Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
To celebrate Pleasance's 25th Anniversary, tickets for Jesus, My Boy with Tom Conti are reduced to just £10 each for the first two performances (Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 November - normally £15).
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
UK Television Film Director: Richard Loncraine Writer: Dennis Potter Cinematographer: Peter Hannan Cast: Donald Pleasence, Tom Conti, Denholm Elliott, Kika Markham, Phoebe Nicholls An aristocratic family are enjoying an idyllic summer’s day in their palatial grounds - the father is sitting quietly, reading and dozing fitfully; the trophy wife and comely daughter playing a leisurely game of tennis;...
Write Anything (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Image via Wikimedia Commons in the public domain. 2009 sees the 250th anniversary of the birth of Rabbie Burns, the national bard of Scotland. In celebration of this, the Scottish Government declared 2009 to be the year of homecoming, an opportunity for expat Scots (like me) or those with Scottish ancestry to return to [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Actor Tom Conti’s ventriloquist and comedian daughter Nina heads an international line-up for the 16th International Puppet Festival of Ireland on September 16th-21st.
Limbo (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
As stirring as President Barack Obama’s eulogy of Senator Edward Kennedy was this morning, the most moving remembrance may actually have come from Ted Kennedy Jr., the late solon’s 47-year-old investment banker son:More coverage of today’s Kennedy tributes can be found here.
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Neither of the two versions of the promo art for John Huston's The Dead presented by Erich Kuersten, below , are *quite* as misleading as the cover art for the VHS version of The Dumb Waiter , a 1987 half-hour television film directed by Robert Altman based on the one-act play of the same title by the late Harold Pinter. The Dumb Waiter 's cover art shows the telefilm's two stars, John Travolta and...
Strike Curious Poses (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
By the time David Sylvian had moved on from the group Japan and became a solo artist I hadn't really known Japan's songs. I first remember his solo song Red Guitar which I played a lot on my Now That's What I Call Music 3 album in 1984. It was years later that I started to like Japan's music. I Second That Emotion, Life In Tokyo, Quite Life and Ghosts are classic Japan songs. My favourite is Nightporter...
Debbie Schlussel (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
By Debbie Schlussel Right now, I'm watching " This TV ," the digital TV channel, which airs in most cities (and you don't need cable to watch it). Tonight's prime time movie is the 1986 TV flick, " Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story ," starring Farrah Fawcett. It's based on the book of the same name by Frederic Hunter. Amidst all the Michael Jackson death hype and the "Charlie's...
Aaronovitch Watch (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Thanks very much to BenSix in the comments, for the heads up on Dave's appearance at the Editorial Intelligence blogging debate thing, in which he gives us a shout-out! Big up yourself Dave man!One of the other comments DA makes is that his main problem with the blogosphere is not so much the criticism it makes of the commentariat as the fact that, to quote "in one single comment thread at Guido...
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
The disaster movie cycle was finished by 1980, pretty much killed off for good by AIRPLANE! but it’s not like the films themselves didn’t have something to do with it. THE CONCORDE-AIRPORT ’79 is absurd, THE SWARM is hysterical, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE is lame, but WHEN TIME RAN OUT… is about as bad as it gets. Any degree of guilty pleasure entertainment that was once...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 05/23/2009
Who made thees? Eeet is much too thick and has lumps," sighed exasperated Italian chef Giancarlo Caldesi as he slowly ran his fingers through my home-made tagliatelle.
The Feast Within (Free subscription) | 05/20/2009
This months choice for Dinner and a Movie hosted by Susan of Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy and Marc of No Recipes is one of my all time favourite movies- “Shirley Valentine.” This first came out in 1989 (really? 20 years ago?..where DID the time go!?..yikes… eeek!!!) I was in my 20s when I first saw it and [...]
Tory Bear (Free subscription) | 05/06/2009
Tory Bear never realised that Tom Conti was quite so sound. Check out the video he just put together for today's edition of the Daily Politics: Couldn't agree more.
GromBlog (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
There's a good little video that's been bouncing around the interwebs over the last few days of '''Nina Conti''' (that's '''Tom Conti''''s daughter UK readers) doing her ventriloquist act from a few years ago but it did remind me how much I loved '''David Strassman''''s Ted E Bare - haven't thought about Strassman for years but I instantly remembered the entire routine I first saw him do back in 1996....
[CinemaRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 02/14/2009
The world, look at what we've done to it," Dennis Potter wrote. "If the world was an old dog you'd want to put it out of its misery The line, spoken by an angry young man in one of Potter's "plays for...
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