last night's BAFTA tribute really was very hard to stomach, as Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and others yet again went on and on about their profession as being something sacred, like they did at the Julie Walters tribute). I am so sick of this self-congratulatory crap, every week some actor (usually a "self-depracating (yawn)" Fry or "whimsical" Connolly) talking about themselves, using past personal trials to plug their new programmes or films.
I work in TV and know many actors. I overheard two quite well know actors the other day discussing why acting was important, one saying to the other: "ordinary people need us so that they can live out their fantasies." Fuck this made me mad.. I'll be fine in a minute, just needed to get this off my chest!!!
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
wow. is that true? maybe -- maybe i do need the characters i love to live out my fantasies... fuck that's kind of disturbing
― Surmounter, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.theshadowlounge.co.uk/events/flyers/luvvies.jpg
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1079/1454914988_f64a840a66_o.jpg
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)
actorette, if you please
― Frogman Henry, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)
I promise that is absolutely true, the word "ordinary" made quite an impression on me, but being a lowly camera assistant (and the son of a not really very important, quite ordinary, paramedic) I couldn't say anything.
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)
How long have you worked in TV, Rib? Have you not perhaps noticed this little-known phenomenon before?
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=luvvies&issue=1145
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)
I've worked in TV since 2000. I suppose it must be that I'm getting older, seeing the people I love becoming frail and realising what's important. I work voluntarily for the Stroke Association also, and seeing the real tears of loved ones makes it harder to take when I see the twat who said "ordinary" asking for a tear stick.
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)
chillax rib dinner. ordinary needn't be a derogatory term. and the 'live out their fantasies' thing is applied to and by musicians, athletes and other types of entertainment, not just board-treading luvvies.
― blueski, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)
Maybe. I do need to chill, that's true. But it's not just luvvies, I don't know about athletics etc., but the whole TV industry stinks. This year, whilst working in the production office on Foyles War, someone in the street we were planning to film on complained that he couldn't park his car near his house (his wife was full term pregnant), and I was privy to all the pigheaded resistance on the compnay's part. Eventually, Foyle had his way, nothing was done, the shoot went ahead, the man could go and fuck himself with his aloofly parked car.
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)
Coming soon: professional sportspeople often inarticulate, prone to use cliche.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)
OK I accept I didn't break any news, but that tribute show was nauseating. I have worked with Stephen Fry, and as it happens, he is a really nice man, but his telly appearences are becoming increasingly cloying.
― Rib Dinner, Friday, 28 December 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)
Oh I agree with you it's gag-inducing.
― Noodle Vague, Friday, 28 December 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)
I will never forgive ANY of you for failing to inform me that this Annie Leibovitz photo of Judi Dench & Helen Mirren is a thing that exists pic.twitter.com/ZeOcGH65Et— Amelia Mangan (@AmeliaMangan) September 12, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 September 2017 21:15 (eight years ago)