Month: May 2008

Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: Mark Owen’s ‘Makin Out’

16 May 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Today’s Joanna Page is the video to Mark Owen’s “Makin Out”. All right, you don’t have to listen to it – turn the sound down if you want to.

Actually, I was expecting the worse, but it’s quite a nice little song, I think. The video’s pretty good, although a little creepy in the light of the Torchwood episode From Out of the Rain (they’re so similar, I’m wondering if the directors are the same). It’s mostly in the style of silent movies of the 10s and 20s – although it could be argued that Mark Owen isn’t so much doing Buster Keaton as Johnny Depp doing Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin in Benny & Joon.

Nice roller skating, too.

Next week: Joanna Page as Dickensian femme fatale* Dora Spenlow in David Copperfield.

* Let the debaters start preparing now!

Friday’s Orange news

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Film

Commercials

  • Rob Lowe latest star of Orange cinema ads

British TV

US TV

Vote for my sister’s album at the Mojo awards

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Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan

She’s popped up in the blog a couple of times this week now, providing invaluable information, so it would be very lovely if y’all could vote in the 2008 Mojo Awards for an album that she worked on.

After slaving away on ‘Theme Time Radio Hour: With Your Host Bob Dylan‘ for much of last year, it’s been nominated in the “Compilation Of The Year” category. I’m sure it would be equally nice if you bought it, too!

You can see the shortlists here and you can register to vote for it here.

Ta very much!

Sitting Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant

15 May 2008 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

David Tennant

Today’s Sitting Tennant comes from Who’s T-Shirt Do You Think You Are? in which David Tennant rummage’s through Oxfam shop clothes racks and tries to find the most retro, unpleasant T-shirt that he can. Is it a chocolate coloured Charlie’s Angels? Or one of Roald Dahl’s shameless old Tales of the Unexpected merchandising tie-ins? Informed minds want to know.

Spurred on by a comment by Toby on the last entry in the gallery, I’m now opening “Sitting Tennant” up to caption-writers as well as photograph hunters. Either wow us with your ability to find pictures of David Tennant sitting down, or amuse the assembled Algonquin roundtable that is this blog’s readership* with your pithy remarks about the photo. Both would be delightful.

* Really. You are all very entertaining, you know.