A Brit a Day [#326]

Eddie Argos of Art Brut at a summer music festival somewhere in the Midwest. Eddie remarked onstage that he had just been to the barber and that this was the best haircut he had ever had.

A Brit a Day [#325]

This lovely photograph of Ian Cusick was taken by a fan, presumably an acquaintance of the girl in white. I'd really love to know what her story is. She is absolutely radiant. Could she be a bride? Could you image running into Ian looking like that on your wedding day? That would seriously mess with my head.

A Brit a Day [#324]

Lucius Malfoy [Jason Isaacs] in his wizard-style mancave. This scene looks uncannily like the first set I ever designed--'Sleuth' in the Berkeley [Yale] Dining Hall, directed by Scott Speck.

A Brit a Day [#323]

I found this lovely picture of Dan Radcliffe on the Cast page of the website for "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."

A Brit a Day [#322]

Christian Bale.

I did request the mark you cast
Didn’t heal as fast
I hear your voice in silences
Will the teasing of the fire be followed by the thud?

-lyrics by Alex Turner

A Brit a Day [#321]

This is for Sunday.

Alan Rickman just opened in 'John Gabriel Borkman' Friday night at BAM in New York. But that's not his first professional trip to Brooklyn: he directed Strindberg's 'Creditors' [above] there last spring. Here's a link to a lovely article The New York Times did on 'Creditors' and on Rickman's directing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/theater/11creditors.html

A Brit a Day [#320]

Here are the REAL gingers from the Harry Potter cast. Who knew that Luna Lovegood was a natural redhead?

A Brit a Day [#319]

There has been a news blackout from my beloved Art Brut who are in Salem Oregon recording their fourth album with Frank Black producing. This, after their fearless leader, Eddie Argos, promised to blog every day of the recording process.

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This is my new favorite old picture of Ian Cusick. The photographer is Randee St. Nicholas, also a music video and commercial director, based in LA. Several of her photos have surfaced among the Sistahs over the years, and they are all stunning. We think this picture was taken around the time Ian was on '24'.

A Brit a Day [#317]

Jason Isaacs in Covent Garden. He reminds me of a very casual Tony Blair in this photo.

A Brit a Day [#316]

The kids are still all right. Director David Yates talking to the primaries [Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and Dan Radcliffe] on the set of HP7.1.

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Another gorgeous picture of Christian Bale from the December 'Esquire' photo shoot.

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It's a good-news/bad-news sort of thing. I'm ecstatic that Alan Rickman is in the States to reprise his role for the US premiere of 'John Gabriel Borkman.' I'm sad that I have no plans to be in New York during any of his run.

A Brit a Day [#313]

It's a new year, and that means a new January and a new season of whale watching here off the coast. There are a couple of islands near San Diego, and on a whale watching cruise, you get closer to them but you never quite reach them. They are mysterious [to me], uninhabited to the best of my knowledge [part of a preserve?], and quite distinctive in shape--we see them from the higher elevations in our neighborhood on clear days.

There is a short section of film in 'Darwin's Darkest Hour' that is supposed to be part of Darwin's original voyage on the Beagle. For a moment, you see rigging at the bow of a ship and islands on the horizon. THOSE ARE OUR ISLANDS. Darwin did not visit southern California on the Beagle, and the Darwin film was shot in Nova Scotia. Our local maritime museum must have provided some footage from their archives, probably filmed on one of their rare outings with The Star of India, at the Darwin people's request.