Pj Harvey has released a demo recording of “Eugene Alone,” a song she co-wrote with Ben Power for the new play London Tide. Stream it below.
Written from the perspective of character Eugene Wrayburn (played by Jamael Westman), the song’s lyrics express guilt for being involved in a love triangle: “Can I find a way to move on/ From the memory of her dress?”
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“Whenever I approached writing a song for a character I would discuss with Ben and [director Ian Rickson] what the character is going through at that time, and what emotion needed to be expressed through the music,” Harvey shared in a statement on her official website,
The artist continued, “We would talk about what had happened immediately before, what was going to happen next, time of day or night… As the play evolved we began to see how we could make...
Written from the perspective of character Eugene Wrayburn (played by Jamael Westman), the song’s lyrics express guilt for being involved in a love triangle: “Can I find a way to move on/ From the memory of her dress?”
Get Pj Harvey Tickets Here
“Whenever I approached writing a song for a character I would discuss with Ben and [director Ian Rickson] what the character is going through at that time, and what emotion needed to be expressed through the music,” Harvey shared in a statement on her official website,
The artist continued, “We would talk about what had happened immediately before, what was going to happen next, time of day or night… As the play evolved we began to see how we could make...
- 4/10/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
P.J. Harvey has shared the demo for “Eugene Alone,” one of the songs she co-wrote for a stage musical titled London Tide that opened today in London.
Harvey and Ben Power co-wrote the original songs for the National Theatre show, which is based on Charles Dickens’s final novel, Our Mutual Friend.
As Harvey’s typewritten lyrics draft reveals “Eugene Alone” was penned for the novel-turned-musical character Eugene Wrayburn.
“Whenever I approached writing a song for a character I would discuss with Ben and [director Ian Rickson] what the character is going through at that time,...
Harvey and Ben Power co-wrote the original songs for the National Theatre show, which is based on Charles Dickens’s final novel, Our Mutual Friend.
As Harvey’s typewritten lyrics draft reveals “Eugene Alone” was penned for the novel-turned-musical character Eugene Wrayburn.
“Whenever I approached writing a song for a character I would discuss with Ben and [director Ian Rickson] what the character is going through at that time,...
- 4/10/2024
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
It’s succession season at the UK’s National Theatre with Rufus Norris, the institution’s Artistic Director, announcing that he will step down in 2025 after a decade in the post.
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It...
“It’s good to keep leadership evolving,” Norris noted during a press conference at the National’s base on the south side of the River Thames, in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge.
The National’s board will determine Norris’s successor. They will cast a net far and wide and there’s an eagerness to end the white male hold on the Nt’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Norris has been getting on with the business of running the country’s flagship theatre company.
Nt Artistic Director Rufus Norris. Photo by Baz Bamigboye/Deadline.
Succession star Harriet Walter returns to the Nt to lead a new adaptation by Alice Birch of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernardo Alba.
It...
- 6/15/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s a song that Paul McCartney claims has what he calls Oss (Optimistic Song Syndrome). Like many other optimistic songs in his catalog, Paul hopes the song gives people hope.
Paul McCartney | Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Paul McCartney thinks optimistic songs are valuable
In his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he likes the idea of a song saying that help is coming and there’s a “bright light on the horizon.” He has no evidence, but he likes to believe it. An optimistic song helps to lift his own spirits and hopes that it might help other people move forward too.
Paul likes writing uplifting songs. He’s often conscious that many people in the world are going through tough times. If he can be a reassuring voice, he thinks that’s incredibly important. For instance, Paul wrote “Great Day” to make himself feel hopeful after The Beatles split,...
Paul McCartney | Frank Micelotta/Getty Images Paul McCartney thinks optimistic songs are valuable
In his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he likes the idea of a song saying that help is coming and there’s a “bright light on the horizon.” He has no evidence, but he likes to believe it. An optimistic song helps to lift his own spirits and hopes that it might help other people move forward too.
Paul likes writing uplifting songs. He’s often conscious that many people in the world are going through tough times. If he can be a reassuring voice, he thinks that’s incredibly important. For instance, Paul wrote “Great Day” to make himself feel hopeful after The Beatles split,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jane Seymour.
Jane Seymour’s abiding interest in dementia led to her landing the lead role in Ruby’s Choice, producer/director Michael Budd’s drama with comic overtones, which starts shooting in Brisbane later this month.
The British American actress who made her name in the 1970s as Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die and in TV’s The Onedin Line, Our Mutual Friend and Battlestar Galactica, will play the title role, a loving grandmother who has dementia.
Coco Jack Gillies will portray her 16-year-old granddaughter Tash.
Jacqueline McKenzie is Ruby’s daughter Sharon with Stephen Hunter as her husband Doug.
Emerging Brisbane writer Paul Mahoney wrote the screenplay, pitched it to Budd and it immediately struck a chord as the filmmaker lost his grandmother to dementia.
Budd approached Seymour’s agent knowing it was a subject close to her heart: Seymour served as executive producer on Glen Campbell...
Jane Seymour’s abiding interest in dementia led to her landing the lead role in Ruby’s Choice, producer/director Michael Budd’s drama with comic overtones, which starts shooting in Brisbane later this month.
The British American actress who made her name in the 1970s as Bond girl Solitaire in Live and Let Die and in TV’s The Onedin Line, Our Mutual Friend and Battlestar Galactica, will play the title role, a loving grandmother who has dementia.
Coco Jack Gillies will portray her 16-year-old granddaughter Tash.
Jacqueline McKenzie is Ruby’s daughter Sharon with Stephen Hunter as her husband Doug.
Emerging Brisbane writer Paul Mahoney wrote the screenplay, pitched it to Budd and it immediately struck a chord as the filmmaker lost his grandmother to dementia.
Budd approached Seymour’s agent knowing it was a subject close to her heart: Seymour served as executive producer on Glen Campbell...
- 3/10/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Wearing produced Boys from the Blackstuff, Pride and Prejudice, Edge of Darkness and many more.
Michael Wearing, producer of iconic television dramas including Boys from the Blackstuff and Edge of Darkness, has died aged 78 (reports Broadcast).
Wearing (right), who held a number of senior positions across drama at the BBC, died on Friday 5 May following a stroke. Wearing is survived by his three children, Sadie, Ella and Ben.
After studying anthropology at Newcastle University and a short career in the theatre, Wearing joined the BBC’s English regions drama department as a script editor in 1976.
Reporting to David Rose, who went on to become founder of Film 4, at the BBC’s Pebble Mill base in Birmingham, Wearing worked with writers including Alan Bleasdale and Ron Hutchinson on a number of Play for Today scripts.
He also worked on series including Stephen Davis’ Trouble With Gregory, which aired as part of BBC2’s Playhouse strand, Hutchinson’s six-part...
Michael Wearing, producer of iconic television dramas including Boys from the Blackstuff and Edge of Darkness, has died aged 78 (reports Broadcast).
Wearing (right), who held a number of senior positions across drama at the BBC, died on Friday 5 May following a stroke. Wearing is survived by his three children, Sadie, Ella and Ben.
After studying anthropology at Newcastle University and a short career in the theatre, Wearing joined the BBC’s English regions drama department as a script editor in 1976.
Reporting to David Rose, who went on to become founder of Film 4, at the BBC’s Pebble Mill base in Birmingham, Wearing worked with writers including Alan Bleasdale and Ron Hutchinson on a number of Play for Today scripts.
He also worked on series including Stephen Davis’ Trouble With Gregory, which aired as part of BBC2’s Playhouse strand, Hutchinson’s six-part...
- 5/9/2017
- ScreenDaily
As the film of her biography of The Invisible Woman comes to the big screen, Claire Tomalin reveals what it feels like to have your book adapted
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing. Much the same happened with Mrs Jordan's Profession: a lot of interest and excitement, then it fizzled out (twice). And again with my life of Pepys. For years The Invisible Woman seemed destined to be yet another unmade film.
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.
Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing. Much the same happened with Mrs Jordan's Profession: a lot of interest and excitement, then it fizzled out (twice). And again with my life of Pepys. For years The Invisible Woman seemed destined to be yet another unmade film.
Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.
- 2/1/2014
- by Claire Tomalin
- The Guardian - Film News
David Nicholls, author of the hit novel One Day, has always loved Dickens's novel. As the film version is about to be released, he reveals how he set about his adaptation
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. For some people it's Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, but for me it is Great Expectations. I first read it at 14 or so and, apart from some infatuations with Orwell, Fitzgerald, Salinger and Hardy, it has remained my favourite novel ever since. By some miracle, a story written in the mid-1850s had captured much of how I felt in a small provincial town at the end of the 1970s.
Yet if I saw myself in the book, it wasn't a particularly flattering portrait. It's clear why a young reader might aspire to be Elizabeth Bennet, but who would want to be Pip Pirrip?...
Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life. For some people it's Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, but for me it is Great Expectations. I first read it at 14 or so and, apart from some infatuations with Orwell, Fitzgerald, Salinger and Hardy, it has remained my favourite novel ever since. By some miracle, a story written in the mid-1850s had captured much of how I felt in a small provincial town at the end of the 1970s.
Yet if I saw myself in the book, it wasn't a particularly flattering portrait. It's clear why a young reader might aspire to be Elizabeth Bennet, but who would want to be Pip Pirrip?...
- 11/17/2012
- by David Nicholls
- The Guardian - Film News
After a long and arduous wait, enduring the perils of March Madness, our intrepid heroes have returned to us. And not a moment too soon. I was in serious withdrawals. And who wouldn't be? Person of Interest (TV) continuously raises the bar for themselves and easily vaults over it every week. When last we saw them, Reese (James Caviezel) saved a baby, had some adorable moments, some tearfully tense moments, and made women's ovaries the world over explode with the sight of him trying to figure out a onesie. This week, we discover that the Machine gets confused by identity theft and… oh yeah..... Finch (Michael Emerson) created social media. All of you Twitter/Facebook freaks out there, send him your sacrifices of thanks. The facts are these: The Machine kicks out a number belonging to Jordan Hester – a nice, androgynous name that Finch can make neither heads nor tails...
- 4/2/2012
- by mbijeaux@corp.popstar.com (Melissa Bijeaux)
- PopStar
New stage and film adaptations of The Great Gatsby attest to Scott Fitzgerald's enduring brilliance and his relevance to our boom and bust age
In one of his most famous and personal obiter dicta, F Scott Fitzgerald once bitterly observed: "There are no second acts in American lives." The author of The Great Gatsby, arguably the supreme American novel of the 20th century, knew what he was talking about.
Few writers have ever enjoyed a more brilliant first act. Fitzgerald's 1925 debut was sensational in a way that's only possible in a feverish, self-inventing society such as the Us. This Side of Paradise was a first novel whose language, characters and attitude haunted the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald's phrase) like a hit song. A five-year creative spree followed, culminating in the book originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg". As The Great Gatsby, it was a novel that had awestruck critics, led by the young Ts Eliot,...
In one of his most famous and personal obiter dicta, F Scott Fitzgerald once bitterly observed: "There are no second acts in American lives." The author of The Great Gatsby, arguably the supreme American novel of the 20th century, knew what he was talking about.
Few writers have ever enjoyed a more brilliant first act. Fitzgerald's 1925 debut was sensational in a way that's only possible in a feverish, self-inventing society such as the Us. This Side of Paradise was a first novel whose language, characters and attitude haunted the Jazz Age (Fitzgerald's phrase) like a hit song. A five-year creative spree followed, culminating in the book originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg". As The Great Gatsby, it was a novel that had awestruck critics, led by the young Ts Eliot,...
- 2/5/2012
- by Robert McCrum
- The Guardian - Film News
A longtime pal and ex-boyfriend of tragic actress Natalie Wood has added a new twist to the star's ongoing 1981 drowning death investigation - he believes she was killed by a mystery former lover.
Celebrity seer John Cohan, who wrote about his friendship with Wood in his book Catch a Falling Star, was planning to reveal the truth about what he thinks happened to the actress on the last night of her life in a sequel.
However, he is so upset about the latest round of allegations following the re-opening of his friend's death investigation he is speaking out now.
Cohan claims Wood's former lover, who she called Stinger, had threatened to tell her husband Robert Wagner about their affair - and he was "close by" on the night she died.
When the case was initially closed, it was ruled that Wood accidentally fell overboard from her husband's boat miles out to sea off the coast of California after a boozy night with Wagner and the couple's guest, actor Christopher Walken.
But Cohan tells WENN, "Anyone can clamber onboard a boat and then leave. I believe Stinger came onboard and he confronted Natalie and he is responsible for her death."
The psychic claims Wood had been madly in love with the "blue-eyed, blond-haired" hunk but he turned on her towards the end of a year-long romance and threatened to go public with the affair if Wood didn't pay him a small fortune.
Cohan adds, "Stinger was someone very important to Natalie. Our mutual friend, Roddy McDowell, told me he had died of AIDS many years after she did. That's all I know. I never asked for his identity. I didn't want or need to know. of his death.
"I am coming forward now because I feel I have a mission of love. I'd like to let people know the mindset of my Nat. She was so together in the end, a very bright woman. She did not slip overboard to her death or take her own life even though she wasn't happy with R.J. (Wagner).
"And all this talk about an argument between R.J. and Natalie over a romance with Christopher Walken is nonsense. There's no way they were involved. I stake my reputation on it. Natalie thought of Chris Walken as a buddy, which she firmly told me."
Cohan is convinced he has the story of his friend's death spot on, because he claims Wood has confirmed his theory during visitations from beyond the grave.
He adds, "Natalie's visitations confirmed what Roddy always said to me too - Stinger went both ways in the latter years, women and men.
"I am hoping that this revelation takes the investigation to another point and helps to clear Robert Wagner's name. He was not a saint but he did not kill Natalie, as has been suggested. They're making him into something he's not.
"Someone came onboard the boat in the middle of the night when Christopher Walken and R.J. were out of it. There were no eyewitnesses. So much has been made of an argument earlier in the evening. That had nothing to do with Natalie Wood's death."...
Celebrity seer John Cohan, who wrote about his friendship with Wood in his book Catch a Falling Star, was planning to reveal the truth about what he thinks happened to the actress on the last night of her life in a sequel.
However, he is so upset about the latest round of allegations following the re-opening of his friend's death investigation he is speaking out now.
Cohan claims Wood's former lover, who she called Stinger, had threatened to tell her husband Robert Wagner about their affair - and he was "close by" on the night she died.
When the case was initially closed, it was ruled that Wood accidentally fell overboard from her husband's boat miles out to sea off the coast of California after a boozy night with Wagner and the couple's guest, actor Christopher Walken.
But Cohan tells WENN, "Anyone can clamber onboard a boat and then leave. I believe Stinger came onboard and he confronted Natalie and he is responsible for her death."
The psychic claims Wood had been madly in love with the "blue-eyed, blond-haired" hunk but he turned on her towards the end of a year-long romance and threatened to go public with the affair if Wood didn't pay him a small fortune.
Cohan adds, "Stinger was someone very important to Natalie. Our mutual friend, Roddy McDowell, told me he had died of AIDS many years after she did. That's all I know. I never asked for his identity. I didn't want or need to know. of his death.
"I am coming forward now because I feel I have a mission of love. I'd like to let people know the mindset of my Nat. She was so together in the end, a very bright woman. She did not slip overboard to her death or take her own life even though she wasn't happy with R.J. (Wagner).
"And all this talk about an argument between R.J. and Natalie over a romance with Christopher Walken is nonsense. There's no way they were involved. I stake my reputation on it. Natalie thought of Chris Walken as a buddy, which she firmly told me."
Cohan is convinced he has the story of his friend's death spot on, because he claims Wood has confirmed his theory during visitations from beyond the grave.
He adds, "Natalie's visitations confirmed what Roddy always said to me too - Stinger went both ways in the latter years, women and men.
"I am hoping that this revelation takes the investigation to another point and helps to clear Robert Wagner's name. He was not a saint but he did not kill Natalie, as has been suggested. They're making him into something he's not.
"Someone came onboard the boat in the middle of the night when Christopher Walken and R.J. were out of it. There were no eyewitnesses. So much has been made of an argument earlier in the evening. That had nothing to do with Natalie Wood's death."...
- 12/5/2011
- WENN
BFI plans comprehensive season celebrating most adapted author of all time in early 2012
From Alec Guinness as Fagin to Miss Piggy as Mrs Cratchit, the BFI is staging a three-month retrospective of Dickens on film and TV on London's South Bank from January, to mark the novelist's bicentenary.. The season is curated by Michael Eaton and Co-curator Adrian Wootton, said Dickens's influence on cinema and TV had been immense and continues right up to the present day, with Mike Newell's Great Expectations the next movie outing for Dickens. "It demonstrates that he is not a dead, grey old man sitting on dusty shelves who nobody reads, he is a living breathing artist whose work just keeps on rippling and resonating through our culture."
All the novels have been adapted to some degree. There are around 100 silent films, of which around a third still exist, "although we keep finding new...
From Alec Guinness as Fagin to Miss Piggy as Mrs Cratchit, the BFI is staging a three-month retrospective of Dickens on film and TV on London's South Bank from January, to mark the novelist's bicentenary.. The season is curated by Michael Eaton and Co-curator Adrian Wootton, said Dickens's influence on cinema and TV had been immense and continues right up to the present day, with Mike Newell's Great Expectations the next movie outing for Dickens. "It demonstrates that he is not a dead, grey old man sitting on dusty shelves who nobody reads, he is a living breathing artist whose work just keeps on rippling and resonating through our culture."
All the novels have been adapted to some degree. There are around 100 silent films, of which around a third still exist, "although we keep finding new...
- 11/18/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Only one in 10 of us wash our hands after going to the toilet – yet as a society we have never found the idea of germs more disgusting. Why the confusion?
Saturday 15 October marked the fourth annual Global Handwashing Day, and in schoolyards across the world, in Peru and Bangladesh, in Ghana and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, 200 million people, most of them children, gathered in a great act of communal handwashing: lines stretched across courtyards, tiny hands pressed beneath taps, a flurry of soap, water and lather.
Global Handwashing Day is a multi-organisational initiative, launched to convince us that the simple act of washing hands with soap can reduce the spread of often fatal diseases and acute respiratory infections. Its organisers estimate that hand-washing with soap could save more lives than any single vaccine or other form of medical intervention.
Encouraging people to wash their hands after using the toilet or...
Saturday 15 October marked the fourth annual Global Handwashing Day, and in schoolyards across the world, in Peru and Bangladesh, in Ghana and Pakistan, Egypt and Ethiopia, 200 million people, most of them children, gathered in a great act of communal handwashing: lines stretched across courtyards, tiny hands pressed beneath taps, a flurry of soap, water and lather.
Global Handwashing Day is a multi-organisational initiative, launched to convince us that the simple act of washing hands with soap can reduce the spread of often fatal diseases and acute respiratory infections. Its organisers estimate that hand-washing with soap could save more lives than any single vaccine or other form of medical intervention.
Encouraging people to wash their hands after using the toilet or...
- 10/24/2011
- by Laura Barton
- The Guardian - Film News
London, Oct 1: British actor, Sir Ian McKellen has reportedly bought a 300-year-old pub which author Charles Dickens was a patron of.
The 'Lord of the Rings' star had been a regular visitor of the joint known as The Grapes and lives in Limehouse, East London.
Built in 1972, the pub was immortalised as The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub in Dicken's last book 'Our Mutual Friend' in 1864.
A young Dickens had stood on the table and sung for customers back then.
McKellen, 72, always wanted to open a tea shop, and has now partnered with theatre director Sean Mathias to purchase the riverside.
The 'Lord of the Rings' star had been a regular visitor of the joint known as The Grapes and lives in Limehouse, East London.
Built in 1972, the pub was immortalised as The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub in Dicken's last book 'Our Mutual Friend' in 1864.
A young Dickens had stood on the table and sung for customers back then.
McKellen, 72, always wanted to open a tea shop, and has now partnered with theatre director Sean Mathias to purchase the riverside.
- 10/1/2011
- by Anita Agarwal
- RealBollywood.com
Alex Kingston
By B Van Heusen
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The BBC have announced that work has begun on the new season of Upstairs Downstairs and fans of Doctor Who and ER may be interest to hear that Alex Kingston has been added to the cast. She will take on the role of Dr Blanche Mottershead who is the younger sister of Lady Holland’s aunt Maud. Veteran actor Kenneth Cranham whose past credits include Rome and Our Mutual Friend is also joining the cast. Cranham plays a World War I veteran who now works as a police officer. He dislikes Mr Pritchard’s anti-war views and the conflict between the two men almost causes the Holland’s little empire to come tumbling down.
Clare Foy who appeared alongside Kenneth Cranham in The Night Watch, will be back...
By B Van Heusen
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The BBC have announced that work has begun on the new season of Upstairs Downstairs and fans of Doctor Who and ER may be interest to hear that Alex Kingston has been added to the cast. She will take on the role of Dr Blanche Mottershead who is the younger sister of Lady Holland’s aunt Maud. Veteran actor Kenneth Cranham whose past credits include Rome and Our Mutual Friend is also joining the cast. Cranham plays a World War I veteran who now works as a police officer. He dislikes Mr Pritchard’s anti-war views and the conflict between the two men almost causes the Holland’s little empire to come tumbling down.
Clare Foy who appeared alongside Kenneth Cranham in The Night Watch, will be back...
- 9/27/2011
- by admin
Kate Winslet's triumph, lost for words at Downton Abbey, and when Enoch Powell met Bill Haley
✒I half-suspect that the main reason people award Oscars, Emmys, the Légion d'honneur etc to Kate Winslet is simply for the joy of her acceptance speech, the great gushing geyser of delight and gratitude. After all, who wants an actor who merely says: "I am most grateful. Thank you"?
But then she is terribly good. I suspect my wife and I are among the few British people who watched the whole of Mildred Pierce, the Todd Haynes serial on Sky Atlantic, based on James McCain's novel of the Depression. It's about a single mother who makes a fortune, but watches her family life fall apart, largely thanks to her witch of a daughter. Winslet's performance was luminous, and kept us watching through all the Grand Guignol stuff about death and betrayal. The sex didn't hurt either.
✒I half-suspect that the main reason people award Oscars, Emmys, the Légion d'honneur etc to Kate Winslet is simply for the joy of her acceptance speech, the great gushing geyser of delight and gratitude. After all, who wants an actor who merely says: "I am most grateful. Thank you"?
But then she is terribly good. I suspect my wife and I are among the few British people who watched the whole of Mildred Pierce, the Todd Haynes serial on Sky Atlantic, based on James McCain's novel of the Depression. It's about a single mother who makes a fortune, but watches her family life fall apart, largely thanks to her witch of a daughter. Winslet's performance was luminous, and kept us watching through all the Grand Guignol stuff about death and betrayal. The sex didn't hurt either.
- 9/23/2011
- by Simon Hoggart
- The Guardian - Film News
Sir Ian McKellen is reportedly buying his local pub, The Grapes in Limehouse, east London.
The Lord Of The Rings and X-Men star will be landlord when the deal is finalised but will apparently employ a manager to run the 300-year-old tavern for him.
Barbara Haigh, 61, has run the watering hole for 17 years and is selling it to the 72-year-old actor.
She said: "Sir Ian is buying the pub with his own interests at heart, especially living close by."
The pub - now a listed building - was built in 1720, on the site of a previous pub dating to 1583. Local folklore says that Thames watermen (boat workers who ferried passengers across and along the river) used to drown drunks from the pub to sell their corpses for medical dissection.
The Grapes was made famous when Charles Dickens immortalised it in as The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub in his last completed novel,...
The Lord Of The Rings and X-Men star will be landlord when the deal is finalised but will apparently employ a manager to run the 300-year-old tavern for him.
Barbara Haigh, 61, has run the watering hole for 17 years and is selling it to the 72-year-old actor.
She said: "Sir Ian is buying the pub with his own interests at heart, especially living close by."
The pub - now a listed building - was built in 1720, on the site of a previous pub dating to 1583. Local folklore says that Thames watermen (boat workers who ferried passengers across and along the river) used to drown drunks from the pub to sell their corpses for medical dissection.
The Grapes was made famous when Charles Dickens immortalised it in as The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters pub in his last completed novel,...
- 9/15/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Sir Ian McKellan is celebrating after becoming the landlord of a 300-year-old London pub which inspired Charles Dickens.
The Lord of the Rings actor is now the proud owner of The Grapes venue in Limehouse, East London and will employ a manager to oversee the day-to-day running of the establishment.
The pub was made famous by Dickens in his novel Our Mutual Friend, in which it was called The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters.
The building dates back to 1720.
Former owner Barbara Haigh says, "Sir Ian is buying the pub with his own interests at heart, especially living close by."...
The Lord of the Rings actor is now the proud owner of The Grapes venue in Limehouse, East London and will employ a manager to oversee the day-to-day running of the establishment.
The pub was made famous by Dickens in his novel Our Mutual Friend, in which it was called The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters.
The building dates back to 1720.
Former owner Barbara Haigh says, "Sir Ian is buying the pub with his own interests at heart, especially living close by."...
- 9/12/2011
- WENN
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
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Were he alive today, Charles Dickens would be 199 years old which means that next year will be the bicentenary of his birth. The BBC are set to honor Britain’s greatest ever novelist by airing a series of programs related to the writer and his work during 2012. Festivities officially begin at the end of this year when BBC One will air a new adaptation of Great Expectations starring Gillian Anderson and David Suchet. Following that, Dickens fans can turn their attentions to BBC2 and a dramatization of Dickens’ last work The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. The writer died before he completed the story but Gwyneth Hughes has picked up where he left off and turned the unfinished book into a two part psychological thriller.
In the drama, Tudors star Tamzin Merchant takes...
- 9/5/2011
- by admin
One of Britain's most distinguished actors, known for her roles on stage and screen
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
Margaret Tyzack, who has died aged 79, was one of Britain's greatest and most popular actors, working on stage, television and film for more than half a century. Sometimes described as being in the mould of Edith Evans and Flora Robson, she will be remembered particularly for performances in the golden age of BBC TV drama – Winifred in The Forsyte Saga (1967), Antonia in I, Claudius (1976) – as well as for stage performances such as Martha in the National Theatre's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1981), for which she won an Olivier award for best actress, and Lottie with Maggie Smith in Lettice and Lovage (1987 and 1990), which earned her both Tony and Variety Club stage actress of the year awards. In 2008, well into her 70s, she scored perhaps one of her finest triumphs on stage as the wily,...
- 6/28/2011
- by Carole Woddis
- The Guardian - Film News
I have a dream. It's an old dream, and probably not likely to become reality soon, if ever; but I cherish it enough to share it with those of you who may share my love of Victoriana in general and the work of Charles Dickens in particular.
Just once, I would like to see the vast and genuinely alien realms of the Victorian age given the same care and attention in movies that the rustic environments of Tolkien have enjoyed - and, with the forthcoming Hobbit movies, will continue to enjoy - over the past decade. If I concentrate on the works of Dickens in this regard, it's because I am a fan, and because these works have not only become iconographic in regards to the modern conception of the 19th century, but also share with Tolkien and other fantasy authors a truly unique and surreal flavour. And this combines...
Just once, I would like to see the vast and genuinely alien realms of the Victorian age given the same care and attention in movies that the rustic environments of Tolkien have enjoyed - and, with the forthcoming Hobbit movies, will continue to enjoy - over the past decade. If I concentrate on the works of Dickens in this regard, it's because I am a fan, and because these works have not only become iconographic in regards to the modern conception of the 19th century, but also share with Tolkien and other fantasy authors a truly unique and surreal flavour. And this combines...
- 5/28/2011
- Shadowlocked
Getty David Foster Wallace
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I handed in my undergraduate thesis on David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, “Infinite Jest.” A few weeks later, I received an exciting email from the English department. Wallace was coming to campus to give a reading preceding the annual senior thesis conference. I was not only invited to be one of eight seniors reading from their theses in front of the department and the visiting author, but did...
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I handed in my undergraduate thesis on David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, “Infinite Jest.” A few weeks later, I received an exciting email from the English department. Wallace was coming to campus to give a reading preceding the annual senior thesis conference. I was not only invited to be one of eight seniors reading from their theses in front of the department and the visiting author, but did...
- 4/18/2011
- by Teddy Wayne
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Elizabeth Taylor died early Wednesday, surrounded by her children. Taylor is considered one of the greatest and most glamorous actresses of Hollywood's golden age, and the star tributes are pouring in, remembering her life as a starlet, humanitarian and special friend.
Elizabeth Taylor: Silver Screen Goddess
"Elizabeth was the definition of greatness on all fronts. I loved her. She will be incredibly missed." -- John Travolta
"A woman who rarely did things in half measure.
Elizabeth Taylor: Silver Screen Goddess
"Elizabeth was the definition of greatness on all fronts. I loved her. She will be incredibly missed." -- John Travolta
"A woman who rarely did things in half measure.
- 3/23/2011
- Extra
Waterworld star says he can turn the Gulf of Mexico oil slick into water
Dear readers, allow me a literary moment. A long time ago, when Lost in Showbiz's reading habits were made up of funny, squiggly things called "books" as opposed to magazines with exclamation marks in the titles (Dickens wishes he'd thought of that technique. Bleak House!, Our Mutual Friend! Already they sound more fun, don't they?), LiS was rather taken with Virginia Woolf, as all women under the age of 20 are obliged to be. Ah, the folly of youth. But despite never teaching me anything useful, such as whether Will.i.Am and Cheryl Cole are actually going out (no) and whether anyone cares (no), it turns out that old Woolfy baby wasn't a total waste of time.
In To the Lighthouse she described a picture of a refrigerator as being "fringed with joy". Well, this week...
Dear readers, allow me a literary moment. A long time ago, when Lost in Showbiz's reading habits were made up of funny, squiggly things called "books" as opposed to magazines with exclamation marks in the titles (Dickens wishes he'd thought of that technique. Bleak House!, Our Mutual Friend! Already they sound more fun, don't they?), LiS was rather taken with Virginia Woolf, as all women under the age of 20 are obliged to be. Ah, the folly of youth. But despite never teaching me anything useful, such as whether Will.i.Am and Cheryl Cole are actually going out (no) and whether anyone cares (no), it turns out that old Woolfy baby wasn't a total waste of time.
In To the Lighthouse she described a picture of a refrigerator as being "fringed with joy". Well, this week...
- 5/20/2010
- by Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian - Film News
"Lost" is coming to an end on Sunday, May 23 (sniffle, sniffle) and to commemorate this special television series, Profiles in History is auctioning off a ton of stuff from the show. But are they real props used in the show? Or reproductions?
There are too many items up for auction to list them all here, but the ones that really caught our eye were Charlie's Drive Shaft ring, Rousseau's music box, Desmond's picture of himself and Penny (above), Eko's Jesus stick, Faraday's journal, the 1977 Dharma new recruits photo, Kate's toy airplane, the compass Richard gave Locke, Penny's letter from Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend," a set of 30 Dharma fish biscuits and three 16mm Dharma Initiative Orientation films.
Interestingly, one of the items up for auction is Sawyer's letter (pictured, right) that he wrote as a child to the man who conned his parents. Except Evangeline Lilly just told the ladies of...
There are too many items up for auction to list them all here, but the ones that really caught our eye were Charlie's Drive Shaft ring, Rousseau's music box, Desmond's picture of himself and Penny (above), Eko's Jesus stick, Faraday's journal, the 1977 Dharma new recruits photo, Kate's toy airplane, the compass Richard gave Locke, Penny's letter from Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend," a set of 30 Dharma fish biscuits and three 16mm Dharma Initiative Orientation films.
Interestingly, one of the items up for auction is Sawyer's letter (pictured, right) that he wrote as a child to the man who conned his parents. Except Evangeline Lilly just told the ladies of...
- 5/12/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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