This is a general post. I will write another entry about Channning Tatum.

Memorable celebrity encounters: Keanu Reeves (nice and funny guy), Jeremy Irons (good storyteller, would reveal information more than needed), Zachary Quinto (great interaction with fans, articulate) and Daniel Radcliffe (earnest, but quite bland).

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On Wednesday, Canada's CBC aired an interview with Jeremy Irons, in which he sang Eric Clapton's WONDERFUL TONIGHT. I posted the video on Tumblr, and got this comment.

"...sings like an actor, but melts my heart. that smirk on 0:30 <3 ( Read more... )

Continue my post about Jeremy Irons from yesterday. The Q&A started with Brideshead Revisited. In the early 1980s, Irons had already made a name for himself in the theater world, but he admitted he wanted to become a household name. He told himself he needed to do TV (I guess it is still true today in UK or you can just twerk on YouTube lol). Then ( Read more... )

I have been a fan of Jeremy Irons for a long time (see my DVD/Blu-ray collection:). It all began with Brideshead Revisited. Many years later, I visited Oxford University, and saw some of the places they filmed the TV series. Then the past Friday, I finally saw Mr. Irons in person. The event I attended was a 90-min Q&A hosted by TIFF. It was sold ( Read more... )

I can't wait for April. First, we have Camelot (April 1st) on Starz, then the The Borgias (April 3rd) on Showtime. Finally, HBO will air Game of Thrones on April 17th. (I saw the trailer, not impressed, but I will give it a try. I quite like Lena Headey.) My personal favorite at this time is The Borgias. It has Jeremy Irons. I am IN!.

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I am a huge fan of ITV's 1981 TV Series Brideshead Revisited. Recently, the cast & crew met again and did a show for BBC Radio 4. Radio Times also has an companion article (PDF Version, thanks to tonny_silver ). Here you can listen to the part they talked about the relationship between Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte.

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I rewatched the ITV classic - Brideshead Revisited (1981) starring Jeremy Irons. Just love it. And I start to find more about Mr. Irons. Here is an interview from InStyle magazine in Apr. 1998. Very interesting.

Despite portraying some of the most tortured souls in cinema--from his Academy Award-winning Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune to ( Read more... )