Quick! As fast as you can; name 3 comedies that starred Clive Owen. Don't worry, I'll wait. You may want to classify King Arthur as one, but it doesn't count. So don't say it. He was a little goofy in Greenfingers (inmate turned competitive gardener) and no one can deny that Shoot 'em Up wasn't hilarious in it's own right. But Owen is a dramatic actor, a dark actor, a man who doesn't touch comedy...right?
Wrong. Owen has joined the cast of the new comedy The King of the Castle.
Wrong. Owen has joined the cast of the new comedy The King of the Castle.
- 10/26/2012
- by Keyra Jallah
- GetTheBigPicture.net
The distinctive and beguiling Irish actor David Kelly, who has died aged 82, was as familiar a face in British television sitcoms as he was on the stage in Dublin, where he was particularly associated with the Gate theatre. But he was perhaps best known in recent years for playing Grandpa Joe in Tim Burton's movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), an engaging performance that was honoured with a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Film and Television Academy; Johnny Depp, who played Willy Wonka, paid a touching tribute on a video link from Hollywood to Dublin.
Kelly was a tall and flamboyant figure who was often cast as a comic, eccentric Irishman, notably as Albert Riddle, an incompetent, one-armed dish-washer in the late 1970s British sitcom Robin's Nest; he...
Kelly was a tall and flamboyant figure who was often cast as a comic, eccentric Irishman, notably as Albert Riddle, an incompetent, one-armed dish-washer in the late 1970s British sitcom Robin's Nest; he...
- 2/14/2012
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Plot: During the eighties, two brothers (Ben Barnes & Robert Sheehan) attempt to become rock stars, while living in the shadow of their former high-school chums, who went on to global stardom as U2. Review: Killing Bono follows in the tradition of British comedies like The Full Monty, or Greenfingers. It follows a bunch of lovable losers on an impossible dream they're unlikely to realize- but along the way manages to find something life-affirming in that they at least pursued the...
- 10/17/2011
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Anonymous Content has tapped Shawn Hopkins, Brian Medavoy and Lainie Stolhanske to join its management ranks. Hopkins joins the management division with a roster of lit clients that includes Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down), Scott Kosar (The Machinist), Laura Cahill (Hysterical Blindness), Tyger Williams (Menace II Society), Leigh Dunlap (A Cinderella Story), Paul Hernandez (Instant Karma), Peter Himmelstein (Lost Boys), Joel Hershman (Greenfingers), Philip Boston (Billabong Odyssey), Greg Pritikin (Dummy) and Joby Harold (Awake). She joins Anonymous from Catch 23 Entertainment. Before that, she spent two years with Rick and Julie Yorn and Artist Management Group. She started her career at ICM.
- 11/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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