Star Spots No. 350

 4.12.23 Soho Hotel gents

Toby Jones

(previously spotted at a London theatre at a musical)

5.12.23 Curzon Mayfair

Andrew Scott

(previously spotted at the TV BAFTAs)

Creative Accounting No.s 348 and 349

 No. 348

Colin Farrell (Inisherin) = Jim Carrey + eyebrows

No. 349

François Cluzet (Intouchables) / France = Dustin Hoffman / USA

Creative Accounting #323

Christian Slater = Jack Nicholson - 30 years

Creative Accounting #298

James Dean = Martin Sheen
James Dean = Brad Pitt
James Dean = Leonardo diCaprio

Creative Accounting #409

Alan Ladd = Edward Norton

Creative Accounting #453

John Cusack (in High Fidelity) / nose + chin = Meryl Streep / chin + nose

Creative Accounting #267

Robert Redford + Faye Dunaway (Three Days of the Condor) = Robert Donat + Madeleine Carroll (The 39 Steps)

[yoked together]

Creative Accounting #266

Serpico + Sidney (Lumet) / Three Days of the Condor + Sydney (Pollack) = Who can you Trust?

Creative Accounting #725

Benedict Cumberbatch / Star Trek Into Darkness = Paul Dano / 12 Years a Slave

Creative Accounting #553

Jonathan Rhys Meyers / Cork + cheekbones = Cillian Murphy / Cork + CHEEKBONES

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Leonardo diCaprio's performance in Lasse Hallstrom's "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" - shared with N

An extended jog round the cemetery - discovering new paths (listening to an old Simon Mayo book review)

Sorting out my CV with a focus on the Arts

Creative Accounting #102

Gerard Butler - Scotland + acting talent = Jason Isaacs - Liverpool



(top half of face similar)

Rules of the Movies 3

Butlers are always as evil as the people they work for

(by N age 12 - inspired by Terry Thomas in How to Murder Your Wife)

Creative Accounting #27

Dave Gorman = Ewen Bremner + sideburns

I notice me and Dave have a love of Reasons to be Cheerful in common

First met Ewen back in Melrose days when he was playing a retarded youth in a John Mole drama opposite Ursula Jones - many years before I first entered the Choose Life doors of Channel 4's Glasgow office.

Creative Accounting #65

Things We Lost in the Fire:

Benicio Del Toro = Brad Pitt but darker

David Duchovny = Richard Gere but less distinctive

Creative Accounting #65

Christopher Jones (Ryan's Daughter) = Peter O'Toole + Tom Courtney

Creative Accounting #2

Ellen Page (Juno - b. 1987) = Jane Fonda (b. 1937) - half a century

Rules of the Movies 2

When people drop their shopping, the bag always contains round fruit [by U]

People always have french bread in their shopping (in those brown paper shopping bags)

People always move the steering wheel around, even when they're driving down a straight road [courtesy, much though it pains me to say, of Sky Movies]


Evil butlers have no tongues [by N e.g. Stormbreaker, Goldfinger]

Superheroes with high strength are fat [by N e.g. Fantastic Four, The Incredibles]

Dustin Hoffman will always run given half a chance (e.g. The Graduate, Marathon Man, Kramer vs Kramer)

Venus

It was on the good ship Venus, by Christ you should have seen us, the figurehead was Peter O'Toole, still handsome with his floppy TE Lawrence hair (despite his skeletal age). The great Leslie Phillips did a "haallooo" for us all at the premiere of 'Venus' at the Chelsea Cinema. Female lead, Jodie Whittaker was there in a little black number, reminiscent of Imogen Stubbs and Kate Winslet. Director Roger Michell introduced everyone. Producer Kevin Loader attended, alongside Corinne Bailey Rae (who did the music with David Arnold), writer Hanif Kureishi and good old uncle Richard Griffiths.



At the party afterwards dear, dear Johnny Hurt pulled by. Execed by Tessa Ross of FilmFour and Scott Rudin which links to both work and play (the other Paramount Scott, Katherine's other half) plus the link of the Rokeby Venus to Art Vandals - throw in the locations from my manor (from Camden and Kentish Towns to the Chandos caff by the dentist's) and you have a movie I feel pretty connected to. I love what they've done with the poster - they had a tableau vivant at the post-screening pardee which looked the biz, reminiscent of happy hours life drawing in Andi's class.



Leslie Phillips was perfect. O'Toole did a great job, plenty of chemistry and shared experience there. Jodie was fine in a slightly ropey role (a touch of Jane Horrocks meets something else i've seen before). Plenty of enjoyable scenes and a few cracking lines. A fine 96 minutes in the cinema by anyone's standards.



Bumped into Axel 'The Light Side of the advertising Force' Chaldecott and Ian 'Lara Croft' Livingstone along the way. Catering by Jonathan Rutherford Best's mob. All in all, not bad for a Monday night - not least for the A1 Thesps. Boing! "Time for bed"