Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 24

ttae £44 ii'i 1i wm V'd i J4f i i i 'I fM LONDON STANDARD HUD AT OCTOBER 11 IMS 23 i (- fjA'V vo 24-ThS LC8TOOX 8TAJTOARD HUD AT OCTOBER 1L 1W8 1 1 SNAKING UP THE THE ACTOR WHO LADDER IN FROM THE COLD I -w V- I David ALEXANDRA my name so why should I change began her career giving an exotie dance routine with a 5ft python in some of the less glamorous clubs in UverpooL cheering every name on toe opening credits before toefllm Started unreeling you knew name on the 3 VXU i OK 1 7101 premieres In Leicester Square or at the NFT were never like the do they had In Liverpool at the weekend Director Chris Bernard and writer Prank Clarke both local talent and largely local money It brings back as the of his best roles In re you were in for an exceptional night The movie was Letter to Brezhnev The local fervour was generated because it tells the story of a Kirkby girl who falls In love- with a Russian If you were going to get on had to get the panL grew up sailor and escapes the bleak ling class life of working class Iiyerpool la involved In most Industrious period for some time In the film Lifeforce now on release he plays colonel saving London from the vampire invaders from outer space and this week he started a new movie in toe titleole of The Master Musician Firth: "I know do go a bit quiet now and again I spend a fair amount of time In the States sometimes working sometimes not I feel that unless something really Interests me then I won bother to do it As long as got enough money to pay the rent happy But I do fed like being a bit busier He looked back on the years of his discovery in Equus I AAXW ww asva Eauus in London and on Broadway 10 mther become the lost boy of British acting In a community hall gTTiiH the blighted housing estates oi Kirkby the chairs had been installed on the dance floor as though awaiting the next Bingo session but on the stage was a large film screen accompanied by a somewhat shaky sound system by JESSICA to fly to hisade only through the eponymous letter The film was sneak-previewed last month out-ofcompetition at the Venice Film Festival and highly acclaimed Now it is on Its way an a wave of expectation to Inn-don opening in five cinemas on October 25 IAN SEARS would very much like to have been Clint Eastwood buit not so he has settled for being a 22-year-old actor Kawasaki rider and Cure fan BERENS Firth is now 11 and his cherubic good settled into a handsome maturity He is a more relaxed man than the pnckly youth he used to be And with a broken marriage behind aim lan Sears: content not to be Clint you attention and that eonld bo difficnlt I thought a snake would do the trick and It did I was only doing that set as it was the only way to -fft an Equity Card Miss Pigg 23 went on to play the moody Petra on Channel Brookside aerial set np a base in Ladbroke Grove for occasional -appearances in Hinge and now has her flint film role as the love-lorn young girl In Letter to Brezhnev She said: known Frank the author for years and he wrote It with me In 1 mind It was first done as a play but I do it then because I was contracted to Brookside When the film eame up I told him break his neck months out of work with toe Aont Ske ttie word I prefer When the audience was persuaded to leave the bar and seconds later was noisily always make Itself known of Invigilators course The nine invigilat exception of a fringe show I did at the King's Head for toe Anna Bcher leatre at one audition were not particularly impressed to hear fin sing Mark pardon me thou bleeding piece of earth" speech to a pop tune School and has since pteyed wait! a South American waiter twenty quid That made me quickly" Acting life Its tts pit-one day adrer-Nescafe the next Anyway Clint would never have been east to play David the 18-year-old gay New Yorker in Harvey Torch Song Trilogy which opened In London last week was 21 and playing in the most successful play on Broadway and that can be pretty dangeroui Fortunately brouhaha went eroua most of the over my head y- BA y-r--J IB ARMY NAVY of them piped up: neither Well that was neither an Ian has no room for portrayal of acting nor a singing pie 1 ft? Got anything else? was I think 1 came out fairly unscathed because I was always pretty sideways-on to the fuss that was being made was actually very shy but I got a (whose accent was not entirely unlike Scarfaee) a young student In Barbra Streisand's Yentl and a manic depressive in the television series Johnny Jarvis guy had been burned eut in every way and It really rubs off on you To do something with Jokes in after that wm Just fabulous" Fabulousue does not Sh vV- i He and he hsant sung since A I who In between of Blue Nun toe kind of people inks "who get poncey Cktit wtet Is anttetfto anyway? I an aatiet I I get that I have to" Firth vifh Alexandra Pigg tn Letter to Brezhnev and in Juvenile has little doubt about his left do a sex seem any da rather than hare- to ring ean tell you that for free" Peter Flrih: unscathed el URI MICHAEL OWEN'S promise He brings David alive with a mixture of youthful naivete unaffected enthusiasm and a convincing American accent which he gleaned from watching Dynasty FORCED LIQUIDATION HIGHLY IMPORTANT repute 1 1 on for being a gant America la the only place where a failure to promote yourself is regarded as arrogance But it make me many friends or help in terms of career and work After seeing him on stage as an street cocky Slightly camp 1 'V-v- f'V'VKr tvX ji PUBLIC AUCTION the hustler swanning around in an un alluring brown suit it wm Interesting to find a chirpy North London charmer wearing a ensemble of heavy boots studded leather and scarlet leather ELECTRICAL FURNITURE (be immediate letkwment of Mr SUabea Aminoff and dtaeolutioa aMiMiTril ta Wm rtnee 1920 and trading la tha UK at tta International Centre OOCC) einca incevtioa Ihie ooHectloa gad othara win fee ran What nobody knew was i didn't believe in what that they woo breath A LARGE SELECTION OF FURNITURE MUST BE CLEARED WE OFFER FANTASTIC REDUCTIONS WITH IMMEDIATE DELIVERY DEBT TO GLENDA BOSCH V360 TOP LOADING AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINES 101b opacity was always holding nxy waiting to be found be has turned Since he speaks fondly of his Italian girlfriend one assumes he is not homosexual of the reasons I did this play was because ft wm not a gay politico rasp It are are la bitch Since to like Joseph Spin Speeds 3507001000 Originally £44999 SALE PRICE £39999 EKORNES-ULFERTS COMBINATION WALL UNITS White finish display cablnett HMS CUSTOMS BONDED WAREHOUSE and wlS te gold by PUBLIC AUCTION Wo be beM over a aeateona at tta Moo pramteea 28 Rofflyg Hill Hempstead Landes NWS Igt Saffian Saturday October 12th st 3pm 2nd Settles Sunday October 1 3th irt 3pm Preview Friday October 11th llsm-9pm and Sat and Sun from 10am to time of tale RAREST PERSIAN Sl ORIENTAL RUGS laid-back nasal drawl and racy dress sense lands hex In some odd-ball rtles She said strange tent It? I knew what It is they see In ma I think a pretty ordinary person doing pretty ordinary things" Miss Hale has probably never distinguished herself more It gives everyone a square deal and it makes toe point BOSCH EH 681SB FREE-STANDING COOKERS With dual oven system 4 hotplates and variable grill Originally £40999 SALE PRICE £34999 Inclusive of light fittings Originally £809 SALE PRICE £499 Andrew and Tesa hut apart from a Broadway stint in Amadeus he has become a stranger to the theatre Be mid: Interested In the theatre but no one ever uki me I had a good relationship with the National Theatre for a couple of yean but I was never asked back Anyway I have a longstanding love affair with films so 111 press on with that Itn qteto happy" GEORGINA HALE resumes sa Tuesday the partnership with Glenda Jackson which has stretched across TV films and the theatre But whea the two go on stage atthe Aldwych Theatre it will pedal act of recognition for MU Hal They are there to revive ih Fhilip Prowse production 4 Fhedra ttey played together at the OM We Mst year with Glenda In the Site iSe'and Ml lisle as Prince Arlda Mi Hale: we dm tt at the Old Vic I was biting a pretty tad timejwp reasons Glenda stood by BOSCH EH 562S FREE-STANDING COOKERS EKORNES-ULFERTS 'HILTON' SOFA GROUPS In Batlck Hide Range of colours available Originally £2420 SALE PRICE £1935 than in the original stage version of Neil acladlng silk aad wool alia ran from tteCucuM Vwkey Hanjke KmIhm Kirmao Seanah lighalian Tabrta Qam Nala Paktetaa India Ramla and many atbara that gays can be conformist which is something that never gets said made me think about my grandparents They were victims ox the Nazi persecution My grandmother wm a refugee and spent her war years in a Warsaw ghetto go to a camp because she Jumped off the train with my mother In her arms but she was really narrow-minded and bigoted Ceramic top with four cooking zones SALE PRICE HOTS: Raaban Amin ml lm bndlnf tbrawbtba latarwatiaaal Carpet 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£1050 SALE PRICE £59999 AS the cultural exchange barriers come crashing down after the recent Anglo-Goviet and kept me going LINENS It was a blow but ytou get to the things 1 was in UNRESERVED LIQUIDATION AUCTION PERSIAN CARPETS RUGS RUNNERS AND OTHER HANDMADE ORIENTAL RUGS Buffering does not opQ mind it makes a The French Woman but was eut out of that You just have to pick yourself up and get on with It again" hdetoitmMieaf- 'm mESSfjust turned i that her Monde bah KAREN WOVEN BEDSPREADS Assorted colours Eg Double size Originally £2999 SALE PRICE £2199 SANYO VTCM20 BETACORD VIDEO RECORDERS 14 day8 programmer Inhered remote control Colour picture search Originally £39999 SALE PRICE £32999 Georgina Hale: partnerihip soywiwnww -1 hi to take Ms one-man Dickens dhow behind the Iron Curtain for the first time in 20 years The breakthrough has been achieved without Foreign Office or British Council aid In a neat entrepreneurial move by Lady Molly Daubeny with financial backing from your people more narrow-minded I think a lot of gay people make toeir own ghetto It is not toe first time Bui has played a teenager called David he appears at tod young King David in toe film Of the same name CARPETS rji x-' PIT OF VERSAILLES EMBROIDERED TOWELS Pastel shades Eg Bath sheet Originally £699 SALE PRICE £499 kills' Goliath Mays tod 1 after a few to Saul looks WHITE ON BLACK Williams leaves on Saturday it ana dates in Warsaw BEING PLEDGES NOW FORFEITED AND ORDERED FOR IMMEDIATE AUCTION BY MERCHANT BANK HAMILTON SOMERSET (LONDON) LTD A1 bales will be removed from ACE SHIPPING LTD and other points st KM Customs Bonded Warehouses for convenience of sale and win be sold piece by piece at HILTON INTERNATIONAL HOTEL KENSINGTON HOLLAND PARK AVENUE LONDON W11 on SUNDAY 13th OCTOBER at 3PM DESPOND harp sheep and your unde Richard Gere PRICE CARPET REMNANTS Eg Loop pile Berber Originally £190 SALE PRICE £95 PLAIN DYED EASYCARE COTTON TABLECLOTHS Some with fancy shell WHILE the epic antics of Les Mlsdrables this week milled hjACtU Gere who personal jtion does not glitter Ska fresh morning dew for Krakow which will bring his tally of Dickens performances to over 2200 He said been all over the world with the show but Poland is one of the few countries I have never beat have the happiest experte across toe VfjjgT enew stitched edging Originally £899 SALE PRICE £499 another company in the lasL wine xw ww to the London opera jne lionaau NAPOLEON TWIST General domestic quality 80 wool20 nylon 12' wide Imperfect When Perfect £999 sqyd SALE PRICE £699 theatre five floors down Jim a fe UlCaHvi Uiv Mvw been feeling distinctly neg- and it mainly wme down to the fact that Mr White charming to his young The day before toe Goliath scene Ian received an envelope with a pebble in it The letter from Gere read: 'When I went to Jerusalem V- -f CHINAGLASS lected and glum Howard themed ACTOR-AID Wacfc distinguished decided to had decide White: political row and lsrael I went to theBot I Wl children Viewing from 1pm Lsrgd portions of collection in of high quality-seldom seen on the market today Payment: cash cheque or all major credit cards Auctioneers A Wellesley Briscoe Partners lid 144146 New Bond Street London Wl lap 01-493 4572 BOMB brave actors are pre- PRICE MEAKIN CHINA SALE PRICE £7J0 paring to reveal thCTisefves at toeir mosf their most exposed (No girls in Brockley Kent now at 1 Oovent Garden nigowuMi he will sing Ferrando Sf1 ueCsO yiiYi SPECIAL PURCHASE £999 sq-yd of his skin colour The GLO went to SUPERWASH CHINESE CARPETS 120 line 38 pile Eg SPECIAL PURCHASE £699 got underway there but only after toe author and actors took matters into their own hands Mr Freeman no stranger to txlMt summer he will sing Fringe theatre after his days rorgy in with the crusading Portable excursion into Gershwin Theatre said been very appointing the way toe plays have been treated Barker is one of the best writers around today he had to subsidl the production of the pro- r- rauseu Decause want to get type-cast i Being based in London I Jrnx now singing all over CUMBRIA KESWICK GLASSWARE SALE PRICE C7W PLASTIC CARDS FOR All PURPOSES i)i SPEEDY EMBOSSING SERVICER hisAbe WfgW withhold their grmjttog Mid WWteww suddeV V-fc where it wm alleged the guy got it from the little guy I hung around there and dug toe atmosphere for a couple of hours then I picked up ri couple of pebbles Hers la The film as Ian pute tt "died a death in America" but it taught toe David about the lord a mysterious ways It was toe most glamorous Job I have ever done I was flown to Rome for a wig fitting (I rather fancied myself in ft actually) and driven around in a Mack limousine "But after that I had six lODptoaartwsrk ff heal MAO per AsphteeVA not that) when they Join a 12-hour session of improvised theatre at the Donmar Warehouse on Sunday October 20 They hope to raise £20000 for Bob Band Aid fund Michael Palin Kenneth Branagh Jonathan -Pryce John Sessions and Terry CHinam will be leading this Actor Aid Jamboree which will Include outdoor street theatre Support will be coming from toe Ilk of Derek Jacobi Blxabeth Quinn 1 1 Walters Robert Powell and Alexei sayle AspMaaVATaadmrtefe Ewpev I see cdMagues who ZZ1 wHieagues who Flrtl ESU Vr' A 55c High St NpeA fm- DiinMablaVyVy-v! Bediordahlrs LU6 UFflrPr Tttl (0582) 60023T M'-- grammes or there would not have beei uaK been any I offered i to lie Vviiwv He said this week hurt but I was put to difficult xpositioneg5 to me wanted to hare Jrjide do with it and toe oto aid I should take oine of wwn BvMf White With bis writ Va'W staging the roles or houses i am singing they are Mack or white flm with me" pay for toe promotion graphs Just to shame the eons- pany Into getting them done AM A HOUSE OF FRASER STORE E-f-V e-f ft f-9 I'n i rU tt V'A 5 -J -i '1 "5 1.