James

Can confirm that this will be a very special project to be involved in.

Barbara and 12.

Good choice. I saw McKellen play Richard on stage as few years before the film came out. Only problem was, if McKellen's on stage, you don't really notice anything else that's going on.

Nah, that was Kierkegaard. It was Orwell who said:

"Somebody obscures my view. Who? Gérard Depardieu!"

Yes. Dredd's not a person, he's an event. One day, if you're particularly unlucky, he might happen to you. He's like a tornado which destroys one person's house while the bloke next door gets away unscathed.

Oops, Ah did it again.

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#cats #trouble

This is what any sensible politician should be saying in the face of Labour's hostile policies against those seeking safety. Home Secretary, and others in Labour, have flat out lied today, and previously. They've lied about those seeking asylum, migrants in general and those defending their rights.

Werner Herzog's Moby Dick.

New LEGO set for our times

Somehow I've been earwormed by Wal doing the opening narration on Two Tribes.

I'll bid this drawing of a thrupenny bit.

Cricket's going well, I see...

Man with glasses stares moodily at camera.

Sadly, no. Don't think I'd look anywhere near as good in a wig and dress.

I helped my first wife escape from a convent in France where she'd been locked up.

Such a great film. I lived in Vienna for a year in the 90's and went location hunting at weekends.

True. There's a few reasons the film doesn't work as well for me - the main one, though, is simply that the tv series is pretty much perfect.

Too right. I suppose it would have been a bit too meta to cast Stewart again as Karla in the film.

The story is that Stewart was all set to refuse the part until he was told he'd be acting opposite Alec Guinness for his one scene. As soon as he heard that, he jumped at it.

a white orb covered in black speckles and spots rests on a dark sofa cushion. the left side is a dalmatian’s face, tucked in toward her haunches with her thin tail wrapped up to hug her face. she is looking at the camera with one sleepy brown eye.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

This meta joke from 3rd Rock from the Sun is outrageous! 🤩

How bloody lovely. I remember the first Chris Reeve film having that effect on me when I first saw it in 1979. Oh, to be that innocent and impressionable again.

If you don't personally know anyone who has been through the very expensive rigmarole of obtaining British citizenship, do please learn exactly what's required. Same goes for Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Dear Sir, It is becoming ever more obvious how compromised our news media is. Wrt the middle east NONE are identifying:- UN resolutions broken by Israel/USA breaches of Geneva convention breaches of Genocide convention How Israel got nukes contravening proliferation treaties (way before Trump) Israel do not allow international oversight of THEIR nuclear facilities. We desperately need press reform and a BBC not controlled by far-right Tory appointed bosses. No long party-line response please. Just DO SOMETHING about it. Sincerely

Just e-mailed my MP @jackabbott.bsky.social about the ever more obvious news media failings. Text (short) in alt text of image below.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social

Maybe an answer is to have a regular cast of actors who want to show their range, playing different characters each week?

... doesn't need to be up to speed with multiple episodes of back plot, each week can begin afresh and it's a jumping-on point for new viewers. Something where you get a complete story, beginning, middle and end in one show. I don't get it.

I genuinely don't understand why channels run from these. I'm old enough to remember when these were mainstays of the schedule - Play for Today, Play of the Month, Screen 2, Thriller, Tales of the Unexpected, Armchair Thriller... Surely there's an advantage to having a show where the audience...

Not convinced by this gritty Derek reboot.

I remember Linehan a few years ago responding to a question about Palestinian babies being killed by repeating the words "Hamas babies". He doesn't care about anyone but himself.

Good choice.

Of course, one of the problems is that Obama didn't look like he'd been dead for a fortnight.