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Post by everso on Aug 22, 2010 11:31:30 GMT
However, she was SERIOUSLY mis-cast as Queen Mary I in "Elizabeth". She has a working class London accent (sorry to do the class thing, but I don't really know how else to describe it) and this tended to come through, unfortunately.
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Post by trubble on Aug 29, 2010 11:58:28 GMT
I have to agree that her accent didn't work. Pity. I thought they had voice coaches for these sort of situations . Next: (Sorry Patrick, this could be unfluffy) Just 24 hours left to hear a brief examination of Mozzam Begg's story. He is one of the British Muslims that was held in gitmo for 3 years then released without charge. A lot of grey areas. In fact, perhaps his tale is proof that there's no such thing as black and white. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tg1c1
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Post by everso on Aug 29, 2010 14:16:17 GMT
South Pacific is on BBC2 at the mo. I know all the words.
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Post by Weyland on Aug 29, 2010 15:09:05 GMT
South Pacific is on BBC2 at the mo. I know all the words. One of my favourite songs is Honey Bun (where she's narrow, etc.). That and Dame (there is absolutely nothin' like the frame of a dame.). I too know all the words. Another favourite song is Sultans of Swing: You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing And an old guitar is all he can afford When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
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Post by everso on Aug 29, 2010 17:15:35 GMT
Mr. E. and I used to really like that one.
Yes, Honey Bun is one of my favourites too. Didn't Mitzi Gaynor have a fabulous figure? My god, that waist!
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Post by Weyland on Aug 29, 2010 17:40:35 GMT
Mr. E. and I used to really like that one. Yes, Honey Bun is one of my favourites too. Didn't Mitzi Gaynor have a fabulous figure? My god, that waist! How true. But I wasn't thinking of the waist. You know, "broad", etc. I really must have a lie-down now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2010 20:00:00 GMT
the second programme of horsepower with martin clunes is about to start on itv.. i really enjoyed it last week
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Post by Patrick on Aug 31, 2010 9:24:36 GMT
How the Mighty Have Fallen. 9:30am Radio 4. Currently says that it's not available on iplayer - but on the iplayer page it says "Coming Soon" so you never know. Dr Hilary Jones continues his series on the history of obesity with a look at diets and dieting through the ages.
"It is very injurious to health to take in more food than the constitution will bear, when at the same time, one uses no exercise to carry off this excess" - Hippocrates, millennia ahead of his time, defining the energy balance equation. Plutarch, in 1AD, recognised the link between weight and health: "thin people are generally the most healthy; we should not therefore indulge our appetites with delicacies or high living, for fear of growing corpulent".
Twenty years on from the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror grew too large to ride his horse, and decided to lose weight by consuming nothing but alcohol. Other historic diets include Cheyne's lettuce diet, Fletcherising - "nature will castigate those who don't masticate", and Banting. William Banting lost almost a quarter of his weight in a few weeks by adopting a diet "low in farinaceous food" - a precursor of the modern low-carbohydrate diet. His 1863 diet book was a top-seller.
And we hear about the extraordinary exploits of the Great Eater of Kent, a "Tugmutton" who could eat an entire sheep in one sitting. There are interviews with Dr Susan Jebb of MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge, and Prof David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum, plus readings and music - a popular song from 1929 encapsulating the new craze in America: the grapefruit diet.Another great diet in there - which I'm thinking of adopting myself - involves drinking eight glasses of wine per day!
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Post by Patrick on Sept 4, 2010 17:06:10 GMT
Just managed (in parts) to finally finish watching The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. Thoroughly enjoyable - though I wasn't sure whether it really showed that much of the dark side, thinking about it - it didn't need to - the atmosphere set it readily enough.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 17:44:47 GMT
ohh i saw that when it was on t'tellbox the other week.. qwuite good it was too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 17:47:24 GMT
ii,m watching wallace and gromit and the curse of the were rabbit...i never used to like wallace n grommit but im finding this one qwuite enjoyable.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 4, 2010 18:32:48 GMT
South Pacific is on BBC2 at the mo. I know all the words. One of my favourite songs is Honey Bun (where she's narrow, etc.). That and Dame (there is absolutely nothin' like the frame of a dame.). I too know all the words. Another favourite song is Sultans of Swing: You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing And an old guitar is all he can afford When he gets up under the lights to play his thing I remember John Peel playing that. He said afterwards that Sultans of Swing would have been a better name for the group. (It might have been on the same night that The Fall had their first session; it was certainly on the same Peel tape I had made; I remember trying to thumb it to Deeply Vale Free Festival in 1978 while playing it. (It was a dead loss, and we ended up getting a bus from Huddersfield).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 18:37:11 GMT
..step forward.. the sultans of Ping (FC) ;D
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Post by bonbonlarue on Sept 4, 2010 20:04:19 GMT
I've watched more TV this week than in the last year...Confined to sofa with only council telly and some dodgy free view, I found myself waiting for the end of Judge Judy so I could hear the verdict...
I need to get better...stat!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2010 20:29:52 GMT
awww are you not very well BonBon? hope you get well soon ~hug~
what is council telly??
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Post by Patrick on Sept 4, 2010 21:34:03 GMT
When I hear anything from the Brothers in Arms album - I'm transported back to Hereford - Lying in the warm sunshine in Churchill Gardens - my trusty Falcon Black Diamond by my side - just chilling. Before partaking of a nice Pint of Stella at The Bowling Green or The Three Crowns in town. Bliss.
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Post by Patrick on Sept 4, 2010 21:35:13 GMT
I've watched more TV this week than in the last year...Confined to sofa with only council telly and some dodgy free view, I found myself waiting for the end of Judge Judy so I could hear the verdict... I need to get better...stat! Hope you're getting there Bon!
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Post by Patrick on Sept 4, 2010 21:40:03 GMT
ohh i saw that when it was on t'tellbox the other week.. qwuite good it was too I think Peter S was in love with the idea of Fame and Fortune - but when it came down to it should have been happy with what he had. In later years he always said that his time with Harry and Spike were some of his happiest. In Eric Sykes Autob. The original version of "The Plank" was going to be made with him and Peter Sellers, Sellers really, really wanted to do it - thinking it as getting back to some of the laughter and fun of the old days, but he got the call from Hollywood that he always thought he wanted (for Pink Panther) and the rest - is history. I think we can all relate to P.S's wants. He had it - but it wasn't good for him. We all want it - but we should be happy with what we've got - because when it came down to it - that's all that Sellers was happy with.
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Post by everso on Sept 5, 2010 7:54:42 GMT
I've watched more TV this week than in the last year...Confined to sofa with only council telly and some dodgy free view, I found myself waiting for the end of Judge Judy so I could hear the verdict... I need to get better...stat! I love Judge Judy! All those dreadful people. Great stuff. Unfortunately, since we got our new t.v. the reception for that channel seems poor.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Sept 5, 2010 9:14:56 GMT
The main five matey...BBC 1 & 2 ITV, 4 & 5. We've finally finished our BT contract though and Sky are installing this week.
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