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do films count?? have just got back from seeing Stardust, Matthew Vaughn’s homage to The Princess Bride and it was wonderful……
Anything counts Moe
I just watched The Invasion – oh boy was that just the worst movie of all time 
I knew before Nicole Kidman couldn’t act her way out of a brown paper bag but now she’s gorn and proved it all again! What do you think of the revamped channel ‘Dave’? It’s absolutely my cup of tea, we watch little else in my house at the mo, apart from a daily dose of "Scrubs".
I can take any amount of "Who’s Line is it Anyway", "Top Gear", and the piece de resistance…..QI. Everything stops for QI.
I can’t take X Factor or any of that sort of crap, or soaps, or much else for that matter. I’m very fussy me
We have similar programmes here, only in Mandarin
Actually come to think of it they make just as much sense All I can say is thank goodness for DVD’s – my library has tripled since I got here
Mrs Column is already well drilled in flipping the channel over (or, if she’s settled, banishing me to the shed) whenever the hated Top Gear comes on. Apart from which, yes, the Dave channel is getting a lot of exposure in Grayson Towers as well.
Great to see the mid-90s UK episodes of Whose Line… on there at present, all ones that I missed through studying commitments or living abroad first time around.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
re Nicole Kidman – I know what you mean KT, but I don’t think she’s a bad actress [thought ‘The Hours’ was superb], maybe she just needs a prosthetic nose all the time because whatever she plays she just seems to be Nicole Kidman playing somebody else [what I’ve just said means that she’s a bad actress doesn’t it!]. I hope she doesn’t ruin the Northern Lights film that I’m so looking forward to…..and,as for Stardust, it even had a unicorn in it..my definition of a good film is one that takes you to another place and leaves you there for a few days afterwards – Atonement did that but left me feeling sad and empty, today I feel like a 10 year old and the world is full of magical things….even unicorns….mo
That’s it! She’s Nicole Kidman in everything.
I too am worried about Northern Lights. The books are soooooooo good that they will have to do a super job on the film.
Having said that at least the phaowwwwwwww factor Daniel Craig is in themever since I read Northern Lights I have tried to work out what everyones daemon would be…I guess an avator{?] is a daemon in cybeberspace…
I’d love a Daemon! It’d be nice to have a pet that changes into other things and talks to you!
but once you reach adulthood they don’t change anymore do they – unfortunately I think my adult daemon would probably be a sloth or a naked mole rat…
They don’t?
Well I’m making the rules here and mine would still change
I think my swimming rat over here
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< would be just fineMrs Column is already well drilled in flipping the channel over (or, if she’s settled, banishing me to the shed) whenever the hated Top Gear comes on. Apart from which, yes, the Dave channel is getting a lot of exposure in Grayson Towers as well.
Great to see the mid-90s UK episodes of Whose Line… on there at present, all ones that I missed through studying commitments or living abroad first time around.
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I thought you’d be a fan too
Although I must admit Tony Slattery makes me squirm a bit, he looks so nervous and out of his depth sometimes.I think he’s always lived on his nerves to a large extent, BH, hence his breakdown was a very bad, prolonged one when it came. Herewith a few snippets from that there Wikipedia;
Early in the 1990s he became over-exposed as a celebrity, to the extent that he was a target of satire. For example, the Have I Got News For You 1991 annual showed images of the game from around the world, and each local variant featured Slattery as a guest. Spitting Image showed a sketch where an anthropomorphised BBC2 logo refused to have blue paint splattered on it and Slattery intervened for the sake of publicity. The satirical magazine Private Eye once published a memorable cartoon depicting Tony’s answering machine with the outgoing message “Yes, I’ll do it!”.
In 1998 he was elected as Rector of the University of Dundee.
In the mid-1990s, after leaving Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Slattery suffered what he described as a ‘mid-life crisis’, culminating in 1996 with a six-month period of reclusiveness, during which he did not answer his door or telephone, “or open bills, or wash,” he says; “I just sat.” Eventually, one of his friends broke down the door of his flat and convinced him to go to hospital. He was diagnosed as suffering from a bipolar condition.
He discussed this period and his subsequent living with bipolar disorder in a documentary made by Stephen Fry, “The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive”, in 2006; Slattery claimed that he spent time living on a house-boat and “throwing [his] furniture into the Thames”.
Now recovered, he has returned to presenting on British cable television. In January 2005 he appeared in the TV movie Ahead of the Class with Julie Walters. In December 2005 he joined the long-running drama Coronation Street as Eric Talford and in April 2006 he appeared in Grumpy Old Men on BBC Two. In 2007 he appeared as a regular cast member in the ITV series Kingdom, playing the eccentric Sidney Snell.
Just good to see him – or anyone, frankly – come out the other side okay.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
I knew he’d had some sort of breakdown, but couldn’t remember the details. With hindsight, you can almost see it coming with "Who’s Line…..?". He’s completely on edge all the time and looks to have a temper on him too! I agree totally, it’s good to see he’s OK now. I missed that Steven Fry programme, but I expect it’ll be repeated ad infinitum.
Will be and has been! BBC3 had a Stephen Fry Evening in August to celebrate a landmark birthday (I think he turned 50), and his bipolar disorder programme featured in that. They have already repeated the whole evening at least once since.
Don’t know if you saw Slattery on Whose Line…? again last night, but yeah, he was losing the plot completely on a few occasions, not least “Party Quirks”. Still made me howl laughing when he was doing the catalogue model poses in “Old Job New Job”, though.
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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Will be and has been! BBC3 had a Stephen Fry Evening in August to celebrate a landmark birthday (I think he turned 50), and his bipolar disorder programme featured in that. They have already repeated the whole evening at least once since.
Don’t know if you saw Slattery on Whose Line…? again last night, but yeah, he was losing the plot completely on a few occasions, not least “Party Quirks”. Still made me howl laughing when he was doing the catalogue model poses in “Old Job New Job”, though.
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I did see that! He really got almost snappy at one stage with Clive Anderson, and was continually plucking at his trousers in his nervousness, but I agree about the job thing, he was hilarious! He got that spot on. And I always kind of sigh with releie whenever he DOES do something very well, because I feel so sorry for him usually.
He did something good tonight, can’t remember what just now………oh yes! When they had to come up with things you wouldn’t say to your in-laws, he was hilarious there too. He has moments of genius sometimes.
I just watched The Invasion – oh boy was that just the worst movie of all time 
I knew before Nicole Kidman couldn’t act her way out of a brown paper bag but now she’s gorn and proved it all again! 
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