You don’t have to have seen Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap to enjoy wonderful theatreland-set, whodunnit See How They Run. Nor does it spoil things if you have (you probably still wont guess the ending of the film). Nor do you need a working knowledge of Agatha Christie herself, the peculiar contract that exists around The Mousetrap, 1950s London, Richard Attenborough and other real-life celebrities of the time, or indeed Tom Stoppard’s play The Real Inspector Hound. But part of the beauty of this incredibly meta, zippy, crime caper is that after the credits roll you’re probably going to want to do a bit of googling.
Set in London in the early ’50s, See How They Run sees The Mousetrap celebrating its 100th performance. The cast includes the celebrated Richard Attenborough (perfectly embodied by Harris Dickinson) and his wife Sheila Sim (Pearl Chanda), meanwhile obnoxious Hollywood director...
Set in London in the early ’50s, See How They Run sees The Mousetrap celebrating its 100th performance. The cast includes the celebrated Richard Attenborough (perfectly embodied by Harris Dickinson) and his wife Sheila Sim (Pearl Chanda), meanwhile obnoxious Hollywood director...
- 9/9/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
"It's been an overwhelming few days, but also a really encouraging few days because so many people are coming forward and so many people are offering support," Peter Saunders told me when we spoke by phone Tuesday morning. Founder of the U.K.'s National Association for People Abused in Childhood, Saunders is a British survivor of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest that took place decades ago when he was a child. In 2014, Saunders became one of two survivors appointed by Pope Francis to serve on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, the group investigating
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- 2/16/2016
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rod Stewart has revealed that he held a fake driving licence in the UK for eight years. The veteran singer explained that his roadie friend Pete Saunders pretended to be him for a test in 1967. "To this day I have never taken a driving test in Britain," he is quoted as saying in The Sun. Stewart said that Saunders volunteered to take his test for him as he was fed up of driving him around everywhere. "Pete set (more)...
- 1/21/2013
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
London, Jan 21: Singer Roderick Stewart confesses that he bunked the driving test and sent someone else as his proxy.
The 68-year-old made his manager Pete Saunders take the test on his behalf back in 1967, reports thesun.co.uk.
"To this day I have never taken a driving test in Britain. Pete set off to the test centre, signed in as Mr. Roderick Stewart of Highgate and took my test," he said.
The singer later took a driving test in the Us and drives with that license here.
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The 68-year-old made his manager Pete Saunders take the test on his behalf back in 1967, reports thesun.co.uk.
"To this day I have never taken a driving test in Britain. Pete set off to the test centre, signed in as Mr. Roderick Stewart of Highgate and took my test," he said.
The singer later took a driving test in the Us and drives with that license here.
Ians...
- 1/21/2013
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Rod Stewart's roadie sat his driving test for him. The 68-year-old singer's road manager Peter Saunders volunteered to get behind the wheel and take the exam after tiring of driving the 'Sailing' hitmaker around London, and Rod says it was an 'easy deception' to pull off in 1967. He wrote in his autobiography: 'In the days before photographic licences this was a fairly simple deception to pull off. 'Pete set off to the test centre, signed in as Mr Roderick Stewart of Highgate and took my test. 'And I passed, I'm pleased to say. To this day I have never taken a driving test in Britain.' Rod continued to drive under the fraudulent license for eight years until he...
- 1/21/2013
- Monsters and Critics
Rod Stewart's roadie sat his driving test for him. The 68-year-old singer's road manager Peter Saunders volunteered to get behind the wheel and take the exam after tiring of driving the 'Sailing' hitmaker around London, and Rod says it was an ''easy deception'' to pull off in 1967. He wrote in his autobiography: ''In the days before photographic licences this was a fairly simple deception to pull off. ''Pete set off to the test centre, signed in as Mr Roderick Stewart of Highgate and took my test. ''And I passed, I'm pleased to say. To this day I have never taken a driving...
- 1/21/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
'He could be quite vocal, Roald Dahl, if he didn't like something so it was a real relief he liked our film'
Brian Cosgrove, director
Quentin Blake was Roald Dahl's illustrator of choice, and his art for the book was perfect: very simple line drawings, perfectly balanced. But we wanted our giant to be more believable and scary.
I painted a watercolour of how we saw him. I got a lovely note back from Dahl saying it was perfect, he was right behind it, and to just get on and do it. Sophie, the little girl who befriends the Bfg, was easy. I had read that Dahl based her on his granddaughter, Sophie Dahl. At the time she wore John Lennon glasses, so we took it from there.
David Jason voiced the giant. I first found him when I was doing voice tests for Danger Mouse. With a lot of voice actors,...
Brian Cosgrove, director
Quentin Blake was Roald Dahl's illustrator of choice, and his art for the book was perfect: very simple line drawings, perfectly balanced. But we wanted our giant to be more believable and scary.
I painted a watercolour of how we saw him. I got a lovely note back from Dahl saying it was perfect, he was right behind it, and to just get on and do it. Sophie, the little girl who befriends the Bfg, was easy. I had read that Dahl based her on his granddaughter, Sophie Dahl. At the time she wore John Lennon glasses, so we took it from there.
David Jason voiced the giant. I first found him when I was doing voice tests for Danger Mouse. With a lot of voice actors,...
- 9/10/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Once Wes Anderson had decided that his sixth feature film would be a stop-motion animation version of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, about a raffish fox who outsmarts three evil farmers, he called on some of the best names in the puppet-making business to put his characteristically precise vision to life. Based in Manchester, Ian MacKinnon and Peter Saunders first teamed up 22 years ago on a stop-motion version of The Wind in the Willows. Since then, they’ve collaborated on countless television commercials and on some of the most successful stop-motion feature films in memory, including Nick Park’s Chicken Run, Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, and Henry Selick’s Coraline. But despite their experience, they found Anderson’s project to be particularly daunting. “Wes had a very clear idea of what he wanted, and I think he made us challenge all our preconceptions about what stop-motion puppets are,...
- 11/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
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