As our campaign to have Jeremy Brett awarded a posthumous BAFTA for his contribution to film & television is now drawing to a close, we wanted to inform you - if you haven't already seen it on Facebook - that we shall be closing our online petition(s) at the end of September.  After the last week of that month, noone else shall be able to sign it.

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There is much more, of course, that could be said about the play itself, but as this is not a Shakespeare comm, I shall end here :)
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Disclaimer: clip is from "The Merchant of Venice", released on TV in 1973; no copyright infringement intended.

 
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I'm quite new to LiveJournal and also quite new to Jeremy Brett's work.  My father is a fan of his Sherlock Holmes and I have gained a liking for it.  A few nights ago I had the opportunity to watch him in "On Approval" with Penelope Keith.  I loved his part and found him very sweet and funny.  I own a copy of "My Fair Lady" and I'm ashamed to say ( Read more... )

A new promotional video for the "A Posthumous BAFTA for Jeremy Brett (BAFTA 4 JB) Campaign is now available on our YouTube channel.  The video is called THE ONLY UNOFFICIAL CONSULTING DETECTIVE and centers upon Jeremy Brett's most famous role of Sherlock Holmes.

The musical score was included in our video upon permission.  However, we have not the ( Read more... )

After almost two weeks of temporary closure for "refurbishment", this Jeremy Brett Community is once again open ( Read more... )

I have heard that some people do not think this community has its place on LiveJournal.  Well, every community has a place, is all I can say.  If the Mod chooses to have rules which may seem strict to some people then surely that is the Mod's privelege.  In any case, it is not, as the Mod has already stated, an isolated case.  For what it is worth ( Read more... )

Greetings, everyone! I thought I would share this recording with those who have not heard it before. This excerpt comes from a CD called "I Love, Alas" (Elizabethan Life in Music, Song, and Poetry/Elizabethan in Love) , which is out of print (although used copies still get sold on Amazon UK--I had bought my copy there). The poems (by Sir Philip ( Read more... )