17 posts tagged “actress”
Carrying on from a post that Jaklumen made on his blog, I went to look for the Lucy Lawless-headed Greenpeace campaign to reduce emissions. This is Lucy Lawless as Lucy Lawless, and her accent has changed a great deal since I saw her in the Shark in the Park episode ‘Double or Quits’. It has Americanized slightly, which is no surprise since she is married to an American and has a home in LA.
I stayed away from Twitter for a day and was surprised to find #MrsSlocombesPussy a trending topic. When I searched for it, however, nothing came up, and I decided it was an elaborate prank by hackers.
Farewell, Mollie.
PS.: I have just discovered that every other search works on Twitter, just not one for #MrsSlocombesPussy. The reason, says one Tweeter, is that this hashtag has been blocked. Shame on Twitter: it is either down to ignorance (they do not know the cultural impact of Are You Being Served?), xenophobia (American admins balking at British culture), disrespect (to the memory of Mollie Sugden) or dirty minds (everyone else outside Twitter HQ knows that this refers to Tiddles, Mrs Slocombe’s pet cat, and we also know the meanings of pussy, but at least in the rest of the English-speaking world, double entendres are acceptable).
This is quite rare: Kim Cattrall with her Scouse accent (she’s from Widnes) on The Paul O’Grady Show:
How about Karl Urban (and yes, he pronounces his surname the way we all did at school) talking about Star Trek, in his Kiwi accent?
Finally, Sandra Bullock, whose mother was German, accepting an award in Germany:
This is the only interview I could find on YouTube with Charlize Theron speaking Afrikaans; the interviewer is speaking Belgian Flemish, I believe. At least they understand each other.
Even the French know it doesn’t make sense, but they can sit back and go, ‘Ha! We have fooled the Anglo-Saxons and Americans again! Now we can claim to be exotic and culturally superior and put this down to French “mystique”!’
I am sure the idea is that Schweppes is better than a snog.
This is like the TV ad for Homer Simpson’s Mr Plow business that McMahon & Tate dreamed up. Lisa asks, ‘Was that your ad, Dad?’
‘I … don’t … know!’
[Cross-posted from Lucire] Here’s footage from L’Oréal Paris about its latest TVC, starring Elizabeth Banks. More videos and additional links at Lucire.
Farewell to Wendy Richard, the only Geordie on EastEnders (her words). It is very sad that relatively young Are You Being Served? cast members such as Richard and John Inman are no longer with us.
[Cross-posted from Lucire] Campari launched its 2009 calendar, starring Jessica Alba, at a celebrity event in Milano yesterday. We’ve featured a few of Mario Testino’s stunning images from the calendar, with Alba promoting the red spirit in each one, some subtly, some less so (with the Campari bottle being quite noticeable). Also noticeable: make-up has been getting a lot more glamorous as 2009 begins.
[Cross-posted from Lucire] We’ve put up some extra images from behind the scenes of the Lancôme Magnifique TV commercial, starring Anne Hathaway and directed by Peter Lindbergh, this week. A video showing the making of the commercial was shown on the Lucire TV site last month.
[Cross-posted from Lucire] In the main part of our site today, photographs of and quotations from Charlize Theron as she is inducted by United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a Messenger of Peace, focusing on
violence against women. As we reveal, this matter is very near and dear
to Theron’s heart, and she has spent a great deal of effort working for
women’s rights over the years—not to mention her roles in films like Monster. Lucire says, ‘Welcome,’ to Charlize in officially promoting UN initiatives, as we have been doing.
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