It’s always fun watching local papers find a way to make stories about less local things. Take this article for example, from the Birmingham Sunday Mercury on 2nd June 1991. It’s ostensibly about some local actors who have been making Hollywood films, including Rik Mayall and Lenny Henry.
There’s a brief mention that Ben Elton has been comissioned to write a screenplay. Nothing seemed to have come of that, so it would be interesting to learn what that was about.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
