Quote: Tim Walker @ October 21 2009, 11:27 PM BSTBalloon Boy Dad "Wants An Apocalypse Bunker"
Cool.
Mr Balloon Boy wanted to build a bunker to "protect" him and his family when the sun explodes (in 2012 apparently). Have to be a bloody good bunker.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 33
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 21 2009, 11:27 PM BSTBalloon Boy Dad "Wants An Apocalypse Bunker"
Cool.
Mr Balloon Boy wanted to build a bunker to "protect" him and his family when the sun explodes (in 2012 apparently). Have to be a bloody good bunker.
He must know something we don't! I mean he did make sure his son wouldn't be in his hot air balloon before setting it free and calling everyone let them know what 'could' have happened.
He's a regular John Titor.
Quote: Curt @ October 22 2009, 12:38 AM BSTHe's a regular John Titor.
Never heard about this "person". Thanks. Interesting.
A Report on Calendar news last night (as told to me by my wife) stated that 'The figures for the obese, on men and women have ballooned.' 
Not sure if this was true. Maybe the wife is taking the piss! Not being able to get this, as I'm not in the UK. Can this be confirmed by anyone? http://www.itv.com/yorkshire/obesitywarning88208/
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 21 2009, 11:27 PM BSTBalloon Boy Dad "Wants An Apocalypse Bunker"
Cool.
Mr Balloon Boy wanted to build a bunker to "protect" him and his family when the sun explodes (in 2012 apparently). Have to be a bloody good bunker.
Looks like he's going to get it...except it's going to be full of convicted criminals bumming him.
British dentists and plastic surgeons set to have a field day?
UK Drama Indies Told To Look For Dishier Actors
Presumably whether the actors are any good, or suit the show they're cast in, becomes rather immaterial. A retrograde step in trying to persuade society not to judge people on their looks? Or just the harsh reality of the market place?
If they came out and said "You should use less black or ethnic actors in order to sell shows", people would rightly be appalled. Yet it might well be statistically true that this would improve a show's chances of selling to certain countries. Doesn't TV/film have some minor responsibility to influence society, rather just only reflect it?
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 22 2009, 2:50 PM BSTBritish dentists and plastic surgeons set to have a field day?
UK Drama Indies Told To Look For Dishier Actors
Presumably whether the actors are any good, or suit the show they're cast in, becomes rather immaterial. A retrograde step in trying to persuade society not to judge people on their looks? Or just the harsh reality of the market place?
If they came out and said "You should use less black or ethnic actors in order to sell shows", people would rightly be appalled. Yet it might well be statistically true that this would improve a show's chances of selling to certain countries. Doesn't TV/film have some minor responsibility to influence society, rather just only reflect it?
Surely TV and film have always favoured the good looking? Although it's probably the pig ugly character actors who have the longer careers.
Well I won't say women have always had to look young and perfect, compared to men. It's such a subjective area though. For years Daniel Craig was considered an ugly, thuggish-looking character actor, but look how he's perceived now.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 2:56 PM BSTWell I won't say women have always had to look young and perfect, compared to men. It's such a subjective area though. For years Daniel Craig was considered an ugly, thuggish-looking character actor, but look how he's perceived now.
An ugly, thuggish-looking James Bond.
Quote: Tim Walker @ October 22 2009, 2:50 PM BSTBritish dentists and plastic surgeons set to have a field day?
UK Drama Indies Told To Look For Dishier Actors
Presumably whether the actors are any good, or suit the show they're cast in, becomes rather immaterial. A retrograde step in trying to persuade society not to judge people on their looks? Or just the harsh reality of the market place?
I find the insistence on good-looking actors often detracts from a show. Joss Stone played the 'flanders mare' in The Tudors, one of history's famously ugly characters, yet Joss is rather easy on the eye, and it made the show absurd.
And I know it's just me, but in How Not To Live Your Life, I found Sam to be so sexy that it was a distraction.
Quote: chipolata @ October 22 2009, 2:54 PM BSTSurely TV and film have always favoured the good looking?
True, and TV/film is an escapist medium, so it's not completely unreasonable that shows/movies feature people with "aspirational" looks a lot of the time. But it does seem to be a backwards step to basically imply that shows should feature mostly generically "good-looking" people. Particularly in British comedy, I've always been proud of the fact that we don't cast mostly good-looking people in our shows.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 22 2009, 2:56 PM BSTFor years Daniel Craig was considered an ugly, thuggish-looking character actor, but look how he's perceived now.
What? You mean they've added pigshit-thick to the list?
Quote: SlagA @ October 22 2009, 3:04 PM BSTWhat? You mean they've added pigshit-thick to the list?
Quote: SlagA @ October 22 2009, 3:04 PM BSTWhat? You mean they've added pigshit-thick to the list?
In what way is he 'thick'? I think you're basing your opinion on the way he looks, which is never a good thing.
Daniel Craig was brilliant in the BBC film adaptation of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen (playing opposite Stephen Rea) - worth checking out.