Eric Clapton’s friends and collaborators discuss the rock legend’s anti-lockdown stance — and defend him against allegations of racism — in a new report.
Following a string of anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown tracks, Rolling Stone detailed Clapton’s descent from just speaking about his vaccine skepticism to actually bankrolling it.
Clapton’s associates are similarly perplexed by his recent stance, with many labeling Clapton as largely apolitical. “He’s the anti-Bono,” Clapton’s former label manager Bill Oakes told the Washington Post. “He is the epitome of someone who is there for the music,...
Following a string of anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown tracks, Rolling Stone detailed Clapton’s descent from just speaking about his vaccine skepticism to actually bankrolling it.
Clapton’s associates are similarly perplexed by his recent stance, with many labeling Clapton as largely apolitical. “He’s the anti-Bono,” Clapton’s former label manager Bill Oakes told the Washington Post. “He is the epitome of someone who is there for the music,...
- 11/11/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
To mark the release of classic movie based on the Charles Dickens novel The Old Curiosity Shop on DVD 14th May, we’ve been given three copies to give away. The film adaptation is directed by Thomas Bentley and stars Hay Petrie, Ben Webster and Elaine Benson.
Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop. Quilp is the wicked landlord who dominates and later ruins the lives of shopkeeper Trent (Ben Webster) and his resourceful granddaughter Little Nell (Elaine Benson). The death of the heroine, which created quite a brouhaha when the book was first published, is here handled with discretion and taste. Scenarists Margaret Kennedy and Ralph Neale successfully tackle the challenge of whittling Dickens’ massive novel into a playable 90 minutes. The Old Curiosity Shop would be remade three times, once as a musical with Anthony Newley as Quilp.
Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop. Quilp is the wicked landlord who dominates and later ruins the lives of shopkeeper Trent (Ben Webster) and his resourceful granddaughter Little Nell (Elaine Benson). The death of the heroine, which created quite a brouhaha when the book was first published, is here handled with discretion and taste. Scenarists Margaret Kennedy and Ralph Neale successfully tackle the challenge of whittling Dickens’ massive novel into a playable 90 minutes. The Old Curiosity Shop would be remade three times, once as a musical with Anthony Newley as Quilp.
- 4/13/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To mark the release of classic movie based on the Charles Dickens novel The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby on DVD 14th May, we’ve been given three copies to give away. It’s directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and stars Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke & Stanley Holloway.
Derek Bond plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect his family against the demonic machinations of his wicked Uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke). Cast out into the cold cruel world, Nicholas Nickleby deals adroitly with friend and foe alike, eventually coming full circle to mete out just desserts to his unspeakable uncle.
Special Features:
New Interview with BFI Dickens Season Curators Adrian Wootton & Michael Eaton New Interview with Dickens biographer Michael Slater Nicholas Nickleby, a silent film from 1912 directed by George O. Nichols Behind the scenes stills gallery
To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, simply...
Derek Bond plays the title character, a resourceful young Britisher forced to protect his family against the demonic machinations of his wicked Uncle Ralph (Cedric Hardwicke). Cast out into the cold cruel world, Nicholas Nickleby deals adroitly with friend and foe alike, eventually coming full circle to mete out just desserts to his unspeakable uncle.
Special Features:
New Interview with BFI Dickens Season Curators Adrian Wootton & Michael Eaton New Interview with Dickens biographer Michael Slater Nicholas Nickleby, a silent film from 1912 directed by George O. Nichols Behind the scenes stills gallery
To be in with a chance of winning this great prize, simply...
- 4/13/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
On the Season 2 Premiere of "Coming Home" (Sun., 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime) viewers met Sfc Michael Eaton, his wife Tonya and their four kids.
In the six years Michael and Tonya had been married, he had been deployed overseas three times.
During the Oakland Raider's fan's latest deployment to Afghanistan Tonya and their four kids were missing Michael very much, and they had no idea that when they flew out to California to attend a Raiders game that they would get a very special surprise.
At halftime Tonya and the kids were brought onto the field so the boys could kick a field goal. However, to their astonishment the player holding the ball was none other than their dad.
As the kids cried and hugged him, it was a truly heart-warming homecoming.
Season 2 of "Coming Home" continues each Sunday at 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime.
TV Replay scours the...
In the six years Michael and Tonya had been married, he had been deployed overseas three times.
During the Oakland Raider's fan's latest deployment to Afghanistan Tonya and their four kids were missing Michael very much, and they had no idea that when they flew out to California to attend a Raiders game that they would get a very special surprise.
At halftime Tonya and the kids were brought onto the field so the boys could kick a field goal. However, to their astonishment the player holding the ball was none other than their dad.
As the kids cried and hugged him, it was a truly heart-warming homecoming.
Season 2 of "Coming Home" continues each Sunday at 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime.
TV Replay scours the...
- 3/12/2012
- by Catherine Lawson
- Huffington Post
On the Season 2 Premiere of "Coming Home" (Sun., 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime) viewers met Sfc Michael Eaton, his wife Tonya and their four kids.
In the six years Michael and Tonya had been married, he had been deployed overseas three times.
During the Oakland Raider's fan's latest deployment to Afghanistan, Tonya and their four kids were missing Michael very much, and they had no idea that when they flew out to California to attend a Raiders game that they would get a very special surprise.
At halftime Tonya and the kids were brought onto the field so the boys could kick a field goal. However, to their astonishment the player holding the ball was none other than their dad.
As the kids cried and hugged him, it was a truly heart-warming homecoming.
Season 2 of "Coming Home" continues each Sunday at 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime.
TV Replay scours the...
In the six years Michael and Tonya had been married, he had been deployed overseas three times.
During the Oakland Raider's fan's latest deployment to Afghanistan, Tonya and their four kids were missing Michael very much, and they had no idea that when they flew out to California to attend a Raiders game that they would get a very special surprise.
At halftime Tonya and the kids were brought onto the field so the boys could kick a field goal. However, to their astonishment the player holding the ball was none other than their dad.
As the kids cried and hugged him, it was a truly heart-warming homecoming.
Season 2 of "Coming Home" continues each Sunday at 10 p.m. Est on Lifetime.
TV Replay scours the...
- 3/12/2012
- by Catherine Lawson
- Aol TV.
There have been more than 400 film and TV adaptations so far, and counting, some brilliant, some memorably awful
The opening credits of BBC1's new three-part adaptation of Great Expectations (27-29 December) show a chrysalis cracking open to reveal a pair of trembling wings. A few seconds later this delicate emergence is replaced on screen by the escaped convict Magwitch (Ray Winstone) erupting from the stagnant waters of the Essex marshes. Covered in blood and slime, he is at once the monster of nightmares and a huge misshapen baby gasping its first breath.
In a single sequence, the director Brian Kirk gets to the heart of Dickens's novel as a fable of rebirth and renewal. Together with Sarah Phelps, the screenwriter, he has created a world in which characters are forever seeking to transform themselves – or each other. A spookily young Miss Havisham (Gillian Anderson), still cocooned in her tatty wedding dress,...
The opening credits of BBC1's new three-part adaptation of Great Expectations (27-29 December) show a chrysalis cracking open to reveal a pair of trembling wings. A few seconds later this delicate emergence is replaced on screen by the escaped convict Magwitch (Ray Winstone) erupting from the stagnant waters of the Essex marshes. Covered in blood and slime, he is at once the monster of nightmares and a huge misshapen baby gasping its first breath.
In a single sequence, the director Brian Kirk gets to the heart of Dickens's novel as a fable of rebirth and renewal. Together with Sarah Phelps, the screenwriter, he has created a world in which characters are forever seeking to transform themselves – or each other. A spookily young Miss Havisham (Gillian Anderson), still cocooned in her tatty wedding dress,...
- 12/24/2011
- by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- The Guardian - Film News
BFI plans comprehensive season celebrating most adapted author of all time in early 2012
From Alec Guinness as Fagin to Miss Piggy as Mrs Cratchit, the BFI is staging a three-month retrospective of Dickens on film and TV on London's South Bank from January, to mark the novelist's bicentenary.. The season is curated by Michael Eaton and Co-curator Adrian Wootton, said Dickens's influence on cinema and TV had been immense and continues right up to the present day, with Mike Newell's Great Expectations the next movie outing for Dickens. "It demonstrates that he is not a dead, grey old man sitting on dusty shelves who nobody reads, he is a living breathing artist whose work just keeps on rippling and resonating through our culture."
All the novels have been adapted to some degree. There are around 100 silent films, of which around a third still exist, "although we keep finding new...
From Alec Guinness as Fagin to Miss Piggy as Mrs Cratchit, the BFI is staging a three-month retrospective of Dickens on film and TV on London's South Bank from January, to mark the novelist's bicentenary.. The season is curated by Michael Eaton and Co-curator Adrian Wootton, said Dickens's influence on cinema and TV had been immense and continues right up to the present day, with Mike Newell's Great Expectations the next movie outing for Dickens. "It demonstrates that he is not a dead, grey old man sitting on dusty shelves who nobody reads, he is a living breathing artist whose work just keeps on rippling and resonating through our culture."
All the novels have been adapted to some degree. There are around 100 silent films, of which around a third still exist, "although we keep finding new...
- 11/18/2011
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Winterbottom and producing partner Michael Eaton have for some time held the rights to Richard Dilello's Beatles memoir The Longest Cocktail Party: An Insider's Diary Of The Beatles, Their Million Dollar Apple Empire And Its Wild Rise And Fall (breathe), but now The Playlist is reporting that the script is in and Winterbottom plans to direct it himself. What's even more promising, the adaptation was penned by In The Loop and Four Lions screenwriter Jesse Armstrong. Though there is no start date yet, producer and Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher is keen to see it happen on the quick. While Winterbottom is likely wrapped up through the end of next year, the director is nothing if not prolific and knows how to work quickly....
- 10/12/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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