Hee! dob you crack me up! Can we all just get along now? We're all ymmv, right? And yes, many thanks to the presciently-named hughsblues for posting that squeeworthy programme link: if you haven't looked, you're missing a lovely photo of serious young Hugh with his gorgeous blue eyes that are even lethal in black and white. If he's never asked a woman out, it's only because they were tripping over each other asking him (though likely so indirectly he never realized they were doing it). Just realized that hugh's blues probably referred to the blues that Hugh has to Hugh, but to the pretty blue eyes that he has to you!

Yeah, I've seen those - and love them - but I was referring to this show specifically. There were about three or four that were just Stephen and Emma, but none that were just Hugh and Emma.

Huh. For some reason I thought the Footlights review that went to Australia was the review with Tony Slattery et. al. that was also televised. But this sounds like an earlier review? Could someone please untangle my sleep-deprived brain? :)

Stephen's "biography" in that program made me laugh as did the suggestion that one could endear oneself to the player of a selfish harmonica by reminding him of Cambridge's loss to Oxford in the boat race.

The picture of Hugh is similar to the one they used in Half-Wit when Cameron and Chase found House's college yearbook, but I think he was scowling more in that one. I was so hoping when they did that fake yearbook for H-W, they would have put a picture of Stephen (or Emma) next to House's in the yearbook. Would have been a nice little shout out.

And yes, many thanks to the presciently-named hughsblues for posting that squeeworthy programme link Yes! Thank you! Google finally seems to have respected my wishes to not be spammed with every single blog out there that mentions Hugh's name, so I totally would have missed this without your post.

Quote: And yes, many thanks to the presciently-named hughsblues for posting that squeeworthy programme link Yes! Thank you! Google finally seems to have respected my wishes to not be spammed with every single blog out there that mentions Hugh's name, so I totally would have missed this without your post. You're all very welcome! Remember...I look at all the blogs so you don't have to. :wink: Besides the fact that the whole program is really cool to see...that picture of him is adorable isn't it? Love young(er) Hugh!!

Thank you, hughsblues. He is absolutely adorable and too hot for words. :D

At the risk of bringing RL discussion in (not my intention) I thought Bertie Wooster fans might like to know there are many comparisons being made at the moment in the UK media between him & the new mayor of London. Apparently he even has a Jeeves.

Huh. Interesting. I haven't seen Dead Again, but I always thought Emma did a wonderful American accent. This article seems to be thinking of Americans in very stereotypical terms. I've plenty of Americans say "warter" instead of "wadder," and most of them are in the Midwest. Not everyone says "Joizee" instead of "Jersey." Sometimes I think the English are too hard on themselves when it comes to American accents. I can't count the number of articles, excluding the aforementioned one, of course, that call Hugh's accent deplorable! We're a lot easier to please than they think.

I thought Emma's was fine in "Dead Again." I didn't think she was making a big show of it. Branaugh, OTOH, was pretty over the top and funny in an unintentional way. He really seemed to be saying, "see? I can do an American accent." But I'm biased, I really don't like that guy.

Physically the U.S. is 40 times as large as the U.K. So why do members of the British press think they can have dozens of different accents but we all talk the same? And, unfortunately, most of their actors thinks so too -- a good American accent is apparently Jimmy Cagney Brooklynese from the 1930s. I'm from "New Yawk" and I don't know many people who say "New Joisey." I've always thought Emma Thompson's American accent sounded much more natural and un-studied than her British one. For me, Laurence Olivier and Meryl Streep are the two actors who come to mind who are famous for doing accents and who I always think do everything short of holding up a sign saying "pay attention to how perfect my foreign accent is." I do agree that Hugh's accent is great, in part, because it's not over-the top. Making House a military brat was a master-stroke both in terms of the characterization and allowing him to be an American without worrying about a specific dialect for every word.

But I'm biased, I really don't like that guy. I'm pretty sure I'm unbiased and even though I didn't think it was terrible, Branagh's accent wasn't the best. Thompsons, though? I thought it was fine. It didn't seem over the top of forced. I'm sure that someone, somewhere is of the opinion that because she doesn't sound like they do, her accent is bad, but it seemed fine to me. Accents aside, I love that movie from start to finish.