Ian McKellen has made the list of Britain’s Finest Actors. The List also includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier & Peter Sellers. The full results of the poll will be broadcast on British TV on July 11. [More]
Day: July 5, 2005
Two Wellington comedians have landed their own radio series with the BBC. Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (AKA Figwit), as musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, will have a six-part series on BBC Radio 2 from September. The series is being created and narrated by Welsh comedian Rob Brydon, who caught Flight of the Conchords’ shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year. Brydon, best known in Britain for comedy television talkshow The Keith Barret Show, has appeared in several films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shaun of the Dead and this year A Cock and Bull Story with Steve Coogan. [More]
NEW YORK – If Miranda Otto ever wants to remember what she looked like when she was pregnant, all she has to do is watch “War of the Worlds.” “Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you’re pregnant,” said Otto, who was three months pregnant while filming the Tom Cruise summer blockbuster. “I’ve got a film. It’ll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.” [More]