Not the Baftas
Some late news just in. I just happened to find this photo from the 2005 TCM Classic Shorts award ceremony. (If you must know, I wasn't looking for myself, rather, the name of one of the young actors in Reggie Perrin, whom I knew to have appeared in the runner-up short film entry in 2005.) I hosted the awards, at the NFT, and Helen Mirren said a few words. It was tremendous to meet her - she'd just been on Channel 4 in Elizabeth I and I was able to enthuse about the excellent lighting and photography on that programme, a subject she much preferred over talking about her own marvellous work in it (she also voiced the anxiety that a TV programme just goes out and is forgotten, while a movie has a longer life, something I had never considered before) - and while introducing her from the stage, she heckled me, and I told her to "shut up", which was a nice moment. Anyway, I had no idea photographic evidence existed. I'm glad it does. If Twitter had been invented, I might have Twittered it. I'm glad it didn't.
Don't know who took the picture. (If it was you, let me know.) The man on the right is Alan Musa, vice president of TCM, who took me for lunch at the Ivy earlier this year to compensate for the fact that, after three years of having me host the awards, in 2008 they got Ben Miller in. It was a good run while it lasted.
posted by Andrew Collins @ 4:23 PM
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Oh, Helen Mirren. The unconditional crush on her that started when I was about 11 watching "Excalibur" shows no sign of going away. If you could bottle whatever it is she's "got", you would instantly become as rich as Croesus.
Glad you enjoyed that frisson. (I must say, you do make a very nice couple.)
You could try the polartec tights available from Cold Lizard - they did me down to at least 14F just fine. The only danger is that once you have them on you need to leave the house within a couple of minutes, otherwise heat exhaustion can overtake you!
Would it be too garish of me to say...
*WOULD!*
[insert 'and the two on the right don't look bad either' joke here]
Can't believe you didn't photo-edit to make it a twosome, particularly as he dumped you. Must have been a hell of a meal.
I'm cross now.
Crikey - she's a QILF
Helen needn't worry. With DVD and repeat channels, tv has a much greater life after broadcast than could previously have dreamed of (as has been discovered by both the main channels as they realise that they weren't just junking material all those years ago but an ongoing revenue stream).
Elizabeth I makes for a welcome alternative to both the films and the BBC's The Virgin Queen with Mary Anne Duff. In fact, even though it wasn't written in blank verse or paced as such, it was very literary and seemed like the play about Liz that Shakespeare would have written if he'd lived long enough to give the requisite distance and a worth companion piece to Henry VIII.
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