Today's Birthdays 10/28/08
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
•Actress Joan Plowright is 79. •Country musician Charlie Daniels is 72. •Actress Jane Alexander is 69.
Joan Plowright
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Review: The Half by Simon Annand
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
Review: The Half by Simon AnnandSimon Annand's series of photographs catch the moment that the daily self is shed and the actor slides their way into a role, says Olivia Laing
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Robert Wagner's new memoir is an absolute page-turner...
Inside the Lakers (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Spent Sunday afternoon at the West Hollywood Book Festival meeting some authors and buying their books. I look forward to reading all of them and I hope I get to them sometime soon! One of them I'm half-finished with: "Robert...
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Think Fast, Queen Mother!
Oh! Mr Sloane! (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
Terror alert Gaffer! The bounders at ITV are putting on their own version of Diana death story (Sir Joan Plowright as Queen Mum). We must make haste, you phone Sinden and I will get on with the script. Yeeeees it is a pity about the state of your marriage, I admit I am puzzled about Clap Scandal - she said you were playing the giddy goat and Queen Timmy was in the trenches, so now the truth is out...or...
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Putting your bodkins in one basket
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
As Lyn Gardner points out in The Guardian theatre blog (an aside: all the Guardian blogs have just moved to a new platform and been redesigned - but where's the permalink in amid all this "book this restaurant" buttons'), some people book their holidays years in advance, others make sure their theatre tickets are in the bag in very good time. I can't say I do either, but have made an exception for...
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Dinosaur (2000) (In Hindi)
Watch Online Hindi Movies (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Starring: D.B. Sweeney ... Aladar (voice) Alfre Woodard ... Plio (voice) Ossie Davis ... Yar (voice) Max Casella ... Zini (voice) Hayden Panettiere ... Suri (voice) Samuel E. Wright ... Kron (voice) Julianna Margulies ... Neera (voice) Peter Siragusa ... Bruton (voice) Joan Plowright ... Baylene (voice) Della Reese ... Eema (voice) Matt Adler ... Additional Voices (voice) Sandina Bailo-Lape ... Additional...
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Which flops are ripe for revival?
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Alan Bennett's Enjoy ran for just a few weeks back in 1980, but a new production has critics raving. It's time to dust down some other neglected treasures
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La Bella Italia
Much of a muchness (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
I was watching TV yesterday evening. There was a news summary at 8pm with breaking news - earthquake in Los Angeles. Now you may not know this but #2 son is in LA at the moment, staying with his dad - cue moment of panic. Yes, I know that they said there were no casualties [...]
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The Spiderwick Chronicles - 2 Disc Field Guide Edition
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
For years the blending of the mundane contemporary world with a magical world of mystery has been dominated by the Harry Potter books, movies, underoos, and breakfast cereal. What about those of us who weren't born to be wizards, but instead are stuck in the ordinary world? The Spiderwick Chronicles shows that we too can enjoy a magical, extraordinary world around us
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Sir Laurence Olivier Got Mad at Those Who Ridiculed Charlton Heston's Acting
artdiamondblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
(p. 5go!) "In 1985, I took a train to London from Royal Air Force Mildenhall (Base) with a couple of med techs and decided to check out some of the plays," Brodston recalled in his e-mail. His theater date...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (SE)
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Amidst all the expected fanboy favorites at last year’s Comic Con, effects guru Phil Tippet showed up to give everyone a first glimpse at…THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES? I don’t think anybody knew what to make of this obvious kid’s movie sandwiched between the IRON MANs and WALL-Es, but the creature designs looked pretty cool and the effects work solid. Still, this one quickly dropped off the radar until...
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Headsup: The Bard, The Wolf, and the Drunk Superhero
Needcoffee.com (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Excellent Shakespeare available from Koch Vision here: it's Twelfth Night--the ITV Saturday Night Theatre version from 1969. It stars Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson. Twins each think the other drowned. So Viola (Plowright) disguises herself as a man in order to stay safe and tries to help a Duke with [...]
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Twelfth Night
Premium Hollywood (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
This little-known 1970 TV production of Shakespeare’s comedy is a real find. For you non-English majors, “Twelfth Night” is one of many of the Bard's lighter works built around mistaken identity and gender confusion. This is basically a two-tracked story, one a rom-com involving a shipwrecked woman (Joan Plowright), pretending to be a male (a [...]
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
The Jumbled Box (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Adapted from the Spiderwick series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles is essentially a children's movie. Still it had monsters and magic in it so that was enough to woo us big kids in to see it. Here's a summary of the plot… When recently divorced Helen Grace (Mary-Louise Parker) and family move into the old Spiderwick house, left to her by their elderly aunt Lucinda...
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A safe, enjoyable film for a holiday
Hindu (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Joan Plowright Director: Mark Waters It is summer time which means vacations and kiddie films. So you have animation films and happy ...
