Sapphiscribe’s Musings Over Darkness And Light – 30th October, 2011

They say you are a man of good… taste.

I recently found an article on Saffina Desforges’s blog which I thought I would include a snippet from here on The Temple site as it’s of a REG-related nature. It was a guest posting by Andrew Biss who is an award-winning author and playwright and, as it turns out, is a former actor. His dark contemporary fantasy “The End of the World” is available now on Amazon. On the guest post he writes:

“Many years ago, when I was still working as an actor, I was hired as Richard E. Grant’s photo double for the Francis Ford Coppola film “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. As a photo double it’s somewhat important to look vaguely like the actor you’re doubling (I don’t look like Richard particularly) but more important to have the same physical proportions/measurements, as you share the same costumes and need to look proportionate in long shots, etc. One day on the set, the second unit director, Francis’ son Roman Coppola, asked me if I’d be interested in doing a stunt shot, which would include the added bonus of “stunt pay”. I immediately said yes, of course, without bothering to ask what the actual stunt entailed, the lure of stunt pay blinding me to everything else.”

To read the entire blog post, just head over to Sapphiscribe’s Musings Over Darkness And Light blog.

As mentioned before Andrew’s latest book (pictured at right) is available from Amazon.com. His new book, a psychological thriller titled “Schism”, will be released in November. For those of you interested in Andrew’s work his website can be found at www.andrewbiss.com.

TheSouthAfrican.com – 28th October, 2011

By Stacey Chamberlain.

South African actor Richard E Grant will feature in a movie about Ralph Steadman’s life and work alongside Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam, among others.

The new trailer released for the much-awaited film For No Good Reason confirms the rumours that South African actor Richard E Grant will feature in this star-studded account of Ralph Steadman’s life and work alongside Johnny Depp and Terry Gilliam, amongst others.

Scheduled for a 2012 release, the film documents the life and work of Ralph Steadman, a British artist whose style you will recognise from his collaborative projects with American author Hunter S Thompson in works such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Steadman’s distinctive illustrative and caricature style has been favoured by artists including Johnny Depp, Will Self and Ted Hughes and he has lent his penmanship to old favourites such as Alice in Wonderland, Treasure Island and even the unsettling Animal Farm.

Richard E Grant (the ‘E’ stands for Esterhuysen) was born in Swaziland to South African parents and completed graduate studies at the University of Cape Town. He began his acting career in Cape Town and later moved to London, making his debut in film with the cult film Withnail & I. He has subsequently acted in a number of different films ranging from the popular to the esoteric, with his most recent roles seeing him play Vic Van Wrinkle in Horrid Henry: The Movie and Michael Heseltine in the up-coming film about Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady.

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Thursday 27th October, 2011

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