In personal conversations and e-mail exchanges, many of you have asked me to expand upon my role with the Knight Creative Communities Initiative (KCCI), so I thought I’d take a break from debating the appeal of Tallahassee and devote some space to it here.
The first task of the KCCI Catalyst Team was to “talk to the people that live here
So for the last few months over here in the UK we’ve been bombarded with adverts - on buses, on billboards, on banner ads on the net, on the TV - telling us that Ricky Gervais was going to be on The Simpsons. 2.2 MILLION of us tuned in last night to see what was effectively being billed as the best episode ever… and it sucked! And it seems I’m not alone in thinking that way either… read this. Disappointing.
One thing that wasn’t a disappointment was the new British movie, Confetti. You can watch the trailer here. I comes out in the UK at the beginning of may and in the US at the end of the same month. The whole thing is improvised. It stars Martin (The Office, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy) Freeman and a host of other excellent British comedy stars but the show is stolen (big time) by the two gay wedding organisers. They are hilarious. It met the main cast of the film last week, so when I’ve got my interviews up I’ll post links. It’s really really funny.
Other things you might like to know about that have come up in the last few days include: Will Smith crashes a Bar Mitzvah (Getting Yiddish With It?); Comedies are dominating this years MTV Movie Awards; Samuel L Jackson has had bits of his new movie, Snakes On A Plane (no prizes for guessing what it’s about), reshot so that he could swear more; and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had a baby - a girl. I won’t link to that story because if you aren’t aware of that story then you’re either dead or really don’t care one bit. anyway, congrats Tom. He’s been in Rome today ahead of the premiere of MI3 there tonight but no word yet on if he’ll be in London for the premiere here tomorrow.
And now a plug for a friend… every Monday through Thursday, a longstanding friend of mine has a show on a radio station in Brighton, England called Juice. He runs a music school by day - and has a co-host, Ace from the excellent 90’s rock band, Skunk Anansie. It’s on between 8 and 10pm GMT and you can listen in by going to the website here. Tell him Simon sent you…
And I think that’s it… til next time… er… bye.I Love Lamp!
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