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TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> Adrian Lester, the black guy from Hustle, along

> with wife and kid just had lunch in the Drum.

> Also saw Marc Warren, the blonde spikey haired

> fella from the same show, about two weeks ago

> outside Somerfield.


Adrian Lester is more than "the guy from Hustle". He's a great actor - I saw him as Henry V at the NAtional some years back and the play was just fantastic. The opening scene where the bishops advise Henry V he has a right to do what he wants to do, invade France, was played as a Blairite cabinet meeting - everyone in suits with PAs dashing about with bottles of spring water. Brilliant that Shakespeare could be used to indict Blair's Iraq initiative.

And Adrian Lester was in the film Primary Colours with John Travolta and Emma Thompson and when they all went on Oprah she thought he really was an American as his USA Accent was so good.

Brenda Blethyn's a local, isn't she. She goes in Beauty Place on Forest Hill Road. Apparently. (ooooooh ouch)

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> And Adrian Lester was in the film Primary Colours

> with John Travolta and Emma Thompson and when they

> all went on Oprah she thought he really was an

> American as his USA Accent was so good.

> Brenda Blethyn's a local, isn't she. She goes in

> Beauty Place on Forest Hill Road. Apparently.

> (ooooooh ouch)



What a great actress.

  • 2 weeks later...
Just caught the 'First Direct' advertisment on tv and I'm sure the guy in the white suit (who,also, played a foreign diplomat in 'The Bill' a few weeks back) used to go jogging in Peckham Park. He used to cross over to the Rye, where the big houses are. Does he still live around here?

shaman Wrote:

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> Doe Monica count now shes been on the beeb radio:)



I am told that she is now charging people to talk to her and that she is thinking of appointing an agent to handle her social diary. SHe has, however, offered to formally open the Wintergreen Fair for no fee :-)

Indeed, I am a retired brickie from Penge - and my love of the stock of Threshers is indeed well documented!


I am sorry I have been absent a lot of late Mr Popalopagus, but very soon indeed - I shall be back to my old tricks, and your underpants shall be in shreds!

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