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6 days ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell
It's a very, very funny idea for a programme. Even if the comedy bits weren't funny in themselves, the importance of their onlookers not laughing would immediately render them so. It brings a wave of the ghastly hilarity we feel when someone whispers a joke during a funeral, or passes you a secret cartoon of the maths teacher.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell
Anyway, it's a mistake. "President Perry Morgan" is not quite "President Merkin Muffley" (Peter Sellers, Dr Strangelove) but it's still not bland enough; they should have called him "Andrew Thomas" or "William Smith" or "David Mitchell". And yet, when it comes to his character, I've been watching this series for weeks and can't keep him in my head. He's awfully forgettable - like the real 19th-century President James Polk.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell
No criticism intended, by the way. Of course Alec Baldwin's money and fame increase his sex appeal; that's no shallower than his own liking for his wife's youth and bendiness. Besides, contentedness is not necessarily in the eye of the beholder. Anna Nicole Smith was left nothing in that lecherous old billionaire's will and died from a drug overdose some years later.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell
There is plenty of other easy-pleasing stuff in these episodes: lovely costumes, beautiful people, grass-court tennis and a fabulous turn from Hollywood royalty in Anjelica Huston. This all brings a welcome lightness - but, for me, still not light enough! A suicidal character from the original novel is blended with Inspector Leach in this adaptation, suffusing the lead with melancholy.
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2 months ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Victoria Coren Mitchell
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Just seen they’re repeating the “Only Connect Sounds Special” on @BBCTwo tonight, at 8pm before the University Challenge final. I’m glad that’s getting a second airing. But apologies to the visually impaired, who can usually escape our show but have no excuse with this one!
Playing a triv game, my small daughter just said “In science fiction questions, it’s always Darth Vader or Wilf Skyscraper”. I’m so proud. (Her father distraught).
Just went to see Oliver! in London - what a wonderful show and Simon Lipkin is really *phenomenal*. Reminds me of the night I was meant to star as the Artful Dodger at school but couldn’t due to stage fright. Mind you, I was only 9. Mind you, SO ARE MANY OF THIS WEST END CAST. ❤️