In the Shadow of the Valley of the UltraVixens

Miriam Shor as “Yitzhak”

2009-11-10T14:31:14Z

Recently Hedwig and the Angry Inch was inducted into the AV Club’s “New Cult Canon”, prompting me to revisit it. I first “discovered” the film on a video tape I picked up on impulse from a charity shop, a couple of years ago. I vaguely remembered...

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Annie Griffin FTW

2009-11-09T17:54:59Z

Huzzah! Even though Griffin's latest pilot, New Town, wasn't given a full series by the BBC, it did pick up a brace of nominations for the BAFTA Scotland awards, and last night took two of the shiny mask thingies home! One for "Best TV Drama", an...

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Little Nell as “Columbia”

2009-11-02T15:57:52Z

Another one from the vaults... I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show in the early years of adolescence, when it was first broadcast on TV, and it’s been a favourite of mine ever since. I’m not going to pretend that I understood all of the jok...

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Cassandra Peterson as “Elvira”

2009-10-28T15:08:00Z

Probably my second schoolboy crush after Kylie Minogue, I was first introduced to Elvira when she guest-presented a late-night heavy metal video show, to help promote the release of her movie Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. And it worked, because I...

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Sarah Silverman as “Sarah Silverman”

2009-10-26T15:04:42Z

I finally caved and picked up The Aristocrats on DVD... because it was in a bargain bin, and I was curious to see it in again. Although I’d already seen Big S perform a brief, slightly bloodless bit for an Amnesty International charity show, it w...

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Mabel Aitken as “Fiona Morton”

2009-10-17T10:57:33Z

These days, you’d probably have to pay a king’s ransom to get Billy Boyd, Julia Davis, Omid Djalili, Ben Miller and David Walliams in a production together, but back in 1999 they all appeared in a three part comedy for Ch4 called Coming Soon, by ...

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as “Elaine Benes”

2009-10-11T15:33:15Z

Apparently in America, the sitcom Seinfeld was a big hit... one of the most influential and critically acclaimed comedies of the 90s... while over here, the BBC chose to bury it in a graveyard slot, with minimal promotion, so it never caught on i...

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)

2009-10-03T08:35:26Z

aka Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā — "Great Soul") Missed his B-Day yesterday, but here are some wise words to chew over... "The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure w...

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Amara Karan as “Rita”

2009-09-22T07:22:23Z

In a former life, the Sri Lankan/Brit known as Amara Karunakaran earned a 2:1 in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and spent two years working in mergers and acquisitions in the City. She’d always loved acting though, and ...

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Big S @ The Emmys

2009-09-21T07:02:24Z

Bless her... even when she loses, she still manages to steal the limelight (and the laughs): http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xak2vy_ss-at-emmys_shortfilms

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