The British Academy Film Awards 2010 are kicking off in London's Royal Opera House. Follow the awards live with Xan Brooks at the event nowIn pictures: The Baftas stars, the glamour, the soggy red carpet9.47pm: Now, where were we? Lest we forget, the Baftas are not the Oscars. The Oscars build through the acting awards, reach a grand crescendo on the best film award and then quit while they're ahead, cutting the transmission and pitching all the winners and losers into the tumult of the after-show party, But the Baftas are British and therefore different, and the best film award is merely a throat-clearing warm-up for the most important bit of the night. And here it is: it's the presentation of a Bafta fellowship to Vanessa Redgrave.Redgrave is handed this honour by Uma Thurman, who...
One of the Hollywood greats and under-appreciated in my view :-/(Associated...
You’re rather brought down by the sad passing of the Queen of the Purple, Pink, Auburn, Green and Blue Rinse – and not by the “King of Pop”. Mollie Sugden’s Mrs Slocombe was a magnificent comic creation, always fighting her corner in Grace Brothers with a mixture of her usual assumed haughty grandeur and cutting asides in her real accent, and always vying with John Inman to steal the show in Are You Being Served? “Before we go any further, Mr Rumbold, Miss Brahms and I would like to complain about the state of our drawers. They’re a positive disgrace.”“Your what, Mrs Slocombe?”“Our drawers. They’re sticking. It’s always the same in damp weather – Miss Brahms could hardly shift hers at all this morning. They sent up a man who put beeswax on them, but that...
Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. Credits from a long movie career included A Streetcar Named Desire, I Confess, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. There's a notice here; and a YouTube clip from On the Waterfront - Malden doing truth and righteousness - though I've not been able to find his 'Gimme a beer!' scene. As he showed in One-Eyed Jacks, Malden could do villainy as well as righteousness. And...
Oscar-winning actor Karl Malden has died at the age of 97.Malden, best known for roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront and the TV series The Streets Of San Francisco, died in his...
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