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Monday, 12 December 2011

What have Star Wars and Jabberwocky got in common?

The answer: the actor Dave Prowse who played Red Herring and Black Knights in Terry Gilliam's 1977 film, Jabberwocky and then went on to play Darth Vader in Star Wars.

He was present at the recent opening of Rebecca Grant's art exhibition which I was also attending, so, seeing as I am a bit of a Gilliam fan to say the least, it was quite a coincidence!

Me with Dave Prowse (Darth Vader)

He told me about his scene in Jabberwocky where he half falls off a horse; his foot gets stuck in the stirrup and he gets dragged quite some distance by the horse. It nearly killed him, but he said Terry Gilliam loved it and it stayed in the film. Here's the trailer. (He's the one in full armour riding a horse):

What a thoroughly nice chap he was too. His presence created tangible excitement at the exhibition, and he was more than happy to pose for photos, sign autographs and answer everyone's questions about the filming of Star Wars and about playing Darth Vader.

Dave is currently making public appearances to promote his book "Straight From The Force's Mouth", so if you'd like to meet him, click here: http://www.darthvader-starwars.com/appearances.htm

By the way, a month or so ago, whilst visiting the Kamini Beauty Salon, I bumped into supermodel and actress Lily Cole who played a lead role in Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" - so this Terry Gilliam coincidence thing is pretty amazing don't you think, especially when you take into account all the unbelievable coincidences I have already had with his 1985 movie "Brazil"...

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Peter Andre opening his New York Coffee Club in East Grinstead

This must be the highest profile occasion ever to take place in the centre of East Grinstead! It was crazy!

Here's that photo the paparazzi are taking (which you can just see me in, top left, taking that video!):

image: 3am.co.uk

News coverage of this story:

Tuesday, 26 July 2011

The Day I Met Tim Vine

With Tim Vine in an Internet café near Victoria Station

I needed to go online, so I popped into the nearest Internet café only to find, to my amazement, sitting at one of the terminals was the very funny comedian Tim Vine!

Being one who is not backwards in coming forwards, I decided to sit at the terminal right next to his; I had every intention of saying hello, but rather than just going, "Hello Tim", I thought I'd do something a little more original.

I knew he used Twitter, and I assumed that since he was online, he'd very likely be on Twitter at that moment, so I decided to tweet to him without saying a word to see if he noticed. It worked a ~~tweet~~ treat! Here's my tweet:

https://twitter.com/uptone/status/95872343502622720

I waited a few minutes and then he suddenly looked to his right and stared right at me with wide eyes! It was a very special moment and we both had a good laugh!

He told me the reason he had gone into the Internet café was to find somewhere he could buy some plastic fruit for the show he was doing that night.

Friday, 8 June 2007

Puerto Banús - the port that comes with celebs guaranteed

Puerto Banus
image: puerto-banus-marbella-apartment.com

If you're into celeb watching as well as the traditional sun and sand holiday, you can't go wrong with Puerto Banús

I've been going on holiday to Puerto Banús near Marbella, Spain for ages now and nearly every time - in amongst the Ferarris, Lamboughinis, massive yachts and 'beautiful people' - I bump into at least one celebrity there.

I can't remember them all now, but the list includes:

Sean Connery