Hmmm.  I don't think you can even 'preview' the videos with a paid account.  I think they just show you screenshots from them.  Not sure.  Bummer.

Thank you so much, emerys.

oh yes ângela, I like it ! thanks

Interesting piece on Sponsored Arts for Education (SAFE), the African Aids education theatre group of which Alan is a trustee, HERE

I think Claudia in Germany posted a link to those pix as a get-well prezzie to Lex a week or so ago. Nice to see them full size though.

I join you Vera. Thanks to you both for this clip

Peekabooh, thank you for the link to the clip, and thank you for capturing it, Rosi. I suppose I'm asking a lot, but do you think it would be possible to upload it to yousendit.com?

Thanks Peek for the link

and

thanks Rosi for transferring it to YouTube.

thank you Rosi !!!

 But not for me.

HA!!!!!!Gotcha!! You have to safe the video (from Peek) - then it works - don't ask me WHY

Peek, dear, I can't see the video either...anyone out in cyberspace with an idea why?

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=268C764E-28D4-44B6-83CB-B02FE28EC2AC&t=c152&f=06/64&p=hotvideo_m_edpicks&fg=&GT1=9145

It shows an ad first but than it comes the video.

Kisses to you all and have a nice weekend.

PS- I've voted twice so far and I'll keep on.

Thanks Peek!

WONDERFUL clip, Peek! Thank's for the heads up. Saw some clips I hadn't seen before. I just get more and more anxious to see this movie.

As of today, the US release of ST is still December 21 and the UK release has been listed as either January 4 or January 25.

Hikity, the 21st December has been listed on a lot of reputable sites. Many movies have a less than a year turnaround, I think it depends a lot on the director and at what speed they like to work.

Cat, are you sure about ST? I mean they delayed the filming due to JD's daughter plus the long time which is needed for cutting etc. 

Ali-Pat - is the poster different than the ones that we have seen already?  Thanks!

Sorry CatsPlay--told you I got up on the wrong side of the bed this a.m.  The poster is not on the site, it was actually in the issue of Premier Magazine that lead me to the website.  I will try to scan and share the poster when I get home tonight.  That is, if I can find it through this bag I have on my head.

Well, even if most of you got annoyed the last time  with the Hello magazine, but the monthly vote with Alan is up now.

http://www.hellomagazine.com/vote/mostattractiveman/month/index.html

It seems that they insert a "security" thing against mass voting. If you want to vote you need to type 4 letters on a new site that appears to get your vote through.

Cats, not so wild I assume - I'm quite sure of it - they need promotion

Did anyone see the RSC production of 'The Crucible' last year?

In the Getty pic, AR reminds me of Iain Glenn who played John Proctor: http://www.rsc.org.uk/WhatsOn/2872.aspx

Your first time? Are you kidding? You did a GREAT job Camerata, believe me! Thank you so much!

Excellent first attempt Camerata, I haven't the patience to do that and give up after a dozen pixels!!

Thank you all for all the new findings !

It's the first time I try to delete the mark so...sorry for the quality, I did my best with the great Photoshop

Is it just me or does Bill and Alan look like someone let a dirty one go?

 Claudia

With three showings I hope we get a couple of reports back from anyone visiting New York

New Jan, isn't it also the Fairtrade sign as well?

Second box from left, middle row has the poem, called "In the heart of the isn't there is the is,"  contained in that paisley shape. All the other boxes are shapes made of polar opposite symbols printed in contrasting ink to make a whole image of "an isn't that is an is". (one box is plusses and minuses, one box is periods and question marks, etc.)  It's too bad they didn't use glossy paper, because it's very hard to see the contrasts.

Gosh, how interesting!  So the poem is written in some of the shapes (I can't see that level of detail)?

Box art was popular in the 60s. Usually the boxes or cubes had poetry on the sides and you were meant to put a string through them and hang them up. They were usually made of heavier cardboard though. This one is very flimsy paper and I'm not sure it would work. Peter Mayer was a popular poet of the time and he used to do a lot of these shape-poetry things, so it seems that AR didn't come up with the cut-out as an original design. He was probably following Mayer's concept of having the words make a shape.

Yep, you're right! I meant to include the issue!

P.S. -- March 1969 is the issue.

Zorra, thank you so much for the link. I had heard that he once did something for that magazine, but I've never seen it before.

Now is the time to contribute this all-but-unknown piece of AR artwork that I've been enjoying for a few years now - amazed that nobody else has twigged to this yet. Before he was an actor, he was a graphic artist. His specialty was doing interesting designs with typography. This is a piece he made for the underground magazine Oz in 1969. The link is to an Oz collectors site that scanned in every issue (it was sort of London's version of Rolling Stone, but wilder).  AR did the artwork for a poem that was written by someone else. The scan is not too clear, unfotunately, but you can get the gist of what he was trying to do with contrasts. I have the actual magazine and the pages are not glossy, so the white-on-black of the typeface is faded now with time, sad to say. But it's still an interesting and ultra-rare piece of AR's artwork from back in the day.

congratulations Ali-Pat to your new scanner and that he works many times for you and us. Thanks for the pic, I haven´t seen it yet

Two things to celebrate!  The first time I have used my new scanner, and the first time I have posted a photo here.  Take a look at this shot from The Lucky Chance that I found on p. 33 of  The Back Stage Theater Guide (Back Stage Books, 1991).

From blurb about  Overlooked Film Festival in Illinois

That photo is a nice find, such a shame the watermark is right over the eyes!

On msn.com, in their video section, there's a video of the "TODAY SHOW" from this morning with Arthur Levine (publisher of HP books). He unveiled the new front and back cover of the book.

Great photo find, Sophia!  No, he probably would not have been known much in the US at that early date.  By my calculations, that photo was taken around the time he was playing Gayman in The Lucky Chance in London and also around the time he was filming The Barchester Chronicles.  I forget--didn't he grow a beard for The Lucky Chance?

Thank you, Sophia. This is a great find. It was taken several years before "Die Hard". Was he already known then in the USA? Apperently.

Good find, Sophia!  Here is the direct link to the image page:

http://editorial.gettyimages.com/Search/Detail.aspx?axd=DetailPaging.Search|1&axs=0|51587007%2c51587006%2c1150643%2c1138641% 2c50745020%2c50462356%2c73701215&id=73701215

Hikity, I was searching the whole guestbook for your e-mail but I did not found. I have a few questions. It has not really what to do with AR (OK a bit) and it`s nothing for the discussion board. So if you trust me.

For anyone living in the West Virginia area, the "Contemporary American Theatre Festival" in Shepherdstown, W.Va. has, for their 2007, chosen MNIRC as one of the four plays to be performed. The Festival runs from July 6 to July 29 and tix are available now.

Well Hikity, it's a very short way from cutting hair to cutting throats!!

...we used to dream we lived in a corridor...hilarious

Peek, I could say that comment was very cutting but I know it would only encourage you!!

You know, Pat, after seeing Alan THAT many times, I wonder if he doesn't start to remember you. I know he meets TONS of people and so many fans that he can't possibly remember them all. But you've seen SO much of his stuff, I can't help but think when he sees you he goes, "Hey, she looks familiar!"

Excellent quality American Snowcake trailer HERE

Hi girls ! I'm back from skiing in the French Alps

, it's great to have news from her

for the Brandon pics

Geee, thanks. I'm very happy to belong to this forum.

Hadn't heard that story before, Alfan! That looked a very strange palce in the film. Always nice to find an AR connection

I don't know if everyone is aware of the certainty, but "Nobel Son" is definitely going to be shown at the Tribeca Film Festival. Day tix go on sale somewhere around the beginning of April.

Pudd

Peek

Anyway, what a nice exchange of stories and experiences has been triggered. Finally, I can lean back contented

Sense & Sensibility did it for me. So I'm a long time fan. But my "obsession" level just hit over the last year. And I don't know why. I just suddenly couldn't get enough of him. I think it started after I bought the DVD of Goblet of Fire.

Thanks for teh news Sophia and Vera

About five years ago I acquired RH from my daughter as she was getting rid of all her video's and going over to DVD's. I was taken with this actor who was the sheriff I'd never seen him in anything before. I asked her what else he'd been in and she said TMD and DH, they had just got DH on DVD but I tried the Library in our town they sent away for it for me and hey-presto I was sold. I now have everyone of his films plus some of his TV stuff. Love that man.

Ohhh New Jan.....TMD is my all time favorite film.  After the first time I saw it, it moved my long time favorite (The Way We Were I'm such a sap!) to second place!  LOL

Yup, Snape is what did it for me, too.  I sat in the cinema feeling , knowing mummy shouldn't be having such wicked thoughts whilst watching a kids film, and with my own two next to me.