Learning curves
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- Learning curves
- Audio of Rupert & Julie from Edinburgh Film Festival
- Kipling TV drama for Potter star
- projo.com | The Providence Journal TV |
- Randall Toups: The Boy Bug
- Reading matter.
Learning curves
St. Petersburg Times – Aug 27, 2006
Through most of the play's run (and in the film), she's played by the delectably dry Frances de la Tour, who returned to the Broadhurst last week. She's another Harry Potter vet, having played Madame Olympe Maxime in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. When I saw the play, the role was filled by Maggie Steed, who did a fine, crisp job with such lines as "Can you, for a moment, imagine how dispiriting it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude?"But Hector and Irwin are the main combatants, and they aren't just battling over teaching methods or academic concepts of history. It's their students' allegiance that matters. The boys, bursting with energy and charm, come across at first like a boxful of very smart puppies. But as the actors skillfully delineate their characters, they become individuals, from doggedly ambitious Rudge (Russell Tovey) to high-minded but struggling Scripps (Jamie Parker), and, in two of the play's most galvanizing performances, the beautiful, manipulative Dakin (Dominic Cooper) and the all-too-vulnerable Posner (the wonderful Samuel Barnett, who has racked up several featured actor awards).
Audio of Rupert & Julie from Edinburgh Film Festival
HPANA – Aug 27, 2006
Audio interviews with Rupert and Julie on the red carpet from the event have now appeared online. Update: An interview with Rupert is now available for you to read. Rupert mentions that he has yet to sign up for "Half-Blood Prince" but really wants to do it.
Kipling TV drama for Potter star
BBC News – Aug 27, 2006
He said he was “thrilled” to be playing the author’s son in My Boy Jack, “a moving and powerful story”. “Young men are still going off to fight in wars from which many will never return,” Radcliffe said. ITV is hoping dramas starring Robbie Coltrane, Victoria Wood and Dame Helen Mirren will help ratings this autumn. Its chief executive, Charles Allen, is leaving on 1 October following drops in viewing figures and commercial revenue.
projo.com | The Providence Journal TV |
Providence Journal – Aug 27, 2006
Between my track record and the particularly odd nature of this year’s nominations, I figure a flock of trained parakeets could beat my Emmy predictions. But parakeets are costly — and messy — so I’m going to compete with The Emmy Hat instead. Fans of the Harry Potter books know that Hogwarts, the wizardry school, uses a magical Sorting Hat to place students in one of the school’s four Houses. I’m using the Emmy Hat — actually a red baseball cap for a network that no longer exists — to choose Emmy winners. I had various colleagues from around the office draw numbers at random from the Emmy Hat, then used the numbers to select Emmy victors. So here are the predictions, mine and the Emmy Hat’s. We’ll see who does better.
Randall Toups: The Boy Bug
courierpress.com – Aug 27, 2006
Gary West, writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, describes apprentice jockey Toups as “horse racing’s Harry Potter: a young wizard on horseback, capable of conjuring up the most unprobable winners while casting a spell of amazement on his elders. “There’s only two things I’m scared of,” the young jockey said, “and that’s needles and lightning. After getting his first tattoo – a large crucifix with his initials “RT” sharply emblazoned within it – Toups appears to be well on his way to conquering many of life’s hurdles. Fearful of what his parents will say when they see the freshly inked tattoo on his slender 17-year-old frame, Toups says with a smile, “I’m going to have to tell mom they drugged me!”The jockey, commonly known in the racing community as a “bug boy,” must race for one complete year and achieve 50 wins in order to obtain journeyman status. With racing experience at Evangeline Downs and stops in New York and Churchill Downs, Toups has established himself as Ellis Park’s leading apprentice jockey.
Reading matter.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 27, 2006
(27-AUG-06) Europe Intelligence Wire. Hats off to Harry Potter lad Daniel Radcliffe. He looks like he should be called Herbert, but.