posted 17-11-2005 11:52            

THE CONFIRMATION

Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face.
I in my mind had waited for this long,
Seeing the false and searching for the true,
Then found you as a traveller finds a place
Of welcome suddenly amid the wrong
Valleys and rocks and twisting roads. But you,
What shall I call you? A fountain in a waste,
A well of water in a country dry,
Or anything that's honest and good, an eye
That makes the whole world seem bright. Your open heart,
Simple with giving, gives the primal deed,
The first good world, the blossom, the blowing seed,
The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea.
Not beautiful or rare in every part.
But like yourself, as they were meant to be.

posted 01-12-2005 15:10            

It's called "Nothing Happened". I need to listen to the first part, flipped on the radio while I was washing the chili pot from yesterday and there was that voice.

posted 02-12-2005 03:10            

Unlike so many radio play actors, ST sounds believable. Do you know if this is current, or does the BBC go back into its vaults for these things?

(I love his accent, which I'm guessing was toned down for Ballyk b/c this is what he's sounded like in most of the other things I've seen him in.)

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Oh my goodness, the perfume Simon buys Jenny is Anais-Anais, the same one I've worn since eighth grade.

amy

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Originally posted by BrianE:
Mr Tompkinson in The Afternoon Play today on BBC Radio 4. And the female lead's name is Jenny!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoonplay.shtml

It's called "Nothing Happened". I need to listen to the first part, flipped on the radio while I was washing the chili pot from yesterday and there was that voice.

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posted 03-12-2005 05:28            

That said, Rufus Sewell dressing up like Dr. Frank N. Furter would have on its own made the viewing worth it.

;)
amy

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Originally posted by Bronn:
I saw it. ST played a manager who was totally besotted by his glamorous fashion model boss. She, of course, never even gave him a second look and cruelly fired him when he wasn't necessary any more. ST does a very good "drinking himself into a coma" scene. Plus, he then had the hangover from hell and looked truly wretched. It was very good and quite funny. Shirley Henderson and Rufus Sewell were a laugh; each one equally as insane as the other. The website for The Taming of the Shrew is here. The other Shakespeare re-told dramas have been excellent too with Much Ado About Nothing being funny and Macbeth being creepy and dark.

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posted 14-12-2005 16:27            

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Originally posted by Vicky:
I was in the home page of Digital spy and this sprung out at me. It also reports that Colin Farrel denies the reports that he took a drug overdose.

Anyway this is the article that I found interesting about Stephen going into directing
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds27286.html

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posted 15-12-2005 00:44            

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Originally posted by barb65balto:
Regardless of what his situation is, if he's going before any cameras again could he please clean up his language?

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posted 17-01-2006 17:20            

It'll run sixteen episodes.

posted 17-01-2006 19:17            

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Originally posted by Thistle:
Please look the 7/7 picture in this link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4320000/newsid_4328600/4328646.stm

children??

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posted 17-01-2006 20:01            

And he is taller than MrGibson (5'9"), ST is 6'2"!
And younger with a tenner.

posted 17-01-2006 23:47            

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Originally posted by barb65balto:
Regardless of what his situation is, if he's going before any cameras again could he please clean up his language?

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posted 23-01-2006 02:08            

P.S. TOTALLY off topic, I know, but do any of you in the UK have any of Gina McKee's tv work? She did a movie for Granada called The Baby War, that I cannot find for love nor money. (I know, double negative..) I hear she's also done a lot of commercials there. If anyone has anything I can add to my collection, please e-mail me. I'd be eternally grateful

posted 23-01-2006 13:14            

Lavender if you join UKNova you can request Gina's work and maybe some kind soul will provide it.

posted 23-01-2006 14:04            

Stephen said he took his family while they shot it. His daughter was getting blase about giraffes and cheetahs hanging around.

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Originally posted by Bronn:
For those in the UK and Ireland, I saw an ad on ITV this evening. It was for a new drama series called Wild At Heart staring Stephen Tompkinson. Apparently, he’s a vet in some wildlife park in Africa. From what I could gather, he’s a married man with a family and it’s all about living this new life away from England.

It’s going to be on ITV next Sunday at 8pm.

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posted 23-01-2006 18:49            

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Originally posted by lavenderlewis:
Ooooh.. sounds interesting. Is it going to be a long running series, or like a mini-series? That doesn't make much sense, but I can't think of another way to phrase it. Also, I'm sure you all knew this question was coming: is anyone going to tape it?

P.S. TOTALLY off topic, I know, but do any of you in the UK have any of Gina McKee's tv work? She did a movie for Granada called The Baby War, that I cannot find for love nor money. (I know, double negative..) I hear she's also done a lot of commercials there. If anyone has anything I can add to my collection, please e-mail me. I'd be eternally grateful

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posted 24-01-2006 11:41            

aesop

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Originally posted by Camille@Gaelforce:
[B Sadly, this show is going to air on a channel I don't even recognize, let alone recieve, ITV. For this poor benighted American, can someone explain what country ITV is broadcast in, and whether shows on ITV ever show up on BBC America, so that I might have some small chance of seeing it, some day? TIA, whoever can help! [/B]

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posted 24-01-2006 18:19            

as aesop said its a commercial channel, we are lucky enough to have 2 whole channels (BBC 1 and 2) which have no adverts (commercials) on them ever. Fantastic.