#nigel havers

[theoscarsproject]

Empire of the Sun (1987). A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

Not my favourite Spielberg, nor my favourite kid-encounters-horrors-of-WWII-movie released in 1987 (Au Revoir les Enfants takes the cake, but I think Hope and Glory had a more interesting approach too), but still a solid effort. The performances are top notch across the board, and the cinematography is sublime, but there are definitely tonal issues overall that make it pretty patchy. I can't believe how young Christian Bale is in this! 7/10.

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith - Part Four

From Benjamin Cook’s interview with Nigel Havers (and David Tennant) from DWM 416

Benjamin Cook: Do you ever watch yourself on TV? Nigel Havers:  I haven’t for a long time. I still don’t know how to operate my bloody Sky Plus thing. BC:  Earlier today, I spotted Tommy [Knight] and Daniel [Anthony] showing you how to work your mobile phone! NH: Yeah, I’ve got an iPhone.  So does David [Tennant].  He has an application on his phone that simulates a -”  [In walks David...] David Tennant: What’s that? NH: Oh. We were talking about phones.  Didn’t you say that you can cock yours and it fires - ? DT:  No, no, that’s Steven Moffat.  He has everything on his iPhone. He can turn his into a lightsaber, he drinks pints of beer from it...” BC:  Some people - they’re called killjoys - would say that’s a bit pointless. NH: No. You see, when you’re filming, you’ve so much dead time, it gives you things to do. DT: Yeah, it’s great.  It’s a whole leisure centre! I’ve got a spelling game on mine NH: Have you, David? DT:  I thought it would educate me, but all I do is find three-letter words.  Hundreds and hundreds of three-letter words.  That isn’t quite the point. I’m looking for that elusive 13-letterer. NH: Or the longest word in England DT: I wouldn’t go that far. I’ll settle for antidisestablishmentarianism

Link to [ Part One ] of this set, or click the #whoBtsWedding tag for all parts.  A link to all behind-the-scenes sets can be found [ here ].

[nathalieskinoblog]

Nicholas Nickleby 1947 - 2002

[kwebtv]

Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981

Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill

Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill

Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill

Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken

David Swift as Professor Lindemann

Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman

Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton

Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram

Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby

Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch

Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin

Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain

Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare

Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip

Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald

Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden

Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan

Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor

Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton

Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax

Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook

Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram

Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw

Norman Jones as Clement Attlee

Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham

Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere

Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey

Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl

James Cossins as Lord Lothian

Guy Deghy as King George V

Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst

Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler

Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop

David Langton as Lord Londonderry

Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain

David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough

Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury

Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow

Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott

Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies

Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile

[vox-anglosphere]

Two cultures collide in David Lean's masterpiece, 'A Passage to India'

[reluctantjoe]

for any other lovers of reluctant persuaders it seems series 4 was the last

[girlonfilms]

It's a pirate's life for Jennifer Saunders

Jennifer Saunders will play Captain Hook in the London Palladium’s panto this winter. Continue reading Untitled

[cultfaction]

Preview: Full Circle - The Haunting of Julia

Based on the novel Julia a by Peter Straub, Full Circle is a highly regarded, long-vanished, evocatively eerie cult chiller, newly restored in 4K resolution. Bereaved mother Julia (Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby) flees controlling husband Magnus (Keir Dullea, Black Christmas), re-establishing herself in an old house in leafy West London. Yet she finds herself haunted by apparitions of a ghostly…

[sonjabysonjamorgan]

john glover as gay uncle saul’s boyfriend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[werr455]

We fantasized about each other... no doubt about it

By Cole Moreton for Weekend Magazine 22:00 Aug 18, 2023, updated at 22:04 Aug 18, 2023 ‘We’ve known each other for donkey years,’ says Nigel Havers, leaning in to gently stroke Patricia Hodge on the hand. Since the 1970s, Patricia is known for portraying a series of elegant and graceful women, from Margaret Thatcher in The Falklands Play to the hilarious bossy mother in Miranda. The pair are…

[andietries]

Chapters: 1/12 Fandom: Yonderland (TV), Ghosts (TV 2019), Horrible Histories, Bill (2015) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Scribe Elder Ho-Tan/Wise Elder Vex, Thomas Thorne & Nigel Characters: The Captain (Ghosts TV 2019), Thomas Thorne, The Plague Victims (Ghosts TV 2019), The Elders (Yonderland), Debbie Maddox, Julian Fawcett, Humphrey Bone's Head Additional Tags: The tags will update as I write, Hurt/Comfort, lots of nosense, How Do I Tag, lots of nonsense Summary:

This is the result of a series of fortunate Events that lead me to try to write fics again. I will be updating the tags as I go. You can send me prompts if you feel like it. (Rules about that in the notes) 1.Thomas and Nigel 2.Vex/Hotan 3.The Captain/Havers

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[ailendolin]

You know what I would have loved to see in an episode? Alison going into full research mode to give (some of) the ghosts more closure.

The Captain

We know from the Button House Archives book that a photograph of Havers was found in the commanding officer's belongings. I would have loved to see Alison find it in some old drawer, frame it and place it in the Captain's room (perhaps via suggestion of one of the other ghosts since she wasn't there when the Captain revealed his death). And maybe, because she realises how important Havers was to him, she starts looking into Havers's life after the war just so she can tell the Captain what happened to him and if he found happiness after all.

Thomas

Thomas obviously knows what happened to Isabelle after his death but I think it would have been lovely if Alison had searched for the letters he sent her before that fateful day. Because it's one thing to realise Isabelle has always loved him and quite another to see it with his own eyes. Isabelle keeping his letters would be proof that he'd meant something to her, even after his death. And perhaps there is a poem attached to one of the letters - a genuinely beautiful love poem - that Alison publishes for him so that he and his love that wasn't meant to be will never be forgotten.

Robin & Humphrey

I don't know how realistic it would be for Alison to find records of Sophie post-plot but I think both Robin and Humphrey would be grateful to know what had happened to her. So maybe Alison discovers a marriage certificate with Sophie's maiden name (because she obviously would not call herself Sophie Bone after running away) or a record of a christening that implies that Sophie has found happiness after all. Or, if your want to go down a darker path, a record of her being caught and sent to prison (or worse). But whatever her fate, at least Robin and Humphrey would no longer have to wonder about it.

Julian

I don't care how but Alison should have found a way to get Rachel to Button House. Perhaps via promoting it as an event location specifically to her and her party - and Rachel, thinking visiting the place might give her some closure, agrees to host an event there. The specifics don't really matter. What does is that Julian finally gets to tell her how sorry he is, and how proud of her and everything she's already achieved.

The Plague Ghosts

Those of you who have read my fics know that I headcanon Nigel having a sister in a neighbouring village. I don't think it's unrealistic to assume that some of the Plaguers have left loved ones behind, either because they lived somewhere else or they survived the plague outbreak in the village and left afterwards. They're bound to wonder about what happened to them, just like Robin and Humphrey are about Sophie, and I just like the idea of Alison finding some old church records about the Plaguers' friends and families and surprising them with it.

As for Pat, Mary, Fanny and Kitty I think all of them have already found some form of closure. Pat's family still visits every year. Mary lost her husband when she was still alive and probably had no children. Fanny died where she lived so she knows how the rest of George's life went and must have seen her children regularly as well. The same goes for Kitty. She's seen Eleanor marry and have children of her own, not to mention that Alison has already found documents from her time.

But for the others, the ones mentioned above, Alison could have provided some peace and closure with her research, and I think that would have made for a lovely plot for an episode or even stretched over a whole series.

[wild-wombytch]

It's getting extremely tired to see all the books written by women after 2010 all starting with an introduction along the line of :

"I'm a very angry woman afraid of no one. However I'm still but a dumb cisgender-heterosexual oppressor, please dick-havers and dick-loving crowd I Shall Not Name, don't harass me and send me death threats if I ever offended you in my wording choices I'm really trying to do better to go against my logic and reframe it to coddle you! I know a woman is not a woman and I really respect whatever soulgender you are, please don't sue me!"

Like, it's ok gyn, you can say "woman". Males won't read your book anyway and if they want to take things out of context to be outraged over and feed their victim-syndrome, they will, regardless of how kind and respectful you're trying to be.

By gender logic™, wouldn't TIMs perfectly recognize themselves whenever we use the word "woman"? There's no reason to feel alienated if that's what they truly are. Unless they're more pissed off about the books criticizing men and the patriarchy and take this personally and want to silence "other" women for some very mysterious reasons 🤔?

It's really disheartening when they make a critique of the patriarchy or something about lesbians and still feel pressured to included males in their thoughts. We'll never be free of the oppression if that's how we act and the example we give to little girls. Not everything is or has to be about trans people. Also, even though I haven't read many male-written books recently, I don't remember having seen once that kind of preface in their books. Hell, I've never seen trans women making prefaces to include trans men.

At some point we will need to address the massive elephant in the room as a sex class. It's not normal nor healthy that women *know* this is a threat to their freedom of speech yet try to numb it, and that they feel like walking on eggshells when talking about her own frustrations and traumas with men. Traumatized women put their own feelings below male "gender affirmation" aka coddling and validation. It's really like hearing your best friend telling you about the horrific abuses, rapes and tortures from her Nigel and still trying to defend him. It's depressing, really.

Anyway, let's bring some SCUM Manifesto energy in the spineless feminism of these days.

[kwebtv]

Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse and Fiona Fullerton as Clarice Mannors in "The Charmer"

[mike-peabody]

I just rewatched Ben and Larry’s Pointless episode and the amount of times they say Nigel Havers isn’t healthy! I didn’t even notice it before. Even Xander saying it made me gape at the screen, not just Ben and Larry. I was literally expecting Havers to come up on the board!

[fridka]

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR THEE . i want to know everything about these characters so if you have one particular question you want to answer for a particular character THROW IT IN I DARE YOU

GENO

What is your character reluctant to tell people?

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

NIGEL

What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?

PROXY

How many friends does your character want?

What was the best thing in your character’s life?

OK I WILL STOP NOW but i will be back >:)

THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THESE 💖

🤠GENO🤠

What is your character reluctant to tell people?

Many things about his upbringing. Anything that would paint his family in a bad light. EVERYTHING regarding a certain person from his past. How he feels about death and what will happen to people like him

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

Geno comes across like a loud, unintelligent idiot, and he is very okay with that. It’s not that he isn’t those things, but… well, see above. There’s more to him.

✍️NIGEL✍️

What is something most people in your setting do that your character thinks is dumb?

Nigel is almost painfully unaware of how sheltered and coddled he’s been his entire life. He thinks its really dumb when people don’t go for it, risk it all and follow their dreams, but instead stay in dead-end jobs that they hate. Obviously ignoring the fact that most people don’t have the safety net that he does.

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?

He is surprisingly petty, and has quite the sharp memory when it comes to remembering all the times he’s felt slighted by someone.

🔫 PROXY🔫

How many friends does your character want?

Proxy has never been much of a friend haver, on account of how strange and boundary crossing he is. Not for lack of trying on his end tho, as he’s an extravert who is also quite attention seeking.

What was the best thing in your character’s life?

Up until the final days before his death, Proxy wholeheartedly believed that getting involved with Gospel was the best thing that ever happened to him.

Thank you again for these 💖 if anyone else wants to know anything about anyone, feel free to ask (said with only slight desperation)