Television chef Keith Floyd has reportedly been hospitalised after collapsing at his friend's pub.
According to reports, the chef became ill earlier this week while staying at The Chesters pub, run by his friend Glenn Geldard.
The cause of his collapse is not yet known but the chef's agent Stan Green told BBC Radio Stoke: "It's probably exhaustion. He was in hospital a year ago with a similar complaint."
"He recovered from that, so let's hope he recovers from this. We understand he's stable," he said.
Floyd's friend Geldard said: "He is not doing very well. I've just been down to the hospital now."
The chef recently returned from a trip to Thailand.
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Friday, 30 May 2008
William Shatner Explains 1992 MTV Movie Awards Spoken-Word Performance: 'I Was Concussed'
In the 16-year history of the MTV Movie Awards, there have been fights, laughs and more than a few surprises. But there has only been one William Shatner, the 77-year-old star of "Boston Legal" — best known as Captain Kirk on "Star Trek" — who brought the celebrity crowd to its knees with spoken-word renditions of the Best Song nominees at the first-ever Movie Awards broadcast.
Even after nearly two decades of showmanship, it remains one of the program's most memorable moments. Now if only Shatner could remember it.
"I was concussed," the veteran actor recalled of the day he filmed those parody videos. "I don't remember doing the songs!"
According to Shatner, he was contacted to perform the songs — which included Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" from "New Jack City," Guns N' Roses' "You Could Be Mine" from "Terminator 2" and the winner, Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do" from "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" — only "a week before [filming]. "I thought, 'Wow, that would be interesting. What fun!' " Shatner confessed. "So I said, 'Great!' "
Scheduled to perform midweek (in those days the awards show was taped, not broadcast live like it will be this Sunday), Shatner chose to go horseback riding the day of his shoot.
"So that morning of the afternoon I was going to be there, I went to ride some of my horses, and I got on a 3-year-old horse. Boom! The horse went up in the air, and I was knocked unconscious. I was out, apparently for a half an hour," Shatner said. " 'What happened?' They told me what happened. 'What happened?' They told me again. This went on for a couple of hours, and I went to the doctor's.
"So I'm now driving back to Los Angeles and dimly I remember there's something I have to do, and suddenly it occurs to me that I have to sing five songs for MTV!" Shatner continued. "I make a U-turn, go to the studio, and I'm in a dressing room with manure still in my ears!"
But a concussion was far from the only complication with Shatner's shoot, he said.
"I said, 'You know, I don't sing, I do lyrics, so I need an instrument that carries the tune and I need rhythm instruments — anything," he revealed. "And I'm trotted out to the stage, and they have bongo drums and a xylophone to carry the tune. And I've got to sing a song like 'I Want to Sex You Up,' which has six words. That's the song!"
Watch video of Shatner's performances now, particularly "I 'Want to' Sex You Up," and you'll notice a loopy, almost stoned quality to his renditions — no doubt the result of his severe concussion. In fact, the whole thing played like an Andy Kaufman joke, Shatner now laughs, with an audience unsure of what to make of his crazed renditions.
"The idea of failure and being laughed at never sort of occurs to me because it happens all the time. I'm inured to failure," Shatner told MTV News. "So when they played it in front of the audience, and I was at home watching it, I heard the audience mutter. By the second song, they were starting to laugh, [but] by the third song? We had them!"
Check out the MTV Movies Blog for Shatner's picks for Best Fight.
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Newman back in theatre as director
Paul Newman will be back in the theatre again this autumn, directing a production of a stage classic.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the 83-year-old will direct a production of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
The play runs from 7 to 25 October.
Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, is Co-Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.
The Hollywood Reporter says that the 83-year-old will direct a production of John Steinbeck's 'Of Mice and Men' at the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut.
The play runs from 7 to 25 October.
Newman's wife, Joanne Woodward, is Co-Artistic Director at the Westport Country Playhouse.
Faramarz Payvar
Artist: Faramarz Payvar
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Iran: Persian Classical Music
Year:
Tracks: 6
Faramarz Payvar is an important composer and conservator of Persian classical music, preeminent his touring ensemble on the 72-string santur (hammer dulcimer). Various other string instruments ar featured in this chemical group, as well as the zarb barrel and soloist Khatereh Parvaneh, a large female vocaliser.
The OC's Barton faces four charges
'The OC' star Mischa Barton is facing four misdemeanour charges following her drink-driving arrest last year.
The Associated Press reports that, according to court papers, Barton was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving while having a 0.08% or higher blood alcohol level, driving without a valid licence and possession of 28.5g or less of marijuana.
Barton's attorney Anthony V Salerno said he was pleased his client was only charged with misdemeanours.
He said: "The DA's office is to be commended for treating this case the same as it would any other matter; Ms. Barton has received no special treatment."
Barton was arrested in West Hollywood on 27 December after officers saw her car in two lanes of traffic and failing to indicate for a turn.
The actress is due to be arraigned on Thursday in the Beverly Hills Superior Court.
The Associated Press reports that, according to court papers, Barton was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving while having a 0.08% or higher blood alcohol level, driving without a valid licence and possession of 28.5g or less of marijuana.
Barton's attorney Anthony V Salerno said he was pleased his client was only charged with misdemeanours.
He said: "The DA's office is to be commended for treating this case the same as it would any other matter; Ms. Barton has received no special treatment."
Barton was arrested in West Hollywood on 27 December after officers saw her car in two lanes of traffic and failing to indicate for a turn.
The actress is due to be arraigned on Thursday in the Beverly Hills Superior Court.
Glenn Tipton
Artist: Glenn Tipton
Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Discography:
Baptizm Of Fire
Year: 1999
Tracks: 11
Glenn Tipton is famed as half of the legendary metal banding Judas Priest's groundbreaking ceremony twin-guitar tone-beginning. Born in Birmingham, England, on October 25, 1948, Tipton played in several local bands before forming the Flying Hat Band, a intemperate, Hawkwind-influenced prog rock unit, in 1972. He asleep the next year to join Judas Priest, which became i of the most democratic and influential heavy metallic element bands of all time; late-'70s albums like Stained Class and Hell Bent for Leather most outlined the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, patch early-'80s records like British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance brought them external commercial success and stardom as advantageously. Tipton's partnership with K.K. Downing made for unmatchable of the most telepathic guitar teams in hard stone; the iI were able of keeping a groove in stark synchrony, or trading turned virtuosic solo licks. Lead vocalizer Rob Halford asleep in 1991, leaving Priest's future in serious doubtfulness, and in 1995 Tipton began work on his first solo album, taking on his kickoff lede vocals since his Flying Hat Band days. He recorded periodically over the following deuce and a half years with a form of musicians, including bassists Billy Sheehan and John Entwistle, and drummers Cozy Powell and Shannon Larkin, among many others. The results were finally released in 1997 on Atlantic Records as Baptizm of Fire. With new lead isaac M. Singer Ripper Owens in plaza, however, Judas Priest became a viable vexation once more, and Tipton subsequently returned to the folding.
Day-Lewis among Golden Globe winners
Passing Fancy - movie review
One of several early silent family comedies by Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu released
by the Criterion Collection, Passing Fancy is a delightful little tale with charming performances
and lots of prewar Japanese atmosphere to soak in.
Ne'er-do-well single dad Kihachi (Takeshi Sakamoto) hates his boring brewery work
and would much rather spend his afternoons drinking sake with Otome (Chouko Lida),
the widow who runs the restaurant next door, and his work buddy Jiro (Den Obinata).
Kihachi isn't much of a father figure to his impish son Tomio (Tomio Aoki), a smart but
wild kid who shows his disrespect for his dad by striking funny Karate Kid martial
arts poses in front of him.
The daily routines of the scruffy working-class neighborhood are thrown off by the
arrival of Harue (Nobuko Fushimi), a beautiful young woman looking to start a new
life in Tokyo. Otome immediately takes her in and Kihachi tries to woo her, but even
he admits he's too old for her and that Jiro would be a better match. But Jiro shows
no interest. Meanwhile, Tomio feels threatened by Harue's arrival, and he acts up
even more than usual. "I hate girl trouble," says Kihachi. "Seeking love is like
climbing a waterfall," opines Otome.
This mini-domestic drama plays out in predictable ways, but it's not the plot that's
the attraction here. What's much more interesting are the amusing details with which
Ozu fills every frame. The movie begins with a great scene at a storyteller's performan
ce where a coin purse is dropped and various members of the audience pick it up to
rifle through it, only to toss it aside when they discover it's empty. Each time
someone tosses it, someone else picks it up to check it out, until Kihachi, noticing
it's bigger than his, transfers his coins into it and tosses his own coin purse to the
floor.
Later, in a fit of pique, little Tomio trashes Dad's beloved plant, and when Kihachi
asks if he did it, Tomio bravely tells the truth, just like George Washington when
he chopped down the cherry tree, the boy haughtily explains. "Aw, what's so great
about the truth?" grumbles Kihachi.
It's also funny to observe that throughout the film, almost every character is constantly
scratching himself as if to indicate that all of old Edo is infested with fleas.
Even when Tomio is crying hysterically he takes a moment to thoughtfully scratch
his chest and shins, and Kihachi is always mopping his brow with a small towel he keeps
perched atop his head in old Japanese style. It's a rough life in this paper-walled
slum, but life does go on happily, as long as everyone maintains low expectations.
Film school types will take note of Ozu trademarks that came to full fruition much
later making early appearances here, most notably the floor-level shots and the interesting
pillow shots (Ozu has a thing for giant natural gas storage tanks). The addition of a bouncy
piano score makes Passing Fancy a fun 100 minutes.
Aka Dekikogoro.
I've got an itch.
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Kiefer Sutherland - Sutherland Named And Shamed In Dui-inspired Ad
Actor KIEFER SUTHERLAND and rocker BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG have been named and shamed in a new drink-driving-inspired advertising campaign.
The American Beverage Institute (ABI) took out a full page ad in the New York Times newspaper on Tuesday (20May08) featuring Sutherland and Armstrongs' DUI mugshots.
The ad praises in-car breathalyzers, new technology that will prevent drunk drivers from starting up cars - but also raises alarm bells about plans to install them in every car in America, which the ABI claims will bring an end to legal drinking and driving.
It reads, "Ignition interlocks, or in-car breathalyzers are a great tool for getting hard-core drunk drivers off our roads.
"However, activists now want to put one in every car in America - and they will be set well below the current legal limit of .08 BAC (blood alcohol content). That means the end of moderate and responsible drinking prior to driving: no more champagne toasts at weddings, no more wine with dinner, no more beer at ballgames. Let's make our roads safer by targetting drunk drivers, not all Americans."
Sutherland spent last Christmas (07) in jail in California after a DUI arrest violated his probation. Green Day frontman Armstrong was arrested for driving under the influence five years ago. A website dedicated to the ABI's campaign also names DUI-convicted stars Michelle Rodriguez, Glen Campbell and Chris Klein.
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