Actor, who became one of the most famous child stars of all time, has died at the age of 85
• Shirley Temple obituary
• Philip French on Shirley Temple
• Shirley Temple: a career in clips
Whoopi Goldberg, James Franco and Mia Farrow have paid tribute to the actor, singer, dancer and politician Shirley Temple, who has died aged 85.
Farrow credited Temple, still held as the most famous child stars of all time, for "rais[ing] the spirits of a nation during the Great Depression", while Goldberg identified her as "one of a kind". Temple began her singular career aged three, finding early success with chirpy hits such as Curly Top, Heidi and Bright Eyes. That film featured one of Temple's best known performances, a rendition of Richard A Whiting and Sidney Clare's On the Good Ship Lollipop.
Temple left the film business in 1950. She returned for a brief stint in television,...
• Shirley Temple obituary
• Philip French on Shirley Temple
• Shirley Temple: a career in clips
Whoopi Goldberg, James Franco and Mia Farrow have paid tribute to the actor, singer, dancer and politician Shirley Temple, who has died aged 85.
Farrow credited Temple, still held as the most famous child stars of all time, for "rais[ing] the spirits of a nation during the Great Depression", while Goldberg identified her as "one of a kind". Temple began her singular career aged three, finding early success with chirpy hits such as Curly Top, Heidi and Bright Eyes. That film featured one of Temple's best known performances, a rendition of Richard A Whiting and Sidney Clare's On the Good Ship Lollipop.
Temple left the film business in 1950. She returned for a brief stint in television,...
- 2/11/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
British culture was once open to 'messy kids' from secondary moderns. But if you want to make it in 21st century Britain, you'd best have a cut-glass accent and public school pedigree
Last week the actor Stephen McGann spoke out about how difficult it is for young people from working-class backgrounds to enter his profession. "Opportunities are closing down," he said in an interview with the Independent. "If you're a messy kid from a council estate today, I think the chances of you making it as a successful actor are a lot worse than they were."
McGann, 50, youngest of the family of acting brothers, grew up on the edge of Toxteth in Liverpool and was educated at a Catholic grammar school. "What counted for me and my brothers – and for mates of ours like David Morrissey and Ian Hart, all growing up in Dingle and Toxteth – was the real change in education,...
Last week the actor Stephen McGann spoke out about how difficult it is for young people from working-class backgrounds to enter his profession. "Opportunities are closing down," he said in an interview with the Independent. "If you're a messy kid from a council estate today, I think the chances of you making it as a successful actor are a lot worse than they were."
McGann, 50, youngest of the family of acting brothers, grew up on the edge of Toxteth in Liverpool and was educated at a Catholic grammar school. "What counted for me and my brothers – and for mates of ours like David Morrissey and Ian Hart, all growing up in Dingle and Toxteth – was the real change in education,...
- 1/26/2014
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
Deaf Institute, Manchester
"Is everyone alright up there?" asks Roddy Frame, eyeing the venue's miniscule balcony. "It's just like the Palladium in here." Hardly, but the Scottish singer-songwriter has been daring to dream ever since his old band Aztec Camera's 1983 debut, High Land, Hard Rain, catapulted him from East Kilbride to international stardom when he was just 19. Appearances are rarer now, but his enduring reputation as one of the finest songwriters of the last 30 years means gigs like this are a white-hot ticket.
The Frame of 2011 isn't the political idealist who once offered his help to the National Union of Mineworkers, but a romantic wordsmith who documents love's ups and downs with guitars, big tunes and words as poetically beautiful as "Clusters of heavenly jewels, gaze down on Earth's lonely fools."
With his perfect quiff, soaring croon, stunning fingerpicking and chiming jangles, Frame could almost be Morrissey and Marr inhabiting the same body.
"Is everyone alright up there?" asks Roddy Frame, eyeing the venue's miniscule balcony. "It's just like the Palladium in here." Hardly, but the Scottish singer-songwriter has been daring to dream ever since his old band Aztec Camera's 1983 debut, High Land, Hard Rain, catapulted him from East Kilbride to international stardom when he was just 19. Appearances are rarer now, but his enduring reputation as one of the finest songwriters of the last 30 years means gigs like this are a white-hot ticket.
The Frame of 2011 isn't the political idealist who once offered his help to the National Union of Mineworkers, but a romantic wordsmith who documents love's ups and downs with guitars, big tunes and words as poetically beautiful as "Clusters of heavenly jewels, gaze down on Earth's lonely fools."
With his perfect quiff, soaring croon, stunning fingerpicking and chiming jangles, Frame could almost be Morrissey and Marr inhabiting the same body.
- 10/14/2011
- by Dave Simpson
- The Guardian - Film News
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
Here at Film & Music we like to think of ourselves as defenders of the faith, standing up for the classical virtues – connoisseurs if you will, of the finer things in life. Hence, it's a pleasure to report the near-universal acclaim that greeted Peter Paphides's record-shop trawl to mark Record Store Day with occasional F&M contributor and full-time vinyl junkie Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne. Lots of commenters posted pleas for their own favourite shops that were missed – but have a heart, the duo couldn't visit every one in the country – but it was the rapport between Paphides and Stanley that really impressed everyone. RalfyJ wrote: "Best thing I've read in ages. Sounds like The Trip, only with worse food and a better soundtrack." This can't be a reference to the chat about the cat-sitting game that Stanley suggests...
Here at Film & Music we like to think of ourselves as defenders of the faith, standing up for the classical virtues – connoisseurs if you will, of the finer things in life. Hence, it's a pleasure to report the near-universal acclaim that greeted Peter Paphides's record-shop trawl to mark Record Store Day with occasional F&M contributor and full-time vinyl junkie Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne. Lots of commenters posted pleas for their own favourite shops that were missed – but have a heart, the duo couldn't visit every one in the country – but it was the rapport between Paphides and Stanley that really impressed everyone. RalfyJ wrote: "Best thing I've read in ages. Sounds like The Trip, only with worse food and a better soundtrack." This can't be a reference to the chat about the cat-sitting game that Stanley suggests...
- 4/21/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Plus! The mega list of lists – Aka all the other stuff we didn't have room for
2010's best guest appearances
Bon Iver on Kanye's Lost In The World
It might be quicker to compile a list of people who didn't feature on Kanye's epic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Mike Oldfield, Rick Ross, Gil Scott-Heron, Aphex Twin etc) but Justin Vernon's cameo is a bit special.
Gillian Anderson as Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart
Logan Mountstuart (Matthew Macfayden) crossed paths with Gillian Anderson's Wallis Simpson (brilliantly partnered by Tom Hollander as the paranoid Duke Of Windsor). An exile on a royal streak, she floated from Portugal to the Bahamas like a swan carved in ice, until Logan was crossed off their party list with a hissed "Judas!" straight to camera.
Prince Jamming at Gayngs' Last Prom On Earth
Fair play to Mr Love Symbol #2 for his contribution...
2010's best guest appearances
Bon Iver on Kanye's Lost In The World
It might be quicker to compile a list of people who didn't feature on Kanye's epic My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Mike Oldfield, Rick Ross, Gil Scott-Heron, Aphex Twin etc) but Justin Vernon's cameo is a bit special.
Gillian Anderson as Wallis Simpson in Any Human Heart
Logan Mountstuart (Matthew Macfayden) crossed paths with Gillian Anderson's Wallis Simpson (brilliantly partnered by Tom Hollander as the paranoid Duke Of Windsor). An exile on a royal streak, she floated from Portugal to the Bahamas like a swan carved in ice, until Logan was crossed off their party list with a hissed "Judas!" straight to camera.
Prince Jamming at Gayngs' Last Prom On Earth
Fair play to Mr Love Symbol #2 for his contribution...
- 12/18/2010
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
But who would vote for David Icke? Help us find Britain's National Treasures
What connects union firebrand Arthur Scargill, maverick musician Mark E Smith and comedy actress June Whitfield? The answer is that they have all had early advocates in the Observer's search for Britain's National Treasures. Each has merit but, like the Americans and Osama, the hunt goes on.
It's been a wide range of bodies thus far thrown – gently – against the wall. Some, we might politely suggest, may not win universal approval – goalkeeper turned galactic lizard spotter David Icke, for instance. And one cannot help but feel that the commentator who labelled Bob Crow the "voice of reason" will want for followers.
There have been nominations for figures who would gain approval in most constituencies – Sir David Attenborough, for one. And unless Colin Firth's extended family logged on en masse, the increasingly vocal call for the fine...
What connects union firebrand Arthur Scargill, maverick musician Mark E Smith and comedy actress June Whitfield? The answer is that they have all had early advocates in the Observer's search for Britain's National Treasures. Each has merit but, like the Americans and Osama, the hunt goes on.
It's been a wide range of bodies thus far thrown – gently – against the wall. Some, we might politely suggest, may not win universal approval – goalkeeper turned galactic lizard spotter David Icke, for instance. And one cannot help but feel that the commentator who labelled Bob Crow the "voice of reason" will want for followers.
There have been nominations for figures who would gain approval in most constituencies – Sir David Attenborough, for one. And unless Colin Firth's extended family logged on en masse, the increasingly vocal call for the fine...
- 11/21/2010
- by Richard Rogers
- The Guardian - Film News
Bono's done his back in, so Gorillaz have been charged with saving Glastonbury. Rich Pelley goes head to head with Murdoc
Hi, Murdoc. Do you think Bono really slipped a disc "in rehearsals" or did The Edge land a particularly good punch during a piggyback fight?
A cover-up dreamt up for damage-limitation purposes by a well-oiled press machine? Maybe. Maybe he's been detained in a Mongolian jail for playing a strenuous public game of Twister with a couple of greased-up goats. Either way, I wish him a speedy recovery.
Bono wears sunglasses all the time. When he goes on holiday, does he have to wear two pairs?
Er, right. Are these the kind of questions you normally ask people (1)? Yes, he wears two pairs of glasses. The Edge wears two cowboy hats for sun protection. And Larry takes two drumkits into the shower.
Glastonbury is ideal for lining up special guests.
Hi, Murdoc. Do you think Bono really slipped a disc "in rehearsals" or did The Edge land a particularly good punch during a piggyback fight?
A cover-up dreamt up for damage-limitation purposes by a well-oiled press machine? Maybe. Maybe he's been detained in a Mongolian jail for playing a strenuous public game of Twister with a couple of greased-up goats. Either way, I wish him a speedy recovery.
Bono wears sunglasses all the time. When he goes on holiday, does he have to wear two pairs?
Er, right. Are these the kind of questions you normally ask people (1)? Yes, he wears two pairs of glasses. The Edge wears two cowboy hats for sun protection. And Larry takes two drumkits into the shower.
Glastonbury is ideal for lining up special guests.
- 6/18/2010
- by Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Gorillaz have announced details of their upcoming third LP Plastic Beach, which is due for release on March 8. The animated band's creators Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett told NME that the album is now complete and will feature collaborations with the likes of Lou Reed, Mos Def, Mark E Smith, Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack, De La Soul and Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys. The Clash duo Mick Jones and Paul Simonon will also feature on the record's title track. "Leeching is the wrong word now, isn't it?" said bassist Murdoc Niccals of the record's guest appearances. "It's not like I've drawn blood or anything. No, I think the word 'coerced' sings the deal a little better. Although, yes, the coercion did come via chloroform and rohypnol." Plastic Beach's (more)...
- 1/20/2010
- by By Oli Simpson
- Digital Spy
Lead singer of The Fall Mark E Smith will be investigated over comments he made in an interview about killing squirrels.
The Rspca is angry with the 51-year-old after he told Uncut magazine that he killed two squirrels.
When questioned about how much money it would take for him to take them on with hedge-trimmers, Smith responded: "Nothing, I'd do it for free.
"Squirrels mean nothing to me. I killed a couple last weekend actually. They were eating my garden fence."
Rspca spokeswoman Klare Kennett said: "The comments are irresponsible, . . .
The Rspca is angry with the 51-year-old after he told Uncut magazine that he killed two squirrels.
When questioned about how much money it would take for him to take them on with hedge-trimmers, Smith responded: "Nothing, I'd do it for free.
"Squirrels mean nothing to me. I killed a couple last weekend actually. They were eating my garden fence."
Rspca spokeswoman Klare Kennett said: "The comments are irresponsible, . . .
- 4/10/2008
- by Simon_Reynolds_imdb_@digitalspy.co.uk (Simon Reynolds)
- Digital Spy
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