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Hot Fuzz – Studio 360 Interview with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
The creators of “Hot Fuzz” reveal how they prepared for their action flick spoof and why they defiled a small English village.
England still isn’t safe from filmmaker Edgar Wright. First it was invaded by zombies, in his cult hit “Shaun of the Dead.” Kurt talks with Edgar and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost about their follow-up film, “Hot Fuzz,” a high-intensity Hollywood-style cop caper set in a quaint village. Click the link below to heard the interview, originally aired April 27, 2007.
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What Kazakhstan really thought of Borat
The film was a hit on its release 10 years ago – but its reception in Borat’s homeland was complicated, writes Kazakh Yerlan Askarbekov [ . . . ]
Source: BBC – Culture – What Kazakhstan really thought of Borat
Fawlty Towers stars John Cleese and Connie Booth salute Andrew Sachs
John Cleese ‘He left me weak with laughter’:
The first time I set eyes on Andy Sachs was at the Lyric Theatre, London, in the autumn of 1973. Andy was appearing with Alec Guinness in Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus, an exquisitely crafted sex-farce about a respectable family in Brighton in the 1960s. Andy was playing a piano tuner, but the magnificent Margaret Courtenay mistook him for the man who was coming to measure her for a custom-made bra. When Andy started on the standard pianist’s hand-and-finger stretching routine, she began to register anticipation of nameless carnal delights, producing one of the funniest farcical moments I have ever seen. Weak with laughter, I managed to open my programme and underline his name [ . . . ]