A Brit a Day [#871]

I actually don't love this picture--the scarf looks so much like a badly tied necktie with a T-shirt that it just screams "wrong!" at me--but I have to do something with it, so I'll just leave it here.

Screaming at the Spike Scream Awards.  I just saw what I did there, hahaha.

A Brit a Day [#870]

Alas, I would follow this edict if I could, every chance I got.  Art found online by my friend Jacqueline.

A Brit a Day [#869]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Benedict Cumberbatch.  I want one of whatever [s]he's drinking.

A Brit a Day [#868]

From "Mr. Rickman Goes to Brooklyn"......

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Brit or not, our policy here at ABAD is that pictures of Chris Hemsworth with little India Rose Hemsworth, once they are found, MUST BE POSTED.  Big handsome guy + tiny baby = melt me to a puddle every time.

A Brit a Day [#866]

Whenever I'm shown this photo that Tom Hiddleston posted on Twitter--to prove that he had finally washed Loki out of his hair--all I see are laugh lines, the graceful kind that come from genuine laughter.

A Brit a Day [#865]

Sometimes I like to remind people of Ian's performance as Jesus in 'The Gospel of John.'  And sometimes I think I am going straight to hell for posting this picture.

A Brit a Day [#864]

I've been reading Albert Speer's lengthy autobiography "Inside the Third Reich."  One thing that makes the book tolerable [I'm not a big fan of books by crooks] is that Speer is no apologist--he may not have been a sycophant to the extent of some of the others in Hitler's entourage, but he freely admits that he allowed himself to be an idiot disposed by denial and wishful thinking.  At least that's what I'm hearing.

But getting beyond that, I must say that the book is fascinating, and my jaw is sore from all the dropping at the extent of Hitler's megalomania.  Um, really, people around the Fuehrer, did you not notice what was going on?  Could you not see that it would end badly?  Does it really take the hindsight of a time lord to do that?

A Brit a Day [#863]

I'll just put this piece of beautiful cross-fandom art from Alicexz here to totally mess with your heads.

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Must. Love. Brooding. British. Men.

A Brit a Day [#861]

 

[Above]  The scene as it was rehearsed.

[Below]  The scene as we will always think of it..

Thank you, tumblr friend, for your marvelous gif.

A Brit a Day [#860]

Cassandra Austen was Jane Austen's sister, and I made her acquaintance through the wonderfully disturbing movie 'Miss Austen Regrets.'  Here is Cassandra's rendering of Henry IV for her sister's manuscript "The History of England."  If you are wondering why Prince Hal's dad looks so ill-suited for life in the 14th century, read on--

The two Austen girls were also tutored at home in drawing and the piano. In 1791, Cassandra produced a series of circular illustrations of British monarchs for Jane's manuscript The History of England, which are noted to have resembled members of the Austen family more than royalty. [Wikipedia]

If you' d like to read more about the Austen girls' manuscript, go here--

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_England_(Jane_Austen)

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Uh-oh, where did Friday go?  .....this one is for Friday.

OK, if you haven't listened to Tom Hiddleston reading the Tennessee Williams' short story "Kingdom of Earth", then here it is.  It's audio only, so put on your headphones, turn off all external stimuli, pull up the covers [you'll be kicking them off soon enough], and get ready to drop your jaw.  Once you get past the fact that Tom's pitch perfect American accent makes him sound a lot like Matt Damon, it's really quite pornographic.  I tried to imagine sitting in the theatre during this staged reading, and I literally had to squirm.  Tom is a braver man than you may have realized, to be able to sit on a stage alone and deliver these lines.

Have fun!

http://youtu.be/pdjcWxhPJz8

A Brit a Day [#858]

Well, apparently I missed the boat [or the plane] by not having ABAD post #815 be 'Lost'-related.  And I could have easily done so since it was a Thursday, HIC's usual day.

I underestimated the significance of the number 815 to the 'Lost' fandom, but I won't let it happen again--yesterday was 8/15, and rumor has it [a rumor repeated by 'Lost' exec Damon Lindelof] that it was 815 days out from the 'Lost' finale airing.  So in honor of such, here, feel the love for all things 'Lost', especially Henry Ian Cusick, in the account below--or read the article from 2/2010 at the link:

This batch of young gals was in seventh heaven at all the cheek-to-cheeks they managed to achieve with so many LOST stars. Another tall fellow with a camera and I both promised to mail them a CD burned with all our photos. Henry Ian Cusick was a surprise to me; on LOST he looks so scruffy, bedraggled, and generally grubby but in reality he is a very VERY handsome man. Some quasi-drunken 20-something lads at the rear of the crowd noticed this as well and were making comments (whether inspired by envy or desire, I am unclear, but this was the same crew offering their hotel room numbers to Evangeline Lilly). Except for looking startled for a moment by one rather lustful-sounding male catcall Henry Ian Cusick took it all in stride with very good grace. He, like Terry O'Quinn, Jorge Garcia, and (to the extent she was allowed by the staff) Evangeline Lilly, really expended quite a bit of time and energy interacting with the crowd.

http://lost-tv.tribe.net/photos/7a5326bf-77b1-4cb0-80d0-e31ec689263e