Just watching Jonathan Ross interviewing Glenn Close on the BBC. He's talking about her role in 101 Dalmatians and comments that you don't often see strong female characters in (especially Disney) cartoons. She replies, "I used to watch cartoons with my daughter and I noticed that you don't have any mothers in cartoons - you don't have any mothers in fairy tales - because mothers are fierce and if there were mothers in fairy tales, nothing would ever happen to the kids." I like that!
[*Although there is a mother in Stardust (Neil Gaiman's fairy tale. Or tale from Faerie.) Having said that, not wishing to give away too much of the plot, she can't do much for most of the story...]
Showing posts with label Jonathan Ross. Show all posts
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Friday, 30 January 2009
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Reluctant Kings
Have just seen the following on the BBC website - the new King of Bhutan has been crowned. He is the youngest king in the world and looks, to me, to be distinctly uncomfortable with the whole process!
Even sillier is the news that an effigy of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand is to burned in Kent as part of a bonfire night spectacle. It really does seem to have got out of hand now. They are not the first entertainers to be uncomfortably risque, nor will they be the last, I imagine. It makes you wonder how much this entire situation is about the offense caused to a respected actor (who, by the by, is being treated as a doddery old fool by most of the nation's press) and how much it is about the fear of ambition and success. I think it would be a loss if these performers found themselves unable to get work on the basis of this event. Having said that, perhaps the controversy won't do either of them any harm!
Even sillier is the news that an effigy of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand is to burned in Kent as part of a bonfire night spectacle. It really does seem to have got out of hand now. They are not the first entertainers to be uncomfortably risque, nor will they be the last, I imagine. It makes you wonder how much this entire situation is about the offense caused to a respected actor (who, by the by, is being treated as a doddery old fool by most of the nation's press) and how much it is about the fear of ambition and success. I think it would be a loss if these performers found themselves unable to get work on the basis of this event. Having said that, perhaps the controversy won't do either of them any harm!
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