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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:12:55 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:17:25 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:23:11 GMT -7
Connie Booth (born 2 December 1940) is an American actress and writer. She has appeared in several British television programmes and films, including her role as Polly Sherman on BBC Two's Fawlty Towers, which she co-wrote with her then-husband John Cleese. In 1995 she quit acting and worked as a psychotherapist until her retirement.
In 1971, Booth and Cleese had a daughter, Cynthia, who appeared alongside her father in the films A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. Booth and Cleese divorced in 1978. With Cleese, Booth wrote the scripts for and co-starred in both series of Fawlty Towers, although the two were actually divorced before the second series was finished and aired. Their daughter Cynthia married screenwriter Ed Solomon in 1995.
Booth married John Lahr, author and former New Yorker senior drama critic, in 2000. They live in north London.
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:39:18 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:39:47 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:45:06 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 13:48:39 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 14:37:46 GMT -7
Folks,
I had Anglophile Dutch parents, and in times we didn't had cable but just 3 Dutch chanals and the Flemish Belgian BRT (today VRT) chanals, we watched literary everything the Dutch and Belgian Public Broadcasters broadcasted which was a BBC production (the Belgians and Dutch bough a lot of BBC productions thank god), from Are You Being Served? to The House of Eliott, from Monthy Python Flying circus to All Creatures Great and Small (1978), and from The Avengers with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg (playing The Avengers characters John Steed and Emma Pee) to Dick Turpin, and from endless and excellent BBC Shakespeare theatre plays to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from Charles Dickens movies (Oliver Twist) to the James Bond Movies, from Doctor Who to 'To The Manor Born' (very funny comedy about the British upper class, Upper class relations and their interactions with middle class and working class people in the British class society), from Agatha Christie's Miss Marple (BBC1 tv series) to The Singing Detective (Dennis Potter), from Keeping Up Appearances to Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough, from A Bit of Fry & Laurie to Midsumnmer Murders, from Inspector Morse to Blackadder, from Not the Nine O'Clock News to French & Saunders/Absolutely Fabulous, from Alas Smith and Jones to The Young Ones/Bottom, from Upstairs, Downstairs to Downton Abbey, and next to all these tv series, detectives, comedies also the more modern age comedies The League of Gentlemen, Little Britain, The Office, Coupling, Smack the Pony, Greenwing, Alan Partridge and of course great comedians like Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, and a lot of British incredibly funny Female comedians as well.
Without having visited England a lot the UK played an important part in my life. England (The UK) is always on the other side of the North sea. Nearer than the Island is visible. Due to my Anglophile and Francophone upbringing (but more Anglophile due to my dad), our British neighbors in my youth (they came after the French neihbors moved away back to France, and the British neighbors went into the house of the French neigbors half way the seventies), my British English teacher in highschool, the 1989 Summer Course English in Oxford (England, UK), (and again) my fathers admiration for Winston Churchill and his fondness of the Brits and for sure the British sense of humor, Islander mentality and being different than us European continental Europeans, and last not least due to my fondness of British Pop and British Rock music, from the Mersey Beat (Beat music of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles to the Who) to the New Wave and New Romantics from the late seventies and eighties, England, the United Kingdom and thus Great Britain has been always in my life. I can be as stubborn Dutch, Holland oriented, having lived for 53 years in the Netherlands and studied, worked and stayed here all the time, hearing Dutch day and night (as a manner of speaking) stil that British English influence is large. I am afraid that when I would emigrate to the USA I would turn into a British chap in America, an Englishman in New York.
So there must have crept some British element inside of me which merged with the huge and enormous American influence and taste, and merged further with my interest in Continental things like German music, tv, cinema, art and history, Belgian, Dutch and Luxemburg stuf, French cinema, wine, cuisine, French language and France itself (Paris, Lyon, Montpellier, Cannes and Nice), the enormous Polish influence due to being 50% Polish and nearly eating everything about Polish history in my youth (and having had the privilage to have seen Poland so many times as a child during the seventies and eighties -1984 and 1987- by train and car). That English British heritage (my Dutch Rotterdam, South Holland grandparents from the Dutch side were already Anglophiles during the twenties and thirties and forties -certainly during the war-).
British literature, tv (BBC), sense of humor (comedy & Cabaret), press & Media, British sailors in the Harbour town Vlissingen where I grew up. England seemed to be always nearby at the other side of the Westerscheldt and the North Sea. When I stood on the dunes or at the beach and watched over the North Sea I imagined England on the other side of that large mass of water.
Back to the subject of these thread. In the eighties we saw all 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers, and the whole family (Father, mother, son and daughter) loved this British hillarious comedy. And we probably have seen these 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers many times.
Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 14:39:38 GMT -7
I forgot of course the exellent British Political satire and comedy, "Yes, Minster". We watched many episodes on our old family tv in Vlissingen during the eighties and later even nineties.
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 15:51:24 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 15:52:37 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 15:55:09 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 28, 2023 15:57:03 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 4, 2023 4:32:17 GMT -7
The League of GentlemenThe League of Gentlemen is a surreal British comedy horror sitcom that premiered on BBC Two in 1999. The programme is set in Royston Vasey, a fictional town in northern England, originally based on Alston, Cumbria, and follows the lives of bizarre characters, most of whom are played by three of the show's four writers – Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith – who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the League of Gentlemen comedy troupe in 1995. The series originally aired for three series from 1999 until 2002, and was followed by a film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse and a stage production The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!, both in 2005.
The BBC announced in August 2017 that three new episodes would be produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the group's first appearance on BBC Radio 4. Those aired on BBC2 on 18–20 December 2017.
The series was filmed mainly in Hadfield, Derbyshire; other locations include Bacup Lancashire, Glossop, Gamesley, and Hope Valley in Derbyshire; Marsden and Todmorden in West Yorkshire; and Mottram in Greater Manchester.The Characters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_League_of_Gentlemen_characters
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Post by karl on Jul 4, 2023 11:27:32 GMT -7
Pieter
My self must admire you on your research and presentation of a view of British humourist videos, even though of many I do not understand British humour but non-the-less appreciate their manner of presentation. What is important, theirs as with yourself do appreciate and understand their Humour.
As with above, it was very good of you in describing your thoughts and feelings that are intrinsic of yourself, for in this manner, is the spirit of courage that is yours alone. For this is the best as it is, to bring trust and understanding of others of yourself.
For all things that are yourself, is a reflection of a very fine family background that needs be admired as should be. Perhaps if myself would have had the past pleasure of visiting the British homeland would have lent the understanding of their mindset and related humour. For as above though, I do understand their music and especially of that of the late David Bowie for with this artist, Britain lost a favourite son.
Karl
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