Did anyone see the start of the BBC mini series about the Bloomsbury Set last night?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's amazing how a scriptwriter managed to take a potentilly fascinating story and set of characters and turn it into something duller than a hospital visit.

Poor work from the beeb, there.

[Snin]

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

:bow:

[Snin]

rip each others throats out.. I wish id never seen an episode or two of GOT now as makes drama very borng unless you get tits, pussy, cock and killings within 5 mins imo

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[7evens]

;-)

[Snin]

[7evens]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Instead I continued my ongoing struggle with True Detective series 2.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's not bad, it's just nothing like as good as the first one.

Also, who the f**k knows what's going on?

I'm very much enjoying the third series of House Of Cards, though.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I am very much at ground level when it comes to the whole box-set thing, though I appreciate that HoC may well just be on television.

I don't watch a lot of television really but then on occasion I note that I have been sat there for an hour watching Rick Stein travel around the far east or perhaps France.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

fictional equivalents.

Indeed, the only won I'd give you tuppence for was Lytton Strachey. Eminent Victorians is fantastically bitchy, but beautifully written. Virginia Woolf, on the other hand, was a tedious, ugly bint.

[Berni]

first series.

Essentially, I put this down to there being no Woody Harrelson, who is endlessly fascinating to watch.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

and a chap who I am told is Irish, pretending to be American.

This chap appears to be awfully, awfully pleased with himself. I remember him from 'In Bruges', (it's not yer fat dead lad) but apparently in the interim he has become quite the thing. And doesn't he know it :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We love Big Matt.

[Berni]

Probably my favourite Spacey, that. Also, it makes me want to visit Savannah

[Berni]

f**k up. Miserable sod.

Colin Farrell is an odd one. I would argue that In Bruges is by some distance his best performance. In everything else I've ever seen him in, he's been ****e. His 'Alexander' is simply jaw-droppingly bad. Although Oliver Stone's decision to make all the Macedonians Irish for some reason did rather jar, to be fair.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

My favourite work of Kev's has been at the Old Vic, of course. His Henry Drummond in 'Inherit The Wind' was particularly marvellous. He went full-on lovey for that bad boy, I can tell you.

[Snin]

whats that all about ?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I've just read that he was in 'Saving Mr Banks', which I rather enjoyed in a cosy Sunday afternoon movie kind of way, but of Colin I have zero recollection.

[Berni]

I still maintain he got all the best lines. And I got to wear a straw hat at a jaunty angle.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

:hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I trhought he was pretty good, then. That's my theory f**ked.

Bugger.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

And of course less known is the fact the he auditioned (and failed) for a part in Boyzone.

It is a little bit odd how he managed to bag such a presumably sought after role in TD2 given that as you say he has not been in a decent film since or before In Bruges.

[Berni]

represented a pretty much surefire opportunity for intimate grappling. :nod:

Also, I got to dress up and show off. I played Puck once. In green tights and green and gold make-up.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I understand from you that this endows him with the wit of Wilde, the wisdom of Solomon and the riches of Croesus. You never mentioned fecklessness.

[Berni]

does not point at aeroplanes. I make no grand claims for Dublin per se. He strikes me as a North Dublin gurrier, tbh.

Now if you'd said South Dublin...

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The delusions are strong here.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

North Dublin, bordering on the Phoenix Park.

[Berni]

Everywhere else be dragons imo.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Though I must concede that I had a very nice ice-cream from Teddy’s just the weekend before last. Perhaps it was nicer when you last visited but now it is simply a sea front and the Peoples Park, the rest of the town is terribly run down.

16 is where the cool kids live now. Kind of like London where the cools have migrated to previously uncool areas which are now beyond cool.

Knocklyon is where it rocks. Buy now while you still can.