#johnny's bio mum is dead

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Sing Mother’s Day Headcanons

Ash gets Rosita a Mother’s day gift, as does Johnny. Rosita cried the first time they did this.

Meena spends all day baking with her grandfather to surprise her mom and grandmother with their favourite desserts.

Buster views Mrs. Crawly as a surrogate mom and will spend the day with her to celebrate, typically gardening and talking.

Ryan and his sisters make giant cards for his moms and he will also spend one on one time with each of his moms doing their favourite activities. 

Eddie celebrates Mother’s day with his grandmother instead of his bio mom. They have tea together and Nana will tell him stories from when she was younger.

Johnny and Marcus always make Johnny’s mum’s favourite meal for dinner and watch old home videos as a way to honor her memory.

Rosita and her family typically go to a museum or build something to celebrate Mother’s day together. 

There is a special mother’s day performance during the Majestic run with additional performances by each teen cast member in honor of their moms (yes it is in the fic).

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Scenes from 1930s Strangetown

Aka almost nothing happens except for some chaos, and makeovers!

Pretty much everything is mid it’s 30s makeover so there are some jarring backgrounds but I no longer care cause if I only uploaded shots with everything done it would happen approximately once a millennium.

First off the Curiouses: Pascal has a baby daughter named Andromeda. 

Vidcund Curious, whom to this point I always thought was called Vicund. I like the professor vibe of his makeover.

Vidcund: Hmmn perhaps this young fellow may vibe with Nervous.

Nervous:

Pre makeover Lazlo, why? Why would you do this to your family that hates Loki probably for good reasons. Also why is Lazlo working in science when according to his bio he’s more of a pseudo-science guy? Also Also I know 2000 or whatever year sims 2 was made was a different time but phrenology? erh……………………………………….

Loki does look similar to Vidcund huh

A terrible picture of post makeover Lazlo. I think he would be one of those people who you can tell are really trying to dress cooler than they are. 

Edit: I apologize for my mistake. I now understand that Lazlo is more like effortlessly dorky cool. But I still think the look works.

Lazlo: How awesome is music amirite? Loki: Yeah I guess.

Lazlo: Oh I suddenly find this conversation uninteresting.

....

Abruptly switching to the Singles now, here we see the full glory of unfinished backgrounds.

Chole.

This pretty townie shows up everywhere so I gave him a 30s-esque (emphasis on esque) makeover.

Interesting. This will be filed away for later.

The welcome wagon consists of possibly the two least welcoming people in the neighbourhood: Nervous and my sim Dieter, based on one of my Mum’s old sims 1 sims. I could not find a picture of that sims’s head online so I had to go by memory, I wonder if anyone could recognise which one it is.

Dieter’s arc in the original gameplay kinda went from angsty to just grumpy, (via being murdered by his sister and then remade. I’m telling you she straight up killed him, she started a fight with him and then he disappeared! He was gone from existence, he was more than dead, he was an unperson).

I won’t say he deserved it but it didn’t come out of nowhere.

Lola is upset that she was rejected for a kiss by Erin. Not pictured: that scene.

Then Nervous attacks Erin, which I can see makes sense to him: Loki mistreats him, she is Loki’s sister and is not in control of Nervous so therefore easier to target his anger towards.

Things don’t go well for him though. Erin looks to have the fighting style of completely flailing and winging it but that just makes it more terrifying.

Then this happens and I have no idea why.

New townie looks cool. Too cool even, he should befriend Lazlo.

Dieter and Nervous decide there haven’t been enough fights today. (I would really really love a shoe swap on Dieter’s outfit). 

Meanwhile these two are off being cute.

Lola is cute too.

....

One more fight later and I’m off to somewhere more serene.

The Smiths.

They value calm so much that Jenny hates the sound of her daughter’s piano playing.

Johnny’s awkward bisexual trying to be cool dancing.

Some sweetness and that’s where I’ll end.

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Post Ep Ponderings Weekly Round-Up October 1 - 5

I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much at one week of a soap. I don’t cry that often, period. But holy crap did they ever get me with Chas and Paddy at the beginning of the week. I knew it was going to be bad so honestly I held off on watching any of the episodes until like Thursday. Then I realized that I just HAD to see the wedding on Friday as soon as possible so I raced through it. I really don’t know what to say about this part other than it was beautifully done. The stuff with them imagining showing Grace their spot and watching her grow up was simply heartbreaking. I just hope that this doesn’t tear Chas and Paddy apart as I know that is quite common when a couple lose a child.

I can’t believe how close Joe came to actually letting Conner take out Graham (not that I thought Graham couldn’t handle himself). It really shows how messed up Joe still is. I don’t think he wants to hurt Debbie or Charity or any of the Dingles anymore, and I know that part of what he did with Conner was to save himself and Noah, it was more that he let it go so far before trying to warn Graham at all. Seems to me that Joe can still get quite vicious when hurt by people he cares about.

I have to assume that Kim thinks or does actually have a stake in the Tate fortune. I don’t know her well (or at all really, except for that promo and a brief doc on her linked to me by the most wonderfully Johnny, I know nothing really), but I have to assume she still is involved in the money side. My questions at this point are did she stay or come back into Joe’s life after his father died? Does he consider her his mother? I she his bio mum? I think I saw somewhere that she was a stepmum, but I don’t actually know. Graham has been talking about ‘we’ when it comes to the prenup with Debbie, which I assume is mostly Kim and since she seems to have the power to take away Joe’s money, she must still have a lot of control. I just don’t know if Joe actually knows this or not and whether or not he knows that she’s behind the demand of the prenup. I assume I’ll find some of this out when I finally see the masquerade ball stuff. At any rate, I’m sure it’s going to be fun to find out. 

Ah, the return of Leyla! I honestly thought she was permanently off the show, but honestly I don’t read the spoilers much so I had no evidence either way. Anyway, I thought everyone’s reaction was really good, except that I still don’t much care about David and I really don’t care about Maya. What I did like was Tracy and Leyla having it out before (at least seeming to) connecting again over David being basically an immature shit that is in love with being in love. I hope she’s staying, I’m curious about her fiance and I kind of want to watch David squirm.

Can’t remember if I mentioned this in the Robron Wedding Special post, but I’m all for Vic trying to find Adam if only because it makes sense. It would be too weird if she had found out the truth and didn’t want to find him.

So I’m guessing we’re finally seeing the end of Ross. Or at least the beginning of the end. I’m actually quite sad about this. I really like him and Bex together. They’re both finally starting to get better and are even working towards being really happy and he’s going to end up dead. I know it’s rare in the Robron section of this show to like Bex, but I do and I really like her and Ross together so it’s a real shame. Looks like I might cry because of this soap again all too soon.

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Weekend Top Ten #377

Top Ten Character Reveals in Movies

You only get one chance to make a first impression, unless you’re a movie version of a comic book character, in which case they’ll probably retell your origin story every seven years. But generally speaking, movie characters emerge onto our screens fully-formed and eager to show us their stuff. Sometimes this is a slow-build affair; sometimes a single frame is enough to give us an insight into their character. Often with a confident performance and excellent cinematography, a character can become iconic almost instantaneously, sometimes with little or no dialogue. This week I’m celebrating ten such characters, whose first appearance in the films in question is a marvel to behold. And – hey! – only one of them is actually from Marvel. Ain’t that a surprise?

Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, 2001): as much as I’ve cooled towards Depp in recent years, and as much as the Pirates films lost their way once their superlative first instalment sailed off the screen, no one can deny the majesty of this character introduction. Looking amazingly cool and confident, Jack Sparrow glides across the screen, seemingly standing astride the mast of a great pirate galleon. It is only as the camera pans wider that we see the boat is almost entirely sunken, with just the mast visible. This in itself is a perfect distillation of Sparrow – equal parts pirate rock god, master tactician, and clumsy drunken oaf – but the icing on the cake is that the sunken mast deposits him directly onto the shore at precisely the moment it disappears beneath the waves. Piratical perfection.

Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981): Indy is a character introduced in silhouette and close-up: the image of him, broad, leather-jacketed, fedoraed, walking through the jungle, is the first thing we see after the famous dissolve from the Paramount logo to a real mountain. After that his hands do the talking, examining arrowheads and assembling a map, before he whips out his, er, whip to disarm a treacherous guide. Only then does he finally step into the light and we see just how pretty Harrison Ford is. And it’s even later than that before he finally speaks. But Indy is already an icon: resourceful, robust, a sexy swarthy man’s man, a take-no-shit hero, and clearly incredibly competent and intelligent. And very, very pretty.

Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988): speaking of pretty… the joy of Jessica Rabbit’s introduction is partly in subverting our expectations (or, at least, watching Bob Hoskins’ Eddie Valiant have his expectations subverted). Roger Rabbit is cute but chaotic; Jessica is a bona fide sex bomb. Sultrily singing a bluesy number as she flirtatiously struts around the Ink and Paint Club, she is the antithesis of the family-friendly Roger, a busty pin-up model, all legs and curves and – vitally – the full-throated voice of Kathleen Turner. Quite frankly it’s rather shocking in a Disney movie from the director of Back to the Future.

Darth Vader (David Prowse, Star Wars, 1977): the opening scene of Star Wars is all tension. A small craft is abducted by a larger one; on board, two droids flit about whilst angst-faced soldiers await a boarding party. The subsequent firefight is short and rather brutal, efficiently directed by George Lucas, and leaving the corridor strewn with Rebel dead. And then, unheralded, out of the smoke emerges Darth Vader, beautifully framed, his vast black frame exquisitely contrasting with the white interior of the Tantive IV (and the “fascist white” of the Stormtrooper uniforms, according to Lucas’ own screenplay). He barks orders definitively in James Earl Jones’ baritone rumble, before hoisting a Rebel officer into the air by the scruff of his neck. He instantly oozes not just evil, but strong evil. He’s a Big Bad and no mistaking. Even without the depth and nuance afforded him by subsequent films, we know from frame one that he’s a really, really big deal.

Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman, Leon, 1995): Stansfield is one of 90s cinema’s greatest villains. A whirling dervish of tics and eccentricities, beautifully orchestrated by Oldman. The first thing we see him do is rattle a small tin before removing and consuming some narcotic, which he swallows in almost orgasmic fervour, before mowing down an entire family with a shotgun (mum in the bath, teen girl in the back). But it’s his shark-like entrance through a beaded curtain that sticks with me, all cool malevolence and forward motion.

Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen, Toy Story, 1995): one of the beauties of Toy Story is how it presents its fantastical world – a world of living toys, but one which follows a very strict hierarchical structure – so efficiently. As such, the arrival of an exciting new toy into Andy’s bedroom is an incredibly tense event, portrayed mostly through sound and shadow. The symbolic nature of Woody, Andy’s favourite, being knocked off the bed but still trying to keep his optimism, is neatly done. And then we get the reveal: a slow pan up Buzz’s form, his slick plastic limbs giving way to his stern jaw and proud face. The subsequent scene, in which Buzz’s pomposity and assurance is quietly mocked but ultimately used to puncture Woody’s desperate and fragile self-belief, culminating in the “falling with style” scene, is a masterpiece of economic, witty script-writing, world-building, and character development. It also makes terrific use of nascent computer technology to deliver something that was, in 1995, a visual set-piece the likes of which we’d never seen.

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, 1942): like Indiana Jones (who was, presumably, inspired by him to a certain degree – or at least that typical Bogartian old-fashioned manly-man), Rick is a character introduced in his absence, other characters reacting to him in a way as a note is passed through his club and into his hands. His hands are the first thing we see as he signs off on a note of credit and lifts a cigarette to his lips. We can tell from the surroundings, the money, the reactions of others that this is a man with some degree of power; we can tell from the weariness of Bogart’s performance that it’s man with some degree of past.

The Borg Queen (Alice Krige, Star Trek: First Contact, 1997): the Borg were not meant to have a leader; the Borg were not meant to have individuality. To have the Borg as the villains in a movie felt like an obvious, inspired choice; after all, they were essentially the “big bad” of the Next Generation era. But how to give face to the faceless, how to give character to a legion of identikit drones? Creating the Queen is as elegant a choice as I think you could come up with, and Krige’s performance is all sensual menace, her bio-organic appearance almost giving off an air of Cenobitian S&M. And she speaks before we see her, so we get a little bit of darkly seductive exposition as she touts the Borg’s accomplishments to a captive Commander Data. But it’s her first appearance that sticks in the mind, if only for the technical chutzpah on display: Krige’s head and torso is lowered from the ceiling in one long panning shot, before being attached to her waiting body, all whilst she delivers a speech. Krige’s performance might be what makes the Borg Queen linger in the memory, but Jonathan Frakes’ direction, and the wizardry of First Contact’s FX team, is what made her stand out from frame one.

Quint (Robert Shaw, Jaws, 1975) Quint is introduced through one of the greatest uses of sound effects in movie history. During a tense, argumentative, and loud town meeting to discuss the killer shark of Amity, a horrid screeching noise is heard. Fingernails down a chalkboard. The culprit: Bartholomew Marion Quint (who I’m fairly certain is only ever called “Quint” in the film). From his appearance and accent we know this a salty old seadog, a man of the open ocean. He delivers one of a number of Quint monologues that have gone on to anchor a place for themselves in popular culture; the assured speech of a man who has no time for bluster or politics, a man who gets down to business. “You all know me,” he begins, “You know how I earn my livin’.” He grabs attention with the shrill finger-trick, he holds it with his stern but wry delivery. “For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn fish.” He then disappears for an hour of film time, but we know he’ll be back; the film circles round him like a boat in a whirlpool.

Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, Iron Man, 2008): I’d heard rumours. Sam Jackson was, apparently, going to play Nick Fury, following on from Bryan Hitch using Jackson as the basis for the character in The Ultimates. Art imitating life imitating another form of art; nice symmetry. But there was no confirmation; indeed, at this point, Marvel was treating the possibility of an Avengers crossover movie as a pipe dream, a wish only fulfilled if they’d done their homework and the audience was interested. So I didn’t even bother staying for the end credits. God, I wish I had. Because following on from Iron Man’s spectacular, hilarious final line, its continuity-baiting desire to move beyond simple comic adaptation with these characters, to see the world expand so explosively is really something to behold. Cocksure, arrogant, always-right Tony Stark has just announced to the world that he’s Iron Man; venturing back into his sexy cliffside mansion, his elaborate technology – showcased to winning effect throughout the film – is on the fritz. Lights don’t work, computer-Jarvis is popping and crackling. And then it comes: that distinctive Jackson baritone. And one of the most important lines in any movie, a line that shaped the next decade of cinema history, but a line that – at the time – just felt like a cool, somewhat badass thing for Jackson to spout: “You think you’re the only superhero in the world?” We knew he wasn’t; we knew the Hulk was around, that Captain America was frozen up north somewhere, that Thor was still on Asgard. We didn’t know that the Ancient One was over in New York, that Rocket, Star-Lord and the rest were up in space, that Carol Danvers was out there somewhere, that a small boy from Queens would one day be bitten by a spider. We didn’t know that Thanos was searching for Infinity Stones, that SHIELD had been infiltrated by HYDRA for years, that Hank Pym had had his company stolen out from under him. Everything got smaller and bigger all at the same time, all because a really, really cool dude in an eye patch and a long coat stepped from the shadows. Welcome to the Avengers Initiative, indeed.

There were others, as usual. Ones that I honestly thought would be included. I almost traded Fury for Thanos. There’s Harry Lime, of course. Trinity. Heath Ledger’s Joker (really, he fell by the wayside because however good the opening scene of The Dark Knight is, the best Joker scene is when he does his pencil trick, which is technically his second introduction). I even thought of doing Batman’s initial appearance from his 1989 film. But, y’know, ya gotta draw the line somewhere. These ten seem as good a place as any.

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Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was conceived on 6 January 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His dad claimed a ranch, where Rowan grew up with his two more seasoned siblings, Rupert and Rodney. He went to Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees in the electrical building. Amid that time, he met screenwriter Richard Curtis, with whom he composed and performed parody revues. 

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Rowan Sebastian Atkinson is a well known English on-screen character, screenwriter, and comic. He is incredibly acclaimed for his character 'Mr. Bean'. He went to Durham Choristers School, St. Honey bees School and after that Newcastle University for his training. He went to The Queen's College, Oxford for his lords. He used to compose from his school days. He began with a parody arrangement 'The Atkinson People' on BBC Radio 3. He used to play characters of anecdotal extraordinary men having ironical meetings. The show was composed by him with Richard Curtis and Griff Rhys Jones delivered it. 

He was seen in 'Canned Laughter' for London Weekend Television. At that point, he did 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' broadcast on BBC. His companion John Lloyd delivered this show and Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith, and Pamela Stephenson were highlighted with him on the show. It got a monstrous achievement which helped him to be a piece of The Black Adder, Blackadder II, and Blackadder the Third. The Blackadder arrangement ended up mainstream and more arrangement came later. 

His next progress accompanied the hapless Mr. Bean on Thames Television in 1990. The character ended up well known and the crowd cherished it. Continuations of 'Mr. Bean' proceeded on TV till 1995. His partner from ' Not the Nine O'Clock New', Mel Smith coordinated a component film 'Bean ' in 1997. Later 'Mr. Bean's Holiday' was discharged in 2007. He played a character of monitor Raymond Fowler in TV sitcom 'The Thin Blue Line'. 

Aside from TV, he worked in motion pictures also. His motion picture profession began with the James Bond film 'Never Say Never Again'. He was included in short movies, for example, Dead on Time, Fundamental Frolics, and The Appointments of Dennis Jennings and so on. The Tall Guy, The Witches, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Maybe Baby, Scooby-Doo, Keeping Mum, Johnny English Reborn are not many of his motion pictures. He had filled in as a voice craftsman for 'The Lion King' for the character of Zazu. He sang ' I Just Can't Wait To Be King ' for a similar motion picture. He had been viewed as a visitor on numerous TV appears and worked in various Television ads. He is attached to the theater too. Rowan Atkinson in Revue, The Nerd, The Sneeze, Oliver! what's more, Quartermaine's Terms are his performance center activities. He was found in an appearance job in 'Huan Le Xi Ju Ren' and in Television short 'Red Nose Day Actually' in 2017. Johnny English 3 is his up and coming task in 2018. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});

Atkinson later showed up in dramatic creations like The Nerd (1984), The New Revue (1986) and The Sneeze (1988). He at that point landed parts on such TV programs as Not the Nine O'Clock News (1979-82), Blackadder (1983-89) and The Thin Blue Line (1995-96). The achievement of Blackadder impelled the production of the TV specials Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Blackadder: The Cavalier Years—the two of which disclosed in 1988. 

In 1990, Atkinson featured as his initially created character Mr. Bean on the TV arrangement of a similar name. The fruitful satire arrangement was adjusted for the film in 1997. Atkinson repeated his popular Mr. Bean character in an improv show at the opening service of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. 

Atkinson's other film credits incorporate Bean: the Ultimate Disaster Movie (1997), Johnny English (2003) and Keeping Mum (2005). 

Personal Life⤵

In 1990, Atkinson wedded spouse Sunetra, a cosmetics craftsman. They had two youngsters before separating in late 2015. In 2017, he turned into a dad for the third time, this time with on-screen character sweetheart Louise Ford. 

In 2001, Atkinson allegedly acted the hero when the pilot of his private plane goes out mid-flight, taking care of the controls until the pilot resuscitated. Afterward, the on-screen character was accidentally included in a progression of online lies that endeavored to spread PC infections and hack charge card data by means of phony news about his demise. 

Trade Mark ⤵ 

Wide scope of entertaining articulations 

His characters: Mr. Bean and Blackadder 

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He is the dad of a child, Benjamin Alexander Sebastian Atkinson (brought into the world 1993) and a little girl, Lily Grace Atkinson (otherwise known as Lily Atkinson) (brought into the world 1995), with his better half Sunetra Sastry. 

He rides go-karts round his tennis courts and, as indicated by Stephen Fry (his best man), "hasn't got an ounce of showbiz in him". 

He has an HGV permit (Heavy Goods Vehicle - the old lawful term in the United Kingdom for products vehicles gauging more than 3.5 tons net vehicle weight). 

He possesses different quick vehicles (Aston Martin Vantages, and so forth.). 

He composes articles for CAR (a British vehicle magazine). 

His instruction: Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK (electrical building); Oxford University, Oxford, UK (electrical designing). 

He races (and furthermore crashes) his Aston Martins in the Aston Martins Owners club arrangement. 

He went to Cathedral Chorister School, Durham. So did British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was two years above him. 

He was granted the Laurence Olivier Theater Award for Best Comedy Performance in 1982 for the 1981 season. 

He once smashed his McLaren F1, a supercar esteemed at more than $1,000,000, into the back of a stationary Mini Metro, esteemed at around $600. The harm was not serious. 

He was one of the visitors at Prince Charles' and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding. 

He openly restricted the British Labor government's arrangements in 2004 to acquaint new enactment on induction with religious contempt, contending that it would undermine free discourse and think (notwithstanding referring to the conceivable advancement of mind-perusing innovation), and that such measures would make political parody - which he thinks about original in a majority rules system - unworkable. 

Alongside Tony Robinson and Tim McInnerny, he is one of just three entertainers to show up in every one of the four "Blackadder" arrangement: Blackadder (1982), Blackadder II (1986), Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989). 

He needed to haul out of his job in a West End creation of Oliver in April 2009 because of hernia medical procedure. 

He claims an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage, which he utilized in the film Johnny English (2003). 

He is the main on-screen character to show up in each scene of Blackadder, Tony Robinson did not show up in the pilot. 

On August 4, 2011, he was admitted to Peterborough City Hospital in the wake of smashing his McLaren Formula1 sports vehicle. He endured light damage on his shoulder. 

He has languished with a stammer over numerous years, henceforth dislikes giving meetings. 

He went to Catherine Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William's wedding. 

He was granted the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's Birthday Honors List for his administrations to Drama and to philanthropy. 

His grandparents were altogether conceived in Durham. His fatherly grandparents were Edward Atkinson, of Spennymoor, and Edith Gertrude Browell, of Crookhall. His maternal grandparents were Frank Bainbridge, of Hartlepool, and Ella Schofield, of Grosmont. 

He experiences difficulty articulating words that start with the letter B and pursued by a vowel. He needs to delay marginally to say them. 

He loathed Blackadder (1982). So did Michael Grade, who progressed toward becoming Controller of BBC One out of 1984 and about dropped further arrangement. 

He is a major vehicle fan, a portion of the autos he has possessed include McLaren F1 GTR, Audi A8.

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People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

[commenting in 2004 on Britain's proposed Racial and Religious Hatred Bill] To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common than 30-year-olds. As we grow up, we acquire this sensibility that divides us.

I remember looking up Johnny English (2003) in a film guide and it said 'intermittently hilarious' - quite a good description of five good jokes and a lot of longueurs. I find it frustrating that, apart from Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), I have yet to be involved in a film of which I am totally proud.

The casual ease which some people move from finding something offensive to wishing to declare it criminal - and are then able to find factions within government to aid their ambitions - is truly depressing.

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[preparing to perform onstage the title role in Simon Gray's 'Quartermaine's Terms'] It's well known that tragedy and comedy are close bedfellows. It's rare, though, that you see them placed in such intimacy. Like most tragic figures, 'Quartermaine' is unaware of his own tragedy. What I love about him is his optimism. You don't tend to feel much sympathy for pessimistic people, but those who retain their optimism, despite the sadness of their lives, are interesting, engaging and sympathetic.

If I'm denied words, Mr. Bean's physicality and attitude to life are what I seem to acquire. In 1989, we put him on TV and no doubt the motivation was a belief that we had a character that could live in other markets and other countries. I was always envious of the fact that so many British musical artists in the late eighties, Phil Collins or David Bowie or Duran Duran or someone like that, assumed an international marketplace for their product, whereas British comedians don't. And I thought we have a tool here that will enable us to do that.

I've always required a formal setting, a stage or a film or TV studio in which to perform. And above all, I need to become somebody else. I'm certainly not a stand-up comedian in any sense.

I definitely do not have the wit of Blackadder. I definitely require scriptwriters to provide that. And I don't think I'm as dark or cynical as Blackadder is in his view of the world. Probably I'm somewhere in between but closer to Mr. Bean. You know, the nice bits of Mr. Bean, because Mr. Bean has a very vindictive and selfish and nasty side to him. I hope I don't have too much of that.

The more success you have, the more pressure you feel to make things to a good standard, for movies you make to make money and that sort of thing. One misses those days when you were 19 or 23 and you just did what made you laugh. What you and your friends thought was funny. And you did it, and if they laughed, great, and if they didn't, it didn't matter. As you get older you always think about everything so much, you're so concerned that what you do should be good and should be successful that it's the success you're pursuing rather than the fun of doing it, which is what's so great when you're younger... What's difficult for me on a movie is not playing Mr. Bean. The problem is the scripts. The problem is the shaping of the shots. The problem is editing. The problem is all those things.

All jokes about religion cause offense, so it's pointless apologizing for them. You should really only apologize for a bad joke.

As a lifelong beneficiary of the freedom to make jokes about religion, I do think that Boris Johnson's joke about wearers of the burka resembling letterboxes is a pretty good one.

Shocking / Interesting Facts & Secrets About Mr. Bean⤵

He was Tony Blair's classmate at Durham Choristers School.

He was a class clown during young days.

He owns fast cars such as Honda, Aston Martin, Audi, and MC Laren F1.

He is an Electrical Engineer and also finished his MSc in Electrical Engineering.

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Born Scared

By Kevin Brooks

Publication Date: September 11, 2018 Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller, Mental Health, Crime

Synopsis:

Elliot is terrified of almost everything. From the moment he was born, his life has been governed by acute fear. The only thing that keeps his terrors in check are the pills that he takes every day. It's Christmas Eve, there's a snowstorm and Elliot's medication is almost gone. His mum nips out to collect his prescription. She'll only be 10 minutes - but when she doesn't come back, Elliot must face his fears and try to find her. She should only be 400 meters away. It might as well be 400 miles...

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Kevin Brooks was born in 1959 and grew up in Exeter, Devon, England. He studied Psychology and Philosophy at Birmingham, Aston University in 1980 and Cultural Studies in London in 1983. Kevin Brooks has been in a variety of jobs including: musician, gasoline station attendant, crematorium handyman, civil service clerk, hot dog vendor at the London Zoo, post office clerk, and railway ticket office clerk.

Kevin Brooks's writing career started with the publication of Martyn Pig in 2002 through The Chicken House which won the Branford Boase Award 2003 and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. He also wrote Lucas (2002) which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and Booktrust Teenage Prize in 2003 also winning the North East Book Award in 2004.

In 2004 he published Kissing the Rain and Bloodline and I See You, Baby and Candy in 2005. In 2006 he published 3 books including: Johnny Delgado Series - Like Father, Like Son and Private Detective as well as The Road of the Dead; a standalone novel. In February 2008 he published the standalone book Black Rabbit Summer.

As a child, Kevin Brooks enjoyed reading detective novels. He writes most plots of the various books he has written around crime fiction. He likes mystery and suspense and enjoys putting both of those components into each and every story he writes in some shape or form.

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Review & Wrap-Up:

Born Scared is a different kind of story. It is told with a multi-person point-of-view, and while multi-person narrations are not uncommon, it’s the mixing of the first person narration—the main character, Elliot—and the unknown third person narration that I found interesting.

Elliot’s mental illness—panophobia, or the fear of everything—gives the story a reverse Don Quixote vibe. Sir Quixote saw everything as something it was not: the windmills as giants, the dilapidated inn as a castle, and—of course—himself as a noble knight. Elliot also saw everything as something it was not, however Elliot also saw everything as a threat: the monkem with a monstrous black dog and a shotgun was actually a nice lady with a cane trying to help him, who’s dog got away from her, and the devilish creatures with yellow demonic eyes are actually sheep.

But once Elliot comes across the Hillbillies and real fight-or-flight kicks in the story takes on a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde feel. One second Elliot is the scared little kid that he’s always been, and the next he’s this psychotic, nothing-can-get-in-my-way badass that you’d never guess he had in him. Which is cool. You no longer feel sad for Elliot and his way of life, you’re glad he’s no longer frightened with everything little sight and sound, and finally able to stand up and fend for himself, but deep down you still know something isn’t right.

A big part I didn’t care for and didn’t really understand was the other side of the narrative: the two guys in the Santa suits. I understand their need for the end of the story, but I don’t understand why they are in the house in the first place. Things just didn’t align for the reasoning to be there. And when things don’t align or more sense, it can cause issues throughout the story.

All around—like I previously stated—Born Scared is a different kind of story. Parts were a little hard to follow due to the psychotic breaks Elliot has throughout the story, while other parts just didn’t make sense at all. I liked the multi-person point-of-view, it gave the story an interesting perspective, and I loved the homage shown to two great classic works of literature. But honestly, Born Scared is not one that I would read again, and it’s not one that I can really recommend.

 From one bookaholic to another, I hope I’ve helped you find your next fix. —Dani

Dani's Score out of 5: 📚📚🔖

(A bookmark:🔖, is a half a stack of books. i.e: 📚📚🔖 = a score of 2.5) 

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Holliday Grainger Biography

Holliday Clark Grainger born on 27 March 1988, additionally credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage performing artist. Some of her conspicuous parts incorporate Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime arrangement The Borgias and Estella in Mike Newell’s adjustment of Great Expectations. Grainger was born in Didsbury, Manchester. One of her granddads is Italian. Her first experience of acting was at age six when she was scouted for a BBC TV arrangement. She showed up in numerous TV appears and free movies as a tyke performing artist. Grainger went to Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006, and in 2007 started study for a degree in English writing at the University of Leeds. In any case, she in the long run decided on the Open University where she picked up a top of the line respects degree. Grainger’s first acting part was at six years of age in the BBC satire dramatization arrangement All Quiet on the Preston Front. Parts followed in Casualty, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe. Grainger played Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is, Stacey Appleyard in Waterloo Road and Sophia in Merlin. In 2011 she showed up in the TV arrangement The Borgias, playing Lucrezia Borgia with Jeremy Irons in the part of Pope Alexander VI. The arrangement, made by Oscar-winning Neil Jordan and shot in Hungary, kept running for three seasons. Grainger likewise performed in front of an audience and in film. After her part as Emily in The Scouting Book for Boys she played one of the Rivers sisters inverse Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in Cary Fukunaga’s 2011 retelling of Jane Eyre, and had minor parts in Bel Ami close by Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman, and in the 2012 film Anna Karenina as Baroness Shilton.

Holliday Grainger Personal Info.

Full Name: Holliday Clark Grainger

Nick Name: Hollie

Family: Gianetta Grainger – (Mother)

Education: From 1999 to 2006, Holliday went to Parrs Wood High School in East Didsbury, Manchester. In the wake of moving on from this school, she enlisted herself in University of Leeds in 2007 to seek after a degree in English Literature. However, because of occupied film plan, she finished her studies from an Open University and got a First Class Honors Degree. Holliday was additionally an understudy in Madeley School of Dancing.

Date of Birth: 27 March, 1988

Birthplace: Didsbury, Manchester, England

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Religion: Roman Catholic

Ethnicity: White

Nationality: British

Profession: Actress

Measurements: 34-24-35 in or 87-6189 cm

Bra Size: 34B

Height: 5′ 1″ (155 cm)

Weight: 115 lbs (52 kg)

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Light Brown

Dress Size: 04

Shoe Size: 07

Friends: Lily James

Boyfriend/Dating History:

Luke Bailey (2007-2011) – Holliday was in relationships with the actor Luke Bailey. They started dating in 2007 and broke up in 2011.

François Arnaud (2011-2012) – Holliday dated with Canadian actor, François Arnaud from 2011 t0 2012.

Harry Treadaway (2015-Present) – Holldiay started dating with Harry Treadaway since the January 2015.

Known For: Holliday Grainger is best known for her character of Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series “The Borgias” which she played from 2011 to 2013.

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Active Year: 1994 (present)

Favorite Books: Great Expectations, Jane Eyer

Favorite Places: Los Angeles, London

Favorite Colors: Red, Blue

Official Twitter: Twitter Account

Official Facebook: FB Account

Holliday Grainger Filmography:

Filmography

Television

Year Title 1994 All Quiet on the Preston Front 1996 Roger and the Rottentrolls 1997 The Missing Postman 2000 Comin’ Atcha! 2000 Casualty 2001 Dalziel and Pascoe 2001 Doctors 2002 Sparkhouse 2003 The Illustrated Mum 2003–05 Where the Heart Is 2005 Magnificent 7 2005 No Angels 2005 Doctors 2006 Johnny and the Bomb 2006 New Street Law 2007 Waterloo Road 2007 The Bad Mother’s Handbook 2008 Dis/Connected 2003 The Royal 2008 M.I. High 2008 The Royal Today 2008 Fairy Tales 2008 Waking the Dead 2008 Merlin 2009 Demons 2009 Robin Hood 2009 Blue Murder 2010 Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia 2010 Five Daughters 2010 Stanley Park 2010 Any Human Heart 2011–13 The Borgias 2013 Bonnie & Clyde 2015 Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Film

Year Title 2009 Awaydays 2009 The Scouting Book for Boys 2010 Colette 2011 Jane Eyre 2012 Rachael 2012 Bel Ami 2012 Anna Karenina 2012 Great Expectations 2013 Goblin? 2014 The Riot Club 2015 Cinderella 2016 Tulip Fever 2016 The Finest Hours

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