In honor of Great English Entertainment

[martin wilson]

Suicidal,I would have thought.
About the only thing I have got going for me is the fact that on principle I don't tell lies,it's a very important issue for me.
Then of course sometimes the missus will ask "Do you think I am putting on weight?"
Aint it a beggar?
All the best.

[Cogidubnus]

Then of course sometimes the missus will ask "Do you think I am putting on weight?"
Aint it a beggar?

Hah...that's an easy one...

"No more than usual dear"

All the best

Dave

[Limehouse]

Here are a few of my Tv favourites of recent years:

Shine on Harvey Moon - I loved this in the 70s and 80s. Good, gentle humour and drama

The Darling Buds of May - Always made me feel happy. Again, gentle humour and just the right amount of drama.

Roger, Roger. Absolutely brilliant. Funny, sad and just great.

Jam & Jerusalem - much the same as above really - but a bit more bonkers.

Roger and Val Have Just Got Home - just beautifully done.

[Beowulf]

Hah...that's an easy one...

"No more than usual dear"

All the best

Dave

Well, I shouldn't put this on this column about English Entertainment, but it is so appropo to that comment, lol. Honesty is not always the best policy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPX2cQP8uoI

Wanted to say I love Tennyson, I have an 1800s book of his poems, he did live during JTR, and I bet somebody is going to say he WAS a suspect

From his lovely poem,The Lady of Shalott:

Willows whiten, aspens quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Thro' the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle imbowers
The Lady of Shalott.

~Tennyson~

and I'm going to couple this comment with John William Waterhouse, one of my favorite painters, who also lived during JTR's time, a Victorian and a great and beautiful painter, and whose paintings illustrated Tennyson's poem, Lady of Shalott.

Not English, but put Lady of Shalott to music beautifully, Lorreena McKennitt's Lady of Shalott:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0rVNQw1DQM

...and evidently there has been a movie made in England of the Lady of Shalott, I read of it on this wonderful little website:

http://bookishkind.blogspot.com/2009/11/lady-of-shalott-film.html

I would very much like to see it, and will search for it. Incredibly how they made this girl look just like the painting by Waterhouse.

Btw, Waterhouse painted Lady of Shalott in 1888, and so it can be rested as to whether he was Jack the Ripper, as it took a lot of work and time to paint this painting, and so he could not be gamboling about Whitechapel hunting up victims

[jason_c]

Here are a few of my Tv favourites of recent years:

Shine on Harvey Moon - I loved this in the 70s and 80s. Good, gentle humour and drama

The Darling Buds of May - Always made me feel happy. Again, gentle humour and just the right amount of drama.

Roger, Roger. Absolutely brilliant. Funny, sad and just great.

Jam & Jerusalem - much the same as above really - but a bit more bonkers.

Roger and Val Have Just Got Home - just beautifully done.

Im glad to see im not the only poster to have enjoyed this show.

[Limehouse]

At last! Jason and I agree on something! Shows we've both got good cultural taste!

[Cogidubnus]

Sigh...

Oh how I wish they'd made the third series of Mulberry...so we could see whether Death or Springtime wins Mulberry's heart and mind...it was beautiful, wistful and gentle tragicomedy - different from anything I ever saw before or since...

All the best

Dave

[Beowulf]

Oh how I wish they'd made the third series of Mulberry...so we could see whether Death or Springtime wins Mulberry's heart and mind...it was beautiful, wistful and gentle tragicomedy - different from anything I ever saw before or since...

All the best

Dave

Dave,

I found what you said about this series to be really interesting and of course we don't have it here so I looked for it on youtube and found this. Wondered if it answers any of those questions. I was touched by this writer's emotions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjDZSvzMVw&feature=related

[Magpie]

There used to be a sitcom I loved as a kid, called "Mind Your Language", which I didn't actually remember anything about, except that I loved it. Found the entire first two seasons on google video this spring and discovered that I still love it. It probably couldn't get made in today's PC world, but it wasn't so much racist as it was making fun of racism.

[Robert]

I liked that show too.

[Cogidubnus]

Mulberry

I found what you said about this series to be really interesting and of course we don't have it here so I looked for it on youtube and found this. Wondered if it answers any of those questions. I was touched by this writer's emotions.

Thanks for that Barbara. It was fascinating...by the by I notice they've got most, if not all, the episodes up there...had to watch the first couple for old time's sake and it was as good as I remembered. Did you watch any?

All the best

Dave

[Beowulf]

Thanks for that Barbara. It was fascinating...by the by I notice they've got most, if not all, the episodes up there...had to watch the first couple for old time's sake and it was as good as I remembered. Did you watch any?

All the best

Dave

Oh, I did not see that! I will watch one, (day off, working on a painting, watch stuff on net as I do).

I just killed time here watching an old English horror movie, Devil Doll, (1964). Oh, it doesn't belong on this column, heheh, but I really do love the old horror films, the black and whites, no gore, mildly amusing they are, but I do like to watch the old Gothic Hammer films, which are very good. This was not one of those, unfortunately.

I left the room for a very short time to get a drink and missed the ending, but I guessed it and after checking the net was pretty on target.

Now to watch something brighter and infinitely better, I'm sure. Thanks

[Robert]

I'm not sure I've ever seen 'Devil Doll'. Of course, the classic ventriloquist one to watch is the last segment of 'Dead of Night' with Michael Redgrave.

[Beowulf]

I'm not sure I've ever seen 'Devil Doll'. Of course, the classic ventriloquist one to watch is the last segment of 'Dead of Night' with Michael Redgrave.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqXpGfJurRM&feature=related

Well...now you can

[miss marple]

Agree with practically everthing people have said about, Coward, Steptoe Newton etc. There was a wonderful Waterhouse exhibition a few years ago at the Royal Academy, he is a very sensual colourist but.. I am surprised no one has mentioned the Ealing comedies which are the epitomy of English irony and humour.
My favourite is Kind Hearts and Coronets, its black humour, irony, sex, and class comment and subtle understatement is uniquely English. All the performances are perfect, from Alec Guinness's tour de force as the D'Ascoynes, to Dennis Price and the sexy Miss Greenwood.

Love the line, that comes after Price has dispatched the young heir and his lady friend after a dirty weekend in Maidenhead in a 'boating accident' That the lady friend had already suffered a fate worse than death.
The Ladykillers is another great one.
Its a pity the Americans remake them, they are far too crude. They are better at other kinds of comedy. Leave these masterpieces alone.

Miss Marple