribir bien. No se, cuando llegue el momento ya vere yo soy muy cortadita para esas cosas ademas me parece que el Alan debe tener poca paciencia, me da , no se... yo he leido sobre sus resfriados y se al menos de 3 diferentes ademas los pilla en verano y en invierno ,pero cuando venga aqui que coma naranjas que tienen mucha vitamina C y ya se recuperara. Me ha hecho mucha ilusion el catalan.Gracias,yo es que no hablo muy bien ingles ¿sabes? ¿Sabes cuantos idiomas habla el Alan? Supongo que ingles y frances ¿no?. Lo de la peli lo tendriamos que mirar ,es verdad Robin Hood la dan cada 2 por 3. Yo no conozco a mucha gente que lo conozca ,ademas hay muy pocas paginas de el en español,por esto me gustan estas las miro casi cada dia para ver las novedades. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:14:01 PM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ana: Bitte sehr! :-) |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:11:06 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Spain |
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Comments: | Oops, se me olvidaba.
Elena, si el tipo ese dice que están buscando localizaciones en Barcelona no veo porqué no tienen que ir allí!! Yo creo que sí que irán y no creo que nos vaya a ser muy difícil encontrar los lugares de rodaje ya que saldrá anunciado en los periódicos locales (y es posible que incluso nacionales, sale Dustin Hoffman en la peli y ese seguro que lo conocen!) y si a eso le sumas el boca-a-boca me parece bastante probable que se sepa. Te lo digo por experiencia, presencié parte del rodaje de La Mala Educación, de Almodóvar en el 2003 y había mucha gente curioseando (yo me enteré por la más curiosa de las casualidades!!). Eso sí, también por experiencia te digo que si no ruedan nada al aire libre lo más seguro es que nos quedemos con las ganas de ver nada. A mi también me da verguenza pero no puedo desaprovechar esta oportunidad. Con un poco de suerte nos juntaremos un grupito de Rickmaníacas en la ciudad y con unas pocas que estén "tocades de l'ala" y se atrevan a ir a por Alan, las demás sólo tenemos que seguirlas!!! Qué dius? Et vindràs amb nosaltres? Claudia: What language do you want to learn? I want to learn French right now, but I'll have to wait 'cause I'm too busy nowadays. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:59:43 PM |
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Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | I'm sorry Claudia.I Know that it isn't correct to speak Spanish,but my English is not good.
I was interested in some Rickman's films .So I have asked some questions on them to Spanish people. Sorry for my English mistakes. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:56:38 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Spain |
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Comments: | Sabine: OK then, thanks to Mel for finding the interview and to you for translating it and posting it here. I hope that I put alright now... ;·p. So you are the virtous who speak german. Danke!!
Elena: No veo mucho la tele, prácticamente nada, pero he de advertite que no he vuelto a ver la más mínima señal de Rasputín en A3. Si lo pedimos varias personas es posible que la vuelvan a poner (aunque sea en plan: "por favor, dejad de poner Robin Hood, que ya me la sé de memoria, y volver a poner Raspuntín!!!"). Por cierto, que es eso de que el hombre se pasa media vida resfriado? Sólo lo ví resfriado en la entrega de premios... no me acuerdo de cuales eran, en esa que dice "See me later, Potter". Melissa: Barcelona es precioso. Yo fui cuando tenía unos 12 años y nunca podré olvidar la imagen de La Sagrada Familia. Es la construcción más bonita que he visto en mi vida (con permiso de El Monasterio Dos Jeronimos de Belem (Lisboa)). Tengo previsto ir, de hecho, tengo una amiga rickmaníaca en Barcelona que ya me ha ofrecido su casa, ya veremos. Hay otra Rickmaníaca de Madrid que ya me ha dicho que sí que va a ir así que es probable que armemos una tremenda (bueno, seguro, somos españolas, es inevitable!!!). Espero que ese escándalo nos permita conocerlo... (por cierto, de donde eres?) Lo q sería genial es poder pillarlo en el teatro estas Pascuas (ensayándo su obra) y decirle "See you in Barcelona" y aparecer otra vez en Barcelona, jajajajaja!! Te persigo Alan, no escaparás de miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:38:39 PM |
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Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hmmm, I'm giving Babel Fish a run for its money today and coming up with zip! I join Sue in her envy of all our multi-language friends. One day I hope to learn a second language but I've tried for year and its been hopeless so far. ;-( Its a good french kiss I find hard to resist! LOL |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:31:36 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | Melisa ¿tu tambien eres española?
porque tu español es muy bueno,mi ingles no es muy bueno,lo siento. intentare estos programas que me dices.No me importa que las peliculas sean en ingles. ¿sabes si tambien estan para poder bajar Mesmer y AABA? me encantaria tenerlas. Aunque fuera verdad que viniera a Barcelona ,seria muy dificil dar con el ,y ademas me daria verguenza .¿Tu lo conoces? |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:17:26 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Wow, I am so envious of you multi-linguists!!
All I have to add is "la plume de ma tante est dans le conservatoire!" I think I shall put my bid in for Boneys letter (never could resist a French letter!) Did I just say that???? |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:06:43 PM |
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Melissa |
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Comments: | Oh dear! I have been laughing my head off reading all this! Emily, Lucy, Sue ans Susan, you are just too much! ROTFL! I must admit that Donne writes rather steamy stuff hehehe.....but the other pieces are really nice too. Cardiac arrest is just about right! heehee<>br<>
Elena: fíjate en emule o kazaa si las puedes bajar....yo he bajado varias películas de el con esos programas. Que suertuda - vas a poder verlo en persona!!! Barcelona es una ciudad preciosas....mataria por ir. Ana: no te podrás subir al tren a ir a verlo? |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 05:02:04 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Claudia: thanks for the heads up on the e-bay PL DVD! I really hope that nobody will buy it.
Ana: Mel found the article, I translated it. ;-) |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 04:57:59 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I should have known better than to finish off my week with a peruse of ebay. It would seem that "itswetout" is selling that awful awful quality Private Lives DVD under the description of good quality. First, shame shame on "itswetout" on trying to make a buck off of AR's hard work. The DVD is not worth the $40 starting bid and I hope no one will bid on it. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 04:48:39 PM |
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Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh, yeah, I remember being disappointed when I was a kid when I learned that Atalanta was the name of the goddess, not Atlanta.
Still, the image of Atlanta with either kind of...er...orbs is too good not to snicker at. It's kind of like that Civil War-era song Bobby Horton sings that includes the line "She bears her bosom to the frey". I have a rather childish sense of humor. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 03:45:50 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | Muchas gracias por la informacion que me has dado Ana,quizas los de A3 la vuelvan a poner algun dia ,me encantaria ,sino la tendre que buscar por internet.
¿Sabes si es seguro que van a venir a Barcelona? Al menos aqui no se resfriara porque pobre hombre se pasa media vida resfriado.¡que pena! Thanks¡Claudia |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 03:45:42 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Spain - 77 ºF (25 ºC)!!! |
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Comments: | Sabine: Thanks, really, I needed that... (Thanks to Mel also, for the translation!!)
Snape: La verdad es que el inglés no me parece una lengua especialmente difícil (el español y las lenguas románticas en general deben serlo bastante más y ya ni te cuento de las lenguas eslavas!!!) pero un idioma siempre es difícil, sobretodo cuando intentas hablar con gente que lo habla desde que nacieron... Gracias por comprenderme!! Elena: No la has encontrado en Amazon? Qué raro... Tampoco es que la haya buscado. Una amiga ha conseguido bajársela de internet y como viene a mi ciudad cada vez que tiene unos días libres (su familia vive aquí, ella no) me ha dicho que me la grabará y me la dará las Pascuas que viene. Pero tú puedes pedírsela a Alan en persona!!! Que suerte... (La pusieron una vez en Antena 3 a horas intempestivas, una opción sería masacrarlos a mensajes para que la vuelvan a poner y en horas más aceptables, jejeje) So, the Love Letters thing allows you to "rent" a voice (while you are having dinner????). The only voices I've heard of the list is Juliet Stevenson (very nice), Fiona Shaw, Rufus Sewell and Andrew Lincoln (although I can't remember the voices of Sewell and Lincoln...). I have no idea of the voices of the other ones but I have a little feeling of Alan having an extra-work that night!!! Where can I hear Stephen Fry's voice? 'Cause I'm getting really curious after hearing your comments about him... |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 03:27:50 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
NZ |
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Comments: | Sorry to spoil the image but Atalanta was a very fast runner and to defeat her someone threw down some golden balls which she stooped to pick up and lost the race. Something like that anyway. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 03:06:06 PM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | Mere paramedics couldn't do it; it would take MI5. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 02:41:32 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: |  Hi Elena! Welcome. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 02:39:32 PM |
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Name: |
Elena |
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Location: |
Barcelona |
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Comments: | Ana.
¿Has podido conseguir la pelicula de Rasputin?.A mi me gustaria mucho conseguirla,pero no se como hacerlo,puesto que en el Amazon.co.uk,no esta disponible. Me gustaria que me respondieras .Gracias |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 02:34:01 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
dizzy just thinking about it |
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Comments: | Susan - I thought you were going to say "with all those paramedics clustered around your table trying to peel you off the Man." |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 02:28:10 PM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | After being read a love poem by AR how could you listen to a proposal from a normal human man? How could you hear it with your ears full of The Voice? Not to mention all those paramedics clustering around your table, trying to pull you out of cardiac arrest... |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 01:54:54 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | OMG, Emily! How funny are you??? Thanks for the pieces, Sue. You're on a roll....1 more to go. I have to admit....ole Boney's has to be my fav so far. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:50:38 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | BTW Ol' Boney is a bit of a tease isn't he? One minute he is writing hot suff like that and the next it's "Not tonight Josephine!" MEN!!! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:32:20 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Location: |
Who obviosly doesn't frequent the joints Emily does! |
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Comments: | "Stuff cash down his waistband like they do with belly dancers and male strippers?"
I am so glad I wasn't drinking tea when I read that!!!!! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:29:59 AM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Location: |
In my dreams |
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Comments: | So, after he reads, I wonder what's the protocol. Are you allowed to touch him? Lean over and sniff his neck? Stuff cash down his waistband like they do with belly dancers and male strippers? |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:22:39 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine De Beauharnais
Paris, December 1795 I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil. Sweet incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart! Are you angry? Do I see you looking sad? Are you worried? ... My soul aches with sorrow, and there can be no rest for your lover; but is there still more in store for me when, yielding to the profound feelings which overwhelm me, I draw from your lips, from your heart a love which consumes me with fire? Ah! it was last night that I fully realized how false an image of you your portrait gives! You are leaving at noon; I shall see you in three hours. Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire. Bonaparte. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:17:07 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:10:57 AM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Barbara H: I only wish I had been at the Almeida to hear him read Donne, but I wasn't! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 11:03:30 AM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
Deep Freeze |
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Comments: | AR to sit at my table and read me a love poem?
I could not deal with that! (but I would try...) I wonder if the person would be allowed to record it? (How come when I try to post, it takes me to some weird page? Or, it says it posted, but it's not there?) |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:37:10 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | ROTFL...typical Stephen Fry! On hearing he had been chosen as the voice of The Guide, the electronic book that guides Arthur Dent on his galactic travels, Fry said it was "like having your birthday on Christmas Day, discovering a winning lottery ticket in your stocking and having chocolate poured all over you".
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:31:20 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | So true, Claudia! LOL |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:24:21 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Well, I don't know about Atlanta itself but I can tell you if you've ever drove Atlanta.....you have balls! LOL |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 09:04:46 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ladies, I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed all your poetry suggestions! I hope y’all don’t mind if I add my own: Robert Herrick’s The Vine.
Lucy: Atlanta’s balls gave me quite a chuckle! LOL |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:47:24 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | O<,I'm still giggling over this line (from John Dunne):
"Gems which you women use Are like Atlanta's balls, cast in men's views," It's hard for a modern person to realize that in Elizabethan times men referred to particular parts of the female anatomy as "balls". Also, I'm from GA, USA. Imagine the picture I'm getting of Atlanta, GA's capital city! Although I must admit Atlanta is pretty, um, courageous. *smirk!* |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 08:10:18 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | OK I have found one of them! Have to go shopping so will leave it up to someone else to find the rest!
The First Day by Christina Rossetti I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season it might be; Summer or winter for aught I can say. So, unrecorded did it slip away, So blind was i to see and to forsee, So dull to mark the budding of my tree That would not blossom, yet, for many a May. If only I could recollect it! Such A day of days! I let it come and go As traceless as a thaw of bygone snow. It seemed to mean so little, meant so much! If only now I could recall that touch, First touch of hand in hand! - Did one but know! |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:49:43 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | TGIF, everyone!!! Ohhhh myyyyy, you ladies really had a good time last night with this little news bit! *fanning myself* at 6AM! LOL I love the poetry suggestions. Bless Frankie's heart. She mailed ARVON Foundation and here is her reply: Well I emailed the ARVON Foundatio last night for further clarification and this was the reply: "Hello and thank you very much for your email. Yes, the actors who we are working with will be involved in romantic readings at tables throughout the evening. We yet to confirm the actors but they will be from a pool who have agreed to participate, subject to availability, including Simon Callow, Tara Fitzgerald, Patricia Hodge, Adrian Lester, Andrew Lincoln, Angharad Rees, Alan Rickman, Rufus Sewell, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Imogen Stubbs. The readings that participants can make sealed bids for prior to the evening are: 1. Christina Rossetti The First Day 2. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, Shall I compare thee 3. Letter from Bonaparte Napoleon to Josephine, Paris December 1795 4. Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac Letter from Cyrano to Roxane The idea is that you can bid for an actor to read one of these at your table for someone you are with, or even for yourself!" A member in the ARExp group had this suggestion: Well, I'm thinking this has to be the ultimate way to propose. I mean, who would turn down a guy who hired Alan Rickman as his warm-up act?!?!
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 06:03:04 AM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Emily - exactly. License my roving hands etc. but also "Sweetest love, I do not go for weariness of thee'.How wonderful for you to hear him at the Almeida. I am so glad to meet a John Donne afficionado on Claudia's great site. Regards. |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 03:40:52 AM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I'm putting in my request for Donne's "Elegy XIX: Going to Bed" (aka "To His Mistress"). He read it at the Almeida Theatre benefit many years ago. Here is the poem, a little erotica before bedtime. I want to hear AR say "license my roving hands, and let them go/ Before, behind, between, above, below."
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 01:59:55 AM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | I love that little Donne poem, too. But I think Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" might be a better choice for AR to read--it's much longer--and, of course, erotic. (Yes, I've seen A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Wilde, Jeeves and Wooster, and everything else I could find that Stephen Fry has been in; I've read his books; I think he's fantastic.) |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 01:28:51 AM |
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Name: |
R. Joy (tina_als_girl) |
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Comments: | Barbara mentioned John Donne, and I just HAVE to quote my favorite of his poems; when I read it in Brit Lit last year, it immediately became my ultimate fav:
John Donne Anne Donne Undone *bows* Thank you. Thank you very much. *laughs at her silliness* Joy |
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Friday, January 21st 2005 - 12:37:25 AM |
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Name: |
Snape |
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Comments: | Ana, cada uno tiene apuro con inglés porque es una lengua difícil y no siempre lógica. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 11:03:31 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Please, please let him read some of John Donne's love poetry and make a CD of it for all of us to enjoy. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 10:00:04 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Love letters? Reading to the winning bidder?...That TFR would be OFF the scale! Bugger, I'm working on Feb 10th, too - and I would have made a bid! (Wonder if he would accept a commission bid of £4.25p as that is all I have in my purse right now?)(I could make him a cup of tea.) (And Hob-nob biscuits.) (Or maybe even a cream tea?)Off to dream.... |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 09:47:44 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Claudia, thank you for the love letter info. Now I won’t be able to sleep all night because I’ll be picturing AR reading sonnet 130 to me… LOL
BTW, I totally forgot to mention that it was Mel who found the Zeit article about The Perfume. Sorry, Mel! Ana: you don’t have to apologize for you English at all; it’s great! :-) |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 07:33:51 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Lovely and Warm Spain |
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Comments: | Hey! I was not here yesterday... Sorry, I was too busy trying to not be fly away. Gosh, how I hate windy-days *sigh*. However, I'm amazed of the weather of your cities. I thought that with less of 0 ºF you could not go out of your house... How ingenous I was, lol. I used to laught at my father when he said the we live in the "paradise" of Spain (refering to the weather). Not too hot and definetely not too cold. This days the termometer is between 14 and 22 ºC more or less (57-72 ºF) which is pretty good. Sunny winter days, lovely!
Zzzzz: I will try to make the song by myself but later 'cause I borrowed the film to a friend last spring!!! Hey, this huge picture of Alan and Bonnie Bedelia... Why she has her shirt opened showing her bra? I saw it in the film, in the scene of "excepcional thieve" but there's not any scene that shows how she made that... ###### (5 censored words) Alan is coming to Barcelona????? OMG, that's cool!! Sabine, thank you, thank you, THANK YOUUUUU for the info!! I'm looking forward to know more concrete dates to the filming (especially in Barcelona, of course ;·P) Forgive my English. I think is going more terrible every day, lol. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:42:40 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Comments: | Me again-
I'm so glad to hear about Stephen Fry being in HHGttG. He is a favo(u)rite of mine. Did anyone catch his series with Hugh Laurie called Fry & Laurie? It was great. He was also very good in the movie about Oscar Wilde, very intense. DH is one of those films I like because of AR but the woman who plays his wife (brain cells are not working--can't think of her name) irritates me. Something about her manner doesn't sit right with me. I have watched it a few times and find new clues every time. CL is the one I haven't been able to watch again. AR is beautiful (He cleans up pretty well!) in it but it is too gruesome. This is OT but I just had a bubble dashed. I always thought Lewis Caroll had to be just a sweet man to have written Alice in Wonderland. I just finished a story about him and he was creep who took hundreds of pictures of children and had child-friends. They didn't outright call him a pedophile but the next thing to it. Yikes. And if AR is psychic he would know he needs to stay in London, not trapsing all over Europe, from Jun. 23-Aug. 2 and do something the public can go to!! Actually he can do what he wants June 25 because I will be busy with Michael Ball *smile* that night! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:35:35 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | I finally got my @#%*&@@ computer working again.
Guys, I say we go together pool our money bid on AR and he can read to the lot of us. What's the longest romantic read we can think of??? Love the screen caps---my my what a kiss *sizzle* I emailed the mayors office at Wawa (bold, nosey woman that I am) and they said Snow cake was still in the works and nothing had started yet. I don't know how true that is but that's what they said! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:10:19 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Or maybe the winner gets the poem AR reads from his very hands, autographed and dedicated.
I need to go think about something else. This is all too much. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:06:09 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Location: |
England |
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Comments: | Ana Julia - seeing I have only one kidney maybe I should make you an offer LOL!! However, if I could afford to pay enough for you to go I would go myself!!!;)))
Picture the scene...... Me:"Oh I am going to see Alan Rickman" Hubby:"Oh blimey not again!" Me:"Just one thing, the tix are £125" Hubby:...Fill in your own phrase! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 05:32:56 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | Dedicated romantic readings...hotsie totsies! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 05:24:44 PM |
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Name: |
Ana Julia |
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Location: |
México |
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Comments: | OMG!
If that means what Emily thinks that it means... then... it's worth 15/10 thud factor! And that means that I need to sell a kidney! Anyone interested? |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 05:20:38 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Does this mean what I think it means? Do you bid on him and he reads to you?
See ya, I'm on my way to London ... |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 05:07:11 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Renie just posted this over at Suzanne's. Love Letters The Arvon Foundation and Anthony Minghella are hosting
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 04:38:24 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | On the same note, BBC-A will be airing the BAFTAs. Although they have run them live before, unless they change the time on the site, its looking like it won't be live this year since the air time would be around 2AM in London! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 04:03:15 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I was just checking out the BAFTA nominations and I see Vera Drake has 7 nominations including Imelda Staunton for Best Actress (geez, Kate Winslet was nominated twice in the same category!). I really am rooting for Imelda Staunton. Vera Drake didn't get the press coverage I thought it should have. IS is amazing in this role. But....she's up against Charlize Theron's Monster I do hope VDrake will come out on top. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 03:58:23 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
somewhere under the snow |
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Comments: | Sue - Oh, THAT kiss! I was afraid you meant the other. *Phew* Very nice. (Tried to post this earlier but it wouldn't go. Hope it works now.) |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 10:53:58 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | A thud factor scale of 1-10 is just fine. Besides, since you're the Keeper of the Thuds, you get the honor of figuring out the scale! :D |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 10:07:27 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Claudia (and Sue of course): thanks for the wallpaper! It's beautiful!
Yes, I think S. Fry will be perfect as the voice of the Guide! Can't wait! :-) |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 09:22:40 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Another one of favorite Brits is joining the cast of Hitchhiker! Stephen Fry will be voicing the part of the guide! The book is still in my pile of books to read so I don't know the part....but from the description of it, it sounds like Fry's voice and articulation will be perfect for the role! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 09:17:54 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh Sabine, Sue did a wonderful wallpaper from one of the candle caps.
And then this one from the roses cap. 
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 09:09:05 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Sue: totally forgot to mention the gif! As Claudia said, it's sexy as you-know-what! Thanks for posting it!
Thank you Claudia and Susan for the screencaps. I love the one with the candles! :-) |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 08:53:25 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh and Ricky, I got your mail so I'll be sending the spoiler in a little while. |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 08:47:04 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Thanks Sabine for the article! Yes, indeed he needs to get his facts straight! A July shoot might be a bit on the warm side in Barcelona and Bordeaux but does anyone know what July might be like in Croatia? OMG, that gif is so sexy! Thanks so much for sharing it, Sue. And special thanks to Row for making it. I'll have to mention it in SOB as soon as I get a chance. Congrats Lucy! Enjoy your the film! TFR, I'm assuming that the scale will be 1-10, then? I'd have to give David Weinberg a 7.5. Although he is drop dead gorgeous in DkH, I can't get away from the fact that David is a terrible person so that does interfere with the way I look at him. Susan has provided some more screen caps. Thank you, Susan!
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 08:44:13 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | This is from an article in Die Zeit, a German magazine. It’s dated January 20, 2005. It’s an interview with Bernd Eichinger who will be producing The Perfume. I only translated the Perfume/AR relevant bits:
Zeit: What’s going on with your big project? Eichinger: You must be talking about Patrick Sueskind’s The Perfume. It looks like filming will start in July. Currently, we are looking for locations in Barcelona; it is also possible that we will shoot parts of the movie in Bordeaux, maybe also Croatia. Zeit: For many years, Sueskind refused to sell you the rights to his book. How much did you end up paying? Eichinger: No comment. Zeit: Who do you trust with the material? Eichinger: The Perfume is the most successful German novel since Im Westen nichts Neues (possible translation: No News on the Western Front). So, I definitely wanted a German director, who I found in Tom Tykwer. We are currently negotiating with Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman, who played the evil wizard Voldemort in the Harry Potter movies.* Ben Wishaw, a 22 year-old actor who recently played Hamlet in London and received standing ovations for his performance, will play the main character. *Looks like Mr. Eichinger needs to get his facts straight! LOL |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 08:23:56 AM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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Comments: | Thank you for all your nice answers!
Kate, thank you for your offer, but an American VHS doesn't work at my recorder. I bought myself 2 or 3 Music-Videos once, when I came to the States and our Record Player does not want them (I also tried at my friend's one, neither did work hers) and does not play them and we have still the same recorder. Maybe a newer Player-Generation would be useful *sigh* And I hope very much, that in the shop I can change it. The have ordered this one and four others for me (not yet here - all with AR *ggg*), but it may again be a month or so for waiting at it. And Sue - this kiss I looked at again and again, when I made my second start on the Dark Harbour-DVD yesterday. As my hubby was not at home, I could do so and enjoyed it very much. What a man *sigh* But I can understand HER very much, when HE would stop kissing me just of a silly phone call ;o( Ricky |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:43:15 AM |
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Name: |
sue |
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Comments: | Meant to add many thanks to Row for making and providing the gif!!
After a few moments viewing it starts to get hypnotic!!LOL |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:37:32 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | OK THIS is especially for Ricky and all those Dark Harbor lovers out there. Not one of my favourite AR films but the scenery is lovely ( AND I do mean the island!!LOL)
Mind you I would have to give this 5.9 recurring on the old  Thudometer!! |
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Thursday, January 20th 2005 - 06:35:54 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Yes, my proposal is that we rate each movie with the "thud factor" PURELY on the merits of Alan Rickman's presence and performance in said piece.
I won Dark Harbor off Ebay, btw. Sorry, I didn't think about the fact that not everyone immediately recognizes Ebay references. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 11:39:31 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | I love the idea of the thud factor. It has nothing to do with the script or anybody else's acting capacities, just how much of a knockout Alan (or rather, Alan's character) is . right? (I know....not supposed to end a sentence in a preposition, sorry, but i couldn't find a way around it) lucy....you won dark harbour??? how?! Ricky.....I would go stark raving mad if a movie did that to me...just bezerk. I would be climbing up the wall....especially with an AR movie. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 10:59:09 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I just won Dark Harbor! It's VHS, but what can you say?
I love the screen caps. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 08:25:41 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Yes, please see if Row will look up that icon, Sue. That would be quite mouth watering! ;-) Giving his roles a TFR is a great idea! What's the scale, 1-5, 1-10? Jamie make the top, whatever it may be. So glad you found the Die Hard clip, SARF. Thank you for being so patient. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 07:56:45 PM |
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Name: |
SARF |
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Location: |
NZ |
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Comments: | I know I'm late posting this, but...
It's here! It's here! It's here! There is now a Hans Gruber clip! YAY! I've been away from a computer for so long, and then, I came back, and he was HERE! YIPEE! Thank you so much Claudia! You've made my day! I didn't think it could get any better! Oh, I'm so happy! Thank you so much! *jumps and shrieks with happiness!!!* |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 07:26:10 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Yonks ago Row made a steamy moving gif of that kiss, Claudia! It was hypnotic, I shall have to get onto her to find it and then will post. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 06:18:42 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I got to my stash! LOL Here are a couple that SuzyQ snapped. And then there was this little jewel..... |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 05:56:28 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I agree, the "thud factor" would rate just how much an AR fan would enjoy a particular piece of work. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 05:22:53 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | "Thud factor rating" or TFR! Could be interpreted as a "different" kind of film rating. eg To me,Mesmer is an awful film, but has a TFR of about 3.5, just for the man's look! Ricky, sorry about your DVD. If you can wait until you see DkH, you will enjoy it much more than one of us telling you. Watched "Stepford Wives" this evening and then felt like an AR fix so decided on RHPoT. Just watched the scene where George comes upon Robin with the bish. Alan has wonderful comic timimg! That chase through the castle is hilarious! Then straight after, you get KC trying to be dramatic. I know you lke him, Claudia, but this just wasn't the role for him! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 05:11:58 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia (AOL and DreamBook are killing me softly today!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | What a generous offer, Kate, SF! *crossing fingers* that it will play on Ricky's player! And I do agree about spoiling her with pictures. How about it ladies, do you have any DkH pics you want to post? *grin* The caps that Kate is "aheming" about are what I like to call "The Walk" and "The Dive" for which I'd be glad to mail Ricky if she wants them. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 04:27:40 PM |
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Name: |
Kate |
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Location: |
SF |
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Comments: | Ricky, I have a VHS copy of Dark Harbor that you are welcome to. Will it play for you? It's a US copy.
Claudia, we should also spoil her with, ahem, screen caps. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 03:06:58 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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E-mail address: |
flipper828@aol.com |
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Comments: | Ricky, I'll draft a spoiler for you and send it through email, if you really want one. Let me know through email. My heart just breaks for you though. I can imagine how excited you were and then have the DVD mess up. I'm so sorry. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 02:31:28 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Ricky - Why didn't he indeed? heehee. Can't do it, sorry. No spoiler from me. (Bummer about the DVD) I will just say that she lives through that day. Perhaps someone can point you to a review? Or maybe give you a spoiler.
Claudia - thanks for the icon... |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 02:14:26 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hmmm, you need to rate all the new Alan Rickman movies coming out with that little "thud" icon. They could have a "thud" factor between 1 and 5. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 02:07:02 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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E-mail address: |
lilithnoteve@arcor.de |
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Comments: | I've waited for weeks to receive "Dark Harbour". And now I have got it and *cry* - first it didn't want to start and when it finally did it stopped by about 47 minutes :o( Alan is out,playing golf and his wife is first drinking and than fooling around with the young hangabout.
Today I've just tried again - same end :o( well now I thought, maybe it works at ´the DVD at the Laptop. No chance, it doesn't even stops. My other DVDs are working :o( I just know she's eating bad mussels or some of that kind (poisoned by Alan?!) somewhere on the I-Net *sigh* And why *jesus* did Alan not throw out the young guy in the morning, after breakfast?! He invited him for evening-dinner, I can't understand - it didn't seem, that he liked him?! Could one of you be so nice and make a Spoiler for me? When I'm able to change the DVD to another one, I still will have to wait for some more weeks! Ricky sad, angry, curious. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 01:36:00 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
It's warmed up 12 degrees in an hour - its now above 0! |
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Comments: | Sue - bummer!
Have to agree about hanging on every word and gesture and then hardly remembering a thing he said. (insert *thud* icon, please!) heehee.
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 09:55:54 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Not me I am afraid Elaine. The 19th April is my 30th wedding anniversary and if I want to reach 31 I think I shall forgo it!!! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 09:24:03 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | *tee hee* Very happy to oblige, Elaine! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 09:20:40 AM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK - same weather |
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Comments: | Me again. As a matter of interest, how many here are actually going to the Royal Court on April 19th? |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 09:04:51 AM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK - wet & miserable (He's lucky to be out of it) |
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Comments: | Thanks, Sue. I have just "acquired" the full version of Photoshop. I thought that it would not have much more than "Elements" but there is a shed load to learn! Can''t wait to try it out on some of my pics [tee hee] I think both PS and PSP are very similar, though. No probs, Martha, I was in bed anyway so glad someone answered for me. It was a really good night, wasn't it? I hope RC will be as good but as it is more "political" I don't think it will have the same atmosphere that the NFT had.And GG, I must agree. You sit there trying to listen and remember every word, but he has such grace and "presence" (I keep saying this) that it is difficult to keep your mind on important things like what he is saying. (Claudia's brilliant "thud" smiley should go here!") Well, only making a quick visit while I am ordering more dvd media. Catch you later |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 09:02:29 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: |  Welcome, Ann! Hope you will participate with us often. *waving* Hey Judy! Melissa--NFT stands for "Nantional Film Theatre" and the event was a screening of TMD with a Q&A afterwards. AR and Juliet Stevenson were there for the Q&A. Thanks to all for the comments about the instrument. I will look around for the report that I was thinking about. Sue, I hope 2005 will not let you down too. And don't forget to share it with us. I really liked Unforgivable Blackness. When I first realized who Jack Johnson was, I was fearful that it would be a 3 1/2 hours documentary of boxing. This was not so. This documentary provides an insight into life as it was in JJ's time and how he handled his fame, fortune, and the treatment he received at the hands of the a bigoted world he lived in. The whole film was fascinating for me. Unfortunately, AR was not in the second half. I do have the deleted scene that Ali-Pat talks in with the clip on the site. And you are right about the soundtrack, Ali-Pat. The music in the film was fantastic. I'll be ordering the ST soon, myself. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 08:57:33 AM |
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Name: |
Ali-Pat |
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Location: |
Ohio, snowing again... |
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Homepage URL: |
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html |
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Comments: | Just a quick note about Unforgivable Blackness. I received my DVD copy before the show was ever aired on PBS and can tell you that AR is in one of the deleted scenes that was originally meant for Part II. There is also a section of the "making of" documentary that focuses on some of the narrators, but (sadly for us) AR is not among the featured.
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 07:46:38 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | LucyMalfoy;)-The font is Papyrus, and yes I have settled on the second (adjusted) Sinclair paper now too:)
Elaine - I use PaintshopPro8. I agree about that scene. Anybody who has ever guiltily looked through somebody else's things can recognise the feelings expressed. It is so true to life Thanks for the NFT memories. I can't look at the cello playing scene now without spotting the arm! Actually I do recall him being a bit doubtful about telling us at the NFT, he sort of didn't want to spoil it but everybody was keen to know so he explained. I have managed to see him "in the flesh" every year since 2001 so am keeping fingers crossed for this year! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 04:18:23 AM |
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Name: |
Judy |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Claudia, At the NFT he, JT and the producer of TMD were discussing the fact that the original title of TMD was to be "Cello" and AR quipped that he thought that "Flute" would have been better. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 02:59:58 AM |
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Name: |
Gissing's Girl |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | The trouble is when you go to see AR, such as at the NFT, you tend to spend the time just looking, sort of drinking him in while you can and you're in such a tiz that his words tend to go over your head and you can't remember what he said. Other than the lovely velvety quality of his voice.
I do remember that he said he had the real cello player's hand down his jacket sleeve while he was pretending to play. |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 02:52:36 AM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | Ohh my friend just got her P's (car lisense if this is only in Australia) and well i went driving with her for the first time v. strange experience for me.
zzzz- they have the song book out i was gonna but it but i thought " 50 bucks get out of here!" and there waz only one song i really wanted but there are othres that are good. i might but it but i don't know if its still at the store. But i'm the only fan in the town i think! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 01:40:40 AM |
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Name: |
Ann |
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Location: |
China |
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Comments: | It is really a heaven! Thank you all! |
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Wednesday, January 19th 2005 - 01:22:57 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | It's only 22 F here right now, so AR can come down here and warm himself up. *grin* |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 11:41:53 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
-9 AR could have come here if he wanted to be cold |
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Comments: | Sorry Elaine - didn't mean to step on your question. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 11:12:19 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
sub zero maine |
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Comments: | NFT, RADA Centenary Celebration, presentation of TMD with after film Q&A with AR and JS. Very nice...
Saw all but the first 10 minutes of UB. Unless AR was on then, or I dozed, he wasn't in the second half. Figures that I missed the first half. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 11:06:07 PM |
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Name: |
Melissa |
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Comments: | Elaine.......refresh my memory....what was the NFT? whatever it was, it sounds wonderful. I hope anyone within a 400 mile radius of WAWA is able to go and check out the action! (take a camera!) |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 08:27:41 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Comments: | Claudia, thanks so much for your nice compliment! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 08:16:34 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | If I remember rightly, someone asked AR at the NFT if he actually played the cello or another instrument. He said - sadly, no but it was his hand on the bow. At other times, the guy who really played had to put his arm through the sleeve of the coat AR was wearing so it looked as though AR was playing. I remember he had us in stitches as he demonstrated how it was done! He also said that he had to cart the cello through London which was not much fun. I have to agree as I had cello lessons at school and had to take it home on the bus so I can sympathise. Ah, it's been nice to recall that night! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 07:47:37 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: |  A great big welcome to Heather and Miriam! Hope yall will come back often. This is a great group of fans and we really enjoy talking about AR. Thanks for the KK quote, Susan. When I first saw that interview, I did not know that KK was Sharman Macdonald's daughter. When I first heard KK say that I thought "How rude?" and then shrugged it off to youth. But it made sense after realizing the girl probably had known AR almost all her life. UB was very good last night. I'm looking forward to the second part tonight. Jack Johnson was, I think, a man before his time. But he didn't let anything get in his way of obtaining success and fortune. I wonder if AR's voice is on part 2???? Can't wait! Zzzzz, I love your little html icon. Fits you to a "z"! ;-) AR spoke a little bit about instruments at the NFT last year. Maybe Elaine, GG or someone else that went can remember his exact words. But I think he did mention how heavy carrying the cello around was and that if he were to pick an instrument, he would pick something smaller. Help me out one of you lucky ladies, please? TikkiRose's The Faces of Mr. Rickman and Rickman Daily are excellent sites to visit as often as possible. I visit them daily. OMG, Sue! The new wallpaper is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I love it. I agree with you on that scene, Elaine. The hurt is so obvious. Yikes, Julie! Thanks for the weather update in Wawa. If he's there, I hope he's bundled up. Possibly putting that fish scarf to good use, maybe??? LOL I do wonder if the weather in Wawa is comparable to the weather they had in Scotland while shooting tWG. It was ghastly cold while they were there. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 07:33:27 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy Malfoy |
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Location: |
Inversneckie :) |
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Comments: | Sue - I still prefer the second one :) Oh and what font did you use I forgot to ask you - Very Cool !!!!! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 06:54:34 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Sue, WONDERFUL wallpaper. You always capture the right moment. I tend to put too much in mine. "Too busy!" He was so good in that clip, you can almost feel the tension as he searches through those drawers. Have I asked you before what programme you use? Weird weather today. One minute sunny, the next windy and wet. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 06:51:49 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Comments: | Ana, I taught myself the S&S song. Bach Invention 13 is my limit in terms of memorizing, so of course it's just a hobby for me. Thought maybe AR played an instrument as a hobby, too. I was given every type of music as a student--would'nt you know, everything I like is difficult and the best I could do was two hours daily practice. Isn't it hard when you're learning a sad piece, to hear that over and over? I suspect it's the same with actors...like in theater to get really angry night after night, that's work. AR has said in interviews that playing Valmont was difficult. Carla, I don't remember the love theme you're talking about, I still haven't bought the LA DVD--if I did like the music, I would teach myself. Now you have me curious, must run out and buy LA, finally. :) |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 05:40:17 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
Deep Freeze |
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Comments: | Sue - *sigh* They look the same to me. Gorgeous.
Can someone just go to Wawa and see is they're filming? Is there a local paper? Anything? (Our high temperature today was a breezy 3 degrees(F).) |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 05:28:46 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh, Sue, those are wonderful wallpapers! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 03:41:09 PM |
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Name: |
Julie |
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Location: |
Michigan |
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Comments: | This is to Martha "way up north!" I hope it goes through. Been trying to post for a couple days, having technical difficulties!!
I'm sure I first read about the filming of Snowcake taking place in Wawa on this guestbook. I'm no good at doing links, not even sure how to try. I remember reading that there were 11 applications of films they wanted to make in Canada. 4 were approved, one of them being Snowcake, in Wawa, Ontario. Then I read they were hoping to start filming in January. Sorry I don't have anything more concrete. If he's in Wawa now, it's the perfect weather. Wawa's temperature this morning was -17F. I'm sure the windchill was colder. If he's there, he's about 400 miles north of my house, which is probably the closest I've ever been to him. Yay! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 03:32:56 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | Slightly different version of that CME paper that I prefer, see what you think.
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 02:55:59 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
a warm place |
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Comments: | Hello Miriam:
I now, the uncle that played the piano now plays something similiar to a trumpet for 5 or 6 years, lol. I suppose that I have my head too much in the piano (3-6 hours of training/day). The age-thing was for the time, adults work, children don't, it has nothing to do with the capacity. The cello looked really good on him but he's right, it's too big!!! What about a violin (too hard, I'm afraid...). By the way, what concert did you met Alan and what did he say to you? I've never met him and I'm really curious (and incredibly jelous) about all the meetings!!! Zzzzz: No. That's the problem that I always had. It was all classic music and I wanted modern music to play. Where I can find it? (By the way, I really love all the music that Kate Winslet plays in S&S, it's beautiful!!). Claudia: Great material, thanks! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 02:45:55 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Comments: | Sue - Beautiful! |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 02:04:46 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | New CME paper:
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 01:55:43 PM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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E-mail address: |
lilithnoteve@arcor.de |
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Comments: | *sigh* Really great update. Lot of thanks from me.
And to "Die Hard" - I'd like to be his companion when drinken his Pina Colada and not only when he's doing this.... ;o)) And I enjoy(ed) looking at the "daily pictures". Thanks for this link too. I've not had the time to go through all of them and I don't understand all the comments ;o(((( (some things one does not learn at school or in courses - little bit of them only when listening to films and reading *lol*) Ladies - you have saved my day / evening. It was a really f..k day at works and I realized the next months will not become better. One view into the future: tomorrow I'm getting "Dark Harbour" - nearly fainting. Finally! I hope, that I can really understand this film. Have had read such a lot of it (Spoilers and so on) and it seems to be really hard to understand. ;o( Thanks ones more - and a nice evening / day to all of you. (here in Austria it is 19.30 p.m.) Ricky |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 01:39:44 PM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Great great great thanks to Claudia for the new downloads! *celebrates*
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 10:28:49 AM |
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Name: |
Miriam |
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Location: |
the Netherlands |
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E-mail address: |
mheijdemann@netscape.net |
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Homepage URL: |
http://none |
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Comments: | Hi Ana,
It was nice to read that Alan would like to play a musical instrument. One is never too old to learn. I started playing the celtic harp 4 years ago (I am nearly 45 now) and I am so enthousiastic about it, that I soon will go on on the concert harp. The ballet dancer Nureyv started plaing the piano when he was over 50. What would be a good instrument for Alan? He sure has beautiful hands to play the piano. Does anybody know about his musical taste? If so, I would LOVE to hear. Nice to read your guestbook. It is nice to share our interest in the same very talented person. Alan is very nice and very modest. I had the opportunity to meet him very briefly after a concert in London and he was a true gentleman. He is wonderful. Thanks for the opportunity to write in your guestbook. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 10:16:29 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Thank you so much for the new downloads Claudia! I'm planning on watching UB sometime this week. It sounds very interesting! :-) |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 07:45:06 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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E-mail address: |
new ARicon alert at my LJ (pimpimp) |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | Many thanks for the new stuff Claudia. UB looks very interesting, hope it gets over to the BBC sometime (as well as StLM) |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 05:32:16 AM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | ok back again...
zzzz- you say you play the piano do you have the glasgow love theme from LA? Oh i had a horrible scare before the VCR broke down!!! it wouldn't take the Tape. i thought oh no what will i do with all the tape i've made???? luckally i fixed it! YAy! ha ha my rpg character has been deied well i'm not surprised. |
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Tuesday, January 18th 2005 - 01:45:49 AM |
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Name: |
Heather |
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Location: |
Toronto, Canada |
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E-mail address: |
Heather.Duncan@sympatico.ca |
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Comments: | Thank you so much for creating this website and providing all the audio downloads. I am truly impressed and quite excited to have found it. Excellent work!!! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 11:52:04 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Thank you Claudia and those who helped you get all the lovely new clips for us. Once again you're all GREAT!
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 11:29:37 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Comments: | (-o-)z z zzzz...Ana, hi I play piano, too. Have you tried "Weep You No More Sad Fountains" from S&S? what Marianne was playing when Col Brandon first saw her? Melissa, I do recall a cover that was a red background with a black image, but no name. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 10:58:46 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | hi all! Listening to UB, (after first reading Claudia's 'warning') i almost had a heart attack, thinking that the southern voice at the beginning of the clip was supposed to be Alan Rickman...I couldn't believe it! I breathed a huge sigh of relief when i heard his distinctive nasal tones in his own accent...thank goodness
I am interested in seeing all these 'self portraits' if anyone has the pics. I don't remember what the playbill cover for antony looks like (was it a play called Antonio or was it Antony and Cleo??) |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:49:37 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | OK, I promised some prezzies and I'm back with my arms full! Television Page Film Page Caution about UB. I admit that I experienced a bit of shock while listening to AR's part. He just proves once again what a wonderful actor he is and how he can do any part that comes along. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:20:46 PM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Comments: | You may have been talking about this before and i just didn't read it.
Douglas Adams, it's only fitting that we're very excited that the movie version of his most famous work - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - has finally started production. This is how the confirmed cast is looking at the moment: Martin Freeman (Arthur) Mos Def (Ford) Sam Rockwell (Zaphod Beeblebrox) Zooey Deschanel (Trillian) Warwick Davis (Marvin, the Paranoid Android) Alan Rickman (Voice of Marvin) John Malkovich (Humma Kavula) Bill Nighy (Slartibartfast) Steve Pemberton (Mr Prosser) Anna Chancellor (Questular) Bill Bailey (Voice of the Sperm Whale) Nigel Plaskitt (Vogon High Command) Mak Wilson (Voice of Jeltz, Vogon Captain) |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 08:53:54 PM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Location: |
Australia |
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Comments: | i did end up watching most of the G.G's and in the first 5 mins they had shown about 10 people that had worked with alan. I had to tape it for a friend and i had to tape somthing else on another cannel for another friend! So i had a nervouse breakdown doing both stopping and starting tapes and so on. But i do have some clips of stlm on them so i'm quite happy.
Thanks for the heads up on StLM i have a feeling it will be the same or following close behind it. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 08:38:23 PM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | On the Evening Standard DVD about LA, KK talks about how each set of characters was separate from all the others in filming so that the actors felt they were in different movies (reminds me of what MEM said about filming the AR part of RHPOT and the KC part of it). And she says she felt something like, "I don't care if you are Alan Rickman, get out of my movie." After I got up off the floor, I decided that KK must think she's a much bigger star than I'd been thinking she was... But maybe it would feel different if I watched it again. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 08:30:26 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Just wanted to remind everyone that is able to watch
Unforgiveable Blackness is on tonight central time at 8pm on PBS Stations I've got a few more pages to read about Mesopotamia and the Sumerians and I will be more than ready to watch some good TV program! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 08:07:03 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Zzzzz: Music is very expensive. Every instrument is expensive and each lesson can cost you a lot of money, I know it, I played the piano. Plus, you need time so the best moment to learn is in childhood and teen years cause university and work uses to get a great part of your time. One of my uncles played the piano when he was young but when he started to work he couldn't do it anymore. I don't think that Alan's family had the money to buy him an instrument and then pay all the lessons. And when he finaly got the money he did not got the time!!! Anyway, he said that he would love to play some instrument (everything but the cello, lol).
The self-portrait that you say is that one in which he is playing the cello? I can't remember any other in the film right now... If he has done this also it looks like he likes to make self-portraits!! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 05:22:38 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: | Hi all! Been hard to get here today...sorry for my abscence. I think Sue posted about the Olympic 2012 video a good while back. But you must have read my mind, Emily because I was just thinking that I needed to pop over and see if any changes had been made to their video offerings. Its really a bummer that he wasn't it the video. All the people that was mentioned in the announcement article are in it with the exception of the most important one! Ohhh the eyes in that pic, Lucy! I was quite surprised to find out who Kiera Knightly was too. On the Evening Standard LA freebie, there is an interview of Kiera Knightly and she mentions AR with a giggle but I can't remember what she says. Anyone got the disk and can take a quick peek? I'll have to take a look at the piece of art in Nina's flat before I can make a comment. Believe it or not (considering its my fav film), I haven't watched TMD in a while. I've tried to lay off a bit so when I watch it next time, I'll enjoy it even more! LOL Be back in a little while with some prezzies! I know it will be really late for our friends east of Georgia but I can't help it. But I'll work as fast as I can...I promise. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 04:54:47 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Remember how AR was supposed to have something to do with the London 2012 Olympics bid? I just looked at the films on the official London 2012 site and he doesn't seem to be in any of them. I think the one he would have been in is called "Sport at Heart" -- Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and some other celebs who I cant remember now are in it. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 04:39:16 PM |
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Zzzzz |
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Comments: | That's a good question, Vicki, I'd like to know if he did that pic in TMD, too. Someone here must know, this site has alot of info about AR. Many, many actors are also painters, but I find it a mystery that Alan doesn't play any musical instruments, considering how the arts interact with each other. (Of course, freely speaking, his voice may be considered the instrument he plays :) |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 04:26:55 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I always thought that "self-portrait" sold on EBay was a copy of the real deal. The style is very similar to the poster he made for the play "Antonio", which was another self-portrait. And I remember reading somewhere a few years ago that he did a self-portrait that was put on a tea-towel or something that was auctioned off for charity. So a self-portrait does exist out there. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 04:13:40 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Mmmm, we know how odd things end up on ebay. I'll keep delving to see where I saw that pic. Love the original photo, though! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 04:01:49 PM |
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Name: |
Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Well, the only thing I can say for sure is that was definitely Alan's voice asking for coffee...no mistake about that.
I, too, was unaware that Kiera Knightly was Sharman McDonald's daughter. How nice to have connections in high places. I love that photo of Jacques Roux. It really shows his intensity. Does anyone have a screen capture of that graphic poster that appears on the wall of Juliet Steveson's flat in TMD? It only appears briefly in one scene but it's unmistakenly a portrait of AR. I wonder if it is some of his work or if it was something made as a publicity poster from a play he once appeared in. Since TMD was made on such a tight budget and schedule (which you learn if you are lucky enough to have the version with the director's commentary)it was probably something existing that they used in order to make the flat seem like it was once a place he used to inhabit. If anyone has it....please post it! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 03:26:26 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Elaine that drawing was sold on ebay as a self-portrait but I have no idea as to the validity of that. I was erring on believing it but only today I came across this photo:
This makes me doubt it a bit. Does a trained artist do a self-portrait from a photograph??? I don't know. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 02:33:39 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Hi all,missed a lot as usual. Been in windy Plymouth for the weekend and have not had much sleep - self-inflicted! The JS picture - I'm not convinced. It looks like a woodcut type thing rather than an actual drawing and I have seen a font very similar to the signature. The sound bite - definitely him! Sue, is that artwork actually by him? I have never seen anything of his apart from the programme cover to "Antony" and those doodles in "Big Night Out". I always though that this was a piece of fan art signed by AR. I am quite excited about it if it is his work. No point in watching the GG tonight then? I wondered if he might be there as StLM had a nom, but if he is not, I won't bother. Endlessncelebs flashing their gums (and their bits)at the camera isn't my idea of a good night in! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 02:24:44 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Okay, I'm going to try again.
Here's a great publicity still of Jacques Roux. Those of you who don't check Rickman Daily LiveJournal every day should! |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:54:28 AM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | YEA! I´m home!!!!! he he he......I had the most allergic day in recent history yesterday....OMG....my brains were oozing out thru my nose.....it was AWFUL! I had to sweep ten tons of dust and leaves and crud when i first arrived, but now it is semi-livable. ACHOOOOO! I am on the fence about the pic, but the voice is definitly his. And speaking of the voice, on the way up in the car i had tons of CDs to listen to and i put the first one in not knowing whcich one it was since they aren't labeled, and out of the speakers came: My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun... We nearly ran off the road LOL. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:42:00 AM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Martha thanks for the link to the LJ - MmmmMmm Snape!
*pets the Guestbook* Now be a good girl/boy... |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:11:08 AM |
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Name: |
Sniv |
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Comments: | Hello...
Sorry I havent been here for a while, RL got in the way :-/ Alans handwriting is very nice. When I found out that it was him who wrote that card to Emma Thompsons character in Love Actually I was like go Alan, because compared to my fathers its like the most beautiful thing in the world! lol...My dad's are rubish lol Shh dont tell him! - even though he kinda knows it lol...Anyways... Watched STLM yesterday *melts* Still loving the ending! Besides that I got nothing to add - btw thanks for the news about the Alan Rickman teddybear I wonder when they'll put a pic up! ... And Im crossing everything so Alan can win the Satelite Adward for his character in STLM! He really deserve it! ...the guestbook hates me! *sobs* It wont let me post... |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 09:08:58 AM |
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Name: |
Susan |
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Location: |
CA |
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Comments: | Something the Lord Made and Barchester Chronicles will be released in region 1 on Jan. 25th. No clue about HBO's plans for StLM in the rest of the world. |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 02:44:41 AM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Comments: | ok good i'm going to miss most of the globes.
re: the handwriting. i find that i have different styles when i write some times it is horrible and ilegible when i'm rushed of just don't care and some times its neat when i try. Now i half own help i'm a fish... well not half...yet! I had a rushed phone call from my friend at a pay phone askinf if she should but it. Well of couse i said yes. When does StLM come out on vid/Dvd? |
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Monday, January 17th 2005 - 01:43:40 AM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | I just found out that Kiera Knightly of LA fame is Sharman Macdonald's daughter. The British acting/film industry is a club--6 degrees of AR everywhere! I'll bet he's known her all her life she was born one month after my son was born! I am amazed I'd never heard this before. Sharman Macdonald has a new play coming out in England and a new one coming out in San Francisco about the Civil War. Maybe when I go back for my niece's wedding next year it will be playing!
Barbara the H---did you get my e-mail???? hope so. IMHO the Juliet Stevenson pic and title is that I agree with you all who think it is AR's drawing and handwriting. He has very beautiful writing--unusual--for a man. I am thoroghly enjoying Noel Coward. Finished Blithe Spirit--on to Hay Fever--Would be nice if Blithe Spirit were still in town when I go. It is just as funny as PL. I have managed tho to lose my copy of Tango at the End of Winter somewhere at school--going to look for lost & found Tues. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 10:20:43 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I've turned from the Golden Globes to catch the last half of He Knew He Was Right. Last week, I kept thinking that Mrs. French, played by Barbara Flynn looked familiar. Low and behold, she played Mary Bold in Barchester Chronicles and she played one of the leads (I think the name was Barbara) in Benefactors. Benefactors is another BBC television movie that AR made in 1989. A clip will make its way to the site in the future. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 09:25:08 PM |
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Name: |
Laurie |
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Location: |
Vermont |
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E-mail address: |
ljkbroe@yahoo.com |
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Comments: | Well, I just ordered Mesmer, AABA and CME. I'm so excited. I've never seen AABA or CME but from watching Claudia's clips and hearing what you all have to say about them, I know they're going to be great! I've seen Mesmer and knew I wanted to buy it. Now I can't wait for them to come! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 08:24:45 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Sue - interesting to put them all side by side - with my autograph as well. The 'k' in Rickman is very different in his autographs (mine matches yours) than it is in the journal, although the rest certainly matches. Perhaps he was being more careful - less hurried - when he signed the journal. What bothers me are the 'e's. He has two distinctly different ways of making them, but they follow a pattern. When the 'e' isn't connected to the letter proceeding it, it’s altogether different than the ones that are. (My name has two 'e's in it and the pattern is consistent.) The second 'e' in Stevenson, doesn't follow the pattern. But I have to agree, it does have the "feel" of his writing. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 08:08:00 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Its been a veritable British who's who on the red carpet for the Golden Globes tonight. Miranda Richardson, Clive Owen, Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson, Minnie Driver, and many others....unfortunately, the best Brit hasn't shown up. ;-( |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 07:39:02 PM |
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Name: |
sue |
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Comments: | Yep that's the one I couldn't find:)) |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 06:53:57 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | Ana - I installed Broadband just before Christmas, it might have something to do with that. I'll keep trying!
Knew I had it somewhere - Sue - this is the one I meant. Must go to bed, need some shuteye! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 06:27:39 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | For them who "hasta know" (to quote from Dirty Harry!!)
Journal writing: 
An autograph: 
Artwork: 
And for a fait accompli I was going to produce "Bad Harry" but alas I cannot find it!LOL |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 06:00:13 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | AFNH: I posted there about 3 years ago some little things saying hello and thanks for all the information that all of you give there and maybe something more interesting, lol. I stoped posting if I wanted to read I couldn't post, I had no time... But, about 2 years ago I wanted to post again to ask something and I couldn't post anything. I don't know why... I thought that it was something wrong in the page, maybe too much people wanting to post something at the same time, but I tried a thousand of times after that and nothing! I can't post anything...
I hope that your problem can be solved really soon and you can go back to the GB! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 05:42:49 PM |
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Name: |
Kate |
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Location: |
SF |
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Comments: | I think the Juliet picture is definitely his. The handwriting perfectly matches the autograph he gave me. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 05:27:34 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | Martha - I've noticed that he sometimes changes writing styles, look at the text he used in Love Actually on the card (Bad Harry - has to look good for the film) and how he signs when he's in a rush (ie hassled by us fans!). I think the JS caption is somewhere in between. To me, it has the right "feel", (just MHO!) |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 05:14:46 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | Sue - I know how you feel!!!
BTW - has anyone else had problems posting to Suzanne's GB? Only one of my posts has gone through in the past month, is it Dreambook? |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 05:04:37 PM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Julie - From whence came the rumor of AR being in Canada? Tell us more!
As to the writing, I don’t think so. If you do a side by side with the writing in the journal, it looks different, as well as when compared with the personalization he put on my autograph. Oh, for you Snape fans, check this out. http://www.livejournal.com/users/the_gwyllion/42043.html?view=617275#t617275 |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 05:03:09 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | I'll go with the sketch and writing and the soundbite but then it is Sunday evening and I'll go with most things by now. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 04:37:08 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | Carla - UK (and Europe) DVD's are Region 2.
Interesting little sketch, that. Looks like it may be one of AR's. Especially the writing underneath. The E and N in Stevenson are very similar to how he signed my name (sigh!!) at Bowness. I've noticed his writing is quite angular, so I would say 90% certain! Hope the rumours are true and he is off to film Snowcake, I'm really looking forward to this film. Finally, to everyone hitting the UK shores, hope you enjoy it here! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 04:18:43 PM |
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Name: |
Ana, again |
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Comments: | Just one thing that I forgot. In Sean Biggerstaff oficial site someone ask him if is there any person that he would work with. He names two scriptwriters (I think so) and then he says "I'd also work with Alan Rickman again in a heartbeat". I know that is not much but I think is lovely the admiration and love that this man (and other people) has to Alan.
About Alan handwriting: One of the things that I found really weird when I began searching info about him is that in a lot of Alan's web bios you can find info like "he had a beautiful handwriting when he was a child". I always wondered how they knew that (and other weird things). Then I saw his autograph and tought "where's that kid with the beautiful handwriting??? It looks like he had signed this with a sismograph!!! (Is this the correct spelling?)" But then I saw that picture of Alexander Dane as Dr. Lazarus signed by "Dane". I don't know if is his handwriting (I think so) but it's a beautiful letter. I like Sharman comment, "beautiful but illegible", lol! That's cool!! I never thought that an illegible handwriting could be beautiful! Probably because when I say illegible I really mean illegible!!! Alan's handwriting: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=69537&item=2286471065&rd=1 Sharman should try to read something written by my dad... Poor man, I don't blame on him, he is left handed but was forced to write with the right hand. I always had thought that he would have a nice handwriting if he had been allowed to write with the left hand!! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 03:47:21 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
Spain |
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Comments: | Kate: Well, the restaurant thing would be great but we are students and have the typical economy of a student: worse than bad!!! So unless I would love it, I don't think that we are going to lunch in restaurants (maybe one day or two but not all the week). A friend of mine was in London in June 2003 with the high school and she told me that they planned to have lunch at a Spanish Restaurant that was near of the hotel while they were in London but it was so bad that they didn't get back anymore!!!
I am sure that restaurants in London are great, but, what about little cheap bars? We had grown up with the Mediterranean food and we love it. You can kill us just by cooking with butter instead oil, lol. Don't misunderstood me, we can eat everything but if we can get an apartment (which is cheaper than a hotel) and plus make or own food with olive oil... it sounds better to us. Sonoma: Like I said before, I don't go with rickmaniacs friends but I will try to visit National Theater. I would tell them that about the greatness of the West End and how nice would be to visit the area ;·p. I would look info about everything I can before I go to London. Now is a bad time cause I have a lot of exams... Lucy and Vicki: It would be a pleasure to make a report when I came back home!! I would have to improve a lot my English, I'm afraid!!! Claudia: The handwriting looks like Alan's (and he use to do those draws, without color...) but who knows!!! That voice is definetely his, yum!!! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 03:17:55 PM |
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Name: |
Ali-Pat |
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Location: |
Oh-hio |
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Homepage URL: |
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.html |
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Comments: | Claudia--I have always thought that was Alan's voice on the phone in GOT/Four Play. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 03:17:16 PM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | The sound bite "Where's my coffee Debbie" definitely has AR's ring to it. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 02:42:07 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | I'm about 75% convinced that it's AR's drawing of Juliet. It looks like his style, with lots of black shadowing, more like a print graphic than a sketch. The handwriting looks a little too legible, but maybe he was trying harder to be legible here.
Speaking of which, I read something somewhere about Sharman McDonald where she says that after the rehearsals of "Winter Guest," she would get long letters from AR detailing his thoughts. She says that the handwriting was "beautiful but illegible." |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 02:34:46 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Julie: I’ve only heard a rumor that AR has left England to start filming Snow Cake. Nothing concrete at all though.
Claudia: I’m not sure if that’s AR’s handwriting, but the voice on the sound byte does sound like him. :-) |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 02:06:28 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ohhh that's wonderful news, Julie! You will have to keep us posted on any Snowcake goings on whether you get to see AR or not. But I'm crossing all that's "crossable" that you will get to spot him. sonoma and I have been discussing a little sketch of Juliet
 Click the image for the full size.
Also, this morning, I got out my Girls on Top DVDs and came across something as well. In the episode Four-Play there is a scene where one of the secretaries gets buzzed by her boss on the intercom. I think (again...I'm speculating) this voice is AR's. Four-Play is one of the episodes that AR appeared in so I'm thinking they might have had him doing double acting duty, maybe? LOL Listen for yourself, and tell me what you think.... |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 01:56:05 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Thanks for re-posting that, Sue. In the introduction to Sharman Macdonald: Plays 1, she talks about the circumstances of Keira's birth. She writes: ["]When I was a Girl....["] lay on the Edinburgh Traverse Theatre floor for nine months before I made a single phone call to track it down. There must have been piles of plays mounding up there. At that time they didn't have an efficient reader system. I had an argument with Will, my husband, one day. He accused me of not being serious about my writing, of being afraid - how could I let a play go? He was right about the fear; it was and is my biggest handicap. I sent the play to the Bush. I was still acting then. Jenny Topper and Simon Stokes knew me. I didn't want anything to get in the way of the play so I changed my name to Pearl Stewart: Pearl for Janis Joplin and for a great friend who died when she climbed a pyramid - she loved Joplin; Stewart is my middle name. The Bush had and still have an excellent literary department. When the Bush phoned Pearl Stewart about ["]When I was a Girl....["] Will answered the phone. "Pearl who?" he said. It was as Sharman Macdonald that I had been phoning the Traverse and they never read the play. I had a bet with Will. If I sold the script we'd have another child. She's ten now; still calls herself the Bush baby. I will have to go back and find where I heard him talking about this but he was in that "excellent literary department" at the Bush and even knew that "Pearl Stewart" was not the writer's real name. Help me out anyone that might know where this might have come from. And for the AR related part of the introduction, she writes: Will made me re-write the first scene of ["]When I Was a Girl....["] fourteen times. I counted. Alan Rickman sent endless drafts of ["]The Winter Guest["] and wrote long letters about each one. Without Will, without Alan, ["]When I was a Girl....["] and ["]The Winter Guest["] wouldn't exist in the form that they do. They would probably never have been done. Alan Rickman commissioned me to write ["]The Winter Guest["]. It all began with Alan and Lyndsay Duncan at supper. She was talking about her mother, Helen Sinclair Robertson Smith. The stories she told of her mother's illness fascinated Alan. He suggested Lyndsay and I meet.. Strange what makes a play happen. In this case it was the fur coat. A daughter shrugging her mother into a fur coat and rubbing the collar up against her face to give her pleasure. The play moved a long way away from Helen and Lyndsay but that moment was always there. But for Alan and, of course, Helen it wouldn't exsist. It's been a joy. I've never been able to see anyone but Lindsay Duncan in that tWG scene where Frances helps her mother into the fur coat and rubs the fur on the side of Elspeth's face. Of course, the rest of Frances belongs to Emma Thompson. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 01:43:54 PM |
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Name: |
Julie |
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Location: |
Michigan...brrr!! |
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Comments: |
Hi everyone--does anybody know when filming of Snowcake begins? Wawa is about 400 miles north of where I live, and my wonderful husband has offered to take me there, we just don't know when to go!! :o My hubby's been to Wawa before. He says it's a tiny little town, but very beautiful. My hopes would be low of even seeing you-know-who, but it would be cool to be in the same little town. (Shoot, I'm excited that I'm in the same timezone as Wawa!) P.S. And NO, I'm NOT referring to Lord Voldemort!! |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 01:34:39 PM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Article on Sharman McDonald (The Winter Guest) in The Sunday Times |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 11:51:19 AM |
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Name: |
Anke Boersma |
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E-mail address: |
Ankeboe@planet.nl |
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Comments: | I still have a dvd to offer - Dogma, region 1, delivery costs only. Not in perfect state, but I could play it without diffeculties. Feel free to contact me if you don't have it in your collection. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 11:26:38 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | No, you did not offend, Sue. I saw your post earlier but haven't had time to respond until now. Please repost, if you will. It had to have been a DreamBook glitch because it was not manually deleted. Databases (for which this guest book is founded on) can be a fickle thing. I apologize for the inconvenice of having to post it again. For future London goers, don't forget to check RADA's tour schedule too. A friend of mine took it in November and she thoroughly enjoyed it. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 11:24:27 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | I posted a link here this morning to a Times piece on Sharman McDonald (TWG) and it has gone! Did I offend?? |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 11:03:58 AM |
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Name: |
Val |
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Location: |
Argentina |
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E-mail address: |
rudemood@ciudad.com.ar |
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Comments: | Hi! My name is Valeria and I'm from Argentina. Many of AR films are not available here in latin america... I would love to see Mesmer, An Awfully Big Adventure, The search for John Gissing, Blow Dry, Dark Harbor, The Winter Guest, Rasputin, and Truly Madly Deeply and Something the Lord Made. If you could tell me where can I get them I'll thank you. If you have a dvd or vhs rip of one of those movies, I could download it from an FTP server, or just tell me if you know a better way to get them.
Thanks a lot! Valeria.- P.S.: Please forgive my spelling and my grammatical mistakes. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 09:56:47 AM |
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Name: |
Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Claudia and others, Thanks for telling me about the RHPOT DVD. I had assumed that any extras on the Extended Version would be on Disc 2. I noticed there were asterisks against some chapters on Disc 1 and lo and behold they were the deleted bits. (No key that asterisk=deleted so they weren't being very forthcoming.)Great to have helpful people on this site! BTW, my Sense and Sensibility and Truly Madly, Deeply Region 4 have no extras. Best regards, Barbara |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 02:39:55 AM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Comments: | Hot, Cold make up your mind weather!!!!!!!
hum, do you thik alan will be at the globies? Coz if he is i will miss it. But i will watch coupling wich is v. addictive. OWWW i want to go to England!!!!!!! I have a feeling i sould finnish school first. what reigon are the DvD's in England?.? |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 01:30:13 AM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Goog Luck Melissa--Safe journey--I'll be thinking of you. |
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Sunday, January 16th 2005 - 01:01:31 AM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | Well...Tomorrow is the big day. I have packed all my junk (i think), and put most of it in the car. i keep looking around wondering what i have missed. I am looking forward to going back to my house and my computer, but i have been home for about 3 months and now i will miss everybody even more. It's like leaving home for the first time all over again. My poor mother is having a nervous breakdown because i'm leaving for a year, my sister is going to germany for an exchange program for 6 weeks and my dad is going on a business trip for 4 days. It is all too much. We leave early in the morning and will drive for the better part of the day. I will check in with you all in AR World ;) when i get there to see whats new. I was in London for 1 week about 5 yrs ago as my friend and i were backpacking thru western europe. I stayed with my cousins in bucks. It kills me that i had not a CLUE who AR was or i would have tracked him down. I probably could have even seen him in a PLAY for crying out loud. I am dying to go back. My dream is to do my specialty over there, but i'm not really sure how the system works, it's very hard to figure out. Anyway, i've still got to finish my last year of internship which i start this coming friday. EEK! Oh boy.....well....i had better hit the sack. TTFN!. |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 11:51:30 PM |
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sonoma |
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Comments: | The National Theatre backstage tour Kathy mentioned is excellent! You visit all the theaters in the complex and see just about everything that goes on behind the scenes, including sets and props used in current productions--and because I bought my ticket just before a tour started, it was half price. The number and variety of theatrical productions in London and the talent in the casts is mind-boggling, and it's what excites me the most about the city (well, that and AR living there). I just wish the tickets weren't so expensive! |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 10:20:31 PM |
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Name: |
Aurora |
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Location: |
dreaming |
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Comments: | Thanks, Claudia and Lucy, for the 411 on Rickmansworth. If I thought I could meet Suzy Q's lineup, I'd book a flight right away. And good traveling to those crossing to Rightpond. Wish I were there, but you will report. |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 09:22:57 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ana and Kathy, I'm looking forward to your posts in spring and summer.:) |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 07:57:42 PM |
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Name: |
melisa |
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Comments: | For those of you who don't check out html practice page, here is a little bitty that someone posted that got me giggling:
I can teach you how to bewitch the webpage and ensnare the viewer. I can tell you how to code fame, tag glory, and even put a stopper in boredom. oh....! i can practically hear him say it! heehee |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 05:35:16 PM |
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Name: |
sonoma |
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Comments: | I was in London in 2003 and I agree that for food, the supermarkets are a good low cost bet, especially if you have access to a refrigerator (when schools are on break, vacant dorms are also one of the best deals you'll find for accomodation). I also found a fairly cheap and delicious vegan Chinese restaurant off of Tottenham Ct. Rd--and I'm not vegan! London is an extremely expensive city, though, so if you're on a tight budget (like I always am), it might be a good idea to check out a good guidebook like Let's Go for tips before you arrive. I'm envious of all the future travelers, but suppose I should be content that I have memories of that wonderful city! By the way, even if you don't run into AR on the street, you can always make an appt. with the National Theatre Archive to watch a very poor video of a complete performance of him in A&C. The camera is too far away to make out any faces, but I got a thrill just hearing AR's costume jingle! |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 04:16:27 PM |
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Name: |
Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | Oh, Ana and Kathy....I am green with envy. Please, please, please give the guestbook regular reports. Kathy, what will you be studying? How long will your stay be? Humor me, please. I will be living vicariously through you. |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 02:54:44 PM |
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Name: |
Kate |
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Location: |
SF |
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Comments: | Ana: I was in London last summer and I too had heard that the food was not good, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that is not true. We ate at an organic pizza/Italian place that was so amazing, we went back twice. We also ate at a really good Indian restaurant and a really good Thai restaurant. And we usually had lunch or tea at the cafe of whichever museum or attraction we happened to be visiting and the food was very good. I even thought the little European style sandwich shops and cafes were excellent.
The other thing we did to save money was to keep some breakfast foods and snacks in our room -- we had a Sainsbury's supermarket right near our hotel. And the supermarket also had packaged salads and sandwiches for lunch that were inexpensive and good. So don't be afraid of the food, especially the ethnic food! |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 02:20:45 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Hey!
It looks like I'm not the only one who is going to visit London soon. I will go next Easter but I haven't booked anything yet. Anyway, we (my friends and I) are looking things and we are searching for an apartment for a week. It's cheaper and we can make our own food cause British food is not the best (don't offend, please, it's what I've heard). We'll see. We will look hotels as well to compare prices!! I'm not going with rickmaniacs friends so I don't think I could search for him (he is supposed to be since in 7th April he'll start his play) but I will visit the museums cause one of my friends loves to draw. I will try to visit the theater anyway, ;·p. See ya! |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 12:43:24 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Someone was asking if Rickmansworth was an actual place? That gives me the perfect excuse to post this passage from Hitchhiker's Guide:
And then one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything. And here's my interpretation: And what she thought of was building a website where fans could get together in their admiration of a certain actor... |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 08:46:04 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | kathy: you are indeed very lucky! I would love to spend a week just visiting all the museums in London! Looking forward to your virtual postcard! :-) |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 06:01:04 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | OMG, am I jealous of you Kathy. Have a good time *grrr" LOL!
You will give us full reports of everything, won't you? Please? |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 01:18:48 AM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Meliss---
I have been lucky --my brother gave me a bunch of frequent flyer miles for a free plane ticket. I am going to summer school at Cambridge and am going to enjoy London before I go on to Cambridge. It would be nice if AR would oblige me and be in something while I was there but with my luck he would probably be in Antarctica or some place further away. Oh well--all the museums are free and I can walk around all the historical areas I want. The B&B I am staying at apparently is around the corner from the British Museum. I will send you all a virtual (smile) postcard!!!! |
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Saturday, January 15th 2005 - 12:36:27 AM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | Oh! and i almost forgot! KATHY! I am so tremeandously jealous! I didn't know you had pulled out the mac 'n cheese! That is such WONDERFUL news! You already have tickets and everything! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
You WILL try and get a glimpse for the rest of us won't you? *wink* |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:34:36 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | There is something DEFINITLY WRONG with me. I have too much FOOD on the brain. I, of course, meant BINGO-WINGS!!!!! PLEASE excuse the mistake, or better yet, if you have a sec, could you correct it for me PLEASE Claudia? (and if i got it wrong again, please just insert the correct term....my brain seems to be turning to mush LOL) |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:28:44 PM |
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Name: |
melissa |
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Comments: | hi guys! Buffalo Wings!!!! I almost died laughing! My rejoicing in my previous post was premature and short lived....i had to postpone my journey (and it IS a journey) until sunday. I have to pack SO much STUFF.....i feel like i should have a parade of elephants to carry my trunks! In other news............i saw Dangerous Liasons today (the movie version with John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfieffer, and a bunch of other famous people who weren't necesarily famous at the time). I did not remember quite HOW sexual the plot WAS! Whoooooooo! *fanning myself* yikes! I kept voicing over John Malkovich with Alan Rickman in my brain. John M. has a creepy face and look, but he lacks The Voice. I now fully understand Lindsey Duncan when she said that people left the theatre wanting to have sex, and most of them with Alan Rickman. WooooW! How true that is! ROFL! *and blushing deep puce* JUST KIDDING! lol! I have yet to watch the new clip, but i very much look forward to it. We will have to put together "Claudia's Eleven" to steal the only known existing copy of Private Lives from the New York public library, and find out where they stash the copies of Les Liasons Dangerouses.....HEHEHE disclaimer: i really am NOT a crazed kleptomaniac! be back soon! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:22:00 PM |
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Name: |
Carla |
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Comments: | btw its also a Harry poter cross Song of the lioness by tamora pirce but mainly harry potter. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 10:33:14 PM |
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Name: |
carla |
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Location: |
melting with heat |
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Homepage URL: |
http://http://p201.ezboard.com/bhogwartsschoolofthebraveandtheignorant52899 |
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Comments: | Geeze its hot!!!!!!!
i really have nothing much to say but if anyone here likes role playing this is a site i created with a friend. Its a parody of harry potter. And well we need people to get it started. http://p201.ezboard.com/bhogwartsschoolofthebraveandtheignorant52899 |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 10:29:05 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I was hoping to take this private but since you insist, Zzzz.....It would be very much appreciated if, in the future, you would take your strange posts such as the UFO posts and the colored lights you posted on the 11th elsewhere (the practice book is the perfect place). You are welcome here, as is any fan of AR, but please use a bit of discretion when posting. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Aurora, yes there is actually a Rickmansworth in England. In fact, in 2001 or 2002 Anne/Manhattan was in Rickmansworth and took a snap of the Rickmansworth tube station. Shortly after she shared her photo, our dear SuzyQ did the most fabulous manip of it. You'll find both the original and SuzyQ's manip on SuzyQ's Corner Speaking of Anne/Manhattan--if you're lurking here....I miss ya and hope you will join us when you can. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 09:09:24 PM |
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Name: |
Aurora |
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Comments: | Just dropped in to see what's up. Good thing, too, I've just learned new vocabulary: bingo wings. I'm writing that one down. Is there really a place called Rickmansworth? Seems worth a photo. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 08:26:33 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Claudia, Thanks for the warm welcome... and for the video info!!! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 07:59:55 PM |
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Name: |
Zzzzz |
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Location: |
at home with my four little "z"s *hint* |
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Comments: | Hi Claudia, sorry for being late about answering, but I asked the powers that be about e-mailing and they said, "NO!" (there's concern that someone, somewhere might send me an e-mail with a tracking device attached that would follow me around; seems anybody can get anyone's info about anything). Nothing personal, of course that goes without saying, but I've never sent out an e-mail, and after things I've heard, I'm glad I didn't! lol! Thank you for the "html practice" on the "sign the guestbook" page, I've been having great fun with html for a year now, I hope everyone has a lot of fun with it and never forgets to type in </font> !!! Zzzzz |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 07:29:05 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Hey Con! Nice to see you here! *waves at Con*
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 06:45:45 PM |
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Name: |
kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Sue,
Loved Bingo Wings--a phrase not soon to be forgotten--thanks. Just finished Private Lives it was great now I wish I had been able to see the play it must have been hysterical. Finished the first week of school. Will be a busy but I think very interesting semester. Keep your fingers crossed for me in French--I feel for those of you who hsve had to learn English and are so good at it. And I am so excited--I have my plane tickets and B&B reservations for my trip to London and Cambridge this summer so I am definitely going--Yippeeee!!!!!! I can't wait. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 06:02:39 PM |
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Name: |
Con Pappalardo |
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Location: |
Cary, nc |
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E-mail address: |
conpappa@yahoo.com |
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Comments: | AS usual, Claudia... your site is one of my places I go to when I am having a bad day! Always cheers me!
Thank you! Hugs, Con |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 05:52:43 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | BTW Sue - "bingo-wings" - love the description - I'll have a grin on my face every time I ever pass a Gala Bingo Hall now! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 05:14:13 PM |
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Name: |
AFNH |
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Comments: | Just a quick post to say that Bill Nighy is in a new Radio 4 series next week, starting Wednesday 19th at 11.30 UK time. It's called No Commitments.
Claudia, Blithe Spirit is one of my fave Noel Coward plays - so funny. It has recently been on Oneword, which also broadcasts some excellent stuff - at the moment they are broadcasting The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. You can find it at www.oneword.co.uk |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 05:08:11 PM |
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Name: |
Ali-Pat |
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Location: |
lost in renovation land |
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Homepage URL: |
http://home.earthlink.net/~sa.pe/APLhome.htm. |
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Comments: | ...seems to me the perfect clothing for an AR/PL teddy bear would be silk pajamas. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:54:37 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | and welcome, Ana! Its so nice to have you and I hope you will stick around with us. The clip you're asking about is "The Buzz: HBO's After Emmy Party". Mos Def has just said a lot of glowing comments about AR and at the end he says something like "and I was paid a lot of money to say that". I will have to listen to the clip to get the exact quote though. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:47:20 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Location: |
somewhere at the south of RICKMANSHIRE |
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Comments: | Yes, I know. I just think that it's kinda weird that the coolest frenchman has to be guy who has not got anything French, ;-p. It would be like saying that Freddie Mercury is the coolest englishman!!
Hey, I have a some trouble with some of the videos, everything ok but... I doesn't understand what they say!!! (my English is not as good as I'd like). Can anyone tell what Mos Def says at the end of the clip in the "awards" section? When Alan puts his hand in Mos' shoulder? Alan laughts about it and I'd love to know the reason, hehehe. Thanks |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:25:47 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ana: you are right, Jean Reno was born in Casablanca, Morocco, to Spanish parents but he is a French citizen. Has been since the late sixties, I believe. :-) |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:09:09 PM |
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Name: |
Ana |
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Comments: | Lovely site Claudia!! Especially to someone like me who can't get a lot his films (especially the older ones) sigh... So thank you very much!!!
I looking forward to something new... "world's coolest Frenchman" Jean Reno is not French!!! He was born in Morocco or somewhere in north Africa and his parents were Spanish... |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 02:11:04 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Ohhh I just recently caught The Full Monty in its entirety and I laughed my butt off! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 01:30:16 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Just happened to catch the last 30 minutes of The Full Monty. I had totally forgotten what a great movie that was! And I couldn’t help picturing AR in Tom Wilkinson’s role, especially in that last dance scene…. *grin*
Two odd things I noticed: one of the actor’s names was William Snape, and the Chaperone (what does a chaperone do on a film set anyway?) that was listed in the credits was Jenny Snape. Hmmm…. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 12:36:50 PM |
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Name: |
Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | LOL! How come everytime they refer to Jean Reno as the "world's coolest Frenchman" there is a little TM (trademark) symbol next to it? Did he actually have that phrase trademarked?? Too funny....guess we can't refer to anyone else as the "world's coolest Frenchman" without infringing on Monsieur Reno's legally trademarked title.
We should come up with a title for AR. "World's sexiest voice", "world's smoothest criminal" (he probably wouldn't like that one)...."world's coolest" probably just says it all. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:40:17 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | Claudia - Sweet Obsessions was playing up a lot yesterday but it is ok at the moment if rather slow.
Love those POA clips from Elaine! Thanks:00 |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:33:57 AM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Sue: thanks for the Da Vinci info! I agree with you: perfect choice for Fache! :-)
Claudia: I hope you’ll enjoy H2G2. I know that I’ll never look at mice the same way again…. LOL |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 11:15:38 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I forgot to ask. Sue, is there a problem with Sweet Obsessions? I've been trying to access it for a couple of days now with no luck. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 10:54:03 AM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I need to add my thanks to you too, Vicki. I try to keep my eye open for questions like that so that no one goes without a response but Ricky's question about GA totally slipped through my radar. I just love how this group happily helps each other. I do like the film Dark Harbor. In fact, I can't remember the last time I came out of my seat because of a film's ending. But let me tell ya, that first time I watched it, I was beside myself! LOL Of course with the second viewing, the clues are more obvious. The commentary was the only real let down for me. DkH isn't one of my favorites but its not on the bottom of my list either. kathy, you are in for a treat with Noel Coward plays. Blythe Spirit is a pretty cute little play too. I just love that new clip from Elaine! I do think the interviewer did catch on to his humor but the half grin on her face. Her expression is like "Wow, he's really going to let me in on something". Then the expression turns to the half grin after she realizes he's just pulling her leg (nice visual, I'm having here! LOL). As for Snape to cease wearing black....I don't think Alan Rickman will ever cease wearing black! LOL Not that I mind, of course. Aren't those USB flash drives the best thing since sliced bread, Elaine? It looks like AR has supported SRAWL for a long time. Yall know I have to post the image, don't you? Just be patient with me is all I ask.....
 I'm with you on trying to read that t-shirt, Heavenly Creature! LOL I just love the thought of a Valmont teddy bear! Not only with the white frock coat and boots but the curly hair too! Finger crossing does work, doesn't it Sue? Bingo-wings.....OMG I was cracking up reading your definition! What a vision on a Friday morning! ROTFL! I'm definitely getting to the library tomorrow! In addition to Hitchhiker's, I want to get TDVC now! LOL I made a little more progress with Perfume last night. It was raining and chilly here....perfect snuggle in bed weather so I picked up the book again. I have to add my vote for AR to do Baldini too. Maybe Twyker will see it our way...if this film comes into reality. Everyone have a fabulous Friday!!  |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 10:30:51 AM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Sue -
Thanks *gak*, I think, for the image. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 08:11:25 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Sue, I love your livejournal. And the Hitchhiker's Guide artwork is wonderful!
Vicky, thanks for answering the GA. question. Ricky, I'm sorry I neglected to answer it. I went back and looked at the posts and saw it was addressed to me. |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 08:08:50 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | WooHoo! I was casting "The DaVinci Code" as soon as I started reading it and the only definite one I had chosen was Detective Fache so what do I read today on Empireonline? Yes, they have agreed with me:)))Still not sure about Tom Hanks though, thought they needed somebody a bit "artier" but he usually comes up trumps so will have to wait and see.
OK bingo-wings? Where do I start? Umm.. I tried googling images but couldn't find an example(probably best thing)I did find one description on google and I think there were pix but they were Angelfire ones that never show on my pc but this was the description: "What happens to your triceps when they turn to fat. Usually sported by middle aged townie women in bingo halls." Ladies of a certain age (and size) tend to develop umm.. *floppy* arms which is why the older woman chooses in general not to wear sleevless dresses. Ladies of a certain age over here sometimes play bingo (housey-housey, lotto whathaveyou)and that involves yelling house and waving your bingo card in the air when you have a winning line. For some reason these ladies often wear sleeveless dresses and unfortunately the *bingo-wings* are on full display!LOL Well, you did ask!!!! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 06:38:35 AM |
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Name: |
martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | OK, Sue. "Bingo-wings???" |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 06:03:29 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Comments: | Have been practising, so hope these thumbnails work!!
Click for the larger version. (crossing fingers!) 
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:40:20 AM |
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Name: |
Sue |
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Homepage URL: |
http://www.livejournal.com/users/fantasteeek/ |
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Comments: | Love those bears, especially the Queen Elizabeth one!
Thanks for the South African scoop Emily! Maybe he was worried about bingo-wings and kept his jacket on! |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 04:27:09 AM |
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Name: |
Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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E-mail address: |
lilithnoteve@arcor.de |
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Comments: | @Vicky - thank you for answering my question about, what country GA is.
Ricky |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 02:26:21 AM |
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Name: |
Heavenly Creature |
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Comments: | Oh no, Lucy! no way am I gonna try to figure out what's on the shirt! someone surely knows already! so whoevery you are, please save our time!! *resists getting the magifyer* LOL |
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Friday, January 14th 2005 - 12:39:12 AM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Oh, it's Broadway shows. Darn. The Private Lives tux would be darling, but the Valmont frock coat would be priceless. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 10:03:17 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | OOH, ooh, or maybe a Snape bear! That would make a pile of money for the cause. I could just see the little buttoned-up robes, the black button eyes, the little stitched-on sneer... |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 10:01:45 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Another charity item to bid on ... According to this press release for the AIDS charity "Broadway Cares," there will be an Alan Rickman teddy bear, autographed and dressed as ... well, who knows? This auction involves teddy bears dressed as actors from recent and current Broadway shows. The problem is, there doesn't seem to be an AR bear when you click on the Feb 2005 Bears to be Auctioned link. Maybe all the bears' photos are not up yet. And since he hasn't been on stage in a while, is this going to be a bear in a little Private Lives tuxedo holding a martini glass, or maybe a naughty little Valmont bear? The imagination runs wild ... |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 09:11:09 PM |
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Name: |
Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I wonder what his tee shirt says... |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 08:32:46 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Ah yes, that's the one I was thinking about! Shame the weather has not been so nice down there. Bad light stopped play! But we were losing a few wickets so perhaps just as well. Thanks, Emily! (I must stop using exclamation marks so many times~) |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 08:03:13 PM |
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Name: |
Emily |
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Comments: | Elaine, here's the other South Africa picture.
He's dressed for the weather in this one ... |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 07:56:30 PM |
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Name: |
Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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E-mail address: |
elaine@smith100856.freeserve.co.uk |
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Comments: | Emily, I seem to remember seeing another pic from some years ago of AR with another South African group. I'll have to see if I can find it somewhere. I thought at the time how nothing had been said about it. Perhaps he keeps that side of him quiet - much like the work he does for the YCTV group. Thanks for finding this. It's always nice when things turn up unexpectedly! Lucy, I'd love to chat with you about all the History things but it's a bit OT, so please email me if you have time. (We'll bore them...)And I have seen "Gettysburg" but my favourite ACW film is "Glory" - tissues aplenty! Claudia, do you think the Interviewer caught the AR wit in that clip? And I've just seen that you have sneaked in a few downloads that I haven't got! Glad I'm at work with my trusty USB pen!
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 07:50:53 PM |
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Name: |
Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Elaine: thank you so much for this video clip! However, I don't think that Snape will ever stop wearing black! LOL
Emily: the South African picture is great! I'm just wondering why AR wears a jacket while everybody else is wearing t-shirts... :-) |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 07:50:48 PM |
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Claudia |
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GA |
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Comments: |  Yes, Elaine, I did get your video clip! Thanks and its on the All Things Potter page, everyone! He is so adorable in this clip!What a fantastic scoop, Emily! Thanks. I just had to post the picture!  Welcome back, melissa! I take it you are back home now! LOL
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 07:11:14 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Sorry, meant to post this as well below. The picture from his South Africa trip. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 06:49:29 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | Has anyone ever heard of or seen this book?
He did do some mentoring for a South African theater company last year, so maybe this was a result? |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 06:46:55 PM |
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kathy |
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Arkansas |
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Comments: | Elaine, I agree.
I actually do like DH but it took me about 3 or 4 viewings before the light dawned on me in all the scenes --it takes a few viewings to pick up everything. I wonder how much was lost in the editing to make it less comprehensible. The inital premise is a good one, it could have been a really excellent movie, it got lost somewhere along the way. On a different note I received in the mail today the book of the play TaTEoW. It is very skinny so shouldn't take long to read. I also took private lives out of the library I've never read any of Noel Coward so am looking forward to it. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 06:35:49 PM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | Just thought I'd make an early entry toinght to catch you early birds.I have to agree that the DH commentary is the dullest thing ever but it had not clicked with me that I would not have "got" some of the clues if I had not listened to it, but you are right, Claudia. One thing has puzzled me about the film and that is, why make something as complicated if the public are not going to understand it on one viewing. I don't think it actually went into cinemas but it would not have had many people coming out and going "Oh, I must see that again!" Rather they would just go "Duh?" I still kinda like it - a bit ;-) Lucy, we are lucky in that we have a long history but it does not stop groups picking subjects like the Civil War, or Cold War Polish, or WW2 German & US, or French Napoleonic. I suppose it is what you are interested in. My son loves the Victorian era (he can recite the screenlay to "Zulu" off by heart!)and he would have loved to have kept up with the Diehards, but you have to be dedicated, don't you? The travelling must be even worse for you guys in the US! But there is the cost, too, always trying to find authentic bits and pieces and shelling out a lot of dosh for replica stuff, etc.I wanted to join as well (they have a medical section) but I just have no spare time! Maybe when I retire! LOVL!! (ps - Did you get the little vid,Claudia?) |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 05:35:03 PM |
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melissa |
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Comments: | O HAPPY DAY I will be renting pl-enty of AR!!!! YEA!!!! and watching and rewatching and re-re-watching.....you get the picture |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 05:23:51 PM |
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melissa |
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Comments: | yikes! So how do i know beforehand that the DVD i'm buying has cool extras? will it be specified or not? I can only play region 1 and 4 anyway, and on my computer to boot, but it would be nice to know.
hmmmm...more dark harbor spoilers! mushrooms? will have to lobby heavily at blockbuster to get them to bring interesting things! ('interesting' = AR, of course) |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 05:02:40 PM |
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martha |
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Location: |
north of here |
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Comments: | Lucy - I've gotten CL off Amazon for $16. Twice, about a year apart. (Christmas gift, doncha know.) I've seen it much higher there, but if you're patient... |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 04:59:16 PM |
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Vicki |
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Location: |
Los Angeles |
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Comments: | I agree with your assessment of Dark Harbor, Claudia. I felt the direction seemed amateurish and he used the camera poorly. When listening to the director's commentary, it seemed he was trying to explain ideas and make connections that he obviously failed to do cinematically. It was almost like, "see how clever I was here"....when in reality, without his commentary, the audience would never possibly make the connection. Again, that's just my opinion. Many people like this film...it's just not one of my favorites. Alan is the only good thing about it, IMHO.
Wow, a lot of history buffs on this guest book. Those re-enactments sound like a lot of fun. Somebody, several posts back, asked what country was GA? Did anyone ever answer their question? I don't remember....to whoever it was, GA is the U.S. postal code for the state of Georgia. Each state has a two-letter abbreviation that is used by the postal service. Some are obvious: TX=Texas, NY=New York but others may not be as clear, especially if you're not from the states. Hope that clears things up! |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 12:14:16 PM |
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Name: |
Claudia |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Thanks for the link, Sabine. Miranda Richardson is looking quite "Potterish"! LOL Is that horns on her head? Two things caught my eye on that link as well. First, Alfonso Cuaron to Direct "The Memory of Running". What an interesting project and history behind it. The second was Followup: Marko-Grinch Responds. Quite a funny story. Just goes to show that no one should even attempt to mess with a phenomenon! LOL One of my main pet peeves of the video industry is the differences between DVD releases. I completely understand the need for region coding--although with all the technology today, the continuance of the practice is almost useless. But having such huge differences in the extras is totally uncalled for. It would seem the industry would wise up and get their act together. Or have they already wised up? I have to admit I was taken by the CME DVD release last year but it won't happen again. For those of you that don't know about it, the region 1 was released with no extras and about 6-7 months later the region 2 was released with mega extras including that wonderful interview with AR. Hmmm, the more differences, the more purchases of same title. This is why I am waiting a bit for Barchester Chronicles. Although region 1 now seems to be getting the dirty end of the stick more frequently, this was not always the case. For instance, TMD was released with wonderful extras (would have been better with an AR interview, for sure) but released in region 2 without. Same with S&S. Region 1 = great commentaries....region 2 = big zip! As for the commentary on the Dark Harbor DVD. I know that there are people that like it but for me it was the most boring commentary on the planet. Howard analyzed every single speck of the film. I had a lot of hopes when I started up the commentary that I'd get a fascinating analysis but about 1/4 of the way into it, I realized that was not the case and began to just listen only for AR bits which are not many. Howard does indeed confirm that AR did the dive and walk scenes and he talks just a bit about the kiss. As for whether it answers your questions, Barbara, I don't recall if it does or not. As I recall, Howard talked about why he shot a scene the way he did and the symbolic nature it had. In the fireside scene, he made an off the wall connection to the wine (or was it champagne?) bottle and where it was sitting, etc. But no matter how you might think of it....it is still unfair for the video industry to not include it on some regions and not the other! I blame the government too! Please be sure to let us know if your RHPoT DVD extended version includes the deleted scenes, Barbara. For some reason, I like to keep up with these kinds of things--maybe the knowledge will come in useful one day. LOL |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 09:29:43 AM |
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Sabine |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | For all HP fans out there: The Leaky Cauldron has some pictures of GOF. No Snape unfortunately, but still... :-) |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 08:18:24 AM |
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Lucy |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | Leopard skin pants brought back AGAIN? EEK!
I like classic styles. I was just given a trenchcoat with a faux fur collar and lining. Is something like that even fashionable now? I feel like a "dedicated follower of fashion" when I put it on (imagine Daniel Day Lewis in his Poodle Coat in In the Name of the Father). I was secretly mortified, since I prefer black wool(like a certain professor, maybe?) But enough about clothes... I haven't read S&S, but I do understand that Col. Brandon's first love was actually rich. I guess the book version was too complicated for a smooth transition to the script. Elaine, you're not kidding about the travelling! One thing I don't understand is why these reenactor groups prefer going off long distances rather than doing events in their own backyards. Your "History in Action" sounds like the "Time Lines" they like to put on here. Gosh, you British are lucky. You have so much rich material for reenactment going back to pre-Roman times. All we have is half a millineum. I've got to mosey on down to Ebay and add more to my AR collection. Maybe this time I'll actually win Closet Land. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 08:05:33 AM |
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carla |
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Location: |
v. hot Australia |
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Comments: | Lucy- not the clothes i found they were terrible to say the least... some were nice but thats what you get in 2nd hand shop all the good stufff is already gone! And am horrified that they are trying to bring back leapard skin patterns in the fashon store i went to the other day!
ok enough about fashon....... Today i read random chapters of S&S and the one i opened to is when the col. Brandon tells his big story about whilloby (ok i suck at spelling but you all know what i'm talking about.) And i think Brandon is alot like P.L. The things that happen in their lives are similar and the other people in AABA have similar personalities in a way. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 02:12:18 AM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | Just a parting comment before I wind down for home. Barbara, the director's commentary for DH does explain a lot. It took me several viewings to understand the movie. It is too clever for it's own good, really but I like it in some strange way. Hope you find it somewhere.. |
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Thursday, January 13th 2005 - 01:02:06 AM |
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kathy |
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Location: |
Arkansas |
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Comments: | Barbara
Mine is from Canada too and it also doesn't have a commentary--I also got it the same way thru Amazon ----Must be the government------- |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 11:51:24 PM |
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Barbara |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Elaine and Emily. Thanks so much for your answers. I will look at RHPOT more thoroughly. And yes, I got Dark harbour through Amazon who outsourced it to another US company called vdoWarehouse. Definitely Region 1.But.... it does say on the splurge on the back in small print - authorised for sale in Canada only. I dunno. Strange but interesting film and I thought that the director's commentary might have enlightened me about certain gaps in plot,characterisation, motivation etc. David was not an evil man so would he have condoned the killing of his wife by poisoned mushrooms? How long had David and stranger known each other? Thanks again for your help. |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 11:38:08 PM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | Hi Barbara, yes thank you for your kind email. The Robin Hood DVD has all the deleted scenes already put back into the movie. On the chapter titles, they are marked with an asterisk. You can tell if you have, for example, the scene where the Sheriff is giving out gold to the Barons as that was not in the released version. The DH director's comentary is rather oddly (IMHO) put into the Audio bit and not inSpecial Features. You really have to search for things. But I don't know why the regions are so different. I have my local Region 2 version of TMD but the region 1 version has a director's commentary. Strange fruit! |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 10:24:53 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | But there is a director's commentary on the Region 1 "Dark Harbor" DVD. Are you sure you have the Region 1 disc? |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 10:03:19 PM |
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Barbara the H |
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Location: |
New Zealand |
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Comments: | Hello Elaine, hope you got my e-mail praising the Eammon de V music video. Re the extras on RHPOT, I bought the 2 disc extended version but it has no deleted scenes on it. Is this just Region 4 being discriminated against again? On the other hand I have just got from USA - region 1 Dark Harbour and it doesn't have a director's commentary which I was expecting. I blame the Government! |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 09:53:39 PM |
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Elaine |
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Location: |
UK |
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Comments: | Yea, the DVD has all the scenes that Costner cut out, put back in for our viewing pleasure! AR really steals the show, but to be fair to Costner fans (I know you are one, Claudia) I don't think "Robin Hood" was the right role for him. S & S is just beautiful, isn't it? |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 08:26:50 PM |
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Laurie |
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Location: |
Vermont |
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Comments: | Thanks Elaine for sharing your pictures. They're great! I actually bought S & S. That was the movie that actually started my "obsession" with Alan. I had surgery several years back and a friend brought me a bunch of movies to watch while I was laid up and that was one of them. My husband and I went to a video store in the area that has an entire basement full of old videos for sale and we went through the entire basement looking for AR movies and I found it. The only other movie I found (on video) was Robin Hood, which I didn't buy but I'm glad I didn't because I read that it's on DVD with some extra scenes of Alan, is that true? |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 08:20:01 PM |
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Elaine |
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UK |
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Comments: | What a lot to read since I've been off duty! Lucy, that archive site is fascinating. Our National Archive site is a gold mine, too and we have several online photo libraries. I still like going to collector's fares and rooting through the post card boxes, though. You can find some real gems. You are so rightabout re-enactors being cheap, too. They do it for love! Claudia, there are loads of re-enactor societies in the UK ranging from the Ancient Britons right up to WW2/ColdWar. All nationalities are represented, too. Jamie(my son)and I used to go to a big English Heritage thing called "History in Action" where all of them would get together but they changed it a couple of years ago and made it too commercialised. Jamie also joined "The Diehards" as a drummer boy for a little while. They represent the Victorian soldier,but there is an awful lot of travelling involved and with his exams coming up, he had to put it on hold for a while. Kathy, I have not started TDVC yet. I always feel I need to finish a book before I start another one despite how hard it is to get through, although I'm reading another Terry Pratchett which are fairly easy on the brain.(Any Nanny Ogg fans here?)But, I am looking forward to it.I will try not to hold TC in mind, too as he irritates me to bits! Laurie, if you want to get a good AR film, get Sense & Sensibility. It is my current favourite (but my opinions change often!) And I have not actually "met" AR but I was at the NFT and the NAS concert and got pretty close. I'm not one for queueing up with an autograph book, I am afraid. My pics of NAS are here:AR Here and There He is rather stunning in "the flesh" as it were but if I were to select the one thing that is noticeable about him, it is the graceful and "languid" way he moves. Very cat like! I still say the Vogue picture captured him so well!(Katie Melua has a song on her album that gives me big ideas on that theme. Must think about it for a video!) |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 07:57:54 PM |
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Laurie |
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Vermont |
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ljkbroe@yahoo.com |
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Comments: | Hi Martha North of Here. Can you e-mail me? I think I've talked with you on Suzanne's guestbook site. |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 06:24:53 PM |
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Claudia (who loves that beach picture!) |
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Location: |
GA |
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Comments: | I know the feeling, Sue! I linked it for you. When your mind is clear check out that "Generate" button. It really is cool. PhotoBucket really has their "stuff" together! I've also typed some instructions on how to use the button and posted it at the top of the sign in page as well. |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 04:12:29 PM |
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Sue |
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Comments: | Claudia feel free to thumbnail that for me if you want?
But I don't know how to!LOL And it's the time of evening when I wouldn't even try!! Here is the thumbnail from Photobucket BUT I had to repost it on Photobucket as a thumbnail (sorry I am getting lost now, but if you can link this mini pic to the big one, be my guest!) 
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 03:26:01 PM |
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Emily |
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Comments: | The HTML practice book and all the tips are fab! Thanks, this is just what I needed. |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 03:09:28 PM |
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Julie |
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Location: |
Michigan |
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Comments: | My daughter got the newest copy of the "Disney Adventures" magazine yesterday. There's a short write-up in there about the upcoming "Hitch-hiker's Guide" movie. It says it will be in theaters this May. It mentions Warwick Davis as the paranoid android, but no mention of The Voice.
Counting the days down until I can FINALLY see Something the Lord made!! |
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Wednesday, January 12th 2005 - 03:08:01 PM |
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Ricky |
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Location: |
Austria |
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E-mail address: |
lilithnoteve@arcor.de |