Homina, Homina, Homina: Hugh Laurie

Thanks to people who found this for me, but I was actually asking about the article where he talked about asking his dad about rowing. I do remember this one - I feel the same way about collecting! I have a section of it here. It's from Life magazine. "My father didn’t deliberately coin aphorisms. He was far too modest a man to think that anyone would be writing down his profundities. I do remember him saying some very good things like “Any idiot can win.” That’s always stayed with me. What he meant was “Winning doesn’t actually teach you anything.” You win. End of story. But the losing and how you deal with it and what you take from it — that’s the interesting bit . . The whole thing about rowing is that you’re facing the wrong way. If you fall behind, you can’t see who’s winning. That starts to mess with your head: how you keep in contact until you push for the finish line. My father and I were discussing these very strategic pushes and he said: “Well, you could do all that, but I remember when I rowed, we’d just have one push. You put everything into that one push, and if it doesn’t work, well, we all lose some races.” The funny thing about it was, he never did lose any races. He won everything. But I thought it was a wonderful way of looking at life: You have one big push. Put everything you’ve got into it. If it doesn’t work, well, we all lose some races. If you’re trying to hold back, if you don’t commit, you’re never going to get results."

Bafta LA starts at 6:30m local time

With an 8 hour time difference, they might have started already. It's 8:30 PM in London now.

I believe the BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards are an industry event sort of like the TCA Awards. In the sense that they are in LA and not televised, and the recipients know in advance. official web page There should be pictures on the wire service late tonight or tomorrow. There *might* be coverage on the infotainment shows, although I'd guess that would focus on the big names receiving awards rather than Hugh. Unless he says something very amusing. eta: Hugh on The Bill

Browsing for more HL niceties, I came across with another interview, which we all know, but I want to post just a tiny bit because he speaks of... navel!!! "I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give." Source: Evening Standard, June 2002 He's simply describing what most people think of psycotherapy and is not really speaking of his navel, but that simple quotation unleashed my usual wild, enthusiastic daydreaming, and also urges me to ask you all a question: why don't we find a name for his navel? Same as you did months ago when Arthur was born. I want something aristocratic but not haughty, something sophisticated but also cute. To begin with, I propose a few: Leopold, or Lancelot (combines well with Arthur). Looking forward to your inspired, witty suggestions. Please cooperate. OK, I'll try to regain control of myself.

bewitched, "Arthur" is a tribute to The Beatles. In the movie A Hard Day's Night there was a press conference: Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing? George: Arthur Also, the navel thing is an English idiom. If you are navel-gazing you are not doing anything productive, you are thinking about yourself and being self-absorbed. When people went to India to study with gurus in the 60's, they were going to do some navel-gazing.

Thank you, now I have understood that the event is celebrated in L.A., and not in London. It was considered strange that were the British BAFTA because these were celebrated already in February, 2008. (Pardon I don´t speak English well)

Also, the navel thing is an English idiom. If you are navel-gazing you are not doing anything productive, you are thinking about yourself and being self-absorbed. When people went to India to study with gurus in the 60's, they were going to do some navel-gazing. And in the nineties it was rotated in and out with the term "shoegazing" to describe the Lollapalooza/grunge/slacker/genx crowd. I think we throw it around to describe the emo crowd these days.

Which reminds me of one of the few very old, shopworn jokes I know: So how do you tell the difference between an introvert computer engineer and an extravert computer engineer? | | | | | | | | | | | The extravert gazes at your shoes. ;-)

bewitched, "Arthur" is a tribute to The Beatles. In the movie A Hard Day's Night there was a press conference: Reporter: What would you call that hairstyle you're wearing? George: Arthur Also, the navel thing is an English idiom. If you are navel-gazing you are not doing anything productive, you are thinking about yourself and being self-absorbed. When people went to India to study with gurus in the 60's, they were going to do some navel-gazing. Many thanks for reminding me where "Arthur" comes from, Poeia. But would you consider it offensive to the Beatles if I still think Lancelot may be a nice name? After all, I was just navel-kidding (a neologism?). Chapeau (like the French love to say) to the Beatles, always. As to navel thing, I know it is an English idiom. As we have been commenting his navel for a while, I simply thought that sentence was worth mentioning.

About BAFTA. My daily route goes pretty near the hotel, so I rode past it at about 5:30pm, but sadly no Hugh, no illegally parked Triumph in front, and not even a red carpet. I'm pretty sure it was the Hyatt Regency, though... :D

Can any members who live in the UK tell us if it was televised live? If so, 5:30 was much too late -- that 1:30 am in London.

Bafta pics
Getty has Bafta pics!

The first one is truly homina, homina, homina. Mmmmm

Two HQ pics of Hugh last night: http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hughatbaftas2cr3.jpg http://img512.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hughatbaftasmb5.jpg courtesy of isa.

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