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charliethomascoxuniverse · 11 months

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Cold comfort

By Steve Pratt 28th November 2013 (X)

CHARLIE COX is no stranger to period projects with movies The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino, Casanova alongside Heath Ledger, and Stardust opposite Claire Danes, as well as TV series Boardwalk Empire to his name.

The one-off 1970s espionage thriller Legacy might be another period piece, but he is at least moving forward through the decades. “It’s the most modern I have ever done,” he says.

Based on the novel by Alan Judd, the story is set in 1974 in the middle of the Cold War, when Cox’s character, Charles, joins MI6 as a trainee spy. “He has come from the Royal Engineers, which means he would have been posted in Belfast in the mid-1960s, and the back story we have mostly invented is that he was in the bomb disposal unit and probably lost his best friend,” says Cox.

“Because of that, he wanted to become more involved in what is referred to as ‘the front line of the war’, be it the Cold War or Northern Ireland, and saw the move to MI6 as being part of that.”

He is still training when asked to revive his former friendship with Viktor Koslov (Andrew Scott), a Russian diplomat he knew at university, with a view to “turning” him. But Viktor has his own agenda and reveals a shocking truth about Charles’ family that threatens to derail him personally and professionally.

“Andrew Scott happens to be one of my favourite actors of all time,” says Cox of the Olivier Award-winning star, who plays Moriarty in the Sherlock series.

“I had never met him, but we have the same agent, and I got his number and sent a text saying, ‘I really hope we get to work with each other’. Six months later, this came up.”

He knows another of his co-stars, Romola Garai, who plays fellow agent Anna, extremely well because he introduced her to his best friend, Sam Hoare, and the two now have a daughter together.

“Before I found out she was going to be doing it, I got a text from him saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be kissing my wife’.” Cox says.

In preparation, Cox watched “a few cool documentaries about the period” and understands the enduring fascination with the Cold War. “The fact that there wasn’t any actual fighting [in the West] is really intriguing,” he says.

“And I know in my life, impending doom is so much worse than something actually happening, because when it does, you can rationalise it in some way and take some action. “But when you are waiting for something that could happen, your mind goes into all the different scenarios, and living with that [creates] a sense of vulnerability.”

He has a small but pivotal role in a movie with the working title Dracula Untold under way. “Yes, more vampires, obviously we are not bored of them yet – or maybe we are,” he says. “I am only doing two scenes, but it is a bit different for me, very evil. He is described as the father of all vampires. Other than that, I am not sure what’s coming up.”

Maybe something contemporary? “Oh yeah,” says Cox. “I’d love to say ‘Mate’ in a movie.”

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#well I found another old Charlie interview...just call me the Charlie Cox archivist lol 😊#UGH ''very evil'' and ''the father of all vampires''...*cries about never getting to see his scenes as Caligula* T_T #charlie cox #charles thoroughgood #legacy 2013 #romola garai #andrew scott #sam hoare #interview #article

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booasaur · 2 years

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The Capture - 2x02

#thecaptureedit #the capture #rachel carey #khadija khan #ed polczynski #holliday grainger #indira varma #sam hoare #the capture 2x02 #khadija x rachel #femslash related stuff #but subtext #man so if you remember last season I was lukewarm on it at the start but then got really into it #and this season has been way better like AMAZING so far #they keep setting up typical tropes and then subverting them #they're not afraid to just progress and do big things and bring in people as opposed to keeping things isolated until the last minute #like most thrillers #unfortunately while when this ep first aired I was a bit hmm? at this scene between them and then again later #the next eps have killed off any hopes of them going There #I guess indira varma just has chemistry with all women and you can't do anything about it #probably wouldn't have given rachel a different love interest every season anyway #though speaking of which while I get the role shaun served last season in having to be mysterious enough we might think he'd done it #isaac and khadija replacing him are SOOOO much more interesting and fun

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helmstone · 2 months

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Grace get a fifth series

ITV has announced a fifth series for Brighton based detective Grace. Based on the best-selling novels from author Peter James, series five will comprise of the following four films — Dead If You Don’t, Dead At First Sight, Need You Dead and Find Them Dead. John Simm returns as Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, and returning also are Richie Campbell who plays DS Glenn Branson, Zoë Tapper as…

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#brad morrison #featured #grace #itv #john simm #laura elphinstone #peter james #renewal #richie campbell #sam hoare #zoe tapper

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letterboxd-loggd · 3 months

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Club Zero (2023) Jessica Hausner

January 24th 2024

#club zero #2024 #jessica hausner #mia wasikowska #luke barker #ksenia devriendt #florence baker #samuel d anderson #sidse babett knudsen #elsa zylberstein #amanda lawrence #lukas turtur #gwen currant #sam hoare #camilla rutherford #mathieu demy #keeley forsyth #bbc

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leslie-lyman · 10 months

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The Last of Us received 25 Emmy nominations

TLOU got nominated for:

-Outstanding Drama Series

-Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Pedro Pascal as Joel)

-Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Bella Ramsey as Ellie)

-Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Melanie Lynskey as Kathleen)

-Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Storm Reid as Riley)

-Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (Anna Torv as Tess)

-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Murray Bartlett as Frank)

-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Lamar Johnson as Henry)

-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Nick Offerman as Bill)

-Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (Keivonn Montreal Woodard as Sam)

-Outstanding Writing (Craig Mazin for Long, Long Time)

-Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Peter Hoar for Long, Long Time)

-Outstanding Contemporary Hairstyling (Long, Long Time) (includes our girl Coco!!!)

-Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program (Infected)

-Outstanding Special Visual Effects in a Season or a Movie

-Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) (When You’re Lost in the Darkness)

-Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour) (When You’re Lost in the Darkness)

-Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Series (for their Inside the Episode BTS bits)

-Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series

-Outstanding Contemporary Costumes for a Drama Series (Endure and Survive)

-Outstanding Picture Editing for a Drama Series (Endure and Survive)

-Outstanding Main Title Design

-Outstanding Contemporary Makeup (Non-Prosthetic) (Long, Long Time)

-Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup (Infected)

-Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Long, Long Time)

#we absolutely love to see it!!#pedro pascal #the last of us #tlou

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thelittletsarina · 5 months

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Massive Audio Gifting!

Anastasia:

Second National Tour

May 14, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

Kyla Stone (Anya), Sam McLellan (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Brandon Delgado (Gleb), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Taya Diggs (Little Anastasia/Alexei), Mikayla Agrella (Tsarina Alexandra), Christian McQueen (Tsar Nicholas ii/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Taylor Stanger (Prince Siegfried), Veronica Rae Jiao (u/s Odette), Dakota Hoar (Von Rothbart), Lauren Teyke (Olga Romanov), Lizzy Marie Legregin (s/w Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Veronica Rae Jiao (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Harrison Drake (Grolinsky/Count Leopold), Sarah Statler (Countess Gregory), Louis Brogna (Sergei), William Aaron Bishop, Evin Johnson

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Second US National Tour

November 4, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Alexandrya Salazar (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov), Zachary Bigelow, Willam Aaron Bishop, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Lathan Roberts, Sarah Statler

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Second National Tour

November 5, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Alexandrya Salazar (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Rebecca Hartman (u/s Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Kaitlyn Jackson (u/s Countess Lily), Alec Llyod (u/s Prince Siegfried), Zachary Bigelow, Willam Aaron Bishop, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Sarah Statler

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Second National Tour

November 5, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Rebecca Hartman (u/s Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Kaitlyn Jackson (u/s Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Amy Smith (u/s Tsarina Alexandra), Amin Fuson (Tsar Nicholas ii), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov), Alec Lloyd (u/s Prince Siegfried), Zachary Bigelow, Louis Brogna, Billy McGavin, Luke Rands, Sarah Statler, Dominic Pagliaro (s/w)

(Rebecca’s Anya Debut & Dominic’s swing Debut)

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Second National Tour

December 10, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weagraff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Dominic Pagliaro (u/s Tsar Nicholas II/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Zachary Bigelow (Suitor/Soldier), Willam Aaron Bishop (Romanov Servant/Train Smoker), Louis Brogna (Suitor/Sergei), Billy McGavin (Count Leopold), Luke Rands (Suitor/Von Rothbart), Lathan Roberts (Suitor/Prince Siegfried), Sarah Statler (Romanov Servant/Countess Gregory)

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Second National Tour

December 11, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Veronica Stern (Anya), Willem Butler (Dmitry), Bryan Seastrom (Vlad), Ben Edquist (Gleb), Gerri Weargaff (Dowager Empress), Madeline Raube (Countess Lily), Leela Chopra (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov), Kaitlyn Jackson (Tsarina Alexandra), Dominic Pagliro (u/s Tsar Nicholas ii/Count Ipolitov/Count Gregory), Brooklyn Liabo (Young Anastasia/Paulina), Victoria Madden (Maria Romanov/Marfa), Gabriella Burke (Olga Romanov/Odette), Thalia Atallah (Tatiana Romanov/Dunya), Zachary Bigelow (Suitor/Soldier), Willam Aaron Bishop (Romanov Servant/train smoker), Louis Brogna (Suitor/Sergei), Billy McGavin (Count Leopold), Alec Lloyd (u/s Suitor/Von Rothbart), Lathan Roberts (Suitor/Prince Siegfried), Sarah Statler (Romanov Servant/Countess Gregory)

(Ben’s last show - Released by Operachristinedaae)

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Annie:

Third National Tour

January 28, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Ellie Pulsifer (Annie), Christopher Swan (Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks), Stefanie Londino (Miss Hannigan), Julia Nicole Hunter (Grace Farrell), Andrew Scoggin (u/s Rooster Hannigan), Krista Curry (Lily St. Regis), Mark Woodard (F.D.R), Addison (Sandy), Riglee Ruth Bryson (Pepper), Bronte Harrison (Molly), Vivanne Neely (July), Izzy Pike (Kate), Kenzie Rees (Duffy), Valeria Velasco (Tessie), Bradley Ford Betos (Lt. Ward/Fred McCracken/Ickes/Brandeis), Harrison Drake (Drake), Laura Elizabeth Flanagan (Annette/Bonnie Boylan), Jataria Heyward (Mrs. Greer/Star To Be/Ronnie Boylan), Kevin Ivey Morrison (Apple Seller/Jimmy Johnson/Hull), Leanna Rubin (Sophie the Kettle/Mrs. Pugh/Perkins), Kaley Were (Cecile/Connie Boylan), Andrew Scoggin (Bundles McCloskey/Bert Healy/Howe), Mark Woodard (Dog Catcher), Aidan Ziegler-Hansen (s/w Asst. Dog Catcher/Sound Effects Man/Morganthau)

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Third National Tour

January 29, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

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My Fair Lady:

Sixth National Tour

May 6, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

Madeline Powell (Eliza Doolittle), Jonathan Grunert (Henry Higgins), John Adkison (Colonel Pickering), Michael Hegarty (Alfred P. Doolittle), Nathan Haltiwanger (Freddy Eynsford-Hill), Becky Saunders (Mrs. Higgins), Madeline Brennan (Mrs. Pearce), Daniel James Canaday (Professor Zoltan Karpathy), Diana Craig (Queen of Transylvania), Torinae (Mrs. Eynsford-Hill), Blair Beasley (Clara Eynsford-Hill), Maeghin Mueller (Mrs. Hopkins), Kelly Gleason (Higgins’ maid/Flower Girl/Ensemble), Anna Backer (Higgins’ maid/Ensemble), Nick Berke (s/w Frank/Ensemble), Timothy Scott Brausch (Mrs. Higgins’ servant/ensemble), William Warren Carver (Loverly Quartet/Constable/Prince of Transylvania), Richard Coleman (Loverly Quartet/Jamie/Ensemble), Allyson Gishi (Higgins’ maid/ensemble), Sam Griffin (Charles/swing Loverly quartet/Lord Boxington), Sami Murphy (Lady Boxington/Ensemble), Kevin D. O’Neil (Harry/Ensemble), Kal Kail (Constable/Ensemble), Jackson Hurt (Loverly Quartet/Ensemble)

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Six:

Second National Tour (Boleyn)

July 11, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Gerianne Pérez (Catherine of Aragon), Aryn Bohannon (s/b Anne Boleyn), Amina Faye (Jane Seymour), Cecilia Snow (s/b Anna of Cleves), Aline Mayagoitia (Katherine Howard), Sydney Parra (Catherine Parr)

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Wicked:

Broadway

January 7, 2023 - Operachristinedaae

Alyssa Fox (s/b Elphaba), Brittney Johnson (Glinda), James D. Gish (Fiyero), Clevant Derricks (The Wizard), Michele Pawk (Madame Morrible), Mikayla Renfrow (Nessarose), Yando Lopez (u/s Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Dashi Mitchell (u/s Chistery), Kristina Doucette (Witch's Mother), Kevin Massey (u/s Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Alicia Albright (s/w Ensemble), Micaela Martinez (s/w Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (s/w Ensemble), Allsun O'Malley (s/w Ensemble), Jesse JP Johnson (s/w Ensemble)

(Released by Operachristinedaae)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

September 11, 2021 - Operachristinedaae

Matinée

Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Jordan Litz (t/r Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Sharon Sachs (Madame Morrible), Amanda Fallon Smith (Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Travante S Baker (Chistery), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Marina Lazzaretto (Witch's Mother), Wayne Schroder (Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (Ensemble), Hayden Milanes (Ensemble), Jennafer Newberry (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Jackie Raye (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Anthony Sagaria (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

October 14, 2021 - Operachristinedaae

Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Curt Hansen (Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Sharon Sachs (Madame Morrible), Jackie Raye (u/s Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), Clifton Davis (Doctor Dillamond), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Marina Lazzaretto (Witch's Mother), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Jenny Florkowski (s/w Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Jordan Litz (Ensemble), Hunter Mikles (Ensemble), Hayden Milanes (Ensemble), Jennafer Newberry (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Anthony Sagaria (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble)

(Jackie Raye's Post Pandemic Nessarose Debut!)

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Second National Tour (Munchkinland)

March 20, 2022 - Operachristinedaae

Talia Suskauer (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (Glinda), Jordan Litz (Fiyero), Cleavant Derricks (The Wizard), Lisa Howard (Madame Morrible), Amanda Fallon Smith (Nessarose), DJ Plunkett (Boq), David Scott Purdy (u/s Doctor Dillamond), Travante S Baker (Chistery), Megan Loomis (Midwife), Alexia Acebo (Witch's Mother), Wayne Schroder (Witch's Father / Ozian Official), Nick Burrage (Ensemble), Jordan Casanova (Ensemble), Matt Densky (Ensemble), Marie Eife (Ensemble), Ryan Patrick Farrell (Ensemble), Sara Gonzales (Ensemble), Chelsea Cree Groen (Ensemble), Ryan Mac (Ensemble), Alicia Newcom (Ensemble), Jackie Raye (Ensemble), Rebecca Gans Reavis (Ensemble), Andy Richardson (Ensemble), Paul Schwensen (Ensemble), Justin Wirick (Ensemble), Anthony Lee Bryant (s/w Ensemble), Ben Susak (s/w Ensemble)

(Final performance for Talia, Allison, Amanda, DJ, and Cleavant - Released by Operachristinedaae)

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#audio gift #wicked musical #anastasia musical #six the musical #my fair lady musical #annie musical #wicked audios #anastasia audio gift #Annie audios #six audios #my masters

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kwebtv · 3 days

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981

Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill

Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill

Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill

Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken

David Swift as Professor Lindemann

Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman

Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton

Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram

Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby

Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch

Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin

Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain

Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare

Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip

Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald

Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden

Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan

Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor

Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton

Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax

Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook

Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram

Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw

Norman Jones as Clement Attlee

Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham

Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere

Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey

Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl

James Cossins as Lord Lothian

Guy Deghy as King George V

Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst

Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler

Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop

David Langton as Lord Londonderry

Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain

David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough

Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury

Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow

Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott

Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies

Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile

#Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years #TV #ITV #Drama #1981 #1980's #Robert Hardy #Sian Phillips #Nigel Havers #Peter Barkworth #Eric Porter #Sam Wannamaker #Edward Woodward

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viir-tanadhal · 9 months

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New details about the updated release of Pet Shop Boys Catalogue (2006) are now available on the Thames & Hudson website. At the moment, it seems like this new version is tentatively coming out April 9th, 2024. It will include Catalogue's information in addition to all the visual material since 2006 up to 2024. It is titled Pet Shop Boys Volume.

It will be 560 pages with a new foreword and introduction alongside Philip Hoare's essay from Catalogue.

Description of the book from the website:

The Pet Shop Boys—Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe—are arguably the most successful duo in the history of pop music. Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the release of “West End Girls”—the single that reached number one in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Israel, New Zealand, and Norway— Pet Shop Boys Volume is the definitive catalog of the group's visual output to date.

Newly reconfigured into a literary format, this revised and expanded edition now chronicles the entire visual output of Pet Shop Boys from 1984 to 2024. It includes the sleeve artworks and packaging; stills from every video, film, and performance; stage sets and costumes; photoshoots; publications; and merchandise. Photographs, designs, and productions by celebrated collaborators, including Mark Farrow, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr, Bruce Weber, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Zaha Hadid, and Derek Jarman, among others, are accompanied by short commentaries and captions by music writer Chris Heath. Accompanying the essay by Philip Hoare on Pet Shop Boys' practice, is a new introduction by Libby Sellers discussing the importance of Pet Shop Boys to the history of design, and a foreword by Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller reflecting on the enduring impact of the music and image of Tennant and Lowe.

#pet shop boys #psb #the website says 6x9 and literary format so sounds like its not a coffee table book anymore which is a bit disappointing #hopefully the artwork shows up well at that size..#but im so excited and it sounds like it'll coincide around when the next album comes out too

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breakfast-at-timothys · 1 year

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More of those Harrovian Traditions:

Squash, (known originally in Harrow-speak as 'Squasher'), now an international sport, was invented at Harrow School around 1830, out of the older game, Rackets; Harrow being not only the first school to play Rackets, but also the first to build a covered court for the game.

The basic requirements for Rackets is a piece of flat land and a high wall. The enlargement of Bill Yard in 1821, made a perfect place for the game. The Fifth and Sixth Forms played against the west wall of Old Schools, while the rest of School used the high south wall of the Yard that backs onto Druries.

'Courts' for this developmental form of the game played in the Yard had all sorts of hazards, such as chimneys, drainpipes, and net-covered windows (to protect the windows from being broken), requiring some complicated rules. The absence of side and back walls was compensated by 'Rackets Fags', who were designated ball-stopping and collecting duties.

The game was played with cut-down tennis racquets and leather-covered balls, referred to as 'Best Fives' (sold on The Hill by a Mrs Arnold; known to the boys as 'Old Polly').

Two new courts, known as the Shell and V Form Courts, were built below the Milling Ground. Both were 'open' (the V Form having just one sidewall), and Sam Hoare (Custos), took over the supply of balls and became an unofficial rackets coach.

Famous Old Harrovian, Sir William Hart-Dyke (The Grove; 1851), was not only the School's first Rackets champion, but was also chiefly responsible for the construction of the closed and covered courts in 1865.

Not familiar with Harrow? Hart-Dyke's court adjoined the V Form court, just down the hill from its west side, and although its dimensions are slightly larger than those that later became 'standard', it's still in use today.

Always time for one more tradition: Charles Williams, Harrow's Rackets Pro from 1909 – 22, achieved fame by surviving the Sinking of the Titanic; the Titanic had a squash court, and Williams was working-his-passage by coaching during the voyage!

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dinner-at-charlies · 1 year

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Famous Old Harrovians:

Born in London on 24 February, 1880, Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC, JP (more commonly, Sir Samuel Hoare), was a senior British politician who served in the Conservative and National Governments of the 1920s and 1930s.

As Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel authored the Government of India Act of 1935, which granted provincial-level self-government to India. Though he is perhaps most famous for serving as Foreign Secretary, when, in 1935, he authored the so-termed Hoare-Laval Pact, thereby partially recognising the Italian conquest of Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia); the ensuing public outcry forcing his resignation.

Sir Samuel, along with Stanley Baldwin (also a fellow Old Harrovian), was seen as a leading 'Appeaser to Hitler'; his removal from office, along with Sir John Simon, and the removal of Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister, a condition of the Labour Party's agreement to serve in a coalition government in May 1940.

A Clash of Harrovians:

Ill feeling between Sam Hoare and Winston Churchill (perhaps the greatest Old Harrovian of all time), reached its peak in April 1934, when Churchill accused him of having, with the aid of the Earl of Derby, breached parliamentary privilege by improperly influencing the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to drop its opposition to the India Bill.

Hoare was exonerated by the Committee on Privileges, though Churchill subsequently gave a powerful speech in the Commons Chamber attacking the committee's findings.

On 13 June, 1934, Leo Amery (also an Old Harrovian), spoke, arguing that Churchill's true aim was to bring down the government under the cover of the doctrine 'fiat justicia ruat caelum' ('may justice be done, though the heavens fall').

Churchill, who was neither a lawyer nor a classicist, growled 'translate it!'

To howls of laughter, Amery replied that it meant 'If I can trip up Sam, the Government's bust!'

Sir Samuel Hoare died in his London home at 7 Eaton Mansions, on 7 May, 1959. He was buried at Sidestrand parish churchyard in Norfolk.

As his marriage was childless and his brother had pre-deceased him, the baronetcy and peerage became extinct upon his death. His widow, Viscountess Templewood, died in 1962.

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