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Mindy Cohn in The Facts of Life “Flash Flood” (1980).
Photographed by Paul Drinkwater.
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Wood Engraving Wednesday
PAUL NASH
British painter, war artist, designer, illustrator, and wood engraver Paul Nash (1889-1946) was influential in the development of modern English art and was a prominent member of the Society of Wood Engravers that was co-founded by his younger brother John Nash in 1920.
In the 1920s, he began to produce wood-engraved illustrations for works by noted English authors, including this collection of character studies, Cotswold Characters by English poet and playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937), published in New Haven, Connecticut, by Yale University Press in 1921. These were Nash's first set of wood engravings to be published as book illustrations.
Besides publishing his first wood-engraved book illustrations, 1921 was a very significant year in Nash's short life. In that year, Nash's close friend, the artist and designer Claud Lovat Fraser, died; Nash displayed his textile designs at an exhibition at Heal's in London; and he began exhibiting a series of health issues related to war trauma that we would call PTSD today, which occasioned his move to Dymchurch in southeast England for his health, where he would produce an important series of seawall and seascape paintings.
Our copy of Cotswold Characters is another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.
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#Wood Engraving Wednesday#wood engravings#wood engravers#Paul Nash#Cotswold Characters#John Drinkwater#Yale University Press#Dennis Bayuzick
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Those baby bears were so cute i can’t even 😭 idk when this was filmed but i hope they are happy and thriving. I don’t like how the guy just climbs on the back of the turtle at the end tho. Even though i know nothing about big turtles 😅
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Season 12
THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO -- Episode 2682 -- Pictured: (l-r) Actor David Duchovny and zoologist Jarod Miller during an interview with host Jay Leno on April 5, 2004 -- (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images
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Happy Birthday to Billie Joe Armstrong He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter for Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Network, The Longshot and The Coverups. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time.
Billie Joe turned 51 today.
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In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Robert Caulfield: Elliott Gould Col. Charles Brubaker: James Brolin Kay Brubaker: Brenda Vaccaro Lt. Col. Peter Willis: Sam Waterston Cmdr. John Walker: O.J. Simpson Dr. James Kelloway: Hal Holbrook Judy Drinkwater: Karen Black Albain: Telly Savalas Hollis Peaker: David Huddleston Walter Loughlin: David Doyle Sharon Willis: Lee Bryant Betty Walker: Denise Nicholas Elliot Whitter: Robert Walden Control Room Man: James B. Sikking Capsule Communicator: Alan Fudge Vice President Price: James Karen F.B.I. Man Number 1: Jon Cedar General Enders: Hank Stohl President: Norman Bartold Dr. Bergen: Darrell Zwerling Dr. Burroughs: Milton Selzer Horace Gruning: Lou Frizzell Mrs. Peaker: Nancy Malone Jerry: Paul Picerni Alva Leacock: Barbara Bosson Reporter (uncredited): Bob Harks Film Crew: Casting: Jane Feinberg Casting: Mike Fenton Set Decoration: Rick Simpson Production Design: Albert Brenner Original Music Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Director of Photography: Bill Butler Costume Design: Patricia Norris Sound mixer: Jerry Jost Stunt Coordinator: Bill Hickman Makeup Artist: Michael Westmore Location Manager: Ron Underwood Assistant Director: Irby Smith Art Direction: David M. Haber Producer: Paul Lazarus III Director: Peter Hyams Special Effects: Henry Millar Associate Producer: Michael I. Rachmil Editor: James Mitchell Still Photographer: Bruce McBroom Script Supervisor: Marshall J. Wolins Hairstylist: Emma M. diVittorio Boom Operator: Joseph Kite Special Effects: Bruce Mattox Special Effects: Robert Spurlock Camera Operator: James R. Connell Title Designer: Dan Perri Movie Reviews: John Chard: It’s a pleasure alright, and I don’t feel guilty about it at all!. A NASA space mission up to Mars fails to get off the ground due to major technical problems. Fearing funding could be taken away and wishing to avoid embarrassment, the powers that be decide to do a fake landing in a studio. With the astronauts forced to pretend that they are actually up on Mars, and fighting with their own personal belief systems, the government executives in charge fear that the fake flight could come to light. Upon learning that the outside world actually thinks they crashed upon reentering the earths atmosphere, the astronauts run for their lives knowing that the government can’t afford for the men to stay alive. Capricorn One is an excellent conspiracy picture that sadly seems to have been largely forgotten. Even today we are still hearing mooted stories of the landing on the moon actually being fake, so here director and writer Peter Hyams takes it and crafts a thrillingly taut piece of work. At the films heart is Elliot Gould’s (his great 70s work under valued) intrepid journalist, Robert Caulfield, after being nudged in the ribs by one of his friends at NASA, is himself under threat of death from shadowy government types who will think of nothing to offing him along with the astronauts. The film is split into two very significant halves, the first half is the set up, the conversations before and after the fake landing are clever and crucially attention grabbing, and of course we get to know our characters with the right amount of time. The film then shifts for the second half into a quality thriller chase movie, our main protagonists pursued by the government assassins courtesy of two gun toting helicopters. Jerry Goldsmith’s score brilliantly becoming part of the chase sequences, making the helicopters seem like death stalking machines operated by no man alone. We even get Telly Savalas joi...
#astronaut#beguilement#Conspiracy#crop duster#desert#Escape#helicopter#investigative reporter#nasa#planet mars#spacecraft#texas#Top Rated Movies
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Geen klimaatcrisis
Paul Schenderling horen spreken over klimaat en postgroei. Van de 9 indicatoren voor ecologische ellende staan er zes op rood, zoals het vermogen om gif te breken.
Ik dacht dat ik in een interview met Benedicte Ficq (ergens een accent vergeten te tikken? Ja, twee zelfs) had gelezen dat we geen klimaatcrisis hebben, maar een crisis van overheden en fossiele bedrijven die gewoon doorgaan ("psychopaten in maatpak"), maar dat vind ik daar niet terug (wel die psychopaten).
Ik zou het wel met haar eens geweest zijn als ze het gezegd had. Er zijn een hoop mensen (en ongeveer alle studenten) die een carrière bij de Shell nog steeds super vinden. En hun ouders ook.
En we hebben binnenkort ook te weinig water, of eigenlijk nu al: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2024/het-leek-altijd-zo-vanzelfsprekend-onbeperkt-drinkwater-uit-de-kraan~v1051079/
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Dolly Parton Has No Plans to Retire Hopes She Just Drops Dead in the Middle of a Song Onstage”
Dolly Parton. PHOTO: PAUL DRINKWATER/NBCU PHOTO BANK/NBCUNIVERSAL VIA GETTY The country music icon said during a recent interview on the Greatest Hits Radio with Ken Bruce that she has no plans for retirement in her future, “I’ll just hopefully drop dead in the middle of a song onstage someday — hopefully one I’ve written That’s how I hope to go.” “I would never retire. I’ll just hopefully drop…
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“BOB COOK AS OTHER SEE HIM,” Orangeville Sun. January 11, 1912. ---- Bob Cook according to city papers out does all the notorious outlaws combined. The following is taken from the Toronto Globe of Monday; and to those who know the facts, read something like a thriller:
"Bob Cook who armed with two revolvers ran amok in Orangeville two years ago; defying the police and citizens who attempted to arrest him is again in the toils. He was captured early yesterday morning in a house a short distance West of Lambton. Louis Drinkwater of 93 Boone Avenue is also under arrest. Cook and Drinkwater are jointly charged with the theft of three sheep from a farmer living near Orangeville. Cook, who recently liberated from the penitentiary for wounding a policeman at Orangeville, is considered the most widely known jail breaker in the United States and Canada.
On Saturday evening High Constable Broddy of Brampton requested the detective department to arrest the notorious Bob Cook and Drinkwater who were thought to be hiding in a house on Boone Avenue. Recalling his former episode when Cook held the town of Orangeville at bay for three days and was finally captured in the bush, Sgt. Mackie detailed Detectives Tipton, Archibald, Mitchell, Cronin, Armstrong and Montgomery on the case.
Detectives Tipton and Archibald entered the house on Boone Avenue while the other sleuths surrounded the place. There they found Drinkwater who accompanied them to the house in the country where Cook has secured lodgings a few days ago. Detective Tipton and Archibald entered the house and a woman directed them to the parlour where they found Cook perusing an evening newspaper. "Bob, I'm sorry to disturb you, but you are wanted in Orangeville for sheep stealing and you will have to come along with us to Toronto." said Detective Tipton. "If that is the case, you'll have to wait until I get my overcoat" replied Cook, who showed no signs of resisting arrest.
Cook and Drinkwater were driven to the city and locked up in the Ossington Avenue police station overnight. They were taken to the jail yesterday. Before being led away to the cells, Cook wanted to know who would take him back to Orangeville. "I suppose it will be the Chief Constable of Peel County,” answered Detective Henry Armstrong.
"You might think so," replied Cook smilingly, "Let him try it. If the Toronto detectives will oblige me by allowing a County Constable to take me back, they will be doing me a great favour. If the Chief Constable or any other County Constable attempts to land me safely in jail at Orangeville, once I get outside of Toronto he will be deserving of a Carnegie Medal. Nothing will please me more than to be placed in charge of a Constable from a rural district. They are easy prey for me. It is no trouble for me to escape from county jails and it is still easier to get away from a Constable. All I want is the opportunity and I will demonstrate my qualifications in this respect. If a city detective is elected to take me back I will be disappointed."
Cook’s record for jail breaking is unequalled. He has filed his way out of lockups at Orangeville and surrounding districts on several occasions. At Grand Valley he escaped from the jail and partly wrecked the place before leaving town. Later he escaped from prison in St. Paul, Minnesota and fled to Western Canada where he again duplicated the trick in a town near Calgary.
#orangeville#toronto#escape artist#jailbreaker#wanted fugitive#sheep stealer#stealing sheep#resisting arrest#ex-convict#wounding with intent#outlaw#bob cook#crime and punishment in canada#history of crime and punishment in canada
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Peter O'Toole The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 22, 2007 Episode 3316 photo by Paul Drinkwater
#peter o'toole#jay leno#the tonight show with jay leno#tv show#interview#2007#show#paul drinkwater#green#venus
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Paul Temple - BBC One / ZDF - November 23, 1969 - September 1, 1971
Crime Drama (52 episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Francis Matthews as Paul Temple
Ros Drinkwater as Steve Temple
June Ellis as Kate Balfour
George Sewell as Sammy Carson
Blake Butler as Eric
Derek Martin as Paddy
#Paul Temple#TV#BBC One#ZDF#1960's#Crime Drama#Francis Matthews#Ros Drinkwater#June Ellis#George Sewell
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Brooke Shields in Suddenly Susan, 1996.
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Alfonso Ribeiro, Will Smith & James Avery photographed by Paul Drinkwater during the filming of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air S4 Episode 14 in Burbank, CA - December 02, 1993
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#strappedarchives#Will Smith#The Fresh Prince of Bel Air#Fresh Prince#Uncle Phil#Alfonso Ribeiro#Air Jordan#1990s#90s
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My grandfather gave me a copy of my great-grandmother's reading list, which she wrote up when she was 19. She also left little reviews for most of these, but for now I'm just sharing the book titles.
Microbe hunters - Paul de Kruf
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
The Opinions of Anatole France
The Dark Journey - Julein Green
The Highest up - Mary Roberts Rinehart
It's A Racket! - Hostetter, Besley
The Royal Road to Romance - Richard Halliburton
New Worlds to Conquer - Richard Halliburton
Rasputin: The Holy Devil - Rene Fulop-Miller
Tar: A Midwest Childhood - Sherwood Anderson
Thunder on the Left - Christopher Morley
The Chicken-Wagon Family - Barry Benefield
The Arrow - Christopher Morley
One of Ours - Willa Cather
The American Language - H.L. Mencken
Henry I - William Shakespeare
Playing With Love - Arthur Schnitzler
The Professor's House - Willa Cather
That Man Heine - Lewis Browne
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - Anatole France
The Glorious Adventure - Richard Halliburton
Bashan and I - Thomas Mann, translated by Herman G Scheffauer
Comedies of Words and Other Plays - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Pierre Loving
Before Dawn - Gerhart Hauptmann
Note from Mama L: The play is graphic, clear cut and beautiful. Every person is perfectly drawn - I had never heard of dipsomania. Why didn't they call it tipsomania?
Europe After 8:15 - Willard Huntington Wright, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, Thomas H. Benton
Happiness in Marriage - Margaret Sanger
Marriage in the Modern Manner, Ira S Wile and Mary Day Winn
Note from Mama L: [These] are both junk books, very poorly written with nothing to say. The most interesting thing in the first one is Truman's notations on the margin. (Go off, Mama L!)
The Road to the Open - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Horace Samuel.
Gold - Jakob Wassermann, translated by Louise Collier Wilcox
Anthology of World Poetry - Mark Van Woren
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism - George Bernard Shaw
Essays on Russian Novels - William Lyon Phelps
Poems of Home
The Joy of Living - Hermann Sudermann
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
Anthology Of World Poetry - Mark Van Doren
Marriage and Morals - Bertrand Russell
The Three-Cornered Hat - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
The Outcast - Luigi Pirandello
Story of Philosophy - Will Durant
Open All Night - Paul Morand
The Growth of a Soul - August Strindburg
The American Public Mind - Peter Odegard
Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini - L. Kemechey
Treatise on the Gods - HL Mencken
The Rise of American Civilization - Chas & Mary Beard
The Beaver Coat - Gerhart Hauptmann
The Conflagration - Gerhart Hauptmann
The Weavers - Gerhart Hauptmann
The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio
The Philosophical Way of Life - T.U. Smith
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway
Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women - K.B. Davis
Peacock Pie - Walter De La Mare
Reading With A Purpose: Russian Literature - Avraham Yarmolinsky
Trivia - Logan Pearsall Smith
In Defense of Women - H.L. Mencken
Imperial Palace - Arnold Bennett
Apple Sauce - Ina Michael
Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum
Lola: Or, the Thought and Speech of Animals - Henny Kindermann
Great American Short Stories
Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert
A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert
Collected Parodies - Louis Untermeyer
What I Believe - Bertrand Russel
Hypatia: Or, Woman and Knowledge - Dora Russell
A Variety of Things - Max Beerbohm
The Marks of an Educated Man - E.A. Wiggam
The Dramatic Works of Moliere
Michael Kramer - Gerhart Hauptmann
The Water Gypsies - A.P. Herbert
A Tale of Brittany - Pierre Loti
Father - Elizabeth Von Armen
Wanderers - Knut Hamson
Children and Fools - Thomas Mann
Twentieth Century Poetry - Drinkwater, Canby, and Benet
Modern Greek Stories
Madam Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti
The Department Store: A Novel To Today - Margarete Bohme
The Confessions of A Fool - August Strindberg
Tales from the Fjeld - P.C. Asbjornsen, translated by Sir George Dasent
The Twilight of the Souls - Louis Couperus
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
A Handy Guide for Beggars - Vachel Lindsay
Weird Tales - Eta Hoffmann
The Philosopher's Stone - J. Anker Laresen
#She's definitely where I get my reading from#My grandparents were... not good at their job#so my dad got a lot of his nurturing from her#she would give him books as gifts every occasion#Mama L's Booklist
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Happy Birthday to #JohnLarroquette, known for his starring roles in the NBC military drama series #BaaBaaBlackSheep (1976–1978), the #NBC #Sitcom #NightCourt (1984–1992; for which he received four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series), the NBC sitcom #TheJohnLarroquetteShow (1993–1996), the David E. Kelley legal drama series #ThePractice (1997-2002), the #ABC legal comedy-drama series #BostonLegal (2004–2008), and the TNT series #TheLibrarians (2014–2018).
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“Certain actors have a reputation for being difficult. I don’t want to be one of those people”. - Alex Kingston
INTERVIEW: The Sunday Post
It comes as no surprise to Alex Kingston that her daughter has decided to follow in her footsteps, despite her best efforts to temper her acting ambitions.
The actress fell pregnant with Salome, now 19, when she was playing surgeon Elizabeth Corday on the long-running US medical drama ER in the ’90s.
Alex’s pregnancy was written into the script and Salome, whose father is German writer Florian Haertel, was just weeks old when she joined the cast as Elizabeth and Dr Mark Greene’s baby girl.
Now, two decades on, mother and daughter are working together again, this time in a Doctor Who spin-off audio drama, The Diary Of River Song. Now in its eighth series, it focuses on the Time Lord’s brilliant wife, the poetically named River Song, whom Alex has played on the TV show since 2008. Salome, meanwhile, plays the part of her synthetic humanoid companion, Rachel.
Alex said: “My daughter was in my belly on ER then played the role of our baby girl Ella Greene. She’s secretly always had the desire to act, but I was always adamant that she finished her education first.
“Salome plays a character who River Song meets up with occasionally and they have adventures together. Working with my daughter has been terrific fun. I am super-impressed with her. She is incredibly professional.”
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Alex with daughter Salome
For the past year Alex and Salome have been isolating together at her London home, alongside Alex’s third husband, television producer Jonathan Stamp. The pair married in an intimate Italian ceremony in 2015, and Salome was a bridesmaid.
They are joined by Alex’s German-born mother, Margarethe, who sadly suffers from dementia. It sounds like a potentially stressful set-up but Alex has cherished the unexpected extra family time lockdown gifted her.
Alex, who celebrated her 57th birthday a few days after the first lockdown was announced last March, said: “My daughter had arrived from New York and decided she wanted to live with us. Then my mother, who has dementia, suffered two strokes early on in lockdown and she moved in as well. So I was her carer.
“It was an amazingly special time. And I cherish it. Particularly with my mother, because I wouldn’t have had that opportunity otherwise.”
Like the rest of us, Alex has relied heavily on streaming services to keep her entertained during the long days spent at home. She even broke her self-imposed rule of not watching her own stuff on screen.
She said: “We did all the usual things, massive clear-outs, and of course binge-watched TV. I loved Schitt’s Creek, Call My Agent, Bridgerton and Luther. I can’t bear to watch myself on the television. However, I started watching ER, because it was streaming on Channel 4. I look at myself and it’s like I am watching someone else. It’s such a good show, and it’s really held up!”
She added: “As much as everyone is saying this is the year that they want to forget, I actually feel it’s a year one can never forget. It certainly wasn’t an easy time. However, I have much stronger memories of the year, and of the patterns of the year than I have ever had pre-pandemic, when there was always so much rushing around.”
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Alex in 1994 with fellow ER cast members (l-r) Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Goran Visnjic, Noah Wyle
Alex began her career at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she met her first husband, Skyfall actor Ralph Fiennes. They were together for 10 years before marrying in 1993. Two years later, Alex was left bereft when Fiennes left her after an alleged affair with a co-star. The London-born actress has barely stopped working since she first appeared on UK screens in 1980, as Jill Harcourt on the iconic children’s series Grange Hill. She continued to find success in UK dramas including Upstairs Downstairs, and The Fortunes And Misfortunes of Moll Flanders.
She first appeared in the fourth series of Doctor Who alongside David Tennant in 2008. Alex thought it was a one-off but has reprised the role in 15 episodes between 2008 and 2015.
It’s thanks to her Doctor Who appearances and, more recently, Sky’s hit supernatural drama, A Discovery Of Witches, that she has become known to a new generation of fans.
During her long and successful career, Alex has never been afraid to call out sexism in the industry. When she was dropped from ER aged 41, after seven seasons, she accused producers of ageism. saying “Apparently, I, according to the producers and the writers, am part of the old fogies who are no longer interesting.”
Then, when she auditioned for the role of Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives which eventually went to Felicity Huffman, she says she was turned away for being too curvy.
Although vocal about the challenges that face women, she admits she has seen positive changes in attitudes towards female talent in recent years.
She says: “When I was working on ER, I thought that I wasn’t allowed to get pregnant, I didn’t want to offend the producers as that is not what they had intended. I thought that I would have to ask permission. It was Anthony Edwards, who played my on-screen husband, who said ‘Don’t be ridiculous, don’t wait for them to allow you, you are not that important. If you want to have a child, go and have a child, and they will find a way to work round you.’ So I took his advice.
“I grew up with this notion that one had to be polite and always ask for permission. Whereas this generation don’t. They just get up and do it. The lovely and talented Teresa Palmer, whom I work with on A Discovery of Witches, is constantly popping out babies. Production just work around her. And it’s great, I admire her very much for that.”
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Alex in ER
Alex puts her staying power down to being in the right place at the right time – and being nice to people, though she says theatre will provide her with a safety net should the TV work dry up one day.
She said: “Being as versatile as possible helps. I’m up for anything as long it is written well.
“I had a formal training. My first love is theatre. Having that as a backbone will always support me. In an industry that will favour youth more, theatre is always there. In order to succeed on the stage you have to have had good solid training and know how to handle your voice.
“Also, being a nice person counts for a lot. If you were difficult you would get a reputation. Of course there are actors who are extremely difficult and tiresome to work with, and there will come a point at which you think is it worth it? I don’t want to be one of those people.”
Despite her time-travelling credentials Alex has no idea what the future holds but still harbours a dream of being a Bond Girl (though obviously not one who falls for the smooth-talking spy).
She laughs: “I would love to be a villain in a James Bond movie, the real villain, the main one. Because they’ve never had a female villain. And I want to be a villain who does not find James Bond sexy at all. And doesn’t succumb to his charms, I want to be his real nemesis.”
Time for a return to Tardis?
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Alex alongside Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who
From ER to the Tardis, Alex’s career to date has been distinguished by roles opposite fictional doctors, whether medical or time-travelling.
The smash-hit hospital drama which made her a star in the ’90s famously launched the Hollywood career of a certain George Clooney. Then in 2008, Alex won a new generation of fans as the wife of Doctor Who.
Because the Doctor transmutates over time Alex, as River Song, gets several leading men for the price of one. Alex said: “Essentially my character is the same, so there’s continuity there, and the fun is interacting with someone who is essentially the same man, but in a different skin and with a different energy.”
Perhaps the least lucky man in the role was Matt Smith.
Alex explained: “One of the most memorable parts of filming was when I flew through the universe, got caught in the Tardis and kneed Matt Smith, who was playing the Doctor at the time, in a sore place by mistake. There were a few tears of laughter from me and cries of pain from him.”
Speculation is rife among fans that Alex will return to the Whoniverse, if the incumbent Time Lord Jodie Whittaker steps down. All Alex will say is: “My Tardis door is always open…” [x]
#Alex Kingston#Salome Haertel#River Song#Doctor Who#Kingston Edit#ER#NEW#Interview#2021#The Sunday Post#New
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John Krasinski during an interview on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 13, 2009. (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank)
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