ArtsBiscuit
Following a mounting campaign by indignant viewers and residents, the BBC have ‘strenuously denied’ that they were allowing big business to compromise the artistic integrity of their programming after a character in their popular Sunday evening Victorian costume drama ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’ was heard to say that he ‘wished he could just pop up to Tesco’s for some fags, like normal folk do’.
‘Comparing the work of Jude Law with, say, Robin Askwith, star of ‘Confessions from a Holiday Camp’, shows that the average male has become steadily less randy since the late 70’s, and the level has reached new lows during the last twelve months.’
Unemployed John Prestwick of Barnet was said to be in complete shock last night after bookies made him favourite to take the cinematography Oscar at this years awards ceremony. John was nominated for an Oscar for his pirate version of Hurt Locker that he filmed at the Odeon in Watford with his brother in laws’ camcorder which critics have since praised for adding a gritty, realistic layer to the original film.
Famed for daring opera productions that relocate historical action to other periods for dramatic effect, Dr. Jonathan Miller has wowed audiences and critics by setting his new production of Leonard Bernstein’s classic, West Side Story, in 14th century Verona.
Dr Miller told a gathering of critics at a preview: ‘I wanted to confound people’s expectations of this Bernstein masterpiece by taking it as far as possible away from its 1950s New York context. And it works! In my earlier productions, I found it easy to give Rigoletto a Mafia-based interpretation or to set The Elixir of Love in America’s diner culture, but I felt I was getting lazy and needed a new challenge.’
‘I may wear a hat in my next leading role as Rick Blaine in the remake of Casablanca’, TV’s Mr D’Arcy tells Mark Kermode in an interview about the long journey that began with an unforgettable adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, ‘and probably a raincoat too.’
