The Cinematic History of A Christma... Oct 8, 2009
The film featured Simon Callow as Charles Dickens relating his own famous tale, which is then shown in animation, with Callow voicing Scrooge ... The list of great Scrooge s is formidable then: Reginald Owen, Alastair Sim, Albert Finney, Simon Callow, Michael Caine. (Suite101.com)
Stars make refugee cash protest Oct 5, 2009
Actor Simon Callow and director Ken Loach are among artists protesting against cuts in support allowances for asylum seekers. The subsistence allowance for single over-25s has been cut by 16% to the same level received by younger adults. (BBC News -- UK)
After 208 Years, Is Britain's Observer Near the End? Sep 23, 2009
" Those noble aims were never extended to the Observer after it joined the GMG stable 16 years ago. As executives considered the group's deteriorating finances GMG reported a pre-tax loss of 89.8 million ($147 million) for 2008-09, with the division that houses the Observer and the Guardian hemorrhaging 36.8 million ($60.3 million), compared with a loss of 26.4 million ($43.2 million) a year earlier, on turnover of 253.6 million ($415.3 million) the idea of effectively killing the Observer... (Time.com)
The dong show: Top 10 moments in male full-frontal (87) Jul 11, 2009
But so were Julian Sands, Rupert Graves, and Simon Callow frolicking in the pond scene in A Room with a View. And let's not forget the nude wrestling match between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in Women in Love (censored shots linked below). (Salon)
