227: The Lost Episodes, a live comedy show at Second City Hollywood, is giving a makeover to one of the 1980s' beloved sitcoms. In the entirely improvised stage shows, the cast creates "all-new" episodes featuring neighbors Mary, Rose, Sandra and Pearl, who routinely gather to gossip on a DC apartment stoop. The cast includes improv actors Holly Walker, Inda Craig-Galvan, Robin Thede, and Daniele Gaither. Mary's husband Lester also appears, played by a flat top wig-wearing Thomas Fowler. The original 227 aired on NBC from 1985 to 1990 and starred Marla Gibbs, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin, Jackee Harry, and Hal Williams. The Lost Episodes prides itself on...
- 6/8/2012
- by Jasmin
- ShadowAndAct
227: The Lost Episodes, a live comedy show at Second City Hollywood, is giving a makeover to one of the 1980s' beloved sitcoms. In the entirely improvised stage shows, the cast creates "all-new" episodes featuring neighbors Mary, Rose, Sandra and Pearl, who routinely gather to gossip on a DC apartment stoop. The cast includes improv actors Holly Walker, Inda Craig-Galvan, Robin Thede, and Daniele Gaither. Mary's husband Lester also appears, played by a flat top wig-wearing Thomas Fowler. The original 227 aired on NBC from 1985 to 1990 and starred Marla Gibbs, Alaina Reed Hall, Helen Martin, Jackee Harry, and Hal Williams. The Lost Episodes prides itself on...
- 6/8/2012
- by Jasmin
- ShadowAndAct
Perhaps we require roles like Thomas Fowler’s to be played by veteran actors; we have to be able to read the murky past all over his face. He is an aging journalist stationed in ’50s Vietnam during the First Indochina War. He has been around too long and is too weary to have any ideals left; they’ve been replaced by cynicism and uncertainty. He understands the problems in Vietnam, but he doesn’t pretend to have a solution; he probably knows the counter-argument to everything one could put forward. He is married to a woman in England who will not give him a divorce; he is in love with a twenty-year-old Vietnamese girl. If he keeps pursuing stories in Vietnam, his paper won’t recall him to London, and he’ll be able to stay with her.
In Phillip Noyce’s 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, Fowler is played by Michael Caine.
In Phillip Noyce’s 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, Fowler is played by Michael Caine.
- 9/20/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Based on Graeme Greene’s novel that uses the backdrop of Saigon in the Vietnamese war of liberation, The Quiet American uses its setting and personal relationships to explore a number of shifts of power that would shape the country for years to come.
You have a country struggling to break free of its French colonial powers and assert its own identity and the shift of power between the British and American influence as a London Times reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) befriends an American aid worker Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser). Pyle turns out to be a different man from the image he presents as he sets out to woo Fowler’s lover and has ulterior motives for being in Saigon. Told as a flashback following the murder of Pyle we slowly discover the key events that lead his death.
Michael Caine’s performance as Thomas Fowler really elevates the...
You have a country struggling to break free of its French colonial powers and assert its own identity and the shift of power between the British and American influence as a London Times reporter Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine) befriends an American aid worker Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser). Pyle turns out to be a different man from the image he presents as he sets out to woo Fowler’s lover and has ulterior motives for being in Saigon. Told as a flashback following the murder of Pyle we slowly discover the key events that lead his death.
Michael Caine’s performance as Thomas Fowler really elevates the...
- 9/13/2011
- by Glen Chapman
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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