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Rupert Everett's Vanished Years
Topic Started: Oct 1 2012, 10:32 AM (349 Views)
caissier
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01mxvcn/Book_of_the_Week_Vanished_Years_Episode_1/

This gradually grew on me over last week, as an observation of a strange and perilous world of meaningless, heightened dramas, with odd but powerful, hard people ...... with Rupert fully involved but aware of the absurdities as they affected ultimately real people. He has upset his former bf Madonna by just talking about her, though not in a damaging way, but, apparently, doesn't care much. He seems a survivor; he does come with a pretty superior viewpoint which must help. I thought the musical support - I Will Talk and Hollywood Will Listen by Robbie - was well chosen, an exultant camp cry of agonised desperation. "Cameron Diaz .... give me a sign ..... "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bWxCtysOt0

It gets quite funny when Derek Jacobi enters later on. (First episode slips off the iplayer today, Monday)
Edited by caissier, Oct 1 2012, 10:55 AM.
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I wanted to listen to this - but time has been of the essence this past week - thanks for putting it up and reminding me. I caught about five mins of Friday's ep and it didn't put me off....

He is currently appearing as Oscar Wilde, with rising star Freddie Fox as Bosie, in a reinvigorated and sold out production of David Hare's The Judas Kiss at the Hampstead theatre. It has received mainly four and five star reviews and I'm going to see it next Wednesday (10th)....

http://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/whats-on/2012/the-judas-kiss/
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He reads it as well, Mobs, and I thought it a good listen .... rueful with a feel of deteriorating home movie film.
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TBH I am not that interested in any of Rupert Everett's years, vanished or otherwise. There are exceptions, but I find actors a dull bunch without a script unless you care about celeb gossip, which I don't, really.
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<cool> Hmmmm, no comment!
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Oct 1 2012, 11:15 AM
TBH I am not that interested in any of Rupert Everett's years, vanished or otherwise. There are exceptions, but I find actors a dull bunch without a script unless you care about celeb gossip, which I don't, really.
I've had a few dealings with actors and they can be a strange and not that appealing lot, but it is a weird thing - professionally and compulsively wanting to be other people in invented realities, often, it seems, a desperarate escape from themselves. Underneath it all there are real people - who subject themselves to big emotional strains because they can't do anything else. I've often wondered about the number who die of cancer at relatively early ages. There is the difference between the on-stage 'person' and the off-stage person. They're frequently egotistical, unpleasant, slightly mad but sort-of tragic as well .......
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Everyone is a 'real' person, Caissier - some 'ordinary' people are very interesting and some 'famous' people are as dull as ditchwater. What irritates me slightly is the presumption that people must be interesting because they are a celeb of some sort. It seems everyone who has been on TV for more than 15 minutes automatically writes their autobiography: sports people, actors, reality show participants, musicians, comedians, etc. It seems every comedian has to write at least one novel too <doh>
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<erm> You're getting to sound like a candidate for the next series of GOM ... RUMBABA

Edited by Mobson, Oct 1 2012, 12:28 PM.
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rumbaba
Oct 1 2012, 11:15 AM
gossip,
I like a bit of goss every now and then..... :$ :D

I listened to this last week and was pleased to hear that Derek Jacobi is as nice as I thought/hoped he would be.

Listening to the rehearsals for The Ambassador made me think of Episodes with Stephen Mangan,Tamsin Grieg and Matt le Blanc
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Hard for me not to entertain gossip - three of my close friends are currently working on major films at this very moment - and I've just received my second photo from Daniel Craig on the eve of Skyfall being released during Oct!... :wub: <laugh>

On Rupert, our paths have crossed a couple of times since I saw him on the stage at the Queen's theatre in the early eighties in Julian Mitchell's Another Country - last was when I was having lunch with a rich Australian lady in Sartoria in Saville Row and he was there too ...he talked to us - he really is a very charismatic man!
Edited by Mobson, Oct 1 2012, 12:54 PM.
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Who was the one that was insufferable and insisted on everyone addressing him as 'Sir'? I think Ben Kingsley.
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Maybe ..... he was in the Sopranos, where they referred to him as 'Sir Kingsley'. He might have been on a disapproval limitation mission; very gracious and all that.

I know Jeffrey Archer went all <angry> when he wasn't called Lord.
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caissier
Oct 1 2012, 01:01 PM
I know Jeffrey Archer went all <angry> when he wasn't called Lord.
I'm known to be <angry> because he's still a Lord ..

I do know (some more than others) quite a few actors and they are all quite lovely... <angel>
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When I was at university, we had to go back early in our 4th year (it's a four year honours degree in Scotland), supposedly to work on our dissertations. I was at Stirling, which is a campus university, which has the MacRobert Theatre as part of the campus. For some reason, we couldn't have our normal flat on campus at this time and, for a couple of weeks, stayed in 'normal' halls. This meant that we had to go and watch the TV in the communal area. There were a load of actors there, watching some childrens' programme (because one of them was in it for about 5 seconds, sitting on a horse in the distance). They were doing something at the MacRobert and I think were staying in Halls too, or maybe they just came in to watch the TV. Anyway, there was a bit of a row because we watched 'Crossroads' religiously (my flatmate Bob was an avid fan) and the thespians were watching this kids' historical drama thing on BBC. There were 4 or 5 of them, including Gerald Flood, who looked about 100 years old, even then. Bob sent them packing with 'I don't care who you are, I'm watching 'Crossroads!' ' ringing in their ears. However, apart from my brush with Dennis Waterman and Rula Lenska, which has been well documented on this board, I haven't had much contact with actors. My beef is not really with them as people, more the endless biographies and interviews that are predicated on the 'fact' that actors 'must be interesting' .
Edited by rumbaba, Oct 1 2012, 02:36 PM.
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