#Jonathan Lynley

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With a little help from my friends Tolerance Project Extra Celebrates International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Introduction

Hello Today marks the annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities I thought I would celebrate that by writing and posting this one off blog first a little bit of background.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) is an international observance promoted by the United Nations since 1992. It has been observed with varying degrees of success around the planet. The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life. It was originally called "International Day of Disabled Persons" until 2007. 

Every year since 1992, the UN announces a theme for International Day of People with Disability. The 2023 theme is “United in action to rescue and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for, with and by persons with disabilities.”

Obviously, that is a bit of a mouthful. In simpler terms, the theme calls for us all to work together to make the world a better place for people with disabilities — it shouldn’t be up to them alone to constantly fight and advocate for themselves

So in plain English for those that don’t speak UN this years Day for disabled people is all about working together so the title of this blog originally written last year called with a little help from my freinds could not be more apt  

What was the Tolerance Group?

If I have got my sums right 'Tolerance' came into my life round about time I was still at Shelley High School in about 1995 It was created out of one of the summer school play schemes that Kirklees used to run. We had such a good time one year that this particular group wanted to see more of each other to socialise and do other projects.

With the help of one of the play Scheme organisers called Craig Wood he suggested we get Together as a youth group.

We began as a small group of people, calling ourselves the Deighton Group. As the local PHAB group was shutting down, the group got a lot bigger and we changed our name to 'Tolerance'. It was Craig I think who came up with the name we began appearing in local media and were becoming more well known, a local development officer who was called Jeremy Walker organised us into a fully-functioning group. I was asked to be co-ordinator, a job which I did for 7 years. Gemma Blagbrough was my second-in-command and transport secretary. With the help of the local development officer, we applied for funding for a variety of projects. As co-ordinator for the group I found myself doing a lot of the admin work, filling out funding forms, writing newsletters, doing radio and newspaper interviews, and going to various meetings to ask for money to get projects started.

Tolerance The Movie

The idea behind the film was one of Jeremy Walkers many ideas and it was a good one the aim of the film was simple We wanted to make a film that reflected the life of young disabled people in the 21st century. It was important to us as a group that it was funny, and that it would capture the humour within the group. At the same time, we wanted it to deliver a serious message about what it was like to live with a disability day-to-day.

Jeremy can be seen in a cameo in the finished film as Julie’s Taxi driver Julie was played by actress Claire Abbot

The film has five main themes: Employment, Social Life, Transport, Accessibility, and Relationships. We chose these themes because they were important areas of all the lives of the group members.

Also If we were going to make the film we wanted to be involved with it as much as possible provide as much of the cast and crew in the finished film as we could. In the end other members of Tolerance who were not in front of the camera worked in the sound and make up departments  

After a couple of false starts we approached a company called Eclipse Productions run by Richard Hellawell.

The script was written by Richard Hellawell with input from Tolerance members; myself and Jeremy Walker were the film’s producers. In keeping with the humour we wanted the film to portray, we included film spoofs of Officer and a Gentleman, Star Wars, and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

One major difference of opinion was who was going to act in our film. Richard wanted people he had worked with previously, where as myself and some of the group members had envisioned that we would use disabled actors. Was our film going to be stopped in its tracks before it had even started?

In the end we managed to reach a compromise and two of our disabled members appeared in the finished film: Gemma Blagbrough as the cinema manager; and Michael Weaver as a blind person using Huddersfield Train Station.

Filming began on 16th August 1999 but the most stressful days shooting was at Huddersfeild Train Station

Shooting scenes at Huddersfield Train Station

From Rob Martin’s photos, the train sequences where shot on 17 August 1999. I remember the day as being very stressful and bursting into tears!

Michael for me gives a very natural performance, and he and Claire Abbot work well together.

On the photo front we have 35 photos of this day’s filming – most of them in black and white. As it was Michael Weaver’s day, when he was playing a starring role, he appears in quite a few of the photos having a laugh with our leading lady, Claire Abbot. There are also some photos, when he was being made up by our make-up lady, Andrea Dowdall Goddard.

Since working on Tolerance, Andrea has worked on episodes of the Doctor Who spin-off, Torchwood, Coronation Street and the film, Guest House Paradiso. Andrea’s credits are on IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1350227/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Gemma Blagbourgh was the second member of Tolerance to appear in the film, Gemma Blagbrough, appears as the cinema manager. All her scenes were shot on the last day of filming I had the day off that day but the rest of the cast and crew had to get up at 5.30am to shoot the cinema scenes. Gemma said about her Tolerance experience afterwards:

‘Yes I really enjoyed the whole experience of working on Tolerance. The only thing I didn’t like were the early mornings; the earliest being half past five in the morning when I had to film my scenes. It was long hours, but I wanted to show people with a disability that you can work and you can work in positions of authority.’

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Photos

Me with my producers hat on with the Tolerance film director Richard Hellawell sorry I look so miserable

Claire abbot with Michael Weever

Gemma Blagbourgh helping Michael learn his lines

Michael having his make up done

Gemma Blagbourgh as appears in the Tolerance film as the UCI cinema manager

Paul Lockwood doing his job as a sound man on the Tolerance film the picture also features Actors David Smith and Claire Abbot

More of the Tolerance production Team at Huddersfield Train station along with Director of Photography Ian Medley this photo features Liam Centeno who was given the nickname the party animal by the production team and Jonathan Lyndley

Notes Thanks to the following people for the pictures Rob Martin and Helen Batty thanks to Gemma Blagbourgh for the interview this new blog was put together using material from the the following blogs Gizza Job I can do that part 2 Tolerance Ability not in Ability a producers commentary Part 1 In the Beginning Tolerance Ability not in Ability a producers commentary Part 2 Transport and Tolerance Ability not in Ability a producers commentary Part 4 Accessibility

Thank you also to wikpedia for information on the history of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

I would like to thank 2 members of Tolerance that are not mentioned in the blog and don’t feature in the photographs Claire Louise Wallice and Sandra Brennan whose contribution to the Tolerance film was just as valuable as everyone else’s

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In Memoriam 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, we remember those in entertainment that left us during the year.

Pegi Young - singer (1952 - 1/1/2019)

Daryl Dragon - singer (The Captain And Tennille) (1942 - 1/2/2019)

Bob Einstein - actor, comedian (1942 - 1/2/2019)

Mean Gene Okerlund - wrestling announcer (1942 - 1/2/2019)

Verna Bloom - actress (1938 - 1/9/2019)

Carol Channing - actress, singer (1921 - 1/15/2019)

Kaye Ballard - actress (1925 - 1/21/2019)

Jonas Mekas - documentary director (1922 - 1/23/2019)

Dusan Makavekev - director (1932 - 1/25/2019)

Michel Legrand - film composer (1932 - 1/26/2019)

James Ingram - singer (1952 - 1/29/2019)

Dick Miller - actor (1928 - 1/30/2019)

Julie Adams - actress (1926 - 2/3/2019)

Albert Finney - actor (1936 - 2/7/2019)

Jan-Michael Vincent - actor (1945 - 2/10/2019)

Bruno Ganz - actor (1941 - 2/16/2019)

Karl Lagerfeld - fashion designer (1933 - 2/19/2019)

Stanley Donen - director (1924 - 2/21/2019)

Peter Tork - musician (The Monkees) (1942 - 2/21/2019)

Brody Stevens - actor, comedian (1970 - 2/22/2019)

Katherine Helmond - actress (1929 - 2/23/2019)

Andre Previn - film composer, pianist, conductor (1929 - 2/28/2019)

Luke Perry - actor (1966 - 3/4/2019)

Hal Blaine - drummer (1929 - 3/11/2019)

Dick Dale - guitarist (1937 - 3/16/2019)

Scott Walker - singer (The Walker Brothers) (1943 - 3/22/2019)

Agnes Varda - director (1928 - 3/29/2019)

Nipsey Hussle - rapper (1985 - 3/31/2019)

Seymour Cassel - actor (1935 - 4/7/2019)

Georgia Engel - actress (1948 - 4/12/2019)

John McEnery - actor (1943 - 4/12/2019)

Bibi Andersson - actress (1935 - 4/14/2019)

Fay McKenzie - actress, singer (1918 - 4/16/2019)

Ken Kercheval - actor (1935 - 4/21/2019)

Jean-Pierre Marielle - actor (1932 - 4/24/2019)

John Singleton - director, screenwriter, producer (1968 - 4/28/2019)

Peter Mayhew - actor (1944 - 4/30/2019)

Norma Miller - dancer, actress (1919 - 5/5/2019)

Alvin Sargent - screenwriter (1927 - 5/9/2019)

Peggy Lipton - actress (1946 - 5/11/2019)

Machiko Kyo - actress (1924 - 5/12/2019)

Doris Day - actress, singer (1922 - 5/13/2019)

Tim Conway - actor, comedian (1933 - 5/14/2019)

Grumpy Cat - internet celebrity (2012 - 5/14/2019)

Herman Wouk - author (1915 - 5/17/2019)

Leon Redbone - singer (1944 - 5/30/2019)

Dr. John - singer (1941 - 6/6/2019)

Sylvia Miles - actress (1924 - 6/12/2019)

Franco Zefferelli - director (1923 - 6/15/2019)

Dave Bartholomew - singer, songwriter, record producer (1918 - 6/23/2019)

Edith Scob - actress (1937 - 6/26/2019)

Max Wright - actor (1943 - 6/26/2019)

Arte Johnson - actor, comedian (1929 - 7/3/2019)

Pierre Lhomme - cinematographer (1930 - 7/4/2019)

Joao Gilberto - singer (1931 - 7/6/2019)

Artur Brauner - producer (1918 - 7/7/2019)

Rip Torn - actor (1931 - 7/9/2019)

Freddie Jones - actor (1927 - 7/9/2019)

Valentina Cortese - actress (1923 - 7/10/2019)

Johnny Clegg - singer (1953 - 7/16/2019)

David Hedison - actor (1927 - 7/18/2019)

Rutger Hauer - actor (1944 - 7/19/2019)

Jeremy Kemp - actor (1935 - 7/19/2019)

Russi Taylor - voice actress (1944 - 7/26/2019)

Harold Prince - theater producer and director (1928 - 7/31/2019)

D.A. Pennebaker - documentary director (1925 - 8/1/2019)

Toni Morrison - author (1931 - 8/5/2019)

Jean-Pierre Mocky - director, screenwriter, producer (1929 - 8/8/2019)

Peter Fonda - actor (1940 - 8/16/2019)

Richard Williams - animator, director (1933 - 8/16/2019)

Larry Taylor - bassist (Canned Heat, Tom Waits) (1942 - 8/19/2019)

Michel Aumont - actor (1936 - 8/28/2019)

Valerie Harper - actress (1939 - 8/30/2019)

Carol Lynley - actress (1942 - 9/3/2019)

Robert Frank - director, photographer (1924 - 9/9/2019)

Eddie Money - singer (1949 - 9/13/2019)

Ric Ocasek - singer (The Cars), record producer (1944 - 9/15/2019)

Sid Haig - actor (1939 - 9/21/2019)

Robert Hunter - lyricist (The Grateful Dead) (1941 - 9/23/2019)

Jessye Norman - opera singer (1945 - 9/30/2019)

Julie Gibson - actress (1913 - 10/2/2019)

Diahann Carroll - actress, singer (1935 - 10/4/2019)

Ginger Baker - drummer (Cream, Blind Faith) (1939 - 10/6/2019)

Rip Taylor - actor, comedian (1934 - 10/6/2019)

Marie-Jose Nat - actress (1940 - 10/10/2019)

Robert Forster - actor (1941 - 10/11/2019)

Robert Evans - producer (1930 - 10/26/2019)

John Witherspoon - actor, comedian (1942 - 10/29/2019)

Marie Laforêt - singer, actress (1939 - 11/2/2019)

Branko Lustig - producer (1932 - 11/14/2019)

Terry O’Neill - photographer (1938 - 11/16/2019)

Michael J. Pollard - actor (1939 - 11/21/2019)

Jonathan Miller - actor, director, author, comedian (1934 - 11/27/2019)

Shelley Morrison - actress (1936 - 12/1/2019)

Richard Easton - actor (1933 - 12/2/2019)

Robert Walker Jr. - actor (1940 - 12/5/2019)

Ron Leibman - actor (1937 - 12/6/2019)

Zaza Urushadze - director (1965 - 12/7/2019)

Caroll Spinney - puppeteer (1933 - 12/8/2019)

Marie Fredriksson - singer (Roxette) (1958 - 12/9/2019)

Gershon Kingsley - composer (1922 - 12/10/2019)

Danny Aiello - actor (1933 - 12/12/2019)

Anna Karina - actress (1940 - 12/14/2019)

Nicky Henson - actor (1945 - 12/15/2019)

Claudine Auger - actress (1940 - 12/18/2019)

Tony Britton - actor (1924 - 12/22/2019)

Jerry Herman - theater composer (1931 - 12/26/2019)

Sue Lyon - actress (1946 - 12/26/2019)

Neil Innes - actor, comedian, musician (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, The Rutles) (1944 - 12/28/2019)

Syd Mead - art director (1933 - 12/30/2019)

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The Family Line Part Two (Snow 2: Brain Freeze, 2008)

The Family Line Part Two (Snow 2: Brain Freeze, 2008)

Nick and Sandy now live in their magic home together…she has big news, but everything keeps getting pushed aside, due to the stress of the impending holiday…after a fight, Nick decided to go somewhere to contemplate his feelings.

When he appears in a family’s shed and is startled, he is knocked unconscious. The end result is that Nick has lost his memory just days before Christmas. He ends up on…

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Compositores

Giya Kancheli, Christopher Rouse, Michel Legrand, Hans Zender, Dominick Argento , Jacques Loussier, Joao Gilberto, Theo Verbey, Ivo Malec, Mario Davidovsky, Barrington Pheloung, Ben Johnston, Michael Colgrass, Schaeffer, Sven-David Sandström, Ami Maayani, John Joubert, Chou Wen-chung, Ib Norholm, René Samson, Jerry Herman, Jean Chatillon, Alfred Kunz, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Heinz Winbeck, Atli Sveinsson, Frantisek Thuri, Ivan Erob, Gagik Hovunts, Gerhson Kingsley, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Joan Guinjoan, Enrique Iturriaga.

  Directores

Maris Janssons, Andre Previn, Raymond Leppard, Jerzy Semkow, Stephen Cleobury, Michael Gielen, Simon Streatfeild, Elio Boncompagni, Werner Andreas Albert, Ján Valach, John Curro, Colin Mawby, Jacques Grimbert, Jean Perisson, Radomil Eliska, Laszlo Heltay, Reto Parolari.

  Pianistas: Jörg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda. Dina Ugorskaja, Daniel Wayenberg, Alexander Tamir, Karen Shaw, Paola Bruni, Márta Kurtág, Dalton Baldwin, Abbey Simon, Ethella Chupryk,

Instrumentistas

Aaron Rosand, Elliot Golub, Marya Columbia, Christian Stadelmann, Jerry Horner, Yossi Gutmann, Uzi Wiesel, Vladimir Orloff, Vagram Saradjian, Anner Bylsma, Michael Grebanier, Susanne Beer, Jean Guillou, Peter Hurford, Peter Noy, Robert Kohnen, Gerd Seiffert, Richard Weiner, Norman Schweikert, Wolfgang Meyer, Alberto Ponce.

Cantantes

Jessye Norman, Hilde Zadek, Heather Harper, Rolando Panerai, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Erika Sziklay, Margit Laszlo, Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, Marcello Giordani, Felice Schiavi, Joseph Rouleau, Mira Zakai, Spiro Malas, Deborah Cook, Sanford Sylvan, Wilma Lipp, Francisco Casanova, Ann Crumb, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam, Ruth Margaret Putz, Gerald English, Grayston Burgess, Colette Lorand, Joseph Ward, Yang Yang, Helmut Froschauer, Rosemary Kuhlmann, Umberto Grilli, James Christiansen, Miguel Sierra, Art Sullivan, Alle Willis, Patxi Andión, Charlie Karp, Yann Fanch Kemener, Bob Wilber, Camilo Sesto, Eric Morena, Marie Laforet, Dick Rivers, Diahann Carroll, Alain Barriere, Marie Fredriksson.

  Directores de escena, cineastas, coreografos, etc:

  Jonathan Miller, Johannes Schaaf, Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli, Agnes Varda, Pieter Verhoeff, Alex Weil, Jean Claude Brisseau, Eva Kleinitz, Knut Andersen, Ennio Guarnieri, Sebastián Alarcón, Pierre Lhomme, Jukka Virtanen, Guido Levi, Alicia Alonso, Julia Farron, Stanley Donen.

  Empresarios, Musicólogos,Críticos Musicales

  Victor Hochhauser, Walter Homburger, Naomi Graffman, Peter Noy, Laura Liepins, Paul J Pelkonen, Claude Gingras, Robert Henderson, Roger Covell, Martin Bernheimer, Ferdinando Bologna, Peter Gammond, Vivian Perlis, Clive James, John Simon, Alejandro Planchart, Ferenc Bonis, Scott Timberg.

  Cine y teatro

  Bruno Ganz, Valentina Cortese, Bibi Andersson, Rutger Hauer, Peter Fonda, Sue Lyon, Anna Karina, Doris Day, Carol Channing, Albert Finney, Carol Lynley, Claudine Auger, Rip Torn, Valery Harper, Sylvia Miles, Tim Conway, Danny Aiello, Anemone, Lee Radziwill, Cameron Boyce, Katherine Helmond, Bruno Scipioni, Sylvia Kay, Peter Zander, Seymur Cassel, Muriel Pavlow, Julie Adams, John Rone, Mario Bernardo, Susan Harrison, Vladimir Etush, Wenche Kvamme, Richard Erdmann, Tom Hatten, Eduardo De Santis, Jospeh Pilato, Alessandra Panaro, Irene Sutcliffe, Barbara Perry, Jane Hayward, Lis Verhoeven, Nancy Holloway, Wendy Williams.

  Artes Visuales, Letras, diseñadores, etc.

Carlos Cruz-Diez, Peter Larkin, Emily Mason, Imre Varga, Gerd Jaeger, Luca Alinari, Michael Lyons, Mavis Pusey, Rafael Coronel, Kate Nicholson, Armando Salas, Eduardo Meissner, Gloria Zea, Toni Morrison, I.M. Pei, Karl Lagerfeld, Gloria Vanderbilt, Emanuel Ungaro, Piero Tosi, Verena Wagner-Lafferentz, Christopher ‘Kiffer’ Finzi.

  Argentina

Adelaida Negri, Jorge Pérez Tedesco, Cesar Pelli, Osvaldo Romberg, José Martínez Suarez, Eduardo Rovner, Alberto Cortez, Isabel Sarli, Andrew Graham-Yool, Mónica Galán, Ricardo Monti, Graciela Araujo, Leopoldo Brizuela, Analia Gade, Lorenzo Quinteros, Osvaldo Brandi, Santiago Bal, Thelma Tixou, Christian Bach, Beatriz Taibo, Amelita Vargas, Silvia Montanari, Patricia Shaw,  Narciso Ibañez Serrador, Lucho Avilés, Beatriz Salomon, Rodolfo Zapata, Fabio Zerpa, Cacho Castaña, Hugo Gambini, Roberto Livi, Juan Martini, Silvina Bosco, Luz Kerz, Roberto Yanés, Guillermo Cervantes Luro, Max Berliner, Malena Marechal, Antonio Caride.

Los Adioses 2019 Compositores Giya Kancheli, Christopher Rouse, Michel Legrand, Hans Zender, Dominick Argento , Jacques Loussier, Joao Gilberto, Theo Verbey, Ivo Malec, Mario Davidovsky, Barrington Pheloung, Ben Johnston, Michael Colgrass, Schaeffer, Sven-David Sandström, Ami Maayani, John Joubert, Chou Wen-chung, Ib Norholm, René Samson, Jerry Herman, Jean Chatillon, Alfred Kunz, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Heinz Winbeck, Atli Sveinsson, Frantisek Thuri, Ivan Erob, Gagik Hovunts, Gerhson Kingsley, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Joan Guinjoan, Enrique Iturriaga.

[topbeautifulwomens]

#Matthew #Goode #anime #celebrities #comedy #fashiondaily #flowers #kyliejenner #mascara #modellife #punjabimusic #weekend

Encouraged to act by his mother, Matthew Goode appeared in a number of his motherâ€s local productions as a child. He later honed in on his acting skills at the University of Birmingham and then at Londonâ€s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He also appeared as the spirit Ariel in a production of William Shakespeareâ€s “The Tempest” and “Lorca’s Blood Wedding.”

Graduating from the London phase, Goode made his on-screen debut in the ABC-TV movie “Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister” (2002), alongside Stockard Channing and Trudie Styler. In the retelling of the Cinderella story through the eyes of one of the ugly stepsisters, based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, he portrayed Casper, the painter who gets Azura Skyeâ€s Iris Fisherâ€s love interest.

Being asked about how it was moving from stage acting to film, Goode replied, “Weird, because I hoped to be taken under the wings of other actors but it depends on whom you work with. Iâ€ve been lucky. Iâ€ve heard some horror stories where there have been jealousies from older actors. You also hope to have a director whoâ€s being nice to you and explaining things. Hanging out and chatting with older actors is the very best thing in the world.”

Following his on-screen debut, Goode landed the next yearâ€s English/Spanish role as real-life writer Gerald Brenan, an Englishman who spent much of his life and was honored in Spain, in director Fernando Colomo’s film adaptation of Brenan’s book, Al sur de Granada (2003; a.k.a. South from Granada). The film made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival and was released theatrically in Spain. That same year, Goode starred as the title roleâ€s brother in the BBC’s “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: A Suitable Vengeance,” starring Nathaniel Parker.

2004 was Goodeâ€s breakout year with the role of Ben Calder, the love interest of the American President’s daughter (played by Mandy Moore) who turns out to be an undercover agent, in Chasing Liberty, a romantic comedy by director Andy Cadiff. Also that year, Goode played the lead role in BBC’s period production of Anthony Trollope’s 1869 novel, He Knew He Was Right, alongside Laura Fraser and Bill Nighy.

The following year saw Goode playing another prominent role, this time as a wealthy, young playboy named Tom who befriends a successful professional tennis player, played by Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, in writer-director Woody Allen’s Oscar nominated film, Match Point (also starring Scarlett Johansson and Emily Mortimer). Commenting on Match Point writer-director Woody Allen, Goode explained, “Sometimes, when you have a really hands-on director like a Michael Bay-type who shouts a whole lot, it’s just so not good for your confidence and what’s great about the way he (Allen) works is you don’t block your instincts. You have full faith in him. You start to trust yourself as an actor and you come away from it astonishingly fulfilled and you totally trust him and that really doesn’t happen that much. You come away thinking I’m all right at this.”

Also in that year, Goode co-starred as the groom whose bride (played by Piper Perabo) becomes infatuated with another woman (played by Lena Headey) in writer-director Ol Parker’s British romantic comedy film Think about Me & You. On the small screen, he could be seen in the made-for-TV movies Marple: A Murder Is Announced (starring Geraldine McEwan), an Emmy-nominated TV adaptation of Agatha Christie’s novel, and My Family and Other Animals (starring Imelda Staunton), which was inspired by Gerald Durrell’s book.

Goode subsequently was cast opposite Diane Kruger and Ed Harris in Copying Beethoven (2006), a dramatic film directed by Agnieszka Holland about the last year of the composer’s life. His latest film, The Lookout, a crime/drama/thriller by initial-time director Scott Frank, was released on March 30, 2007. In the film that also stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels and Isla Fisher, Goode co-stars as a gang leader who plots a bank robbery.

Currently, Goode is on set filming his upcoming big screen project, Brideshead Revisited. In director Julian Jarrold’s film adaptation of a 1945 novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, Goode will portray the lead role of Captain Charles Ryder. He revealed, “In June, we start working on the feature film Brideshead Revisited, a remake of the 1981 miniseries based on a book by Evelyn Waugh, which is amazing. Itâ€s what made Jeremy Irons, I suppose, and Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, John Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier. Weâ€re doing the remake, whereas in the television series they had eleven luxurious hours to play it out. We only have two hours and itâ€s been twenty years, but itâ€s a great cast and weâ€ll wait and see, I suppose. Hayley Atwell will play the lead female character Julia Flyte.”

“Yeah, absolutely I need to have to work. I was hoping to do ‘Glass Menagerie†for a while. I love that play. Unfortunately Iâ€ve already done that. So Iâ€m trying to get a play with Karen Hines because I love her. Sheâ€s a fantastic actor, so yeah, weâ€re looking for something.” Matthew Goode

Name Matthew Goode Height 6' 2″ Naionality British Date of Birth 3 April 1978 Place of Birth Exeter, Devon, England, UK Famous for

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was fun for a few reasons. First, it was our own Connie Loizos’s first time leading, and it was our very first regular episode that included us recording remotely. I mention that as Matthew Lynley and I were in different places, meaning that we had a bump or two to smooth out. Your patience is more than appreciated.

Happily, we didn’t have to adventure alone, as Jonathan Abrams of Founders Den was on hand to help us cart through the news.

Up first: A huge round for Rover, bringing even more money into the dog- and pet-focused space. As you’ll surely recall, this is not the first time that a tectonic sum has been disbursed into the pet-care vertical. Hell, Rover’s $155 in new capital, while impressive, still can’t touch Wag’s epic $300 million infusion that happened earlier in the cycle.

While we were on the subject, another Softbank-backed company made waves: Uber . Yes, our favorite and least favorite topic is back.

This time Uber released yet another grip of statistics relating to its financial performance in the first quarter. The big picture? More gross spend, more net revenue, smaller losses. But how you measure Uber’s pace of financial improvement depends on how you measure its losses and its remaining markets.

This being Equity, however, we couldn’t avoid the IPO topic. So, in order:

A Foxconn subsidiary will soon be making big waves in China with a huge debut;

A Dutch payments unicorn is going public on the back of great results;

GreenSky went out, and did pretty ok, which was a change of pace from recent debuts.

All that and we had a laugh. Thanks for listening in, and we are back next week.

Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Downcast and all the casts.

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Rover’s epic raise, Uber’s Q1 results, and a trio of IPOs

Rover’s epic raise, Uber’s Q1 results, and a trio of IPOs

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was fun for a few reasons. First, it was our own Connie Loizos’s first time leading, and it was our very first regular episode that included us recording remotely. I mention that as Matthew Lynley and I were in different places, meaning that we had a bump or two to smooth out. Your patience is more than appreciated.

Happily, we didn’t have to adventure alone, as Jonathan Abrams of Founders Den was on hand to help us cart through the news.

Up first: A huge round for Rover, bringing even more money into the dog- and pet-focused space. As you’ll surely recall, this is not the first time that a tectonic sum has been disbursed into the pet-care vertical. Hell, Rover’s $155 in new capital, while impressive, still can’t touch Wag’s epic $300 million infusion that happened earlier in the cycle.

While we were on the subject, another Softbank-backed company made waves: Uber. Yes, our favorite and least favorite topic is back.

This time Uber released yet another grip of statistics relating to its financial performance in the first quarter. The big picture? More gross spend, more net revenue, smaller losses. But how you measure Uber’s pace of financial improvement depends on how you measure its losses and its remaining markets.

This being Equity, however, we couldn’t avoid the IPO topic. So, in order:

A Foxconn subsidiary will soon be making big waves in China with a huge debut;

A Dutch payments unicorn is going public on the back of great results;

GreenSky went out, and did pretty ok, which was a change of pace from recent debuts.

All that and we had a laugh. Thanks for listening in, and we are back next week.

Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Downcast and all the casts.

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Casting is today announced for Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic. Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece Fanny and Alexander is adapted for the stage by BAFTA award-winning writer Stephen Beresford and directed by Old Vic Associate Director Max Webster, opening on 1 March 2018 with previews from 21 February 2018. The cast includes Penelope Wilton, Thomas Arnold, Lolita Chakrabarti, Kevin Doyle, Karina Fernandez, Annie Firbank, Matt Gavan, Tim Lewis, Gary MacKay, Gloria Obianyo, Vivian Oparah, Michael Pennington, Hannah James Scott, Jonathan Slinger, Catherine Walker and Sargon Yelda.

‘There should be no shame in us taking pleasure in our little lives.’ Amongst the gilded romance and glamour of 1900s Sweden, siblings Fanny and Alexander’s world is turned upside down when their widowed mother remarries the iron-willed local bishop. As creative freedom and rigid orthodoxy clash, a war ensues between imagination and austerity in this magical study of childhood, family and love.

Penelope Wilton plays Mrs. Helena Ekdahl. Her extensive theatre credits include Taken at Midnight (Theatre Royal Haymarket/Chichester Festival Theatre) for which she won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2015, Delicate Balance, Heartbreak House, The Deep Blue Sea (Almeida), The Family Reunion, The Chalk Garden – winning her the London Evening Standard Award Best Actress in 2008, John Gabriel Borkman, Little Foxes (Donmar Warehouse), The House of Bernarda Alba, Tess, Piano, The Secret Rapture, Major Barbara, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Betrayal, The Philanderer, Sisterly Feelings, Landscape (National Theatre), Hamlet, Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre) and Women Beware Women (RSC Swan Theatre). Television includes Brief Encounters, Downton Abbey, Miss Marple: They do it with Mirrors, South Riding, Doctor Who, The Passion, Five Days, The Whistle-Blower, Wives and Daughters, Half Broken Things, Celebration, Ever Decreasing Circles. Film work includes Guernsey, Zoo, The BFG, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Belle, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The History Boys, Pride and Prejudice and Shaun of the Dead.

Thomas Arnold plays Carl Ekdahl/Mr. Landhal. His theatre credits include Oslo, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, Cyrano De Bergerac, Mourning Becomes Electra, Three Sisters and The Stoppard Trilogy (National Theatre), The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court), Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (2015 – The Old Vic), Hamlet, Orlando (Manchester Royal Exchange), A Door Must be Open or Shut (King’s Head Theatre), Outlying Islands (Bath Theatre Royal), and Poor Mrs Pepys (New Victoria Theatre). Television credits include Broken, The Missing, War and Peace, Call the Midwife, Wolf Hall, Director, Bert & Dickie, Midsomer Murders, This is England, Broadside, Demons, Miss Marple – Towards Zero, The Last Detective and Abolition. His film credits include The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, Far from the Madding Crowd, Posh, The Fifth Estate, Thor 2, Kon Tiki, One Day, Made In Dagenham, Robin Hood, Me and Orson Welles, The Duchess, The Golden Compass and Cromwell and Fairfax.

Lolita Chakrabarti plays Alma Ekdahl/Helena Vergérus. Theatre credits include Gertrude in Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company/RADA), Last Seen (Almeida), which Lolita also wrote, Free Outgoing (Royal Court/Edinburgh Festival), John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar), The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle Theatre), The Waiting Room and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (National Theatre). Television credits include Delicious, Born to Kill, Beowulf, My Mad Fat Diary, Jekyll and Hyde, The Casual Vacancy and The Smoke. Writing credits include Red Velvet (Tricycle Theatre 2012 and 2014, St Ann’s Warehouse New York 2014, The Garrick Theatre 2016). Red Velvet was nominated for nine awards. Lolita won the Charles Wintour Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright 2012, the Critics Circle Most Promising Playwright Award 2012 and the AWA Award for Arts and Culture in 2013.

Kevin Doyle plays Bishop Edvard Vergérus. Theatre includes: NSFW, Spur Of The Moment (Royal Court), One For The Road/Victoria Station (Young Vic), The White Guard, Mutabilitie (National Theatre), For King And Country (Touring Partnership),Three In The Back, Two In Head, The Mob, A Hole In The Top Of The World (Orange Tree Theatre), Comedy Of Errors (Southampton), Henry V, Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Artistes and Admirers, Romeo and Juliet, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Henry IV Parts I & II, Kissing The Pope, Twelfth Night, The Plantagenets, The Plain Dealer (all For The RSC), The Crucible (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Much Ado About Nothing (Queen’s Theatre and tour), Therese Racquin (Chichester Minerva Theatre),Othello (Bristol Old Vic), The Admirable Crichton, Great Expectations and Cymbeline (Royal Exchange).

Television includes Happy Valley, Reg, Downton Abbey, A.D – Beyond the Bible, The Crimson Field, Snodgrass, Open Doors, The Accused, New Tricks, Room at the Top, Scott & Bailey, Law and Order, Vexed, Survivors, Five Days, Paradox, Silent Witness, The Tudors, Till We Die, George Gently, Sleep With Me, Heartbeat, Belle De Jour, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Dalziel and Pascoe, Casualty, The Royal, New Street Law, The Brief, Brief Encounters, Afterlife, Big Dippers, The Rotters Club, Blackpool, Midsomer Murders, Family Business, Murphy’s Law, Silent Witness, The Lakes, Holby City, At Home With The Braithwaites and Badger. Film includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Social Call, Good and The Libertine.

Karina Fernandez plays Lydia Ekdahl/Justina. Her theatre credits include Mare Rider (Arcola Theatre), There is a War, Edgar and Annabel (National Theatre), Bites (The Bush Theatre), Blue Hart (Royal Court), Cahoot’s Macbeth (King’s Head Theatre), Crocodile Seeking Refuge (Lyric Hammersmith), Dealing with Claire (Union Theatre), Macbeth (Bristol Old Vic), Trips (Birmingham Rep) and Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons (Soho Theatre). Television credits include Holby City, Quick Cuts, A Touch of Cloth II, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, The Blind Man of Seville, My So Called Life Sentence, Twenty Twelve, My Family, Happy Birthday Shakespeare, Married. Single Other and The Forsythe Saga. Her film credits include Sense of an Ending, Pride, Untitled 13, Now is Good, Another Year, Happy Go Lucky, Gabriel and The Return and Daphne.

Annie Firbank plays Vega/Blenda Vergérus. Her theatre credits include Richard III (Arcola/Madrid), Oresteia, Macbeth (Almeida Theatre), Who Do We Think We Are?, Roundelay (Southwark Playhouse/Visible Ensemble), The Crucible (The Old Vic), To Kill a Mockingbird, Three Sisters, An Ideal Husband, Separate Tables, Habitat (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Golden Dragon, Orpheus, The Belle Vue, Ion, Celestina (ATC), Billy Liar, A Working Woman, Macbeth (West Yorkshire Playhouse), An Argument About Sex (Tramway/Traverse Theatre), Only the Lonely, Death of a Salesman (Birmingham Rep), Becket (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Maps of Desire (Wonderful Beast), The Hollow Crown, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors (RSC), Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek By Jowl), Hedda Gabler (ETT/Donmar Warehouse), The Invisible Woman (Gate Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet (Acter-USA), Mary Stuart (BAC), A Handful of Dust (Shared Experience), High Society (Victoria Palace), The Passion, Julius Caesar (National Theatre), Twelfth Night, Richard III, and Anthony and Cleopatra (Stratford, Ontario). Television includes New Tricks, Midsomer Murders, East Enders, Elizabeth I, Doctors, Kavanagh QC, Heartbeat, Heart of the Country, Growing Rich, Poirot, Mother Love, Hotel du Lac, Flesh and Blood, Lillie, The Nearly Man, Crown Court and Persuasion. Film credits include Anna and the King, Strapless, A Passage to India, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sunday Bloody Sunday, A Severed Head, Accident, The Servant and Carry on Nurse.

Matt Gavan plays Michael Bergman/Aron Retzinsky. His recent theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic). His film credits include Murder on the Orient Express and Goodbye Christopher Robin.

Tim Lewis is in the Ensemble. Theatre includes The Elephantom, War Horse (National Theatre/West End), The Man of Mode (National Theatre) The Edge (UK tour), The Hudsucker Proxy (Nuffield Theatre/Liverpool Playhouse), At The End Of Everything Else, Something Very Far Away (Unicorn Theatre) The Guinea Pig Club, (York Theatre Royal), The Railway Children (Waterloo Station Theatre), and Romeo and Juliet (Birmingham Rep/UK tour). TV credits include Mr Selfridge, Five Daughters, and Coming Up: The King. Film includes A Night in Hatton Garden, A Congregation of Ghosts and In the Dark Half.

Gary Mackay is in the Ensemble. His theatre credits include Farm Boy (Mercury Theatre), ‘Art’ (The Old Vic), Run for Your Wife (Vienna English Theatre), Let The Right One In (NTS/West End/New York), The 39 Steps (UK tour), The Madness of George III (West End/UK tour), The Signal Man (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds), Little Otik (NTS/UK tour), When Five Years Pass, The Highway Crossing (Arcola Theatre), Lark Rise to Candleford (Finborough Theatre) and Julius Caesar (Barbican Theatre). His television credits include Derren Brown’s – Twisted Tales, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Lip Service, Hollyoaks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Half Moon Investigations and Francis. His film credits include E=Motion, He Who Dares 2, The Magic Flute, The Devil’s Chair and Broken.

Gloria Obianyo plays Petra Ekdahl/Pauline/Ismael Retzinsky. Her theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), The Wild Party (St James’s Theatre), The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic), Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) and The Happy Warrior (Bromley Churchill Theatre). Her television and film credits include Good Omens and High Life.

Vivian Oparah plays Maj. Her theatre credits include An Octoroon (Orange Tree Theatre). Her television credits include Class, and she is set to appear in The Rebel and film Teen Spirit.

Michael Pennington plays Isak Jacobi/Death. His theatre credits include The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman he Once Loved (Donmar Warehouse), King Lear (UK tour), She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath), A Winter’s Tale (Garrick Theatre), Richard II (RSC), Dance of Death (Gate Theatre), Judgement Day (The Print Room), Anthony and Cleopatra, The Syndicate, The Master Builder, Collaboration and Taking Sides (Chichester Festival Theatre). Michael’s television credits include Endeavour, Father Brown, Silent Witness, Holby City, The Tudors, Lewis, Waking the Dead and The Bill. His film credits include The Iron Lady and Return of the Jedi.

Hannah James-Scott is in the Ensemble. Her theatre credits include Powerplay (Hampton Court), Translations (Sheffield Crucible/Rose Theatre) and LoveBites (Southwark Playhouse). Her film credits include Crumble and Empty.

Jonathan Slinger plays Gustav Adolf Ekdahl. His theatre credits include Trouble in Mind (Print Room), Plastic (Theatre Royal, Bath), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Urinetown (St. James Theatre/Apollo Shaftesbury), Hamlet, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3, Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, The Homecoming, Macbeth (RSC), The Gods Weep (RSC/Hampstead Theatre), Power, The Duchess of Malfi, and The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre). Recent television credits include Kiri, Nelson in his Own Words, Foyle’s War, To The Ends of the Earth, Vexed and Paradox. His film credits include The Taking, Harmony, A Knight’s Tale, Forgive and Forget and The Last September.

Catherine Walker plays Emilie Ekdahl. Her theatre credits include Hedda Gabler (Abbey Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Uncle Vanya (Gate Theatre), Play (Barbican/Gate Theatre), The House (Abbey Theatre), Terminus (Abbey Theatre/Young Vic), Blackwater Angel (Finborough Theatre), What Happened Bridgie Cleary (Peacock Theatre), John Bull’s Other Island (Tricycle Theatre), Wild Orchids (Chichester Festival Theatre), Stairs to the Roof (Minerva Theatre), Richard II, Henry V, A Month in the Country, Troilus & Cressida (RSC) and Sive (Palace Theatre). Her television credits include Versailles II/III, Acceptable Risk, Rebellion, Critical, Strike Back, The Clinic, Life of Crime, The Silence, Lewis, Bittersweet, Northanger Abbey, Waking the Dead, Animals, Holby City, Passengers On Board and Sweeney Todd. Her film credits include Delinquent Season, Cellar Door, We Ourselves, Dark Song, Patrick’s Day, Debris, Dark Touch, Easier Ways to Make A Living, Leap Year, Cromwell, Losing Her, Perfect Day: The Funeral, Conspiracy of Silence and The Favourite.

Sargon Yelda plays Oscar Ekdahl. His theatre credits include King Lear (The Old Vic), Forget Me Not (Bush Theatre), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Dara, Emperor and Galilean, Mother Courage and her Children, Stovepipe (National Theatre), The Internet is Serious Business (Royal Court), Incognito (Bush Theatre), Moby Dick, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Arcola Theatre), Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (RSC) and When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida Theatre). His television credits include The Strike Series: The Silkwork and Cuckoo’s Calling, Innocent, Zen, Compulsion, Midnight Man and Saddam’s Tribe. His film credits include Spectre, Dead Cat and Close.

The role of Fanny will be played by Zaris Angel Hator, Amy Jayne Leigh, Molly Shenker and Katie Simons, and the role of Alexander will be played by Guillermo Bedward, Kit Connor, Jack Falk and Misha Handley, who will alternate performances.

Adaptation Stephen Beresford Director Max Webster Set Designer Tom Pye Costume Designer Laura Hopkins Composer Alex Baranowski Lighting Designer Mark Henderson Sound Designer Tom Gibbons Casting Jessica Ronane CDG Director of Movement Toby Sedgwick Illusion Ben Hart Baylis Assistant Director Tatty Hennessey

FANNY & ALEXANDER Based on ‘Fanny and Alexander’ written and directed by Ingmar Bergman Adapted by Stephen Beresford Directed by Max Webster Wed 21 Feb–Sat 14 Apr 2018

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[abckidstvyara]

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week was fun for a few reasons. First, it was our own Connie Loizos’s first time leading, and it was our very first regular episode that included us recording remotely. I mention that as Matthew Lynley and I were in different places, meaning that we had a bump or two to smooth out. Your patience is more than appreciated.

Happily, we didn’t have to adventure alone, as Jonathan Abrams of Founders Den was on hand to help us cart through the news.

Up first: A huge round for Rover, bringing even more money into the dog- and pet-focused space. As you’ll surely recall, this is not the first time that a tectonic sum has been disbursed into the pet-care vertical. Hell, Rover’s $155 in new capital, while impressive, still can’t touch Wag’s epic $300 million infusion that happened earlier in the cycle.

While we were on the subject, another Softbank-backed company made waves: Uber. Yes, our favorite and least favorite topic is back.

This time Uber released yet another grip of statistics relating to its financial performance in the first quarter. The big picture? More gross spend, more net revenue, smaller losses. But how you measure Uber’s pace of financial improvement depends on how you measure its losses and its remaining markets.

This being Equity, however, we couldn’t avoid the IPO topic. So, in order:

A Foxconn subsidiary will soon be making big waves in China with a huge debut;

A Dutch payments unicorn is going public on the back of great results;

GreenSky went out, and did pretty ok, which was a change of pace from recent debuts.

All that and we had a laugh. Thanks for listening in, and we are back next week.

Equity drops every Friday at 6:00 am PT, so subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Downcast and all the casts.