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Laughs a go-go in LA
23rd April 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Another box ticked. Last weekend I met Jane Lynch, currently the funniest actress on TV as psychotic PE teacher Sue Sylvester in Glee. If you haven't seen her Madonna tribute, click here now or burn your fingerless lacy gloves in shame.
Jane was appearing at the second LA Comedy Shorts Film Festival and I managed to grab her for a quick word before the opening gala screening at the Downtown Independent... -
Reinvention ain’t easy
7th April 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this
I recently returned from a three week trip to Europe. I hadn't been back in over a year so was due some quality time with friends and family. I also needed a few days away from my laptop as my brain had turned to mush after two years of writing without a break
Condensed to the size of a matchbox in my economy seat on the flight back to LA, I... -
Pandora and the buggy ride
14th January 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
I finally got around to seeing Avatar in 3-D tonight. Always fun with a sinus infection. I'm not sure if it was me or the antibiotics but the planet of Pandora reminded me of living in Tenerife in my early twenties.
There aren't many people who could find similarities between the Na'vi and those who threw up regularly after a night out clubbing in Playa de las Americas, but all can... -
Brits, Beverly Hills and Bacon
23rd September 2009 | 2 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
I didn't move to Los Angeles to be a professional ex-pat but here I am, tuning into BBC radio via Real Player every day, listening to the evening drive time show on Radio Two just as I'm waking up (traffic reports from the M25 don't seem quite so bad when you live near the Hollywood hills), tracking down speciality English shops (always attached to Ye English Pub) to stock up...
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Taking time to smell the wildfire
7th September 2009 | 3 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
My journalism college friend and now author and branding guru, Mark Tungate, who moved from London to Paris a few years ago told me just before I relocated to LA, 'Enjoy the first year, nothing is quite the same after that.' I didn't really know what he meant at the time but I get it now.
That first year, when a trip to the supermarket, parking at the cinema or even... -
A mother of a week in Hollywood
28th August 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Let's play a game. I want you to look at the above picture and tell me which one is Paul. Come to think of it, which one is John? Or George? Or Ringo? Wow, this is harder than Pyramid.
Allow me to introduce to you the Chicago-based Beatles tribute band, American English. The guy on the left of the picture is 'Shotgun' Tom Kelly from K-Earth 101, the 'oldies' radio station...
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Lisa Marks
British writer Lisa Marks moved to Los Angeles two years ago to pursue her dream of 'making it' as a screen-writer in Hollywood. A few months after arriving in the States her short film, Maconie's List, won the Duke City Shootout film festival. Directing her own short was a dream come true and now her goal is to sell a feature. She can generally be found tapping away at her laptop in any number of coffee shops muttering furiously to herself. Don't worry, this is all perfectly normal.
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