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March - June 2000
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To learn more about the Drop the Debt campaign Ewan is involved with, head over to their
website at: www.dropthedebt.org. You can learn
all the latest news regarding this important issue. As Ewan himself is quoted as saying, "Before going
to Africa I knew a bit about the debt burden but I was staggered by how the massive amount of what to
be paid back affects people. It's just insane. There are kids starving to death and countries aren't
allowed to support their people because they're too busy selling crops to earn money to pay us back
- and we don't even need it!"
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Friday, June 30, 2000 // 04:56 p.m.
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| McGregor helps fight hunger through Internet
Fri, Jun 30, 00 06:59:38 PM EDT
Raz brought an article on the BBC to
our attention:
Actor Ewan McGregor and comedy couple Lenny Henry and Dawn French are to send e-mails to the public in a renewed bid
to end Third World debt. The initiative is part of the latest Comic Relief fund-raising campaign and is designed to put
pressure
on world leaders to take action. The plan is for recipients of the random e-mails to pass them on to friends and colleagues
to raise awareness of the problem.
McGregor also added, "It's great to see the internet being used in this way to help awareness of an important issue
such as debt. When I visited Africa for Comic Relief last year, I was shocked to see the effect that debt has on day-to-day
lives." For the entire article and more details on the campaign, hit the link above! |
Posted by Ewan a Nutshell on Friday, June 30, 2000 // 07:24
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More biking mysery for "peroxide" Ewan
Thanks to Josie who caught this bit of info on Channel 4's Teletext last week:
Ewan McGregor walked away from a 110mph motorbike crash and woke the next day to discover his own beloved motorcycle had
been stolen.
"I lost control of a bike at Brands Hatch and flew into the air," Ewan said. "The bike was rolling and rolling, but when
I finally came to a halt I got up without a scratch. My body must have totally relaxed. I didn't mind because it wasn't
my bike."
Although Ewan McGregor escaped unhurt after crashing a bike at 110mph, he suffered bad luck when his
motorbike was stolen hours later.
McGregor, sporting a beard in readiness for his role in Star Wars: Episode II, woke up to discover
his yellow Ducati had gone missing.
"I thought the police had towed it away first," he said. "I was totally gutted when I realised what had happened."
And there was mention in this week's heat magazine that Ewan has just had his hair "peroxided" by Daniel Galvin,
the stylist responsible for Madonna's latest 'do, for Star Wars: Episode II.
Some eyewitness reports would be nice! |
Posted by over.to/ewan on Monday, June 26, 2000 // 11:28 p.m.
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Just received a press release that Acorn Video has
announced that August 7,2000 is the long awaited release date for the superb BBC adaptation novel Scarlet & Black starring
Ewan McGregor as Julien Sorel.It will be released in the UK and hopefully I'll have a date for the
U.S soon.I'll post more information as it comes available. (Thank you Peter Smart)
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Friday, June 23,
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Ewan Spotted in London Pub
Fri, Jun 23, 00 01:22:12 PM EDT
The Soho Spy spotted Ewan McGregor out with Jude Law in the pub "The Crown and Two Chairman" in Soho, London on Tuesday night.
They watched about 30 minutes of England playing Romania in the Euro cup (big football gam here in Europe) and the place
was packed. What did he look like? Ewan had a big scraggly beard and greasy looking comb over hair. This itself isn't
too exciting news, but we know he isn't in Australia yet.
UPDATE: TC3 corroborates that as of yesterday Ewan hasn't departed London for Australia yet.
I walked past Ewan M on London's Wardour street yesterday (Thursday). He was sporting a big beard. Source: From TheForce.net |
Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Friday, June 23, 2000
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Just a reminder, watch Ewan this weekend [starting Friday] on the BBC America airing of the show
HARDtalk. To refresh your memory, Ewan talks about his dislike of Hollywood and some possibly
bitter feelings that remain toward Danny Boyle and Co. Please check their site for
the airing time near you.
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Posted by futuristic lounge on Friday, June 23, 2000 // 02:49 a.m.
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Thanks to Robin for letting me know that Access Hollywood will be running a story on Ewan tomorrow.
Check your local listings for when this entertainment show airs in your neck of the woods.
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Wednesday, June 21, 2000 // 05:37 p.m.
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More Nora venues (UK)
The Guardian's 'Guide' has provided more cinema information for the James Joyce bio-pic
starring Ewan which is not on general release.
The latest venues we have are Bradford National Museum of Photography, Film and TV, Leeds Hyde Park and Liverpool
Odeon (city centre).
The Bradford venue might just be showing the film on their record-breaking big screen.
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Posted by over.to/ewan on Monday, June 19, 2000 // 01:31 p.m.
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Ewan's short film Desserts is going to air on the Sundance Channel! (Thanks to Fran
for passing this info along). It will be airing with other shorts on the following dates:
- Sunday, July 9 7:00 PM
- Wednesday, July 19 2:30 PM
- Friday, July 28 9:35 AM & 5:05 PM
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Friday, June 16, 2000 // 11:31 a.m.
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Catch Ewan in The Pillow Book here in New York at Makor during
a Peter Greenaway retrospective as part of a Lincoln Center Festival on film. The Pillow Book will
be shown on Monday, July 10th at 7:00 pm. The movie is 2 hours long. All screenings are $8. For advance
reservations, call 212.601.1000 or check Makor.org for
more info.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Thursday, June
15, 2000 // 06:28 p.m.
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There will be a rare chance for UK fans to see Ewan star in Blue Juice alongside Sean Pertwee
and Cathrine Zeta Jones. The film was made in 1994 and didn't go down very well at the box office
- Ewan himself doesn't rate his performance - but it is unlikely to be shown again in the near future.
Blue Juice is on Channel 4 at 11:05pm on Tuesday 20th June. heat magazine
gave it 3/5 stars. |
Posted by over.to/ewan on Thursday, June 15, 2000 // 05:02 p.m.
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Eye of the Beholder in the UK
EmpireOnline have a review and venue details
for Eye..., which has been on general release in Britain since June 9th. Find the review and more
details here. |
Posted by over.to/ewan on Monday, June 12, 2000 // 11:56 a.m.
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Nora venues (UK)
For all those of clamouring to see Ewan McGregor with Susan Lynch in Nora, I have details of
two venues supplied by The Guardian's 'Guide' - Manchester Cornerhouse and York City Screen,
and Josie informed me that Pheonix Cinema, Oxford is also showing the James Joyce bio-pic. |
Posted by over.to/ewan on Saturday, June 10, 2000 // 02:17 p.m.
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Possible repeat of HardTalk interview (UK)
Received an e-mail from Josie letting us know that she'd contacted the BBC for information on any plans to repeat
Ewan's interview with Tim Sebastian for BBC News 24's HardTalk programme. Here's what they had to say:
"I have checked with the Editor of HardTalk and the programme may be repeated (only may) and it would be towards the end
of the year. I have checked
about a copy of the tape and they can supply one but
it would cost £30.
"Details of HardTalk programmes can be found at bbcworld.com.
"BBC News 24"
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Posted by over.to/ewan on Saturday, June 10, 2000 // 02:07 p.m.
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Eye of the Beholder for UK release - today!
Appologies for the short notice but Eye of the Beholder, which has been dogged by distribution
problems since it was made two years ago, opens in cinemas across Britain today.
Promotion was left rather late but trailers are all over UK TV now. heat magazine didn't rate Eye... very
highly, deciding it had only scored a UK release at all off the back of its big-star names and "Judd's Double Jeopardy success",
though that's only one source. Get down and see it if you can. |
Posted by over.to/ewan on Friday, June 9, 2000 // 03:53 p.m.
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Attention Ewan fans in Japan!
TOKYO --- The second edition of the American short film festival kicks off in Tokyo on Friday as a
part of a five-city tour through Japan.
The event, officially called American Short Shorts Film Festival 2000, features about 45 entries ranging in length from
less than a minute to 30 minutes. Fest is designed to give new filmmakers a forum to have their works featured in major
venues.
Some of the highlights include a selection of short films from Martin Scorsese as well as "The Personals," the Oscar-winning
documentary from helmer Keiko Ibi.
Oldies but goodies
There is also a segment that features vintage pieces, including works from Thomas Edison's film company as well as the
early works of Judy Garland and Charlie Chaplin.
One work of note features Ewan McGregor in a four-minute pic called "Desserts."
The tour will travel to Sapporo, Nagoya, Osaka and finish in the southern Japanese city of Naha. From Variety |
Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Tuesday, June
6, 2000 // 12:44 a.m.
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McGregor on BBC's Hard Talk
Pauly from StarWarsEmail.com informed the
Force Net that Ewan McGregor was interviewed on the BBC program HARD TALK last night.
He reports...
The interview was pretty good. It covered the creation of Ewans own production company - Natural Nylon
and the films he is able to create within that. Star Wars was discussed with Ewan resoundingly commenting
on how boring the whole process was, and how technical films such as Star Wars are not good for actors
as they are in no way stretched. He also laughed about how he always seemed to be standing behind Liam
Neeson and peering over his shoulder throughout the duration of Episode 1!
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Sunday, June 4, 2000
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Sorry about the late notice, but I just found out today. There is a Britpics showcase
opening tonight in Toronto at the Hyland. Ewan's directorial
short film debut will be shown at the festival as part of Tube Tales along with fellow Natural
Nylon alumn, Jude Law. Catch it tonight at 9pm if you are in the area. Tickets are $8; students and seniors
$5; book of six tickets $35; festival pass $55.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Friday, June
2, 2000 // 04:03 p.m.
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Nora in Ewan's own words, from The
Sunday Herald
EWAN MCGREGOR ON NORA "Nora is the love story between Nora Barnacle and James Joyce after they 'escape' Ireland,
a place they are unable to fit into, and settle uneasily in Trieste. It's a long way from a Hollywood romance because
Nora , played by Susan Lynch, and Joyce, whom I play, had a very real, very intense relationship - very big ups and very
big downs. From the beginning it was volatile, with constant emotional explosions.
I'd read some of his books - Dubliners and Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - and seen the letters and photographs,
but I needed instinct to make Joyce my character. He was a complex man. Very vain, very aware of how he looked. Nora was
not his intellectual equal but she was a strong person. She was a semi-literate, Galway woman who was working as a chambermaid
when they met. She accused him of stealing her life for his books and certainly he ransacked her exploits and imagination
to create some of his female characters, such as Molly Bloom in Ulysses. His wife was undoubtedly his copy. The film is made
by Natural Nylon, the production company I set up with mates Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller, Sean Pertwee and Sadie Frost, because
we wanted to make movies our way. We were working all over the place and it was a New York/London thing, hence the name NY
from New York and LON from London. Nylon sounded too synthetic so we called it Natural Nylon."
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Wednesday, May
31, 2000 // 03:30 p.m.
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Good news for Brits waiting for Eye of the Beholder thanks to the Euro 2000 Tournament. From
the Telegraph:
Madonna is expected to be the biggest beneficiary of any backlash. Her new film, The Next Best Thing,
in which she is cast as a woman whose child is fathered by her homosexual best friend, played by Rupert
Everett, is being heavily pushed in women's magazines. The new Ewan Mcgregor film, The Eye of the
Beholder, which has been waiting two years for a British release is said finally to be seeing the light
of day for the same reason.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Wednesday, May
31, 2000 // 03:12 p.m.
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Is Ewan looking for another stage project? Did he really say "chilling"? Some excerpts
from an article on Ewan in The Telegraph: MAKING a staggering 19 films almost back-to-back in
seven years has taken its toll on Ewan McGregor. Still only 29, he says he must take a 12-month break
from the movies to do some "chilling" at home and to plan his return to the stage. ...... Illustrating
his heavy schedule, he told me after the premiere of his latest film, Nora, about the relationship between
James Joyce and Nora Barnacle: "I finished work on Little Voice at 9pm one evening and I began Rogue
Trader at 6am the next day." ....... Just back from Australia where has has spent the last few months
with Nicole Kidman and Jim Broadbent filming Baz Lurhmann's musical, Moulin Rouge, he says he'll
take his year off after he completes the next instalment of George Lucas's next intergalactic Star
Wars episode.
He'll use the time off to try to find a new piece of stage writing, possibly by an unknown playwright, that he can spend
time developing. ...... Through Natural Nylon he is planning to strengthen his ties with the newly-refurbished Everyman Cinema,
in Hampstead which hosted the Nora premiere. The gang will stage masterclasses and discussions at the cinema on all aspects
of film-making.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Wednesday, May
31, 2000 // 03:01 p.m.
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Just a quip from Ewan McGregor in the Sun Times yesterday.
Ewan McGregor who starred in "Episode One" told this column to pass on a helpful hint to Christensen:
"Those damn lightsabers get hot. No one tells you that each one has about 10 "D" batteries inside. The first day, the thing
got so hot that I dropped my saber and felt like a total failure."
You can read more here.
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Tuesday, May 30, 2000
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The Movie Eye of the Beholder will be released today on video and DVD in the U.S and Canada.
Edition Details:
- Region 1 Encoding (U.S and Canada only)
- Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, AC-3
- Commentary by director Stephan Elliot
- Production Notes
- Theatrical Trailer
- Making of the featurette
- Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Tuesday, May 23,
2000 // 08:32 a.m.
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NORA
Ewan McGregor works hard to convey Joyce's often crippling intensity of working on his masterpieces
and forging a new stream-of-consciousness
style.
Full Story: Here in
This is London.Which also appears in the EVENING STANDARD. (Thanks Carson) |
Posted by ewan a nutshell on
Friday, May 19, 2000 // 01:32 p.m.
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Empire online finally has their news item up about their webcast exclusive of the Nora premiere.
Check out their website for
more details. The goodies should be up on their site tomorrow. Ewan's Natural Nylon mates will be
showing up for this too.
And thanks to Ewanfan for alerting me that TMF (one of the biggest music-TV-channels
in Europe) posted a poll on their site last week:
Who do you like better? Ewan McGregor or Leonardi DoCaprio
End results: 96.4% voted for Ewan!
Wow...
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Thursday, May 18, 2000 // 01:31 p.m.
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TPM Wins Australian Award
Yahoo reports that the lightsaber fight between Qui-Gon,
Obi-Wan and Darth Maul won Best Biffo (Fight) Scene Of 1999 in the Australian 2000 Foster's Can
Film Awards. These awards honor action films traditionally overlooked by other awards.
Click here for the full story
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Posted by Ewan a nutshell on Wednesday, May 17,
2000 // 03:25 p.m.
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Tamara over at DougrayScott.com is
once again kind enough to pass along some Ewan info. This time it is an article from The
Scotsman. An intimate look at... uh.. Ewan's trailer in Australia... ("grey carpet right
up the walls and onto the ceiling, and all the fittings are blue. ") Focuses more on "Nora" than "Moulin
Rouge." But a very intimate little piece, mentioning his Malboro Reds, the new house in Belsize Park,
Eve's script-in-progress, and Ewan as one who's kissed "lots and lots of girls." ;)
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Wednesday,
May 17, 2000 // 02:27 a.m.
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Mum McGregor does it again!
The Daily Telegraph reports:
ANOTHER surprise visitor is Ewan McGregor's mother, Carol. Yesterday
she launched a film company of her own. Talking Books will provide blind and visually impaired people
in the UK with audio descriptions of selected films. One
of them will be East is East and another, Peter Mullan's Orphans, has a voice-over from Ewan.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Wednesday, May
17, 2000 // 02:25 a.m.
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Thanks to Gavinhanly for alerting me that Ewan will supposedly be turning up at the premiere of Nora at
Hampstead's Everyman Cinema this Thursday May 18. To find out more and to catch the webcast of the
premiere, check out Empire Online. Please note,
it doesn't appear this site has anything up yet on this possible event.
And Time Out had this to say about Nora:
"Great films about great writers are few and far between, and any portrait of James Joyce as a young man inevitably has too
much to live up to. Nevertheless, director Pat Murphy and her co-writer Gerald Stembridge have a go, and at least they make
a fist of it. Wisely, they focus on Nora Barnacle, the chambermaid Joyce became obsessed with, and who inspired his most
vivid writing. On their first date he comes in her hand. ‘It was sacred for me,’ he tells her. ‘Have you a handkerchief?’ she
wants to know.
As Nora, Susan Lynch is remarkable: thick lipped and long faced, she’s a constant adventuress in love; bold, earthy and every
inch her own woman. Yet even if there’s reproach in her dark eyes, her gaze never wavers from her man. As Joyce, Ewan
McGregor manages to combine bookish absorbency with raffish self-conviction, but he doesn’t spring to life in the same
way. Murphy quite rightly insists on the primacy of sex. ‘Fuck up!’ Nora urges Joyce, clambering on. Their love is pornographic
and spiritual, jealous and pure. Joyce discovers everything through Nora, and when the well is dry, he engineers his own
betrayal for new material.
"Although it’s an intelligent effort, it is an effort all the same. Murphy doesn’t direct, rather she photographs the script.
(Very handsomely, mind.) There’s a scene in which Nora goes to the movies in Trieste, and is overcome by the memory of her
first, lost love. But then she has to go and tell Joyce all about her experience (it’s the inspiration for ‘The Dead’) and
that’s very typical of a film which dutifully spells everything out... twice."
-Tom Charity
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Tuesday, May 16, 2000 // 10:00 a.m.
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The May 14th 2000 edition of the Sydney Sun Herald had a brief piece on the wrap party for Moulin
Rouge as the stars were finally released from hard labour. ;-) Ewan of course has much less
time than originally envisioned to head home to London and decompress before returning to Sydney next
month for Episode II. The article reads:
"Stars free as Rouge Wraps
"The champagne was flowing freely on Friday with news that Moulin Rouge has at last wrapped.
"After a six-month shoot (and an almost as long rehearsal period), director Baz Luhrmann is headed into the post-production
suites and the cast of the movie is at last free to go home.
"First on the plane was Ewan McGregor, who left for England yesterday.
"McGregor will return to Sydney in late June to don his Obi-Wan Kenobi robes for the next "Star Wars" film..."
Thanks, Amber!
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Posted by Best of Ewan McGregor on Monday, May 15, 2000
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Anakin has finally been cast! Well, we've all heard the rumors and sources about this. But the
official release is now out. And newcomer Hayden Christensen is the lucky actor who was chosen to play
one of the most sought after roles in Hollywood since the role of Obi Wan went to Ewan. Hayden is quoted
as saying: "I'm very excited about the challenge it's going to present and really looking forward
to working with a lot of good people. It's especially exciting to work with actors such as Natalie
Portman and Ewan McGregor whom I've really admired." You can read more about this young actor at
the official Star
Wars website.
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Monday, May 15, 2000 // 10:55 a.m.
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Our friend, Tamara, over at the Dougaryscott.com have
let us know about this little
spicy bit:
THE casting will doubtless raise a few eyebrows. Scottish movie stars Ewan McGregor and Dougray Scott are to play
two of English history's most famous historical characters in a new GBP 12.5million movie. The pair are set to play
Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax in the Civil War epic which they dreamed up during a break in their filming schedules
in Australia.
Scott has agreed to star as Fairfax in the historical drama for McGregor's Natural Nylon film company, and McGregor is
now considering joining him on screen as Cromwell. Producer Kevin Loader said: 'Cromwell should be ten years older than
Fairfax really, strictly speaking, but this is something Dougray would dearly love.' With McGregor acting as
best man recently at Scott's wedding to long-time girlfriend Sarah Trevil, the two actors are close friends. They certainly
had plenty of time to discuss Cromwell and Fairfax while stuck in Australia for months on protracted shoots for their new
movies. McGregor was making the period musical-drama Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman, while Scott was co-starring
with Kidman's husband Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2.
Please check out the whole article on the dougrayscott.com site right here.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Thursday, May
11, 2000 // 12:14 a.m.
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The
Independent writes on "Stars" changing the "Face of British Cinema."
JUDE LAW, 27 (RIGHT), EWAN MCGREGOR, 29
ACTORS & CO-FOUNDERS, NATURAL NYLON PRODUCTIONS
The British don't do stars, don't you know - but the actors behind the Natural Nylon production company are probably
as close as this generation is going to get. Some see the company as a vanity publishing label, but Natural Nylon Productions
at least proved it could get films made when McGregor used it to get Nora, his forthcoming James Joyce picture, off
the ground. Law is now starring in Steven Spielberg's AI, while McGregor is off to shoot the second instalment
of Star Wars. But if Hollywood - or carousing at the Met Bar - doesn't distract them, Nylon could now really take off,
with projects such as the $ 20m Marlowe a very real proposition.
'Nora' opens on 19 May
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Naomi is kind enough to tip me off on a news
bit about how the family of James Joyce feels about Ewan's film, Nora. Film
Unlimited writes:
James Joyce's work may have outraged the Catholic Church with its graphic accounts of sex and defecation - but, in person,
he was always the model of good manners. So say relatives of the Irish writer who are unhappy with actor Ewan McGregor's rough
and ready portrayal of Joyce in a new film.
In one sequence, McGregor, who made his name in the violent and drug-ridden hit Trainspotting [SIC Uh... since
when was "Trainspotting" violent?], is shown threatening a rival for his wife's affections with physical violence
and using obscene language.
'He would never, never have done that,' said Ken Monaghan, Joyce's nephew and the director of the James Joyce
Cultural Centre in Dublin.
'The film shows him shouting "fuck off" on a bridge near their home in Trieste and, despite his reputation for using
foul language in his work, he would not have done that.'
The film, called Nora after Joyce's wife Nora Barnacle, is based on Brenda Maddox's 1998 biography about the tempestuous
relationship between Joyce and his uneducated Galway bride.
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Posted by Bridgeny Productions on Tuesday, May
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Episode II news
Lucas has asked Ewan McGregor to grow a beard for the film, which begins shooting in Sydney at the
end of June. Meanwhile, Lucas' minions Down Under are scrambling to finish building the sets. Aside from Portman and McGregor, the only other
confirmed holdovers from the first prequel are Ahmed Best (Jar Jar) and Samuel L. Jackson (Jedi Mace Windu).The Man who
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Monday, May 8, 2000
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In the midst of "Fashion Week" reporting (fashion week in Sydney hosts Australia's top designers
and the world's top models and celebs in a frenzy of trendy 'seeing and being seen' --
like Cannes without the movies) today's Sydney Morning Herald mentioned that today is the FINAL day
of shooting on "Moulin Rouge" at Mentmore Studios, just up the road from Fox Studios.
However, it's not home free yet for Ewan. The Herald reports that he's one of the invitees
at the Collette Dinnigan show at Jones Bay Wharf in Pyrmont tonight, and is also attending the "Wayne
Cooper" extravaganza on Friday. I guess the best part is that guest celebs are plied with all sorts of
gifts and goodie bags at all these various shows that they call "Fashion Week Survival Kits" -- champagne,
chocolates, perfume, make-up, hair care products, mobile phones etc., just like the Oscars -- I'm
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The Gloucestershire Echo reports:
Heart-throb Ewan McGregor has been tipped to play Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards in a Hollywood blockbuster.
Three companies n Disney, 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks n are vying for the chance to film a biopic of the hapless ski-jump
star's exploits in what experts predict could be the next British box office smash.
Scottish superstar Ewan, who played the young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: The Phanton Menace, will switch his light
sabre for salopettes in the multi-million dollar production.
Eddie, 36, said: "One of the producers is really trying to push for Ewan. He's approached him to ask if he'd
be interested. We're just waiting to hear.
"I'm a great fan of his and I loved the Phantom Menace, even if it wasn't as good as the original."
Eddie, Britain's first ski-jumper, shot to fame at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
He flopped in to last place but won the hearts of people all over the world.
He added: "Personally I'd prefer someone slightly less well known because otherwise people will forget the movie's
about me."
"I don't know how much involvement I'll have in the film. It depends on the company but I'd certainly like
to be consulted about it all.
"A rough screenplay has been written and it's now being put together into a script.
"The idea is to have the film out around 2002 to tie in with the Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City."
Eddie is currently training and searching for sponsorship to try and win himself a place at the games.
Off piste he is studying a foundation course in law and has been offered places at universities in Derby and Leicester, starting
in September.
He added: "I'm going to have to devote most of my time to my studies but I think I'd take some time off if it all
goes ahead. I love movies and it's not every day someone offers to make a film of your life." English -born Hollywood
scriptwriter Simon Kelton, who is working on the script, said: "It was a fabulous piece of bravery, bravado, foolishness,
showmanship, courage and determination for Eddie to do what he did. It has all the elements of a wonderful film."
Eddie crash-landed when he was declared bankrupt in 1991.
He took legal action against his former trustees and accepted an GBP 85,000 out-of -court settlement in 1995.
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Tomorrow's Entertainment Tonight will have a feature on Moulin Rouge and talk with
Nicole Kidman about the elaborate sets they built. There was no mention of Ewan in the preview but you
never know... At least it will give us a glimpse of this much-anticipated movie!
Thanks, Stacey!
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Remember the amazing flat from Shallow Grave? Well check THIS out! [From the Daily Record]:
Film Fans Dig Grave Flat
THE flat which was the setting for the hit film Shallow Grave is up for sale at offers over £225,000.
And despite the grisly scenes filmed in the elegant Georgian flat in Edinburgh's New Town, estate agents have been inundated
with potential buyers.
The film, starring Ewan McGregor, was a black comedy in which three flatmates found their new lodger dead and a suitcase
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From the Winter 2000 Women's Quarterly interview with former MTV VJ, Kennedy:
TWQ: You admitted to a crush on Dan Quayle. Whom do you find sexy in the recent crop of presidential contenders?
KENNEDY: No one, unfortunately. It would just be lovely if someone was. Steve Forbes would have been great if he looked like Ewan
McGregor, but he doesn't. I liked a lot of what he said. I can't quite get a read on George W. Bush yet. I
think it's odd that people find him so intoxicating. Al Gore is not sexy. He looks as if he uses fake-hair-in-a-can
that you can spray on your bald spot. I think Bill Bradley's athletic ability is attractive, but I think he's a
big socialist and that's frightening. I have actually met McCain, and I like the way that he talked to people. He is
a very genuine person.
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On the Inside
The Concorde
60 minutes- N
A profile of the record-breaking supersonic passenger aircraft on its 30th birthday. Includes interviews with Dr. Henry Kissinger,
actor Ewan McGregor and other passengers.
- Tue May 16 08:00P DISCE- The Discovery Channel
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Filming of Moulin Rouge finally coming to an end
Sydney Sun-Herald - Sunday April 30 -
This piece also touched briefly on the touted budget blow-outs (this film had a modest budget by Hollywood
standards), filming delays due to Nicole's injury and the death of Baz Luhrmann's father, and
the fact that filming is finally due to wrap in a couple of weeks. However, the interesting part of the
article states ...
"The cast of Moulin Rouge, including stars Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, move to the smaller Mentmore
Studios tomorrow after being forced off the Fox backlot by George Lucas' Star Wars saga, which
has booked the studio space on the backlot from this week.
"Brown (Producer Martin Brown) admitted that it was a nuisance, but said it was the price they had to pay for starting the
production seven weeks late following production delays due the the death of Luhrmann's father and an injury to Kidman.
"Luhrmann vacated the studios yesterday and a team moved in at 2am today to begin a 24 hour demolition of Catherine Martin's
lavish sets to make way for Lucas."
Pre-production on Star Wars has been happening for a while out at Fox, though they have apparently been a little hamstrung
by a lack of access to some of the soundstages.
Still it probably means that all the blinds will be down on Soundstages 5 and 6 now.
Part of the tour in the backlot attraction at Fox Studios includes a view into these two soundstages.
The facility exists for a director to allow a public viewing gallery of whatever is occurring on the
soundstages, though to date I don't think any actual filming has been seen.
The times I've been there the blind was up on one of the soundstages and we were able to watch construction of the
actual Moulin Rouge set with it's padded red walls, gold accessories and prominent windmill over the entrance.
Even with the blinds down though, you were able to tell from the blaze of the lights inside that filming was taking place.
It is going to be weird to be so close and yet so far away from EpII.
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Ewan is to be in the new June issue of Empire (out in the UK May 1)!
Exclusive: Ewan's Plans For Episode II
26/04/2000
Oh what a joy it must be finally to put your side of the story across. In an interview which features
in the June issue of Empire magazine (due out 1 May) Ewan McGregor takes the opportunity to
answer readers' questions about a host
of rumours surrounding supposed future projects.
In response to one reader's question about whether Ewan had acquired the rights
to Alfie, the actor is quick to set the record straight. 'You know, I hear about so many things that I'm apparently doing, about this project
or that project, but the simple answer is "No." I would never have the audacity to touch Alfie...It would be an insult
to Michael Caine and the filmmakers, and it has never even crossed my mind.'
Ewan was equally keen to clear up the gossip about Courtney Love wanting him for her
Bay City Rollers biopic. 'I don't know anything about it,' he told the magazine. 'Quite
frankly, Courtney Love has never said anything to me.'
But now to the matter that's obviously been driving Star Wars fans wild with anticipation
- is Ewan going
to take the opportunity of Episode II to do his now-customary full monty? 'Only if
I can get away with it.'
Read the rest of Empire's Public Access interview with Ewan in the June issue of
Empire out on the newsstands 1 May 2000.
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Tales from the Crypt: Cold War
Date: Wednesday, April 26th, 2000
Where: SFI-FI Channel
Time:
- 7:30pm Wed and 1:30am Thu Eastern;
- 6:30pm Wed and 12:30am Thu Central;
- 4:30pm and 10:30pm Pacific
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Random blurb from an interview with British actor, Nigel Havers, printed in the Aberdeen Press and Journal.
Nigel talks about the death of the "toff" actor: "Maybe that's why so many Scots actors want
to play English parts, you know, like that Carlyle chap
and, what's his name . . . Ewan McGregor. It's outrageous when you think about it. I would never dream of playing
a Scot; it's an absolute scandal."
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Bum -bum -bum.. Seatle site of love... Attention Seatle-ites! Your chance to see Nora.... The
Seatle Times writes about the Seatle International
Film Festival, which runs 3 1/2-weeks. They write:
Among the higher-profile movies that are booked so far: an Australian movie, "Looking for Alibrandi," starring
Greta Scacchi and Anthony Lapaglia; Pat Murphy's "Nora," a biographical drama starring Ewan McGregor as
James Joyce; "The Wisdom of Crocodiles," starring Jude Law...
Most festival events will be held at the Egyptian, Harvard Exit, Pacific Place and the Broadway Performance Hall. In addition
to opening night, the Paramount will be used for a presentation of local filmmaker Gregg Lachow's "Silence."
Individual tickets for the festival go on sale May 9, though they will be available to Cinema Seattle members May 7. Full-series
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USA Today lists Ewan as
part of "The Next Generation" of action hero actors in it's article Acting shoots ahead of action
for new heroes, by Susan Wloszczyna.
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SUPERSTARS Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman have been ordered to spice up their sex lives by the director of their
new film.
Baz Luhrmann wants the pair to put more passion into their sex scenes in Moulin Rouge.
And he has gone all out to make sure the musical is as sizzling and authentic as he can, even at the risk of offending Kidman's
husband, Tom Cruise.
An insider said: "In Eyes Wide Shut, at least Kidman's sexiest scenes were with her husband. But it's nothing to
what she's got going on with Ewan."
Witnesses have told how Australian Luhrmann yells at more than 300 extras, demanding: "Now, everybody, wild, unbridled lust!
Lust! LUST!"
He wasn't satisfied even after setting up shots with topless Can Can dancers.
Luhrmann, who directed Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo & Juliet, is recreating Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
But, after months of filming in Australia, he says the movie is "traumatising" Kidman and McGregor and proving a logistical
nightmare.
He said: "They have to dance and sing, then tear their hearts out. Nicole's got to die and Ewan's being
asked to be charming and take on a major character transformation.
"It is simply and easily the most difficult thing I have ever made."
McGregor plays Christian, a young poet who falls for courtesan Satin (Kidman) when he takes up with bohemians in the
seedy Pigalle district of Paris.
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Here's a great article about the movie Moulin Rouge in the Sydney Morning Herald April 19,
2000. Warning:contains spoilers.Click Here to
read on.(Thank you Mey)
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"Britain's Q Magazine says the Jagger-penned script "Snap" will be produced by his own production company Jagged, and
Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ewan McGregor are in talks to play the central role of a womanizing rocker."
Martin Scorsese is set to collaborate on "Snap" or aka- "The Long Play" Jagger explains, "It's a comedy about the perils
of being at the top of your game in the rock n' roll world and the pitfalls you encounter."
Not like it's Velvet Goldmine or anything... NOooooooo....
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The
Daily Telegraph writes in an interview with Dennis Lawson:
The Arts: Directing? It's all a bit of fun Actor Denis Lawson first turned his hand to directing
with his nephew Ewan McGregor as his star. Now, he tells Matthew Bond, he's caught the bug
- and knows that
success starts with a long lunch.
By Matthew Bond
'FOLLOW that" is the phrase that comes to mind. Seventeen months ago, the first play that Denis Lawson directed rather
than appeared in, sold out its eight-week run at the small but influential Hampstead Theatre in London and transferred immediately
to the West End. Not bad for a beginner.
There were, however, rather special circumstances. The star of David
Helliwell's Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs was Lawson's
film-star nephew, Ewan McGregor, who, even in a play that didn't require him to disrobe, had a commercial
pulling power matched only by a naked Nicole Kidman. However, McGregor is not
in his uncle's second play as a director and "following that" begins to look like a rather serious challenge.
But if it is, Lawson is still actor enough to hide it well. Or perhaps he is
telling the truth when he says he feels no pressure. "Everyone's getting very nervous, apart from me, because I don't
have to walk on
and do it," he jokes, as he takes a break from rehearsals to discuss Burning Issues, which opens at Hampstead next Tuesday.
It's the new play by Ron Hutchinson, best
known for his award-winning drama Rat in the Skull.
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At 52 he has reined back, just a little. Most of the film projects have been
laid to one side, except for a rock 'n' roll road movie that he and McGregor have been developing for some
time. "I
realised that I was doing one job too many. So I stepped back from a few things."
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Star Wars Made No Cash For McGregor
STAR WARS actor EWAN MCGREGOR insists he got paid very little for the movie - he did it for the love
of the film. McGregor is currently working in Australia and will fly to America this summer to film
the next movie instalment of the sci-fi epic.
He says, "I took Star Wars in order to work with GEORGE LUCAS. I got paid very little for it, nothing near the figure published
($4 million). Star Wars is strange, they expect you to do it for the love of Star Wars."
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Ewan McGregor Finds New Holiday Haven In Trieste
EWAN McGREGOR has found the perfect holiday hideaway in Trieste after spending last summer there filming
new movie Nora (1999).
The Trainspotting (1996) actor followed his literary hero JAMES JOYCE's footsteps in the Italian city and found himself
falling in love with the place - and its leading tenor. McGregor plays Joyce, who left his native Dublin, Ireland, to seek
inspiration in Italy with his lover NORA BARNACLE. He says, "I found this wonderful place. I can really see why Joyce liked
the town - you can really feel him there. It's very cosmopolitan... It's a great town, great places to visit. There's
this one little tiny restaurant where all the crew went and one of the guys who goes there all the time is the head tenor
at the Trieste theatre... While we were filming we'd go there, finish dinner, clear back the tables and start singing
and dancing. It's brilliant."
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2000 MTV Movie Awards - Nominations announced
In the past Ewan has been nominated for MTV's take on movie award shows (best dance performance for ALLO and best breakthrough
performance male), but has yet to win. Will this finally be the year?
The Phantom Menace only got 3 nods. Best Villian (go Darth Maul), Best Action Sequence (the pod race) and Best Fight
Sequence (Liam Neeson & Ewan McGregor vs. Ray Park). Go Ewan. Voting online starts tonight. You can watch the nominee special
tonight as well. Check out mtv.com for more info.
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Sydney Morning Herald - 'Stay in Touch' column (Thursday April 13, 2000)----
MUMMY'S BOY--That Ewan McGregor, he's a nice boy isn't he? Polite, very supportive of the arts -- it's
not an opening night at the theatre (in Sydney) these days that Our Ewan(column's capitalisation)isn't there. And
he's the publicist's dream, because he turns up when he says he will. But the best sign that Our Ewan is the kind
of boy you would take home to meet your mum is that he takes *his* mum to the theatre. Tuesday night's opening of Bell
Shakespeare Company's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" saw Our Ewan accompanied by a woman he was introducing as "my
mum". Unfortunately, Our Ewan and mum didn't make it back from interval. Given Ewan's celebrated full-frontal in
Peter
Greenaway's "The Pillow Book", it's not likely that the bare bottom and ribald presentation of the play would have
put mum off. Maybe it was the late hour. (THANK YOU MEY!)
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The Daily Telegraph - Sydney
(Monday April 10, 2000)----
Scotsman Ewan McGregor displayed some of the high-spirited antics for which he has become a Sydney favourite when he rolled
up, along with the rest of the Moulin Rouge cast and crew,to a party at The Soho Lounge in Potts Point on Friday night.Nicole
Kidman was noticeably absent from the group which included director Baz Luhrmann,Catherine Martin, John Leguizamo, Richard
Roxburgh, Miranda Otto and "Topsy Turvy" star Jim Broadbent. McGregor's day started in a jovial mood when onlookers
say he pulled into the carpark at Fox Studios, put on a tape of bagpipe music, climbed onto the roof of his car and sat cross-legged
for more than an hour. When asked what he was doing, Ewan replied: "I'm just jigging. I love this stuff." His ebullient
mood continued at the party where guests were able to watch the top secret trailer compilation of rough cuts on a panoramic
screen. By all accounts, it was "a real fusion between music and art." "The music is a mix of '70's cover songs
including Elton John and David Bowie and Madonna's "Like A Virgin", with traditional instruments," one of the guests
insisted. The consensus among cast and crew was the Luhrmann is an "absolute genius". McGregor was the last to leave the
party, via a back exit, at 5:30am on Saturday. (Thank you MEY!!)
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Random news from The
Daily Mail:
OTR: OFF THE RECORD
HOLLYWOOD heart-throbs Tom Cruise and Ewan McGregor have been tipped to star in an all-star remake of the Colditz
Story.
Movie giants Miramax are planning a multi-million pound blockbuster based on the true story of Allied PoWs tunnelling out
of the Leipzig castle Hitler branded "escape proof".
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have been approached to play American war heroes, and Ewan's pals Jude Law and Johnny
Lee Miller could also star.
The film will be based on two books written by British officer Major Pat Reid, who was one of several dozen escapees to flee
the camp.
Miramax have snapped up the rights to the books and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has set aside a pounds 13million war chest
for cast fees alone.
Studio bosses are convinced the film could be as big a hit with today's audiences as The Great Escape was in the Sixties.
A film insider said: "Cruise, Affleck and Damon have shown their interest, securing the green light for the pre-production
work to go ahead.
"With stars like this and a company like Miramax involved, it would be one of the biggest films of its kind.
"It's hoped it will be this generation's Great Escape."
Weinstein wants Ewan McGregor, fresh from his role in the Star Wars prequels and as Irish writer James Joyce in a
new biopic, to be interned in the camp.
Jude Law, best known for his recent film role in The Talented Mr Ripley, is among the other top names on Weinstein's
shopping list for the big-budget movie. Miller, who starred with McGregor in Trainspotting, is also a likely choice.
Reid's books were last adapted for the screen by the BBC from 1972-1974, with an all-star TV cast.
Anthony Valentine gripped viewers as the camp's sinister second-in-command, Major Mohn. Bernard Hempton was the Kommandant.
Scots acting legend, David McCallum, best known from The Man From Uncle Series, played Flt Lt Simon Carter.
Other big names included Robert Wagner but the series proved controversial with some critics claiming it strayed too far
from the truth.
In the end, the BBC were forced to release original pictures of the prisoners at Colditz to prove they really were a glamorous
bunch.
The Nazis sent their most troublesome allied prisoners to Colditz castle, 400 miles from the Swiss border, because it was
deemed impossible to escape from.
From 1941 to 1945, the fortress housed 1500 Allied officers who had tried to escape from other camps.
But inmates did break out and some wrote books about their experiences.
Weinstein plans to pay tribute to those Colditz inmates, using Reid's books and other material on the castle's
wartime history. Of the 84 escapes attempted in 1942, most were unsuccessful.
The first British effort was made by 20-year-old Scots army lieutenant, Peter Allan, who changed from his kilt into shorts
and was hidden inside a mattress cover in a straw cart.
Allan made it to Vienna before walking into a police station and being returned to Colditz.
Airey Neave, who later became a Tory MP but was assassinated by the IRA, was the first British soldier to succeed.
Neave and Dutchman, Tony Lutjein, disguised as German officers, walked boldly through the castle guardroom and out of the
gate, rebuking one of the sentries for failing to salute. Both made it to Switzerland.
The ingenuity of the PoWs in Colditz are legendary and saw them successfully forging German papers and passports and making
uniforms from odd bits of cloth and coloured with crayons and paint.
Maps were duplicated using a lemon jelly mould which had been made from Red Cross parcels.
The British Secret service sent packs of playing cards to prisoners which, when soaked, revealed a section of a map of Germany.
Scot David Hamilton designed an aerodynamically-perfect glider which was built and hidden in the castle's rafters. The
American's liberated Colditz before the attempt could be made.
The Wooden Horse (1950) was one of the first British films about plucky prisoners finding ways to escape from captivity.
A previous film of Reid's experiences, the Colditz Story, was made in 1954 starring John Mills.
In the 1963 Hollywood film, The Great Escape, Steve McQueen's daring escape bid on a motorcycle to the Swiss border
is probably the most memorable sequence.
But it was a fictionalised account, inspired by the Colditz and other escape attempts.
GI JOE SHOW MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: Tom Cruise, left, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon may play the American prisoners
THE BRIT PACK TOMMY GUNS: Ewan McGregor, right, and his close friends Jude Law and Johnny Lee Miller, are also Colditz-bound.
Also from the Daily Mail:
WILL EW BE BEST MAN?; DOUBLE ACT: DOUGRAY GIVES PAL STAR ROLE FOR BIG DAY
By Jason Kerrigan
SCOTS actor Dougray Scott has wed girlfriend Sarah Trevis - with best pal Ewan McGregor as his best man. Fife-born
Dougray married the woman he once described as "the love of my life" in a low-key wedding in London's trendy Chelsea.
The couple got hitched in a King's Road register office in front of just 20 guests. Their two-year-old twins Gabriel
and Eden stayed at home with a babysitter. After the 20-minute service, Dougray - star of Hollywood blockbusters Ever After
and Mission Impossible 2 - posed in his kilt with friends and family. The 34-year-old actor then jumped into a black Jaguar
limousine with his new wife and sped off to a secret honeymoon location. A guest said: "The bride looked absolutely radiant
and they both looked so happy. "They have been promising each other they would get married for a long time. They have just
never been able to get round to it because of Dougray's work. The pair of them just live for their kids and their happy
home life." And just to make sure his pal's marriage was celebrated properly, Star Wars star Ewan watched Dougray's
limousine disappear into the horizon before leading the handful of guests to the local pub for a drink.
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JUDE LAW doesn't seem hard enough, somehow. He is, however, slated to play Christopher Marlowe in the next ruff 'n' tumble
biopic from the film company he part-owns (following Nora, a gloomily erotic life of James Joyce released next month).
The film, called simply Marlowe, starts shooting in April and, according to rumour, will feature a cameo by Ewan McGregor.
And who is he playing? Not some roguish drinking partner in a Shoreditch tavern, but none other than Will Shakespeare.
The life of Marlowe, who apparently had numerous criminal friends, is natural gangster flick material. And at $20 million,
the movie is aimed firmly at mainstream cinemas here and in the US.
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More Rumours! Entertainment Headlines
Loose Talk
Thursday April 13,2000-- By Micheal Fleming NEW YORK (Variety)
As a web of rumours preceded Sam Raimi's signing as director of Columbia's "Spider Man," it's no surprise
they'd be followed by speculation on who'll sign a three pic deal tp play Peter Parker/Spidey in the Marvel franchise.
Dish hears that the lead candidates are "Patriot"star Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley ("American Beauty"), Chris Klein, Tobey Macguire,
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That's sick!
E! Online's Top Ten Puke Scenes' in Film History
For Complete Story by Tom Mitchell visit E! on April
15. Los Angeles, April 12/PR Newswire/--
Despite these Puke scenes, most of these films achieved critical acclaim or commercial success. In
fact, "Trainspotting" (nominated
for an Oscar for Best Screenplay and star Ewan McGregor nominated for an MTV Award for Best Breakthrough Artist) for example.
Well "Trainspotting" (1996) made it to Number 9. Check it out HERE.
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DVD Version of Episode I
4/14/00
We've got some extremely cool news for you today! This morning on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, morning
show hosts Kevin and Bean interviewed George Lucas... and he specifically said that his team at Lucasfilm
is currently working on the DVD
version of Episode I. Lucas also revealed that the first draft of the Episode II script is now complete. You can read more
on this over at our fellow IGN.com affiliate The
Force.net. But that's not even the best part.
A good friend of the Bits had the unique opportunity to spend some time chatting with Lucas in person this week, and among
the many topics discussed were the Star Wars DVDs. What our friend learned is amazing, but the person is sworn to secrecy
on most of it. However, thanks to Lucas' comments on KROQ this morning, our friend can confirm that there are still
several unfinished scenes and sequences from Episode I, the original Star Wars and the other films. Lucas plans to finish
them and include them on the DVDs. Whether these scenes are edited back into the film or included in a separate deleted scenes
section is still unknown. What's taking so much time is that ILM actually needs to complete the footage - much of
it was never finished originally. And since work on Episode II is under way at ILM, along with several other non-Star Wars
films,
resources there might be stretched a bit thin. But best of all... our friend says Lucas seems totally enthusiastic about
doing the DVDs.
On a separate note, we CAN confirm unofficially that there is work underway on at least the Episode I DVD. Another friend
of the Bits, who was visiting a post production facility in L.A. on business recently, noticed a box full of digital master
tapes of Episode I in anamorphic widescreen and in multiple languages (the person was told that they're for the DVD).
Naturally, there's no word at all on release dates. But the whole situation is starting to look pretty good for DVD
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Thanks to Rebecca, here's a great link to read about the premiere of Nora at the Dublin
Film Festival. Go to the Irish
Times website to read all about it.
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 // 10:51 a.m.
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Three Joycean experts accompany Katie Donovan to a preview and give their verdicts in an article on
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Monday, April
10, 2000 // 09:10 a.m.
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As if you don't know by now, The Phantom Menace is now available on video (as of April 4)
in pan and scan format, widescreen format and a special collector's edition widescreen format with
a behind the scenes feature on the making of the movie, book of concept art, and an actual film strip.
If you're lucky, you might get a strip with Obi Wan. I was not so lucky (Gungan battle?! Anyone
wanna trade?).
You can order your own copy (or not depending on your tolerance for this movie but I for one love it)
online at places like Reel.com and Starwars.com.
Many places offered free gifts if you pre-ordered a copy. And of course, you can find it at local video
stores, and well, just plain any store, everywhere.
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Posted by ewanspotting.com on Wednesday, April 5, 2000 // 03:17 p.m.
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Here is an interesting Nora/James Joyce website aptly titled James Joyce Portal. Thank you Jorn Barger
of the Responsible Party. Click Here
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Wednesday, April
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McGregor Ready To Receive Flak For James Joyce Film
Scots actor Ewan McGregor sports a moustache and spectacles as he stars as James Joyce in Nora, a dark
romance about the Irish writer's love life.
The film opens at the Dublin Film Festival this week. The Trainspotting actor cultivates the intellectual
look in the tale of the novelist's passionate relationship with long term partner Nora Barnacle.
Directed by Pat Murphy, it depicts Joyce as a selfish, hard drinking womaniser who cares more for his
own welfare than
his lover's.
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Posted by ewan a nutshell on Tuesday, April 4,
2000 // 09:07 a.m.
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In today's Liz Smith column, she writes, "The choice of an American actor, Johnny Depp, to play
Robert Burns in 'Calrinda', a film about the poet's life, angered fans of the Scottish
bard. The Scots had hoped Ewan McGregor might bag the part, but he's busy on the next 'Star
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