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reading and watching
Sep. 6th, 2012 11:59 am1) I rented Deserter because it looked slashy and because Tom Hardy is a reputable actor (and because I didn't know at the time that it was a cash-in re-release of something from early in Hardy's career). I got as far as the text crawl a few minutes in which informed the audience that Algerians and French settlers had lived in peace and harmony until "Arab nationalists" started causing trouble. Then I switched off.
2) Having watched everything I can readily find with Christopher Neame in it (well, everything I can readily find that's not awful American TV where he's in a minor role), I've now started watching everything with Paul Chapman in it. Chapman is an actor I had in great affection, without knowing anything about his career, when As Time Goes By was airing in the US; when I saw Colditz, in which he plays George Brent, it took me ages to figure out what I'd seen him in before. I'm rewatching his episodes of ATGB (which, scoff as you will, was actually a very good show. With JUDI DENCH. And GEOFFREY PALMER). I've also watched most of Fairly Secret Army, also starring Geoffrey Palmer--it's a funny/creepy show about a right-wing but utterly useless paramilitary group in the early 1980s. Chapman, alas, is woefully underused.
3) I seem to have gotten over some of my recent inability to read fiction. ( Cut for length; click here to read about the Domino Men, Whispers Underground, and the Tunnel )
2) Having watched everything I can readily find with Christopher Neame in it (well, everything I can readily find that's not awful American TV where he's in a minor role), I've now started watching everything with Paul Chapman in it. Chapman is an actor I had in great affection, without knowing anything about his career, when As Time Goes By was airing in the US; when I saw Colditz, in which he plays George Brent, it took me ages to figure out what I'd seen him in before. I'm rewatching his episodes of ATGB (which, scoff as you will, was actually a very good show. With JUDI DENCH. And GEOFFREY PALMER). I've also watched most of Fairly Secret Army, also starring Geoffrey Palmer--it's a funny/creepy show about a right-wing but utterly useless paramilitary group in the early 1980s. Chapman, alas, is woefully underused.
3) I seem to have gotten over some of my recent inability to read fiction. ( Cut for length; click here to read about the Domino Men, Whispers Underground, and the Tunnel )
