Ken Russell a Fuddy-Duddy? Never!
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British director Ken Russell has a style all his own -- his films are immediately recognizable, usually due to their portrayals of lavish decadence. (Scotsman.com recently published a good profile about the director.) I watched a bunch of his earlier films in college: The Devils, Women in Love, The Music Lovers, Gothic. The last one I saw was the campy yet barely coherent Lair of the White Worm ("slither in!"); none of Russell's later films have grabbed my attention. Still, it was fun to see him last year playing himself in the faux-documentary Brothers of the Head, which even contains some scenes from a pretend Russell film about the twins. I wondered what he was up to these days.What Russell has been up to in the last month, however, is reminding us that the man also has a personal style all his own. No, he's not wandering around with a farm animal to promote his latest film (that would be David Lynch). Instead, he decided to take a turn on
I'm hoping Russell will now return to working on something fabulously overwrought -- IMDb lists him as having an adaptation of Moll Flanders in pre-production, with Barry Humphries and playwright Steven Berkoff in the cast. I've no idea how accurate the IMDb listing is, but I hope Russell will direct something that will tempt me to the theater to watch. Something completely un-fuddy-duddy, please. He's nearly 80 years-old, but I hope he hasn't mellowed.
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1-09-2007 @ 5:35PM
Ian said...
Big Brother is actually on Channel 4 not the BBC. It is a very low brow show probably best renamed Not Really A Celebrity Big Brother. Jade (Pig in a wig)Goody is a previous loser on the show who became famous for nothing and cashes in on the seemingly endless thirst for celebrity trivia currently engulfing the UK.
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1-09-2007 @ 6:58PM
Jette Kernion said...
Thanks, Ian ... I'm not at all familiar with current UK television. I corrected the entry to reflect that it is a Channel 4 show.
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1-10-2007 @ 10:17AM
slagar said...
Ken Russell lasted 7 days in the house, not 2. the lead singer from "The Towers of London," a British punk band, left the day before Russell.
Russell said in an interview on the offshoot show Big Brother's Little Brother he looked forward to working on a few projects with some of the other celebrities in the house, who also included Dirk Benedict and Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress with 50 films to her credit.
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1-10-2007 @ 7:30PM
Schuey19 said...
"Jade Goody, whom I presume is the UK's answer to Paris Hilton"
Couldn't stop laughing to myself after reading that.
You could call the lovely Jade the UK's Paris Hilton except she's not quite as smart as dear Paris (NO REALLY), and has a MUCH, MCH healthy appetite!!
Check her out, but at your on peril
http://www.jadegoodyonline.com/gallery.html
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1-11-2007 @ 12:53AM
Geoff said...
No - Jade isn't our Paris Hilton, as she has far too little by way of class, looks, brains. If only I was joking.
From the website mentioned above, the reasons Jade came 4th in the list of 100 Worst Britons:
* "Where is East Angular, is it abroad?"
* "Rio de Janeiro - that's a person"
* "The Daily Mail is the post"
* "Saddam Hussein - that's a boxer"
* "A ferret is a bird"
* "I had my first birthday when I was one"
* "Who is heinzstein?"
* "Mother Theresa is from Germany"
* "Sherlock Holmes invented toilets"
* "The Union Jack is for all of us, but the St. George is just for London, isn't it?"
* "I knew Lynne was from Aberdeen, but I didn't realise Aberdeen was in Scotland"
* "What's a sparagus? Do you grow it?"
* "I am intelligent, but I let myself down because I can't speak properly or spell"
* To PJ after he revealed he knew someone who kept pet peacocks: "You see those things... don't think I'm being daft... but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?"
* "Jonny, I'm not being tictactical in here"
* "They were trying to use me as an escape goat"
* "Do they speak Portuganese in Portugal? I thought Portugal was in Spain"
* "That's asexual harassment"
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