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TV review: John Le Mesurier: It’s All Been Rather Lovely

John Le Mesurier never did anything as vulgar as showing his feelings, but he was always remarkably English This is how John Le Mesurier, ideal known as Sergeant Wilson in Dad’s Army, proposed to Joan Malin, his second wife. “Well, I do not suppose you’d take me on, would you?” She completely missed what he was speaking about. “I’d no idea!” she recalls. It was only when he mentioned to a friend that she had turned him down that she realised (and later accepted). It was all of a piece with the man and the actor, lovingly remembered on John ...

How Big Brother props up the opera | Deborah Orr

Sir Peter Bazalgette gave Big Brother to Britain, but his true love is opera. This, surely, is cultural elitism at its most hypocritical The man who brought Big Brother to a grateful Britain, Sir Peter Bazalgette, has been made chairman of English National Opera. Venerable opera critic Norman Lebrecht is up in arms, describing Sir Peter on his blog as “a cynical operator of no known values” and insisting that he should be stopped “now, before it’s too late”. I comprehend Lebrecht’s pain.

Music Review: Better Day

Parton is that rare singer who can make optimism seem like a viable philosophy. When country music goes upbeat, it often traffics in cornball novelty tunes, but Dolly plays her album full of love ‘n’ hope with straight-up sincerity. In the midst of hard economic times, the positive anthems that fill Better Day — all new material, no covers — come off as brilliant strategy, with some equally brilliant vocal performances. A- Download These: Selena Gomez’s When the Sun Goes DownRave On Buddy Holly (Various Artists)

Celebrity chef film bombs, taking just $181

Gordon Ramsay’s film had “one of the worst performances ever” in its opening weekend. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: Herald Sun AT some point, somebody involved with the romantic comedy Love’s Kitchen must have thought that it was a recipe for success, but box office figures out yesterday told a very different story. The UK film, starring Dougray Scott (who previously appeared in Desperate Housewives as Teri Hatcher’s love interest), Four Weddings and a Funeral actor Simon Callow and Gordon Ramsay (as himself), had indeed achieved one of the most remarkable opening weekends in cinema history, though not quite in the ...

Sade in concert: On the scene

I’ve never seen so many people fill a venue so huge to see so little. But then again, Sade’s tiny is a lot. Last Friday (June 24) the band, led by veteran British Nigerian songstress Sade Adu, stopped at New Jersey’s Izod Center. She surfaced from beneath the stage just after 9pm, in a sheer black shirt, matching pants and heels, and bathed in purple lighting, to sing her last album’s title track, “Soldier of Love.” To pack a venue as massive as the Izod, one might think that there would be more to Sade than what the audience got ...

New Wilco Single Arrives; Album Title Revealed

Alt-country troubadours Wilco headlined their own Solid Sound Festival in North Adams Massachusetts this past weekend where they were selling the 7-inch vinyl version of a new single called “I Might.” The B-side: a cover of Nick Lowe’s “I Love My Label,” an apt choice considering the band recently severed ties with the major label system, forming their own record company, dBpm, with distribution by ANTI- (Tom Waits, Neko Case). “I Might” marks the first single from the band’s forthcoming album, revealed to be titled The Whole Love, which is due out in September.

Aditi’s one sided love for Shahid

Aditi Sharma, who was noticed in a promotional video for a TV channel directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and shot in Lucknow, is excited about her motion picture ” Mausam” with Shahid Kapur. “I got to work with Shahid as I have already done a short film on AIDS that Pankaj ji (Kapur) had directed. He wanted me to act in his movie, and without thinking much, I stated ‘yes’,” she says. “I play the character of a girl who is in love with Shahid. People have been writing that I play Shahid’s love interest in the first part of the ...

Lost star, 51, marries girl, 16, in Vegas

Doug Hutchison played creepy scientist guy Horace Goodspeed in Lost. Picture: ABC TV Source: news.com.au ONE of the stars of Lost has married a beauty queen and aspiring country singer in Las Vegas. Nothing remarkable in that except he is 51 and she is 16. Actor Doug Hutchison, who is known for playing creepy scientist Horace in Lost and the twisted prison guard with a taste for wetting himself and stamping on mice in The Green Mile, says that his love for Courtney Alexis Stodden is ageless.

Crowe sorry for bad taste circumcision gag

“I have a deep and abiding love for all people of all nationalities,” Crowe Tweeted.  Picture: Pellegrini Source: news.com.au Crowe posted Tweets criticising circumcisionActor called practice “barbaric and stupid”Has since apologised and removed commentsGladiator star no anti-Semite, Eli Roth says Russell Crowe has apologised for his Twitter tirade against circumcision when he called the practice “barbaric and stupid.” “Circumcision is barbaric and stupid. Who are you to correct nature? Is it real that GOD requires a donation of foreskin? Babies are perfect,” Crowe wrote on Thursday, questioning the Old Testament mandate for the practice on Jewish males.

Love Your Garden and Injustice – review

takes some hosta-planting advice from Alan Titchmarsh Alan Titchmarsh has gone back to what he does ideal in Love Your Garden (ITV1). Not sycophantic interviews with members of the royal family, or touring Britain trying to be David Dimbleby (or any of the other Britain tourers), but marking out a flowerbed using a hosepipe. With some handy hints: run some hot water through the hose first if you are doing it in winter, to make the hose more pliable. He’ll have a tiny flirt with the ladies – Jill in Fareham in this one.