The staff of the Edinburgh Evening News sing a song, possibly while under duress. (via @annaframe).
BED IN HEBREW
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Dear David
Hi.
I finished reading Bed last night. I must say I felt for Mal. It was an emotional and strong book and I thank you for sharing it with us. I look forward to read more from your touching pen.
With love from Turkey,
Elif
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An interview with Brian McKellen, accidental movie star
Brian McKellen, 63, from Kidderminster, may not sound like a movie star, but that hasn’t stopped him from being employed by some of Hollywood’s hottest directors for roles in some of Tinseltown’s biggest films, completely BY ACCIDENT.
Brian came to acting late, quitting a 45-year career in sandwich packing to tread the boards after suffering a massive breakdown. Eager to be taken seriously by casting agents he decided to set up his own website, where a one-in-a-million programming error led to the typo that would catapult him to stardom.
“Basically, when I wrote Brian McKellen, I did the ‘B’ and the ‘R’ really small with a space after it, so it looked a bit like ‘Mr Ian McKellen’. If you read it very quickly.”
Within hours, his Hotmail inbox was choc-full of acting offers for some of the most highly anticipated blockbusters of recent years.
“It makes a change from going home and talking about sandwiches, which used to drive my late wife potty!” laughs Brian, currently taking some time out from mixing with the acting greats.
“My first job was on the X-Men movie. I remember it well. They were putting a big tin hat on me and started gluing all spoons to my legs because I was playing an old man who was magnetic or something like that,” chuckles Brian. “It was only when him off Star Trek gets wheeled in and says ‘hang on, who are you?’ that I’d finished my takes for the day and was sent home.”
Brian’s career has even taken him as far afield as New Zealand, where he landed a part in Peter Jackson’s epic Lord of the Rings trilogy.
“Oh yes, what a wonderful experience! I was standing on a massive rock, surrounded by lava. I’ve got a wand and I’m pointing it at that bloke who wears leggings and always plays computer monkeys. He has a tug of my pretend beard and says ‘Sir Ian? Eh?’ And that was me done. It was the craziest set I’ve ever worked on, that’s for sure.”
After his break from the limelight, Brian intends to take up some of the offers that continue to flood in by the hour.
“They want me to do something called Stonewall, or something like that, but I’ll be honest I don’t really get it.”
We can be sure that we’ll be seeing a lot more of Brian on the silver screen sometime very soon.
Yesterday I caught a mouse with a pint glass and a Christmas fragrance catalogue. See how I did it on the last ten minutes of this Wednesday’s Frozen Planet with David Attenborough.
THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE THAT WILL BOIL YOUR PISS IN THE FIRES OF RAGE.
Hi,
We represent Nicola Goodger from ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ and we’re planning to take Nicola, her younger sister and two of the other members from the current cast of TOWIE to spend a few days at a luxury £7 million villa in Marbella and we’re looking for an exclusive media partner who would like to commission the rights to both the photographic images and indeed the interview with the girls.
This is a perfect ‘Winter Sun’ break and whilst Nicola’s sister’s Ex, Mark Wright struggles in the jungle, Nicola and some of his fellow cast mates will be hanging out in a stunning luxurious villa which is equipped with pools, Jacuzzis and set in the most beautiful mountainous location.
We are in a position to either take your own journalist/photographer out with us or we can take our own and provide you with the images upon return.
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Tonight I’ll be reading out loud from Bed @crossingborder festival in The Hague at 10.30ish with Paul Murray who wrote Skippy Dies and tomorrow the same kind of thing in Antwerp at 7ish. Know someone there? Make them come. Or if you’re there, come. Please.
I had nothing to illustrate this with, hence the potato.
The cover of the UK paperback of Bed. Comes out in April. A must for fans of paper and socks.
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The American paperback of Bed will look like this. It will have a new short story in it too, if I don’t balls it right up. It will come out next year. Can you afford to be one of the seven billion people that hasn’t read it?
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