I see that Rowan Atkinson, the Archbishop of Cadbury, met with Pope Ratzo recently to discuss carving up the world into spheres of influence and the trade in souls. I think the whole spectacle was summed up by His Eminence’s gift to our Rowan of a gold cross. I am reminded of the parable of the camel of easy virtue passing a needle for a Samaritan pauper prospering in the vineyard of the prodigal...
Video YouTube has launched an area for television and films . It would be remiss of me not to point to some classics and whatnot: The Quatermass Experiment : As live production created for BBC Four featuring Jason Flemyng in the titular role. Also Mark Gattis and one David Tennant, who found out he was going to be playing Doctor Who during the rehearsals for this. This is Dom Joly : It is indeed. Joly's...
Spy vs. Spy has long been synonymous with MAD magazine. The wordless cartoon, created in 1961 for MAD by famed Cuban cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who left Cuba for the United States when Castro came to power, was a classic reflection of Cold War sentiments, with each combatant reflecting a mirror image of the other in trying to up the ante and get the upper hand. Here's a nice animated collection of...
The UK-based film company plans a sequel to the 2003 Rowan Atkinson-starring spy spoof, as well as a new adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Bad news for anyone who thought that Johnny English's licence had been revoked. The Guardian can exclusively reveal that the bumbling British spy is set for another mission, with Rowan Atkinson in talks to reprise his role from the...
A memorable scene from Jerry Lewis's Cracking Up (1982). Each Saturday we highlight a humorous and sometimes poignant video, interview, comic, or skit concerning different "careers," past and present. From W.C. Fields to Rowan Atkinson, from classic films and commercials to Monty Python ---all and everything will be tapped for this look each week at various professions and pastimes. Click...
ONE of the greatest cinematic love affairs of the past half-century has been between British film fans and an angular, accident-prone beanpole of a Frenchman named Monsieur Hu
`The Christian Institute' A Conservative Peer and Labour MP have joined forces in writing to The Times calling for the free speech shield to be preserved in the ‘homophobic hatred’ law. Lord Waddington and David Taylor MP expressed concern at a Government move to strike out the free speech protection clause. Their letter says: “The politically motivated [...]
Letter to The Times Sir, Today the Government looks set to ask the Commons to repeal an important protection for free speech. It was inserted by the Lords into the new homophobic hatred offence in May 2008 and, after twice trying and failing to remove this free speech protection, the Government reluctantly accepted the position and allowed [...]
Conservative peer Lord Waddington and Labour backbencher David Taylor MP have called for a 'free speech' defence to be kept in a bill designed to criminalise incitement of homophobic hatred.
Government attempts to override a free speech clause in a homophobic hatred bill illustrate its determination to attack rights "The politically motivated trampling of free speech is something that should concern us all," says a letter in the Times from the Conservative peer Lord Waddington and the Labour MP and former backbencher of the year David Taylor. After a free speech clause was inserted...
Movie cover: Plot summary: Storyline: A category of billionaires led beside a Las Vegas casino owner (John Cleese) frisk for things to ante on. They udge to yank cull a category of six strangers ad as a group to race from Vegas to Silver City, New Mexico to recall $2 million cover in a locker. First one there gets the whole of each of the cas. The pre-eminen group are two addled brothers (Seth Green...
It was announced last March that the 2010 British Motor Show has been canceled by reason of the ongoing global economic downturn and the next year hoped the event could be held again was 2013.