#charles aitken

[toomuchlovereviews]

Happy Death Day (2017)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I am a sucker for a vintage movie adaptation that’s twisted with horror. Plus, this had the essence of stupid horror, which I also adore immensely. Yes, this movie captured my soul.

After a while I realised that this was the movie where the main character cuts another person off mid-sentence with a raspy “You are GAY!!” but I didn’t see it!!! Maybe Air Canada cut this film down for clarity or cleanliness but damn, I wish they included it.

Watch this if:

You like a little gore sprinkled in your mystery (this movie honestly felt like a puzzle, and you are just as frustrated as the MC when reaching a dead end)

Similar titles:

Freaky (2019) (Vince Vaughn in genius in this one, Freaky Friday horror remake)

Scream (1996) (fine, have a classic)

#movie #movie review #review #horror #horror kick #happy death day #christopher landon #jessica rothe #israel broussard #ruby modine #charles aitken

[corikane]

Horror 2fer: Happy Death Day

Horror 2fer: Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day (2017) by Christopher Landon Happy Death Day 2U (2019) by Christopher Landon Since I used my amazon account to look into Paramount+ last month (we didn’t have that before), I have Prime for another week. So, I thought I’d take advantage of that and watch some of their horror offerings. I remembered that once upon a time I liked the trailer for Happy Death Day – and was…

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#amazon prime #Bob Mello #Charles Aitken #Christopher Landon #Happy Death Day #Happy Death Day 2U #horror #horror movies #horror twofer #Israel Broussard #Jessica Rothe #movie series #Phi Vu #Rachel Matthews #Ruby Modine #science fiction #sequel

[duranduratulsa]

Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...Happy Death Day (2017) on amazing blu-ray! #movie #movies #horror #comedy #happydeathday #Blumhouse #ChristopherLandon #JessicaRothe #RachelMatthews #phivu #RubyModine #charlesaitken #jasonbayle #cariellasmith #missyyager #trantran #israelbroussard #2010s #bluray #spooktober #halloween #october

#movie #movies #horror #comedy #happy death day #christopher landon #Jessica Rothe #israel broussard #rachel matthews #phi vu #ruby modine #charles aitken #jason bayle #cariella smith #missy yager #tran tran #2010s #blu-ray #blumhouse #Spooktober #halloween #october #SoundCloud

[wdr2-rlbmut]

#rudolph valentino #rodolph #The Young Rajah #1922 #Paramount #paramount pictures #Spottiswoode Aitken #Fanny Midgley #Charles Ogle #Pat Moore #Wanda Hawley #visions

[scotianostra]

Malcolm Macleod of Raasay was born on November 15th 1911, he was commonly known as Calum and is most famous for the road he build, mainly on his own on the Island he lived most of his life.

Calum was the son of Donald Macleod of Arnish Raasay and Julia Gillies of Fladda, he was born in Glasgow, his dad was in the Merchant Navy.

Calum and his mother moved to the croft and house adjacent to that of his grandfather, in northern Raasay. Calum had two brothers, Ronald and Charles, and three sisters, one of whom, Bella Dolly (died in the Spanish flu outbreak in 1919)

Calum attended Torran school, with its single teacher, James Mackinnon (Seumas Ruadh). He married Alexandrina (Lexie) Macdonald (1911–2001).

Calum and his brother, Charles, constructed the track from Torran to Fladda on a small isle off Raasay called Eilean Fladda, which is now uninhabited. I took them three years and were paid £35 a year by the local council.

After decades of unsuccessful campaigning by the inhabitants of the north end of Raasay for a road, and several failed grant applications, Calum decided to build the road himself. Purchasing Thomas Aitken's manual Road Making & Maintenance: A Practical Treatise for Engineers, Surveyors and Others (London, 1900), for half a crown he started work, replacing the old narrow footpath. Over a period of about ten years (1964–1974), he constructed one and three quarter miles of road between Brochel Castle and Arnish, using little more than a shovel, a pick and a wheelbarrow.

Initial blasting work was carried out and funded, to the sum of £1,900, by the Department of Agriculture's Engineering Department, who supplied a compressor, explosives, driller, blaster, and men.

Several years after its completion, the road was finally adopted and surfaced by the local council. By then, Calum and his wife, Lexie, were the last inhabitants of Arnish. Sadly Calum's Road, and those in general on the island are reported to have been deterioating in the past 20 years or so, which is sad........

#scotland #scottish #history #Roads #Traffic infrastructure #inner hebrides #Human endeavour

[goldfishgrahamcracker]

Franklin's lost expedition crew

I was looking at posts about AMC's The Terror and I kept getting confused by the use of first names, so I wanted to see how many of the characters had the same names. Arranging the crew in alphabetical order, I got:

1 x Abraham (Seeley)

4 x Alexander (Berry, McDonald, Paterson, Wilson)

5 x Charles (Best, Coombs, Des Voeux, Johnson, Osmer)

1 x Cornelius (Hickey)

2 x Daniel (Arthur, Bryant)

3 x David (Leys, Macdonald, Young) + Bonus: Bryant in the show but most historical sources I found list him as Daniel

1 x Edmund (Hoar)

3 x Edward (Couch, Genge, Little)

2 x Edwin (Helpman, Lawrence)

3 x Francis (Crozier, Dunn, Pocock)

1 x Frederick (Hornby) + Bonus: Des Voeux, whom I have seen referred to as Frederick rather than Charles on occasion

6 x George (Cann, Chambers, Hodgson, Kinnaird, Thompson, Williams)

1 x Gillies (MacBean)

1 x Graham (Gore)

7 x Henry/Harry (Collins, Goodsir, Le Vesconte, Lloyd, Peglar, Sait, Wilkes)

10 x James (Brown, Daly, Elliot, Fairholme, Fitzjames, Hart, Reid, Ridgen, Thompson, Walker) + Bonus: Ross, who was not part of the expedition but appears in the show

23 x John (Bailey, Bates, Bridgens, Brown, Cowie, Diggle, Downing, Franklin, Gregory, Hammond, Handford, Hartnell, Irving, Kenley, Lane, Morfin, Murray, Peddie, Strickland, Sullivan, Torrington, Weekes, Wilson)

2 x Joseph (Andrews, Healey)

1 x Josephus (Geater)

1 x Luke (Smith)

1 x Magnus (Manson)

1 x Philip (Reddington)

1 x Reuben (Male)

2 x Richard (Aylmore, Wall)

8 x Robert (Carr, Ferrier, Golding, Hopcraft, Johns, Sargent, Sinclair, Thomas)

3 x Samuel (Brown, Crispe, Honey)

1 x Solomon (Tozer)

16 x Thomas (Armitage, Blanky, Burt, Darlington, Evans, Farr, Hartnell, Honey, Johnson, Jopson, McConvey, Plater, Tadman, Terry, Watson, Work)

22 x William (Aitken, Bell, Braine, Clossan, Fowler, Gibson, Goddard, Heather, Hedges, Jerry, Johnson, Mark, Orren, Pilkington, Read, Rhodes, Shanks, Sims, Sinclair, Smith, Strong, Wentzall)

#i saw the 23 johns coming but not the 22 williams #there may be a mistake somewhere but that was a lot of names #amc the terror #the terror #terrorposting

[footballffbarbiex]

this is what i'm hoping to come back with

these are on my first to write hit lists but that doesn't mean i won't be writing anything else too.

i know i have some more blurbs on here to write but this cold has knocked me on my ass so i'll get on them ASAP.

anything below you're looking forward to?

Antoine Griezmann

Antoine knows you’re watching at home (and there might be a sex ban bet) and plays up for the camera a little. 

Baby daddy anto and his little girl braiding one another’s hair. 

Watching a scary movie where one is terrified and the other can’t stop laughing

Enjoying some wine after a hectic day

What a better way to brush up on your french than a quick oral lesson?

A clear penalty that wasn’t given leaves a bitter taste in anto’s mouth so you take matters into your own hands and holes.

Baby it’s cold outside so you need warming up in the best way

Tracing his tattoos becomes a form of foreplay…

The only way to ensure you get what you want is to make sure it’s on his mind

Whoever cums first loses

He’s up for a threesome until he realises he doesn’t want to share

He’s thinking about what he wants from you while he’s alone in a hotel (smut)

Anto plans to edge you for as long as possible, even if it takes all day

________

Ben Chilwell

A continuation of the pillow humping drabble

“You’re not the man I married” angst. 

________

Ben White

Ben really wants to show you how much he loves the new lingerie

________

Beth Mead

Celebrating winning the euros with her (leads to smut)

________

Charles Leclerc

Charles is left to handle several children by himself, making him one stressed boy.

Enemies to lovers. Slightly AU - he’s an old money prep boy

Secret dating is about to become public

________

Daniel Ricciardo 

Cooling down on a hot day only leads to more heat

________

Dominic Calvert Lewin

His curls. Playful and dirty pulling of his hair examples

________

Emre Can

Walking in the summertime with his little girl. Playing with the flowers.

________

Eric Dier

Eric and your daughter are putting on a magic show and he’s the assistant

________

Jack Aitken 

Leaving love notes

________

Jack Grealish

Showing Jack just how confident you’re now feeling and dressing up for him 

________

Jadon Sancho

Jadon’s ex is causing trouble and their relationship is on thin ice.

Jadon’s dressing up your son to look like him

________

John Stones

Finally having untprotected sex with John. 

Unwinding at home with John after a long stressful week (fluff)

John likes to get handsy after some sun, sea and sand. 

Over protective baby daddy John

Out and about with the newborn

________

Kepa Arrizabalaga

They split when he was leaving Spain and though things didn’t end bad, it felt like there was little closure. Now they’re back in the same city, are those feelings still there?

________

Kylian Mbappe 

Dating Tuchel’s daughter in secret … until it’s no longer a secret. (smut)

________

Leon Goretzka

That first time sex and trying to be quiet

________

Marco Rose

An unexpected pregnancy leaves Marco unsure of himself 

________

Mason Mount

Mason takes it upon himself to decorate the nursery

Mason being a good egg during labour

________

Paulo Dybala

She’s a belly dancer and practices a new routine for him

Lazy day in after he’s been to training

Celebrating his birthday with a meal and dessert 

Drunken sex headcannon

________

Rodrigo De Paul

Helping her get out of her head (smut)

________

Rúben Dias

1 of 2 - they meet and bond over both being new to Manchester and not having many people around. One thing leads to another and ….

2/2  even though they’re just friends, jealousy gets in the way during a night out and there’s only one way to get rid of that. 

A bad mood of yours leads to cockwarming

Rúben doesn’t like that your ex is sniffing around again

You really shouldn’t have sent those nudes while he was away

A new on the pitch agreement leaves him feeling competitive (smut)

Trying to make a baby

You get a tattoo of his jersey number

Watching porn together

NSFW alphabet

She’s his neighbour and drunkenly locked herself out. He’s there to rescue her

You’re home late from work and he’s doing the baby’s bedtime routine

Spending the first night at his (fluff)

Ruben is all manly out of the bedroom, but you’re in charge between the sheets

Squirting for the first time

She’s not there at the ballon d’or with him but he sees what she’s up to and he’s not impressed (smut)

Being manhandled by Ruben

John’s challenged Ruben to No Nut November but can he last?

________

Sergio Ramos

A birthday present for the birthday boy. 

________

Trent Alexander Arnold

Sexting quickly escalates. 

When a switch meets a switch, who will come out top? (smut)

Your son has only just started walking but Trent’s determined to put a ball at his feet

Trent is trying to be her tour guide in another country but she knows more

________

Threesomes and moresomes

Poch’s daughter has caught the eye of several Liverpool players… ft Joe Gomez / Trent Alexander Arnold /  reader  / reader’s best female friend /  Virgil van Dijk

Thigh riding becomes more -  Kepa Arrizabalaga / reader / Mason Mount 

3 Lions aren’t just on shirts, they’re also inside you. Dominic Calvert Lewin / reader / Mason Mount / John Stones

________

Unnamed

Making you watch yourself cum + aftercare

Needing to make you forget about the shit day you’ve had

You receive texts throughout the day about what he wants to do to you

You’ve begged for him and he’s not giving you attention. But you’ll take what you want and pay the price later

Public teasing only gets you so far

Sub!player being made to watch and beg to touch you

________

Virgil van Dijk

Restraining and blindfolding Virgil and having your way with him

Meeting your family for the first time

[justforbooks]

The actor Michael Jayston, who has died aged 88, was a distinguished performer on stage and screen. The roles that made his name were as the doomed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in Franklin Schaffner’s sumptuous account of the last days of the Romanovs in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and as Alec Guinness’s intelligence minder in John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on television in 1979. He never made a song and dance about himself and perhaps as a consequence was not launched in Hollywood, as were many of his contemporaries.

Before these two parts, he had already played a key role in The Power Game on television and Henry Ireton, Cromwell’s son-in-law, in Ken Hughes’s fine Cromwell (1969), with Richard Harris in the title role and Guinness as King Charles I. And this followed five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company including a trip to Broadway in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, in which he replaced Michael Bryant as Teddy, the brother who returns to the US and leaves his wife in London to “take care of” his father and siblings.

Jayston, who was not flamboyantly good-looking but clearly and solidly attractive, with a steely, no-nonsense, demeanour and a steady, piercing gaze, could “do” the Pinter menace as well as anyone, and that cast – who also made the 1973 movie directed by Peter Hall – included Pinter’s then wife, Vivien Merchant, as well as Paul Rogers and Ian Holm.

Jayston had found a replacement family in the theatre. Born Michael James in Nottingham, he was the only child of Myfanwy (nee Llewelyn) and Vincent; his father died of pneumonia, following a serious accident on the rugby field, when Michael was one, and his mother died when he was a barely a teenager. He was then brought up by his grandmother and an uncle, and found himself involved in amateur theatre while doing national service in the army; he directed a production of The Happiest Days of Your Life.

He continued in amateur theatre while working for two years as a trainee accountant for the National Coal Board and in Nottingham fish market, before winning a scholarship, aged 23, to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he was five years older than everyone else on his course. He played in rep in Bangor, Northern Ireland, and at the Salisbury Playhouse before joining the Bristol Old Vic for two seasons in 1963.

At the RSC from 1965, he enjoyed good roles – Oswald in Ghosts, Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well, Laertes to David Warner’s Hamlet – and was Demetrius in Hall’s film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968), with Warner as Lysander in a romantic foursome with Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren.

But his RSC associate status did not translate itself into the stardom of, say, Alan Howard, Warner, Judi Dench, Ian Richardson and others at the time. He was never fazed or underrated in this company, but his career proceeded in a somewhat nebulous fashion, and Nicholas and Alexandra, for all its success and ballyhoo, did not bring him offers from the US.

Instead, he played Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972), a so-so British musical film version with music and lyrics by John Barry and Don Black, with Michael Crawford as the White Rabbit and Peter Sellers the March Hare. In 1979 he was a colonel in Zulu Dawn, a historically explanatory prequel to the earlier smash hit Zulu.

As an actor he seemed not to be a glory-hunter. Instead, in the 1980s, he turned in stylish and well-received leading performances in Noël Coward’s Private Lives, at the Duchess, opposite Maria Aitken (1980); as Captain von Trapp in the first major London revival of The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria in 1981, opposite Petula Clark; and, best of all, as Mirabell, often a thankless role, in William Gaskill’s superb 1984 revival, at Chichester and the Haymarket, of The Way of the World, by William Congreve, opposite Maggie Smith as Millamant.

Nor was he averse to taking over the leading roles in plays such as Peter Shaffer’s Equus (1973) or Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (1992), roles first occupied in London by Alec McCowen. He rejoined the National Theatre – he had been Gratiano with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in The Merchant of Venice directed by Jonathan Miller in 1974 – to play a delightful Home Counties Ratty in the return of Alan Bennett’s blissful, Edwardian The Wind in the Willows in 1994.

On television, he was a favourite side-kick of David Jason in 13 episodes of David Nobbs’s A Bit of a Do (1989) – as the solicitor Neville Badger in a series of social functions and parties across West Yorkshire – and in four episodes of The Darling Buds of May (1992) as Ernest Bristow, the brewery owner. He appeared again with Jason in a 1996 episode of Only Fools and Horses.

He figured for the first time on fan sites when he appeared in the 1986 Doctor Who season The Trial of a Time Lord as Valeyard, the prosecuting counsel. In the new millennium he passed through both EastEnders and Coronation Street before bolstering the most lurid storyline of all in Emmerdale (2007-08): he was Donald de Souza, an unpleasant old cove who fell out with his family and invited his disaffected wife to push him off a cliff on the moors in his wheelchair, but died later of a heart attack.

By now living on the south coast, Jayston gravitated easily towards Chichester as a crusty old colonel – married to Wendy Craig – in Coward’s engaging early play Easy Virtue, in 1999, and, three years later, in 2002, as a hectored husband, called Hector, to Patricia Routledge’s dotty duchess in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s translation of Jean Anouilh’s Léocadia under the title Wild Orchids.

And then, in 2007, he exuded a tough spirituality as a confessor to David Suchet’s pragmatic pope-maker in The Last Confession, an old-fashioned but gripping Vatican thriller of financial and political finagling told in flashback. Roger Crane’s play transferred from Chichester to the Haymarket and toured abroad with a fine panoply of senior British actors, Jayston included.

After another collaboration with Jason, and Warner, in the television movie Albert’s Memorial (2009), a touching tale of old war-time buddies making sure one of them is buried on the German soil where first they met, and a theatre tour in Ronald Harwood’s musicians-in-retirement Quartet in 2010 with Susannah York, Gwen Taylor and Timothy West, he made occasional television appearances in Midsomer Murders, Doctors and Casualty. Last year he provided an introduction to a re-run of Tinker Tailor on BBC Four. He seemed always to be busy, available for all seasons.

As a keen cricketer (he also played darts and chess), Jayston was a member of the MCC and the Lord’s Taverners. After moving to Brighton, he became a member of Sussex county cricket club and played for Rottingdean, where he was also president.

His first two marriages – to the actor Lynn Farleigh in 1965 and the glass engraver Heather Sneddon in 1970 – ended in divorce. From his second marriage he had two sons, Tom and Ben, and a daughter, Li-an. In 1979 he married Ann Smithson, a nurse, and they had a son, Richard, and daughter, Katie.

🔔 Michael Jayston (Michael James), actor, born 29 October 1935; died 5 February 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#just for books #michael jayston #in memoriam

[umflowers]

please spare a thought for dilano van’t hoff’s family this weekend, and anthoine’s too. spare a thought for charles and pierre, and lando when he has to go through eau rouge in the rain again. spare a thought for juan manuel correa and jack aitken and all the other victims of spa who managed to survive and are now watching this weekend (or participating in it) knowing we lost a 16 year old child less than a month ago and we’re already back here with 4 series racing in the rain. let’s all just hope for a safe, boring race for everyone.

#f1 #formula 1 #belgian gp 2023 #tw death #tw crash

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.31

Beer Birthdays

John Brown (1795)

Gottfried Piel (1852)

Vincent Sterne (1957)

Mitch Steele (1961)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Tim Matheson; actor (1947)

Henri Matisse; French artist (1869)

Steve Rude; comic book artist (1956)

Andy Summers; rock guitarist (1942)

George Thorogood; rock guitarist, singer (1952)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Grant Aitken; astronomer (1864)

Elizabeth Arden; cosmetician (1884)

Jeremy Bernstein; physicist (1929)

Barbara Carrera; actor (1945)

Jacques Cartier; French explorer (1491)

Charles Cornwallis; British general (1738)

Burton Cummings; rock singer (1947)

John Denver; pop singer (1943)

Anthony Hopkins; actor (1937)

Jonah Jones; jazz trumpeter, singer (1908)

Val Kilmer; actor (1959)

Ben Kingsley; actor (1943)

Crystal Knight; porn actor (1973)

Gong Li; actor (1965)

George C. Marshall; army general (1880)

George Meade; Civil War general (1815)

Sarah Miles; English actor (1941)

Bebe Neuwirth; actor (1958)

Odetta; blues singer, songwriter (1930)

Pete Quaife; rock bassist (1943)

Lance Reddick; actor (1962)

Nicholas Sparks; writer (1965)

Jule Styne; songwriter (1905)

Donna Summer; pop singer (1948)

Diane von Furstenberg; fashion designer (1945)

Paul Westerberg; rock singer (1959)

Simon Wiesenthal; Ukranian Nazi-hunter (1908)

Connie Willis; writer (1945)

#Birthdays

[howlingmoonradio]

May 4th Playlist

I suppose we could have gone with a Star Wars theme of some sort for tonight’s episode, but too much of that available elsewhere and besides, we never were much for SW anyway. You know who is though, my wife and she’s also a huge Royal Family aficionado, and has big plans this weekend around the Coronation of King Charles. So instead we are going to use that event as inspiration for tonight’s mix of great 60′s black soul, ska, blues and reggae from the UK. It made sense to us...

Side A Howling at the Moon-Hank Williams Coronation Street-Top Grant London Here We Come-Rico’s Combo New Direction-Millie Watch the Stars-Dorris Henderson & John Renbourn Sunshine-Shirley Bassey Rora Rora Majo Omo Pupa-Flash Domincii & Supersonics Everything is Go-Cab Kaye I Ain’t Mad at You-Howie Casey and the Seniors

Side B All Night-Screaming Jay Hawkins Keep Your Hands Out of My Pocket-Otis Spann Get Your Head Happy-Champion Jack Dupree Bartender-Laurel Aitken and Bluebeats Rock Me Daddy-Mabel Hillary Green Onions-Shake Keane Spinning Wheel-Maxine Nightingale You’re My Girl-Eldridge Devlin Please Think of Me-Rubert and the Red Devils Coronation Street-Geoff Love Orchestra 

#coronation street #king charles #british soul #howlingmoonradio playlists

[slow-button-off]

I think Carlos is emotional right now. And he has the right to be. Adrenaline, good pace and close to the podium…

But the penalty… it’s fair… what precedent would it set if it was allowed ?

His emotions are fully understandable.

I'm gonna give you Mr. Aitkens take

If it hadn't been in the last two laps most people wouldn't bat an eye at those 5s.

5s is just the smallest penalty they can give and he started a whole carnage.

Charles got 5s in Suzuka for outbraking himself and didn't even touch anyone. It just is what it is

#asks asks asks

[ricciaryoyo]

10 fav pics series

Max Verstappen

George Russell

Charles Leclerc

Carlos Sainz ✅️

Lando Norris ✅️

Daniel Ricciardo

Pierre Gasly

Alex albon

Mick schumacher

Oscar Piastri ✅️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Liam Lawson

Logan Sargeant ✅️ 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Marcus Armstrong ✅️

Felipe Drugovich

Frederik Vesti 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Arthur Leclerc

Callum Ilott ✅️

Pato O'ward ✅️

Jack Aitken

#f1 #formula 1 #max verstappen #george russell #charles leclerc #carlos sainz #lando norris #daniel ricciardo #mick schumacher #pierre gasly #alex albon #f2 #formula 2 #oscar piastri #liam lawson #logan sargeant #marcus armstrong #felipe drugovich #arthur leclerc #callum ilott #frederik vesti

[quasar1967]

Warlords Of Atlantis (1978)

AN INCREDIBLE TALE OF TERROR AND SUSPENSE… ABOVE AND BELOW THE SEA.

Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition’s ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advanced alien race that makes sailors their slaves.

#warlords of atlantis #sci-fi movies #sci-fi movie posters #fantasy films

[byneddiedingo]

Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988). 

Cast: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken, Tom Georgeson, Patricia Hayes, Geoffrey Palmer, Cynthia Cleese. Screenplay: John Cleese, Charles Crichton. Cinematography: Alan Hume. Production design: Roger Murray-Leach. Film editing: John Jympson. Music: John Du Prez.

By all rights, A Fish Called Wanda shouldn't have worked: It's a blend of comic acting styles, from Monty Python to Hollywood to Broadway, under the direction of a septuagenarian best known for his work on that comparatively restrained classic of British postwar comedy, The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). It's vulgar and silly and hardly sensitive to social concerns -- it was denounced by disability rights advocates for the laughs derived from the Michael Palin character's stutter. And yet it remains one of the most successful screen comedies in history. It won Kevin Kline an Oscar for his performance as the dopey Übermensch Otto, and covered John Cleese, Palin, and Jamie Lee Curtis with glory -- especially Cleese, who not only wrote the screenplay (from a story he concocted with director Charles Crichton) but also reportedly did much of the directing for which Crichton got the Oscar nomination. The secret to its success is that it takes nothing seriously, especially the British and American national identity, but is so light-hearted in its offenses that they amuse rather than offend. It's full of little in-jokes, like calling the character played by Tom Georgeson "George Thomason," and naming Cleese's character Archie Leach without nodding to the fact that it was Cary Grant's real name. (That one may even be a double in-joke, since Grant himself ad-libbed a line about Archie Leach in Howard Hawks's 1941 screwball classic His Girl Friday.) Maybe it falls a little flat at the end, with the frantic business at Heathrow, but it would be hard to top what has gone before.

#A Fish Called Wanda #jamie lee curtis #kevin kline

[deracinemagazine]

Volume IX | FINAL Issue—Now Live

Volume IX is now live! Click here to read our final issue.

We are deeply thankful to our contributors and readers for your support over the years. Without you, Déraciné never would have thrived. With are so grateful to share this final issue with you. We hope you have an amazing rest of the year and a wonderful life.

Contributors: Ryan LaBee, Jen If, DS Maolalai, Yuan Changming, Katherine Szpekman, Geoffrey Aitken, Joan McNerney, Kyle Hemmings, Judy McAmis, Lorna D. Keach, Vitoria Perez, Owolusi Lucky, Mark Goodwin, Alexander Etheridge, Anne Marie Wells, Peter J. King, Uchimura Kaho, K.R. Everett, A.M. Henry, Fariel Shafee, John Stadelman, J.F. Gleeson, JL Smither, Csilla Kleinheincz, Steve Patterson, Lucia Caruso, Charles March, Annita Luxon, Sona Sahakian, KC Bailey, and Bill Wolak.

#literary magazine #literary magazines #literature #fiction #poetry #poems #flash fiction #writers #writing #psychological #gothic literature