Als Gedenkfilm für den nun auch verstorbenen Sherman-Brother Richard M. schauten wir einmal mehr das eigenwillige 2. Weltkriegs-Nazinvasionsbekämpfung-durch-Hexerei-Spektakel mit Zaubertricks und Unterwasseraufnahmen namens Bedknobs and Broomsticks, für das und insbesonders seine Hauptdarstellerin wir eine gewisse Schwäche haben, obwohl es wirklich nicht besonders sinnvoll ist und man an manchen Stellen (beispielsweise nach "Portobello Road", einer Tanznummer, die gefühte 10 Minuten lang wiederholt, daß man dort alles mögliche kaufen kann) schon fragen kann, wie diese Nummer jetzt die Handlung voranbrachte....
A Comprehensive* Index of Films, Shows and Franchises whence our Noble and Worthy contenders hail.
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The 13th Warrior (1999) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif
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A Knight’s Tale (2001) [Film]
Genre: Comedy, Action, Romance
Starring: Heath Ledger, Shannyn Sossamon, Rufus Sewell, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser, Paul Bettany, James Purefoy
The Accursed Kings (1972-1973) [TV Series]
Genre: Political Drama
Starring: Jean Piat
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patrick Knowles
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955-1959) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Greene, Alan Wheatley
Aladdin (2019) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Will Smith, Marwan Kenzari
Army of Darkness (1992) [Film]
Genre: Action, Comedy, Dark Fantasy, Horror
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) [Film Series]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Joakim Nätterqvist, Stellan Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Milind Soman
Arthur of the Britons (1972-1973) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Oliver Tobias, Michael Gothard, Brian Blessed
Assassin’s Creed (2016) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson
Becket (1964) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole
Beowulf & Grendel (2005) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Gerard Butler, Ingvar Sigurðson, Stellan Skarsgård, Tony Curran, Rory McCann, Sarah Polley
The Black Adder (1982) [Season 1 of Blackadder TV Series]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Robert East
Borgia (2011-2014) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: John Doman, Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes
The Borgias (2011-2013) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Francois Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, David Oakes, Lotte Verbeek, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Julian Bleach
Braveheart (1995) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGooan
Camelot (1967) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Drama
Starring: Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Franco Nero
The Canterbury Tales (1972) [Film]
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Starring: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Josephine Chaplin
Carlos, rey Emperador (2015-2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Álvaro Cervantes, Bianca Suárez
The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010) [Film Franchise]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: William Mosely, Anna Popplewell, Skandar Keynes, Georgie Henley, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Liam Neeson, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Peter Dinklage, Eddie Izzard, Warwick Davis, Ken Stott, Cornell John
The Court Jester (1955) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance
Starring: Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury
Covington Cross (1992) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Nigel Terry, Cheri Lunghi, Jonathan Firth
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Doctor Who: “Battlefield” (1989) [TV Serial]
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Fantasy
Starring: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Jean Marsh, Christopher Bowen, Marcus Gilbert
Doctor Who: “The Robot of Sherwood (2014) [TV Episode]
Genre: Science Fiction, Action
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Louise Coleman, Tom Riley, Ben Miller
Double World (2020) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Henry Lau, Peter Ho
Dracula Untold (2014) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper, Sarah Gadon, Charles Dance
Dragonheart (1996) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Action
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Sean Connery, David Thewlis
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page, Justice Smith, Sophia Lillis, Hugh Grant
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Edward II (1991) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Steven Waddington, Andrew Tiernan, Tilda Swinton, Nigel Terry, Jerome Flynn
Ella Enchanted (2004) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Comedy
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Vivica A. Foxx, Joanna Lumley
Eragon (2006) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Ed Speelers, Jeremy Irons, Garrett Hedlund
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) [Film]
Genre: Romance, Drama
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Dougray Scott
Excalibur (1981) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Action
Starring: Nigel Terry, Cheri Lunghi, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Nicol Williamson, Gabriel Byrne
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First Knight (1995) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Sean Connery
Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Political, Drama, Action
Starring: Sean Bean, Lena Headey, Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke, Maisie Williams, Sophie Turner, Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jerome Flynn, Aiden Gillen, Rory McCann, Ian McElhinney, Iwan Rheon,
The Great Wall (2016) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Starring: Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau
The Green Knight (2021) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Ralph Ineson
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Hamlet (1948) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Normal Wooland, Jean Simmons
Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) [TV Movie]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw, Jo Maxwell-Muller, Donald Sutherland
Henry V (1944) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Political, Action, Romance
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight
Henry V (1989) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Political, Action
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed, Ian Holm
Henry VIII (2003) [TV Serial]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Ray Winstone, Helena Bonham Carter, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, Assumpta Serna, David Suchet, Emilia Fox, Sean Bean
Highlander (1986) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown
The Hollow Crown (2012-2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, David Dawson, Tom Sturridge, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Troughton, Keely Hawes, Judi Dench, Phoebe Fox
House of the Dragon (2022-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Political, Drama, Action
Starring: Matt Smith, Emma D'Arcy, Millie Alcock, Olivia Cooke, Paddy Considine, Rhys Ifans, Steve Toussaint, Wean Mitchell, Graham McTavish, Fabian Frankel
The Hobbit Trilogy (2012-2014) [Film Franchise
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Aiden Turner, Dean O'Gorman, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly L Luke Evans, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis
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I Am Dragon {On — Drakón} (2015) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Maria Poezzhaeva, Matvey Lykov
If I Were King (1938) [Film]
Genre: Adventure
Starring: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
Into the Woods (2014) [Film]
Genre: Musical, Fantasy
Starring: Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp
Ivanhoe (1982) [TV Movie]
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Olivia Hussey, Nam Neill, Lysette Anthony, Julian Glover, John Rhys Davies, Stuart Wilson
Ivanhoe (1997) [Mini Series]
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Steven Waddington, Victoria Smurfit, Ciaran Hinds, Susan Lynch, James Cosmo, Christopher Lee
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JourneyQuest (2010) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Comedy
Starring: Christian Doyle, Emilie Rommel Shimkus, Jesse Lee Keeter
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Kaamelott (2004-2009) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Starring: Alexandre Astier, Thomas Cousseau, Alexis Hénon, Anne Girouard, Christian Bujeau
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law, Eric Bana, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Freddie Fox, Millie Brady
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Grażyna Staniszewska, Urszula Modrzyńska, Mieczysław Kalenik, Stanisław Jasiukiewicz
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Labyrinth (1986) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy
Starring: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly
Lancelot du Lac (1974) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Patrick Bernhard
The Last Duel (2021) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver
The Last Kingdom (2015-2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political, Drama
Starring: Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson, Millie Brady, Ian Hart Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius, Ewan Mitchell
Legend (1985) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry
The Legend of the Seeker (2008-2010) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, Tabrett Bethell
The Lion in Winter (1968) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Athony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry, Timothy Dalton
The Little Hours (2017) [Film]
Genre: Dark Comedy
Starring: Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) [Film Franchise]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
Starring: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys Davies, Sean Bean, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Bernard Hill, Karl Urban, Miranda Otto, Brad Dourif, Ian Holm, Andy Serkis, Craig Parker
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Marco Polo (2014) [TV Series]
Genre: Adventure, Political
Starring: Lorenzo Richelmy, Benedict Wong, Joan Chen, Rick Yune, Remy Hii, Mahesh Jadu, Claudia Kim
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [Film]
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Vincent Price, Jane Asher, Hazel Court, John Westbrook
Marketa Lazarová (1967) [Film]
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Magda Vášáryová, Josef Kemr, František Velecký
Medici (2016-2019) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Richard Madden, Annabel Scholey, Danial Sharman, Bradley James, Sarah Parish, Matteo Martari, Sean Bean, Jack Roth
Merlin (1998) [Miniseries]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, Helena Bonham Carter, Martin Short, Jason Done, Rutger Hauer
BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Adventure
Starring: Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Anthony Head, Eoin Macken, Tom Hopper, Santiago Cabrera, Rupert Young, Adetomiwa Edun
Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020) [TV Series]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Karan Soni, Geraldine Viswanathan, Steve Buscemi
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) [Film]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michel Palin,
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Nirvana in Fire {Lángyá Bǎng} (2015) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Starring: Hu Ge, Liu Tao, Wang Kai
The Northman (2022) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Gustav Lindh, Ethan Hawke, Björk. Willem Dafoe
Northmen: A Viking Saga (2014) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Tom Hopper, Charlie Murphey, Ed Skrein
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Outlaw King (2018) [Film]
Genre: Action, Drama
Starring: Chris Pine, Florence Pugh, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Stephen Dillane, Tony Curran
The Physician {Der Medicus} (2013)
Genre: Drama
Starring: Tom Payne, Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez, Emma Rigby
Pilgramige (2017) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: John Bernthal, Tom Holland, Richard Armitage
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) [Film]
Genre:
Starring: Van Johnson, Claude Rains
The Pillars of the Earth (2010) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Rufus Sewell, Ian McShane, Donald Sutherland, Hayley Atwell, Eddie Redmayne, David Oakes
The Prince and the Pauper (1937) [Film]
Genre: Adventure
Starring: Errol Flynn, Claude Rains
BBC’s Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) [TV Serial]
Genre: Fantasy
Starring: Samuel West, Richard Dempsie, Sophie Cook, Jonathan R. Scott, Sophie Wilcox, Jean-Marc Perret, Warwick Davis
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina
The Princess Bride (1987) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Adventure
Starring: Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Andre the Giant, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Peter Falk
Rashomon (1950) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Mifune Toshiro, Mori Masayuki, Kyo Machiko, Shimura Takashi, Chiaki Minoru
Ressurection: Ertğrul {Diriliş: Ertuğrul} (2014-2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political, Drama
Starring: Engin Altan Düzyatan, Kaan Taşaner, Esra Bilgiç, Cengiz Coşkun
The Rings of Power (2022-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama
Starring: Morfydd Clarke, Robert Aramayo, Lloyd Owen, Maxim Baldry, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Nazanin Boniadi
Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020-2024) [TV Series]
Genre: Docu-drama
Starring: Cem Yiğit Üzümoğlu, Daniel Nuță, Tuba Büyüküstün
Robin and Marian (1976) [Film]
Genre: Action, Romance, Drama
Starring: Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Nicol Williamson, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris
Robin Hood (1922) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery, Sam de Grasse
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) [Film]
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Eric Allan Kramer, Dave Chapelle, Matthew Porretta, Isaac Hayes, Patrick Stewart, Dom Deluise
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Kevin Costner, Alan Rickman, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Wincott
BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Jonas Armstrong, Lucy Griffiths, Richard Armitage, Sam Troughton, Joe Armstrong, Harry Lloyd, Anjali Jay, Gordon Kennedy, Keith Allen
Robin Hood (2010) [Film]
Genre: Action
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchette, Matthew McFayden, Oscar Isaac
Robin of Sherwood (1984) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Michael Praed, Jason Connery, Mark Ryan, Judi Trott, Robert Addie, Ray Winstone,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1990) [Film]
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Iain Glen, Richard Dreyfuss
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The Seventh Seal {Det sjunde inseglet}(1957)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Shannara Chronicles (2016) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Austin Butler, Poppy Drayton, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett
The Shamer's Daughter {Skammerens Datter} (2015) [Film]
Genre: Drama
Starring: Jakob Oftebro, Rebecca Emlile Sattrup
The Story of Minglan (2018) [TV Series]
Genre: Drama, Romance
Starring: Zhang Liying, Feng Shaofeng, Zhu Yilong, Cao Cuifen,
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch
The Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Sarah Branch
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Thierry la Fronde (1963-1966) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Jean Claude Drouot, Celine Leger
Tristan and Isolde (2006) [Film]
Genre: Romance, Drama, Action
Starring: James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell
Vikings (2013) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Kathryn Winnick, George Blagden, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Linus Roache, Alexander Ludwig, Alex Høgh Andersen, Jordan Patrick Smith
Vikings: Valhalla (2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Action, Adventure, Political
Starring: Sam Corlett, Frida Gustavsson, Leo Suter, Bradley James
The White Queen (2013) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama, Romance, Political
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Max Irons, David Oakes, Aneurin Barnard, Amanda Hale, James Frain, Faye Marsay, Elinor Tomlinson, Janet McTeer
The Wheel of Time (2022) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Starring: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, Marcus Rutherford, Donal Finn, Hammed Animashaun, Sophie Okonedo,
When the Raven Flies {Hrafninn flýgur} (1984) [Film]
Genre: Action, Adventure
Starring: Jakob Þór Einarsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Helgi Skúlason, Egill Ólafsson, Flosi Ólafsson, Gotti Sigurdarson
Willow (1988) [Film]
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Starring: Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh
The Witcher {Wiedźmin} (2002) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Michał Żebrowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maciej, Kozłowski, Grażyna Wolszczak
The Witcher (2019-) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Starring: Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allan, Joey Batey
Wolf Hall (2015-2024) [TV Series]
Genre: Political, Drama
Starring: Mark Rylance, Damien Lewis, Claire Foy, Charity Wakefield, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Mark Gatiss, Jonathan Pryce, Mathieu Amalric, Anton Lesser
Word of Honor {Shānhé lìng} (2021) [TV Series]
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
Starring: Zhang Zhehan, Gong Jun
World Without End (2012) [Miniseries]
Genre: Drama, Political
Starring: Charlotte Riley, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Rupert Evans, Tom Weston-Jones, Tom Cullen, Tatiana Maslany, Blake Ritson, Miranda Richardson, Indira Varma
Although she was born in London, and retained a classic English poise all her life, Angela Lansbury, who has died aged 96, was a Hollywood and Broadway star for more than seven decades, and one who was completely unclassifiable. On her film debut, she played Ingrid Bergman’s cockney maid in George Cukor’s Gaslight (1944) and was promptly nominated for an Oscar, though she was never to win one. She graduated to play Laurence Harvey’s evil, possibly incestuous, mother – although she was only three years older than Harvey – in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and then a dotty amateur witch in Disney’s follow-up to Mary Poppins, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).
This versatility, allied to her natural grace, vitality and chastely appealing features – her eyes were full, blue and unblinking, her face almost perfectly round, her mouth a cupid’s bow from the studio era – propelled her to stage stardom in Jerry Herman’s Mame (1966) and, in London at the Piccadilly theatre in 1973, as the show-stopping Mama Rose in Gypsy, by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents.
Lansbury had been initially reluctant to assume Ethel Merman’s mantle in Gypsy but, like Merman, she gave the performance of her life, full of steel and tenderness in equal measure. Her performance was more nuanced and needy than Merman’s; the critic Robert Cushman described “a slow steady build towards magnificence”.
But she became best known worldwide for Murder, She Wrote, an American television series running from 1984 to 1996, with four subsequent TV films. She played the incisive and level-headed Jessica Fletcher, a retired English teacher, mystery writer and amateur sleuth in the coastal town of Cabot Cove, Maine, a sleepy location with a criminal body count as delightfully high and unlikely as in Midsomer Murders.
“It really was a fluke success,” Lansbury said, “and came at a time when that kind of family entertainment seemed needed.” She added that, of all the characters she played, Fletcher was the one most like herself: intuitive and sensitive, a voice of calm and reason in a troubled time. She gradually assumed ownership of the CBS series. Peter Shaw, whom she had married in 1949, was joint director of the production company; her son, Anthony, and stepson, David, were executive producers, her brother Bruce was supervising producer.
Family was always of paramount importance to Lansbury. She came from strong, muscular stock: her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a lumber merchant and one-time member of the Communist party and mayor of Poplar (his father was George Lansbury, a reforming leader of the Labour party); her mother, Moyna MacGill, was an Irish actor who took Angela to the Old Vic theatre in London from an early age. One of her cousins was Oliver Postgate, the British animator best known for Bagpuss.
She was educated at South Hampstead high school for girls and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her father died in 1934, and her mother merged her family – Angela and her younger twin brothers, Edgar and Bruce – with that of a former British Army colonel in India, Lecki Forbes, under one roof in Hampstead.
It was not a happy arrangement.
At the outbreak of war, Moyna decamped with her children to New York, and Angela continued her training for two more years at the Feagin school. While her mother toured Canada in a variety show for the troops, Angela did cabaret turns in Montreal. When Moyna’s agent sent her to Hollywood for an audition, she decided to move the children out there with her.
Nothing much happened at first, so mother and daughter took jobs as sales clerks at Bullocks Wilshire, the art deco department store in Los Angeles, while continuing to audition. Angela was still only 17 when she landed the role in Gaslight, and this set a pattern of playing older than her age. A notable exception was The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), in which she played Sibyl Vane, the chirpy music-hall singer, a role that brought her second Oscar nomination; through her co-star, Hurd Hatfield, she met her future husband, Shaw. She had been married previously, for just nine months, to the actor Richard Cromwell, who was almost twice her age.
By this point a Hollywood fixture, Lansbury played Elizabeth Taylor’s older sister in National Velvet (1944), sang Jerome Kern’s How’d You Like to Spoon With Me? in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), fooled with Danny Kaye in The Court Jester (1955), peaked in glory in The Manchurian Candidate, with her third and final Oscar nomination, and joined another great cast list in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), which David Lean took over as director from George Stevens.
Lansbury took American citizenship in 1951, and made her Broadway debut opposite Bert Lahr in Feydeau’s Hotel Paradiso in 1957, following with Helen in Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey in 1960 and, most significantly, Cora Hooper Hoover, the corrupt mayor in Sondheim and Laurents’s 1964 flop Anyone Can Whistle. The show, which has since become a concert favourite, closed in a week, but Lansbury came out of it with flying colours, commended by critics for her agility and engaging personality; she was even likened to a young Bette Davis.
This led to her Mame acclaim, and her first Tony award. Lansbury played Auntie Mame, a free-spirited woman who picks herself off the floor of the stock market crash to sing Bosom Buddies (Lansbury duetted with Bea Arthur) and who ultimately recoups her fortunes by marrying a southern aristocrat. She won a second Tony in Herman’s next show, Dear World (1969), a musical based on Jean Giraudoux’s The Madwoman of Chaillot, in which she appeared to be dressed in “a wedding cake made of cobwebs”, according to the critic Walter Kerr.
A belated London debut followed in 1972, when she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych in Edward Albee’s All Over, playing the mistress of a dying man, locked in battle with Peggy Ashcroft as his wife. She took Gypsy back to Broadway in 1974 for a few months, winning her third Tony, then joined the National theatre at the Old Vic in 1975 to play a fairly youthful, glamorous Gertrude to Albert Finney’s thickset, plainspoken and powerful Hamlet, directed by Peter Hall; the production was part of the opening season in the National’s new home on the South Bank in 1976.
Back on Broadway, she hit another great milestone in Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd (1979), playing the gleefully cannibalistic, pie-making Nellie Lovett (and winning a fourth Tony) opposite Len Cariou’s demon barber in a dark and scintillating production by Hal Prince that played on Broadway for a year before touring the US for another 11 months.
Before Murder, She Wrote, a series of starry film roles included John Guillermin’s Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow and Maggie Smith; Guy Hamilton’s The Mirror Crack’d (1980), in which she did some sleuthing stretches by playing Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, with Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis and, in his penultimate movie, Rock Hudson; Wilford Leach’s rocked-up The Pirates of Penzance (1983), opposite Kevin Kline as the Pirate King; and Neil Jordan’s wonderfully weird The Company of Wolves (1984), in which she played yet another eccentric old granny figure.
She did voices for two animated movies – Beauty and the Beast (1991, for Disney) and Anastasia (1997, for 20th Century Fox) – but was not in a feature movie again until she played Great Aunt Adelaide in Kirk Jones’s Nanny McPhee (2005), starring and written by Emma Thompson. Subsequently, she was with Jim Carrey in Mr Popper’s Penguins (2011).
For many years, Lansbury kept a home in County Cork, Ireland, where she and Shaw would spend two months each year while maintaining their base in Brentwood, Los Angeles. She rented an apartment in New York in 2007 to return to Broadway in Terrence McNally’s Deuce, a specially crafted two-hander for her and Marian Seldes about former tennis partners reliving past glories while watching a match at Flushing Meadow, and switching their heads from side to side during the rallies.
The play was not a huge hit, but Lansbury was electrifying and was greatly moved by the affection with which audiences greeted her. She had not been on Broadway since a possibly ill-advised 1983 revival of Mame.
Regarded by now as a national treasure, in 2009 she won her fifth Tony as Madame Arcati in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, wearing a bright red wig and “with a superfluity of bad jewellery, the gait of a gazelle and a repertory of poses that bring to mind Egyptian hieroglyphs”, wrote Ben Brantley of the New York Times.
At the end of the same year in New York, she appeared for six months as Madame Armfeldt in Trevor Nunn’s Menier Chocolate Factory revival of Sondheim and Wheeler’s A Little Night Music, winning plaudits for her nostalgic litany of fading qualities in Liaisons: “Where is style? Where is skill? Where is forethought? Where’s discretion of the heart? Where’s passion in the art? Where’s craft?”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences compensated for her lack of an Oscar with an award for “some of cinema’s most memorable characters” in 2013, and the following year she was made a dame, and took Madame Arcati to the Gielgud theatre in London. She was Aunt March in the BBC’s adaptation of Little Women (2017), and in 2018 she both appeared as a balloon-seller in Mary Poppins Returns, and joined up with another member of that cast, Dick Van Dyke, as guardian angels in the Christmas tale Buttons.
Shaw predeceased her in 2003, and she is survived by Anthony, David, her daughter, Deirdre, three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and her brother Edgar.
🔔 Angela Brigid Lansbury, actor, born 16 October 1925; died 11 October 2022
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This is gonna be all over the place because I’m writing it on the fly, but here we go.
I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that Kevin Conroy is THE most iconic Batman in history. We’ve had a lot over the years (Adam West, Michael Keaton, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Robert Pattinson) and many are still remembered to this day. But most of them? They do the part for a few years, then they move on. Kevin Conroy? He did the role for at least 30 years. We all know him for the DCAU shows, but he did scattered shows, games, films, etc for so many years. Many of us grew up hearing him. To a whole generation, he was vengeance, the night, he was Batman. He set the bar for what we expect in a Batman actor. Sure he could do the dark and brooding, but he also added so much emotion and nuanced. He helped create a three-dimensional character who can be both a dark avenger and a true hero. He was never too corny, but never too bleak and dark either. He and the writing staff of the DCAU created, imo, the ideal Batman. Even his Bruce Wayne was able to be distinct.
If I had to pick, his best performance was in Mask of the Phantasm. He had SO much going on. He had to play Batman. He had to play young Bruce just starting out. There were so many emotions in that movie. The scene where a young Bruce goes to his parents, begging to be free of his vow and saying that he never counted on being happy? That is one of the most powerful scenes in Batman history in any medium. It’s gut-wrenching, especially if you’ve seen the film and know what happens after that. A perfect acted scene, though pretty much every performance was top-notch.
To hear that Conroy has passed… it hurts. I swear I sat in shock for like half an hour. I grew up hearing Conroy. Ever since I was a baby. For all 29 years of my life. Sadly I never got to meet him, but from what I’ve seen and heard, he was a kind man who put his heart and soul into his job. As I said, he was Batman for an entire generation. Hopefully his large body of work will continue to inspire future generations. In a year of multiple celebrity deaths and deaths of iconic voices (Gilbert Gottfried, Angela Lansbury, Pat Carroll, Nichelle Nichols), this one… it hurts. It just hurts, there’s no other way to put it. At only 66 too, far too soon. It’s okay to be sad. It’s okay to grieve and even cry. Kevin Conroy will very much be missed, but he will very much live on.
Rest in Peace Kevin Conroy. Thank you for your decades of work. Thank you for bringing Batman to life. Thank you for being such an inspiration to voice actors, the LGBTQ+ community, and so many others. This post will never be enough to express my gratitude and love for your work, but thank you. Thank you.
Le miroir se brisa (The Mirror Crack'd) (1980) de Guy Hamilton avec Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Wendy Morgan et Margaret Courtenay
L'Homme de Rio (1964) de Philippe de Broca avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Milton Ribeiro, Simone Renant, Adolfo Celi, Ubiracy De Oliveira, Roger Dumas et Daniel Ceccaldi
Opération Dragon (Enter the Dragon) (1973) de Robert Clouse avec Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri, Shih Kien, Bob Wall, Angela Mao et Betty Chung
Le Grand Bain (2018) de Gilles Lellouche avec Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Philippe Katerine, Félix Moati, Alban Ivanov, Balasingham Thamilchelvan, Virginie Efira et Leïla Bekhti
Bernadette (2023) de Léa Domenach avec Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz, Sara Giraudeau, Laurent Stocker, François Vincentelli, Lionel Abelanski, Artus, Scali Delpeyrat et Barbara Schulz
Gaz de France (2015) de Benoît Forgeard avec Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Katerine, Alka Balbir, Antoine Gouy, Philippe Laudenbach, Darius, Jean-Luc Vincent et Élizabeth Mazev
Mariage à l'italienne (Matrimonio all'italiana) (1964) de Vittorio De Sica avec Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Enzo Aita, Gianni Ridolfi et Generoso Cortini
Adieu poulet (1975) de Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Tornade, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich et Claude Brosset
Des hommes d'honneur (A Few Good Men) (1992) de Rob Reiner avec Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall et J. T. Walsh
La Vie de château (1966) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Pierre Brasseur, Mary Marquet, Henri Garcin, Carlos Thompson et Marc Dudicourt
Tout ce que le ciel permet (All That Heaven Allows) (1955) de Douglas Sirk avec Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds et Charles Drake
L'Attentat (1972) de Yves Boisset avec Jean-Louis Trintignant, Michel Piccoli, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volonté, Michel Bouquet, Bruno Cremer, Daniel Ivernel, Philippe Noiret, François Périer et Roy Scheider
Chaplin (1992) de Richard Attenborough avec Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Paul Rhys, John Thaw, Milla Jovovich, Moira Kelly, Anthony Hopkins, Dan Aykroyd et Marisa Tomei
L’Évadé d’Alcatraz (Escape from Alcatraz) (1979) de Don Siegel avec Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Fred Ward, Jack Thibeau, Paul Benjamin et Larry Hankin
Les Sorcières d'Eastwick (The Witches of Eastwick) (1987) de George Miller avec Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright et Richard Jenkins
Bird (1988) de Clint Eastwood avec Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire et James Handy
Wolf (1994) de Mike Nichols avec Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer et Eileen Atkins
Séries
Brokenwood Saison 8
Du berceau au tombeau - Sortie de scène - Du rififi au paradis - L’homme qui valait 6 dollars - L’or ne fait pas le bonheur
Affaires sensibles
Massacre du Bloody Sunday : la vérité 38 ans après - Bobby Sands, destin tragique d’un héros de l'indépendance Irlandaise - 1979, ils ont assassiné l’oncle de la Reine Elizabeth II - Les Malouines : bataille navale dans l’Atlantique Sud - La chute de la Dame de fer - « La Dame de fer, le Roi Arthur et la grève des Mineurs » - Dr Goldman et Mister Sachs - Elizabeth Holmes, l’arnaqueuse de la Silicon Valley - 13 mai 1981 : le jour où on a voulu tuer le pape Jean-Paul II - Tuer de Gaulle, l'attentat du Petit-Clamart - Bugaled Breizh : un naufrage en eaux troubles - Le monstre du Loch Ness, un animal merveilleusement insaisissable
Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 13, 16
Meurtres sur mesure - L'épée de Guillaume - Du sang sur les éperons - Les Fantômes de March Magna - La Musique en héritage - Mort par K.O. - La Bataille des urnes - Régime fatal - Les meurtres de Copenhague
Coffre à Catch
#135 : Christian est de retour !!! - #136 - Christian veut le titre de Jack Swagger - #137 : DANS LE MAIN EVENT: Christian nouveau champion ECW ? - #138 : Kane contre le Boogeyman + Santino à la ECW ! - #139 : Le jour où Triple H débarque chez Randy Orton !
Happy Days Saison 3, 4
Un locataire encombrant - La Bécane de Fonzie - Fonzie le téméraire : première partie - Fonzie le téméraire : deuxième partie - Une de trouvée et dix de perdues - Œil pour œil, poing pour poing - Une famille contestataire - Les Quarante-cinq ans d'Howard - Fonzie fait la loi - Cours de drague - Les Vacances de Pâques - La Soirée hawaïenne - Quatorze ans trois quarts - Chagrin d'amour - Un tango pour Fonzie - Représentant ou dresseur de fauves - Baby sitting - Fonzie Superstar - Qui sera le pigeon ? - Le Concours de beauté - Spike fait des bêtises - Fonzie porte des lunettes - Le Mariage d'Arnold - Fonzie est amoureux : première partie - Fonzie est amoureux : deuxième partie - Fonzie est amoureux : troisème partie - Fonzie chez le psychiatre - Pas de panique, restons cool ! - Une dette envers Potsie - Richie s'émancipe - Marathon de danse - Richie grand reporter - Fonzie et le shérif - Nouvelle conquête - Le Rendez-vous de Fonzie - Nuit d'enfer dans une remise - La Soirée des records - La gloire est éphémère
Castle Saison 3
Un homme en colère - Tranches de mort - Eau trouble - Le Tueur de L.A. - Mort d'une miss / La Mort d’une miss - La Traque
Top Gear Saison 21
Nostalgie des années 80 - Road Trip à Tchernobyl - Abu Dhabi, Du Sable dans le Carbu ! - Mercedes, folle du désert - Destination Thaïlande - Un pont sur la rivière Kwaï
On ne peut plus rien dire - Le background - Ego to absolvo - Le grand départ - Super pro Brexit - Riders - You shall not pass - Comme le disait Jean Monnet - Fish and ships - Europe, the musical
Les Petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie 70's Saison 3
En un claquement de doigt
Kaamelott Livre III
Le Jour d’Alexandre - La Cassette II - Poltergeist - Les Paris II - Au Bonheur des Dames - Les Tourelles - Cuisine et Dépendances - Arthur sensei - Le Solitaire - Les Festivités - La Menace fantôme - La Coopération - L’Empressée
Spectacles
Les inoubliables : les plus grandes BO du cinéma italien (2023) par le Radici orchestra, Céline Laborie, Simona Boni et Rocco Femia
Livres
OSS 117 : Délire en Iran de Jean Bruce
Lucky Luke : Tome 26 : Nitroglycérine de Morris et Lo Hartog van Banda
Le Chat : Tome 4 : Le Quatrième Chat de Philippe Geluck
Détective Conan : Tome 14 de Gôshô Aoyama
Détective Conan : Tome 15 de Gôshô Aoyama
Spirou et Fantasio : Tome 7 : Le Dictateur et le champignon de Franquin
Astérix : Tome 40 : L'Iris Blanc de Fabcaro et Didier Conrad
Détective Conan : Tome 16 de Gôshô Aoyama
Jack Palmer : Tome 12 : L'enquête corse de René Pétillon
1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1924 – The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
1927 – The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1932 – George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944 – World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
1944 – World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1944 – World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
1949 – The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
1968 – A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.
1971 – The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
1973 – Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.
1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.
1983 – The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
1990 – The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1997 – After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
1999 – A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.
2001 – Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.
2009 – The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.
2010 – Mount Merapi in Indonesia begins a month-long series of violent eruptions that kill 353 people and cause the evacuation of another 350,000 people.
2010 – A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.
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Friends (stylized F·R·I·E·N·D·S), also known in Latin America as Amigos, is an American television series created and produced by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. It was broadcast for the first time on September 22, 1994 on NBC and lasted until May 6, 2004.
The series is about the lives of a group of friends —Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller, Ross Geller, Rachel Green, and Joey Tribbiani— who reside in Manhattan, New York. Both good and bad moments happen, but with a comical critique of the most transcendental events of today.
Immediately after the success in the USA, the program began its diffusion all over the world with similar results. In March 2019, it was considered by The Hollywood Reporter as the best series in history, also being voted in 2018, according to Ranked, as the best sitcom of all time.
The series has ten seasons of about 24 episodes each —except for the third and sixth seasons, which had 25 episodes, and the last one, which had 17 episodes—3. Once finished, Joey, a sequel about the life of the eponymous character in Los Angeles, was shot. It also had a brief crossover with the series Mad About You, when Jamie and Lisa entered Central Perk and mistook Phoebe Buffay for her twin sister Ursula.
The cast members returned for a reunion special that premiered on HBO Max on May 27, 2021.
Influences
Although the producers thought of Friends as 'just a TV show', numerous psychologists investigated the cultural impact during the series. Aniston's hairstyle was nicknamed 'The Rachel' and was copied around the world. Joey's catchphrase, 'How are you?', became a popular part of Western English slang, often used as a pickup line or to greet friends.
The series also influenced the English language, according to a study from the University of Toronto, which found that characters used the highlighted word 'so' to modify adjectives more frequently than any other intensifier. Although the preference had already made its way into the American vernacular, the use of the series may have hastened the change. Chandler's habit of ending a sentence unfinished for sarcasm also influenced viewers' speech. After the 9/11 attacks, ratings increased 17% over the previous season.
Friends is parodied in the twelfth season of Murder, She Wrote, in the episode 'Murder Between Friends', where amateur detective Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) investigates the murder of a writer for Buds, a fictional television series about the life daily life of a group of friends from the city.
The episode was devised after CBS moved Murder, She Wrote from its regular Sunday night time slot to a Thursday night time slot directly opposite Friends on NBC; Angela Lansbury, quoted by Bruce Lansbury, his brother, and Murder, the supervising producer of Murder, She Wrote, had 'a bit of an attitude' about the move to Thursday, but saw the plot as 'a friendly setup, no evil spirits.' . Jerry Ludwig, the episode's writer, researched the 'taste' of Buds by watching episodes of Friends.
The Central Perk coffee shop, one of the main settings in the series, has inspired various imitations around the world. In 2006, Iranian businessman Mojtaba Asadian started a Central Perk franchise, registering the name in 32 countries.
The decoration of the cafés is inspired by Friends, with replica sofas, counters, neon signs and bricks. The cafes also contain paintings of various characters from the series and televisions playing episodes of Friends. James Michael Tyler, who plays Central Perk manager Gunther on the series, attended the grand opening of the Dubai café where he worked as a waiter.
Central Perk was reconstructed as part of a museum exhibit at Warner Bros. Studios, and was displayed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in October 2008. Jennifer Aniston revisited the set for the first time since the series finale in 2004. From September 24 to October 7, 2009, a replica of Central Perk was placed in Broadwick Street, Soho, London.
The cafeteria sold coffee to customers and displayed memorabilia and accessories from friends, such as the Geller Cup from the season three episode 'The One With the Football.' In Beijing, a company owner Du Xin opened a cafe named Central Perk in March 2010.
In India, there are six Friends themed cafes, located in Chandigarh (named Central Perk), Kolkata (named FRIENDS Café) featuring Lots of icons from the original TV series, for example, Chandler and Joey's ugly dog statue, the orange couch, the purple door to Monica and Rachel's apartment, and Phoebe's pink bike. The other three cafés are located in Delhi, Gurgaon, Bhubaneswar and Pune.
There are also two Friends-themed cafés in Pakistan, one in Lahore, known as Friends Café, and the other in Peshawar, called Central Perk. Both cafés have an iconic sofa, a guitar and foosball table, quotes from the show on the walls, and even episode recaps on a projector. They also plan to have their own Gunther at the bar.
Friends has also developed an alternative family lifestyle by depicting young people living unconventional domestic lives. It presents the idea that 'all you need is good friends' and can build families by choice. The public can identify with the show through the issues seen in the weekly episodes. It describes a new way of living life and developing relationships not normally seen in conventional society.
According to a pop culture expert at the University at Buffalo, Friends is 'one of those rare shows that marked a change in American culture.' The images of young people and the roles they represent are better defined and represent a lifestyle that focuses on creating and maintaining relationships between friends who manage their own lives and seek help from each other.
The Guardian television and radio blog stated that Friends has impacted the creation of other television shows such as How I Met Your Mother. The similarities between the two consist of both sitcoms taking place in Manhattan, a group of white adults who are funny and have similar character traits.
TV Guide readers voted the cast of friends their best comedy cast of all time, garnering 29% of the vote, beating out Seinfeld, which recorded 18%. A poll conducted by 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair named Friends the third-best sitcom of all time.
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Just days after the passing of Angela Lansbury, Ron Masak passed away.
He took over the role of sheriff on Murder She Wrote after the departure of Tom Bosley. While I perfered Amos, I did like Sherifff Mort Metzger. While he was able to stand on his own two feet a little bit better then Amos, Mort still ended-up needin Jessica’s help in solving the crime.
A fun fact, Ron Masak appered in Murder She Wrote as another character in one episode before coming back as Sheriff Metzger later on.
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I’m beyond shocked. The best Batman actor has sadly passed away.
Kevin Conroy was Batman. He was Bruce Wyane. Every Batman comic I read, that is the voice I hear. He provied Batman’s voice in countless works in series and films and played an older Bruce Wyane in the ‘’Crisis On Infinite Earths’’ Arrowverse special.
Kevin Conroy was a truly wonderful person. He loved his fand and loved interacting with them. He helped so many people and did so without recognition. He helped feed First Resonders in the days after 9/11 and visited sick fans who loved Batman. His costars all loved working with him and it was impossible not comming away from meeting with feeling so much better then you were before meeting him.
There will never be another Kevin Conroy.
Rest In Peace.
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I can still remenber watching ‘Life With Louie’ back on Fox Kids.
Louie Anderson was a true deligth to watch and he could always make you smile.
Rest In Peace Louie.
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Estelle Harris was a delight to watch. She had a great sense of comedic timing and of course there was that voice. That very loud voice.
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Went to see The Batman finally. It’s riveting, the time flew by with style. The main cast is fantastic, although I would have liked a bit more Bruce and Alfred but that’s a personal choice. If you can get to a cinema at the moment, the experience is worth it.
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I haven’t seen this yet today so apparently must do everything myself
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#3
If any Doctor Who fans want to feel worse about the passage of time, Matt Smith is old enough to be Millie Gibson’s father.
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Hey Old Guard fic writers you need a new prompt?
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Ok so getting back into the TVDU and the casting for the Mikaelsons is actually insane. Think about it, they cast people from three different continents, years apart, and sometimes they swap bodies and other actors have to play the part perfectly and they do? And sometimes the original (pun not intended) actors come back again and have to incorporate what happened and they manage it? Honestly it might be the finest achievement of any casting director at the CW.
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Awesome interview with Anne Collins, writer, story editor and main executive story consultant for the Wonder Woman TV series from the middle of Season 2 onwards (1977-1979)
Read the full interview here, courtesy from Marc Tyler Nobleman for his website Noblemania.
Some highlights:
How did you end up writing for Wonder Woman?
Somewhere in the process of writing three scripts for Hawaii Five-O in the mid-70s, the show’s Story Editor, Curtis Kenyon, helped me get an agent, John Schallert. Though I was working at a PR firm and living in Denver at the time, John successfully pitched me to the people at Wonder Woman, who were looking for a woman to join its writing staff. So I packed up my VW Rabbit, sublet my apartment, and drove out to LA, fully expecting to return within a month once they discovered how inexperienced and untalented I was.
But to my surprise, I discovered I could, in fact, hold my own when it came to working with and, frequently, heavily editing the work of the (mostly male) freelance writers to whom the show was giving assignments. The Supervising Producer, Bruce Lansbury, was such a joy to work with and so creative and sooo supportive that I stayed in LA for the next seven years and never looked back.
Did you pitch storylines on your own or as part of a team, or were writers assigned certain premises by producers?
Bruce, the studio and the network had a vision for the show, which in its second season saw it move from WWII into the ‘70s, so there was already an informal list of suggested and approved storylines. At that time TV programs were required to utilize freelance writers. We would contact writers we thought would “get” the show and assign a story area to them, though they were also free to pitch their own ideas if they wanted. I, too, could and did pitch ideas, of course, but as story editor I mostly helped outside writers develop their stories and would rewrite/polish their final drafts if/when necessary.
Any other funny/inspiring/weird anecdotes about your Wonder Woman experience?
There was one Saturday or Sunday early on in my Wonder Woman stint that I absolutely had to get into my office to write/rewrite something (this was eons before laptops, remember). However, to my horror, the key I was given to the WW office suite would not work. Desperate to get to my typewriter, and more than a little pissed at the key, I took the door handle with both hands and shook it in utter frustration. Causing the lock to break and the door to limp open. I went straight to my office and got to work.
Next thing I know, a wide-eyed security guard was peering at me from around the corner of my doorway, hand on his nightstick, ready to use it on whomever had broken into the suite. I apologized for breaking the door but it was an emergency. I just kept working, and he finally went away to get the door fixed. He also filed a report, so that come Monday everyone knew the story and thought it was quite amusing, and appropriate, that a woman employed by Wonder Woman had busted down a door.
At the time, did you reflect on the number of women vs. number of men writing for the show?
No, because at that time, there were very few women writing action-adventure, and there was also nowhere near the pressure to hire women and minorities back then that there is now. True, I was hired by WW largely because everyone, including Lynda, felt the show could only benefit from including “a woman’s POV,” but I’m not sure my gender ever really had a big influence on the scripts we churned out.
Did you interact with Lynda Carter, and if so, what was your impression of her? Did it change over time in any way?
Lynda was a sweetheart. We didn’t hang out, but our interactions were always pleasant and she always came across as genuine. She wasn’t hired because of her acting skills, and she no doubt knew that, which had to’ve made showing up for work every day somewhat terrifying. But by golly she did her best, and I have to say, whenever I happen to catch an episode, I’m struck with how likeable she comes across on screen. Not just because of her considerable physical beauty, but she has a nice, watchable presence. Probably because she is/was basically a sincerely nice person.
What is your favorite episode that you wrote and why?
“Phantom of the Roller Coaster,” probably because it was such a colorful arena (who doesn’t love amusement parks?) and I have an affinity for Raggedy Man-type stories. It started out as a single episode, but the shoot at Magic Mountain went so well that we made a two-parter out of it, though I forget when in the process that decision was made, or exactly how much more shooting was involved.