06 Jan 09
With the news that Disney has bailed out of the third big-screen Narnia adaptation maybe it is time for the rediscovery of the late 80s and early 90s adaption of the series by the BBC.
In 1988 the BBC adapted the first of the Narnia series for television, and screened it in six parts, on Sunday evenings in the run-up to Christmas. One of the earliest television memories I have is, (aged almost four years-old), watching The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe. It was shortly after watching the series open mouthed in awe and amazement that, (according to my parents), I first stated that I wanted to work in television. Most children chop-and-change their mind about what they want to do when the grown up on an almost daily basis, and I am sure a life in television was one of many career choices for the infant Adam... along ...
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31 Dec 08
Because Twitter is perfect for short snappy thoughts, I’ve put together a list of some of the more amusing, (or just weird), tweets I’ve made from the past year. Here’s to another year of Twitter!
- Just seen 'Enchanted'... Me and the girlfriend were the only couple in the audience without children. She'd better not be getting ideas #
- Graham at work "So you see... it is dangerous giving a child batteries to play with" #
- Dipping in and out of Elizabethtown, looks rather sweet but why does Kirsten Dunst look good in films, but like Praying Mantis in real life? #
- Keira Knightley: "I'm too dark in my soul to ever do a comedic role. I'm afraid I'd make a fool of myself." You thought Pirates was serious?
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- So tell me, in what other industry is the grammatical accuracy of porn movie titles a serious conversation topic? #
- Playing ...
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25 Dec 08
Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings; thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines; every hunter and forager; every hero and coward; every creator and destroyer of civilizations; every king and peasant, every young couple in love; every mother and father; every hopeful child; every inventor and explorer; every teacher of morals; every corrupt politician; every supreme leader; every superstar; every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants ...
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24 Dec 08
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from desiccation."
Humphrey Lyttelton
17 Dec 08
Some newspapers get the Internet. The Guardian for example provide full-text RSS feeds, and let you subscribe to individual Columnists or whole sections.
The Times meanwhile, (despite producing the simply brilliant Bugle Podcast with Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver), doesn’t really get the whole online connivence thing. For example they let you subscribe to the Columnists section of the website, but do not give you any way to select individual columnists. I happen to rather like the weekly musings of the marvellously disreputable, and highly opinionated Jeremy Clarkson, and the far more insightful former MP, Matthew Parris....
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