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‘Fat Pig’ cook-off

Unusual PR move this one: Fat Pig stars Ella Smith and (yes, it is she) Joanna Page are appearing on Monday next‘s Ready, Steady, Cook for a cook-off.

Not sure it’s how I’d promote a potentially caustic Neil LaBute comedy about size-discrimination, but I’ll be setting the PVR anyway. I do like that Ainsley’s cous-cous.

Today's Joanna Page

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

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!

Thursday’s “not Greek, not fat, but maybe a wedding” news

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Today's Joanna Page

Today’s Joanna Page: From Hell

 

Today’s Joanna Page is From Hell, an impressively unpleasant and bad film, which is odd*, given that it was based on a graphic novel by the lovely Alan Moore, stars the equally lovely Johnny Depp and features the very lovely indeed Joanna Page. She plays a former prostitute trying to turn good for the sake of her baby. Which is… nice? Sigh. Where’s Andrea Dworkin when you need her?

* Okay, it’s about Jack the Ripper, so that should have been a clue. What’s the fascination there, by the way? We’re talking about a bloke who was really nasty to women. I’m not really sure he’s worth dwelling on unless you’re a criminal psychologist or a historian…