I see Sky Arts have pulled the thing where Joseph Fiennes plays Michael Jackson

Not sure when we got so sensitive about the depiction of dead páedophiles, but there you go.

As a compromise I would propose they do one about Jimmy Savile and have Lenny Henry play him. Then it's all fair.

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Not sure when we got so sensitive about the depiction of dead páedophiles, but there you go.

As a compromise I would propose they do one about Jimmy Savile and have Lenny Henry play him. Then it's all fair.

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Oh, shame. Brian Cox looked terrific as Brando and that saucy old bird from "Grease" ("Stockyard" Something?) seemed to work well as late-vintage Elizabeth Taylor, imo.

Oh, and Eddie Marsan!

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Oh, shame. Brian Cox looked terrific as Brando and that saucy old bird from "Grease" ("Stockyard" Something?) seemed to work well as late-vintage Elizabeth Taylor, imo.

Oh, and Eddie Marsan!

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It does seem incredibly spineless to have gone to all the trouble of making it and publicising it only to pull it a few days before it airs.

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It does seem incredibly spineless to have gone to all the trouble of making it and publicising it only to pull it a few days before it airs.

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Americans don't like it up 'em clearly.

Fiennes is British, of course, but how many of *our* icons have been portrayed by Yanks, like that Streep shrew playing Lady Thatcher.

And do you hear us complaining.

Probably replace it with some Andre Rieu *******s.

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Probably replace it with some Andre Rieu *******s.

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OK, what have you got against him? Arsenal legend, imo. Is it because he's English?

Or German?

Dutch even?

http://images.dailystar.co.uk/dynami...620x/20096.jpg

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OK, what have you got against him?

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I have nothing against him, he just seems to be on Sky Arts an awful lot, too often some may say.

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I have nothing against him, he just seems to be on Sky Arts an awful lot, too often some may say.

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I was just trying to be funny. They both look the same, to me :-(

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Fiennes is British, of course, but how many of *our* icons have been portrayed by Yanks, like that Streep shrew playing Lady Thatcher.

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Tyrion Lannister*.

(*made-up character, but still English)

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Jaime Lannister*.

(*made-up character, but still English)

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Heimdall too. Made-up Scandanavian, ruined by Hollywood.

And the British obviously.