Sunday TV: Stephen Fry In America Sep 4, 2009
Stephen Fry in America. Stephen Fry in America ... There's no need to worry if you join Stephen Fry's six-part journey across the US in the fifth episode; each is hilarious and fascinating in its own right. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Stephen Fry In America' to Debut on HDNet Sep 2, 2009
Stephen Fry In America' to Debut on HDNet - Yahoo ... Stephen Fry In America' to Debut on HDNet ... DALLAS, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- HDNet is proud to present the debut of "Stephen Fry In America," a six-part documentary series set to air every Tuesday evening on HDNet at 10:00pm ET, beginning on September 22. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Key voted king of Edinburgh comedy Aug 30, 2009
The comedy award was first made in 1981 to a Cambridge Footlights cast which included Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery and Emma Thompson - all future comedy stars. Its golden age came in the early 90s when it was won by Frank Skinner, Steve Coogan and Lee Evans. (BBC News -- UK)
This day in history Aug 24, 2009
Actor-writer Stephen Fry is 52. Actor Steve Guttenberg is 51. (Boston Globe)
Tweeting with the stars a hoot for fans Aug 16, 2009
Stephen Fry: stephenfry ... Ms. Espenson follows producer/director Paul Feig ("The Office") and comic actors Eddie Izzard and Stephen Fry. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Wacky, weird and provocative at Fringe Festival Aug 6, 2009
Mainland said the success of the Fringe which has helped launch the careers of such stars as Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson rested on an open-access formula that allows anyone with the creativity, a bit of money and a whole lot of chutzpah to bring a show to Edinburgh. Thats a very powerful thing for new work, she said. (MSNBC -- News)
Citizen Journalism, Web 2.0 Propel Iran's Neda Jun 25, 2009
People posting the Web addresses to help Iranians evade government filtering reached a peak when celebrities including the British comedian Stephen Fry joined in, only to be reminded that the Iranian authorities had access to Twitter too. "The moment you tweet something some people say 'you idiot, you naive fool ... they can close you down,'" he said. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Six Day Festival of Amnesty International's Ground-Breaking Comedy/Rock Benefit Shows - Includes Six World Premieres & One All-Day Marathon Screening! Jun 20, 2009
Commissioned by the BBC in 1994 to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary, this "Best of the Balls" presents both performances and recollections of many of the key participants, including Python's John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, plus Rowan Atkinson ("Mr. Bean"), Stephen Fry, Jennifer Saunders, and musicians Sting and Bob Geldof. Screening with Remember. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'House' star provides laughs in spy novel spoof Jun 18, 2009
But even before that, Laurie was hugely popular over the pond as part of a comedic duo with Stephen Fry, as well as in various roles in the British television series, Blackadder, which starred Rowan Atkinson. What many may not know about Laurie, however, is hes also an author. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Audiobooks by Narrator and Author S... May 26, 2009
Audiobooks by Narrator and Author Stephen Fry. Audiobooks by Narrator and Author Stephen Fry ... Popular presenter and author, Stephen Fry, features in a wide variety of audiobooks. (Suite101.com)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (May 24) May 24, 2009
And yet, we find Laurie to be an engagingly easy sell in other roles, particularly when he's paired with comedy partner Stephen Fry ("Gosford Park.") Here they venture into archly tweedy P.G. Wodehouse period territory, with Laurie playing a smartly dressed, empty-headed man of means, and Fry serving as both his valet and his common sense. Mildly amusing, eh wot, if not nearly as much fun as their sketch comedy showcase. (Boston Globe)
Marieke Hardy The public are mad for Russell Brand because he doesn't pretend to be anything other than what he is. Read more May 21, 2009
Part devilish raconteur, part shriekingly hyperactive cousin, he's sharp, verbose, and looks like what would happen if Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh and Stephen Fry made a baby (I know, what a lovely thought). That said, Ponderland's a bit of a vague premise. (The Age, Australia)
Four craft Baftas for Wallander May 19, 2009
Stephen Fry present writer Peter Moffat with his award. Three-hour documentary The Fallen, which chronicled all those who had died in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, won best director for factual programme for film-maker Morgan Matthews and best editing for a factual. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
India's kingmaker state May 13, 2009
Stephen Fry dismisses MPs' expenses row. Berlin Airlift anniversary marked. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Folic acid 'protects baby hearts' May 13, 2009
Page last updated at 23:50 GMT, Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:50 UK. Folic acid protects baby hearts. (BBC News -- Health)
Give a dog a bad name: a producer's conundrum May 8, 2009
Stephen Fry, who has been commissioned to write the new script, was asked to suggest alternative names, but David Frost, the executive producer, was reported to have rejected all the options. He was reported to have said: "Guy sometimes used to call his dog Nigsy, so I think that's what we will call it. Stephen has been coming up with other names but this is the one I want.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Harry Hill takes Bafta TV prize Apr 28, 2009
Hill, who joked it was "ridiculous" to win awards for "a clip show" beat Jonathan Ross, Stephen Fry and Ant and Dec to the trophy - his third Bafta. But his TV Burp show lost out to The X Factor in the entertainment category. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A nation of programmers? Apr 28, 2009
Last Friday the actor and self-confessed 'technophile' Stephen Fry was one of the more interesting contributors to a rather self-serving debate about Digital Britain held at the British Library. He offered an analogy between the early days of the motor car and the current development of a network society, noting that there were no agonised debates or high-level task forces convened to discuss the rollout of the car, so perhaps we should be more relaxed in our attitude to going digital. (BBC News -- Technology)
Clement Freud, BBC panelist and orator, grandson of famous psychoanalyst Apr 18, 2009
Comedian Stephen Fry told the BBC Thursday that he was charmed by Mr. Freud's "air of disreputability.". "He, during the 1950s and 1960s, was a real Soho figure," Fry said, referring to the bohemian quarter of London. (Boston Globe)
In his own words Apr 17, 2009
Includes tributes from the broadcaster Stephen Fry and the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. Photographs courtesy: PA and Getty Images. (BBC News -- UK)
Scientists: TWITTER can make you immoral... Apr 15, 2009
Twitter fans: Jonathan Ross (left) and Stephen Fry are among its users but scientists have claimed that social networks such as Twitter may blunt people's sense of morality ... Mature celebrity users of Twitter such as Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are behind the growing popularity of the site used by around 10 million people worldwide. (The Drudge Report)
Papers continue to target Brown Apr 14, 2009
Thousands of people signed a petition in protest after works by gay writers, including Stephen Fry, were dropped from the lists. Amazon blamed "a glitch" in its systems which it said was being fixed. (BBC News -- UK)
Laurie book 'tops French sales' Apr 10, 2009
He is best known in the UK for his work with Stephen Fry in both Jeeves and Wooster, and sketch show Fry and Laurie. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Twitter gaffe not my fault, says Hugh Jackman Apr 8, 2009
Others, such as British comedian Stephen Fry and American basketballer Shaquille O'Neal, are prolific twitterers who say they enjoy the greater intimacy with fans that Twitter offers them. smh. (Sydney Morning Herald)
On screen, a tenor learns to dial down the opera Mar 28, 2009
But back in 2005, when Kaiser was in the Young Artists program at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, he was intrigued to hear that Kenneth Branagh was auditioning singers for an English-language film of Mozart's The Magic Flute that he was directing, with a libretto written by Stephen Fry. Fortuitously, Branagh attended a Chicago rehearsal of Beethovan's Fidelio on a day that Kaiser was singing the role of First Prisoner. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Bafta nod for EastEnders' Brown Mar 25, 2009
Stephen Fry, Harry Hill and Jonathan Ross compete for the best entertainment performance prize alongside ITV duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. BBC drama Hancock and Joan has received three nominations, including a best actor nod for star Ken Stott. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Famous dead people Mar 25, 2009
Charles Darwin, who apparently is in the middle of sea cruise, follows a Twitter site dedicated to the study of evolution, as you might imagine, and another from the English actor, Stephen Fry, as you might not. . (The Palm Beach Post)
Tributes to 'courageous' TV star Mar 23, 2009
STEPHEN FRY, ACTOR AND TV PRESENTER The raconteur met Goody when they were fellow guests on Jonathan Ross's BBC One chat show. Writing on the mini-blog website Twitter, he said she was "a kind of Princess D from the wrong side of the tracks". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
A-G Oxford and Cambridge Writers an... Mar 23, 2009
Although Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Stephen Fry, who were together members of Footlights, are predominately known for their acting, they are each also notable writers. Emma Thompson, who adapted Jane Austen s Sense and Sensibility into an Academy Award winning screen play, Hugh Laurie, who wrote the novel The Gun Seller, and Stephen Fry, who has written several literary works, including some set in Oxbridge, were all members of Footlights together. (Suite101.com)
Goody hailed as national treasure Mar 23, 2009
Actor Stephen Fry said Ms. Goody was "Princess Di from the wrong side of the tracks," and yesterday's outpouring of public grief recalled that which followed Diana's fatal car accident. Well-wishers leave floral tributes and messages outside the family home of British reality television personality Jade Goody, in Essex in south-east England, on Monday. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
PM leads tributes to Jade Goody Mar 23, 2009
" Media interest Goody's illness had featured in the media on a daily basis and she allowed digital channel Living to continue following her treatment as well as documenting her wedding to partner Jack Tweed a month before her death. OK! magazine also paid a reported 700,000 to cover the event. Writing on the mini-blog website Twitter, Stephen Fry said she was "a kind of Princess D from the wrong side of the tracks". The pair met while guests on Jonathan Ross' BBC chat show. Fry said: "Poor,... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Magic Flute Mar 20, 2009
Screenplay by Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Fry ... Led by the veteran conductor James Conlon, the mostly young cast (including Canadian tenor Joseph Kaiser as Tamino, the just-out-of-school soprano Amy Carson as Pamina, the ferocious Lyubov Petrova as the Queen and the majestic bass Ren Pape as Sarastro) looks great and does very well singing Stephen Fry's awkward English translation, which was key to this film's being made at all. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Comic Relief: Accountants vs entrepreneurs Mar 14, 2009
To mark the day when millions of Britons are doing something funny for money, we pitted entrepreneurs from UK Business Forums and accountants from AccountingWEB.co.uk against each other in a joke challenge. Our judge Linda Jones, journalist and creator of Comic Relief fundraising book , picked her 10 favourites and decided which camp has the best sense of humour. (Accounting Web, UK)
Stephen Fry: The internet and Me Mar 13, 2009
Stephen Fry - wit, writer, raconteur, actor and quiz show host - is also a self-confessed dweeb and meistergeek ... So you'll get an increasing number of commentators going "Aren't you just fed up with Twitter? Oh, if Stephen Fry tells me what he's having for breakfast one more time, I think I'll vomit." ... Stephen Fry was talking to Kenan Malik for Analysis: Clever. (BBC News -- Technology)
Geordi beams in for a pint with a few fans Mar 6, 2009
Burton is a perfect example of that curious batch of celebrity Twitter users a strange assortment of figures ranging from TV personality Stephen Fry to hoopster Shaquille O'Neal to rapper MC Hammer who use the micro-blogging site to maintain a personal rapport with fans in ways that weren't possible before. The most successful Twittering celebs aren't the most famous, but rather the ones, like Burton, who really seem to enjoy it. (Globe and Mail)
Which celebrities are using Twitter? Mar 4, 2009
Stephen Fry, the British comedian and most popular Twitter celeb with 281,000 followers, supplies a constant flow of wry observations. Recently, Fry even appeared to send messages while riding a donkey on a trip to Mexico: "You have to hand it to these beasts. Their sure-footedness is a miracle. Millions of years to perfect 4-hoofed precision.". (KHOU.com, TX)
Tweet and greet Feb 21, 2009
TV host Jonathan Ross and actor Stephen Fry are both keen twitterers ... As Stephen Fry put it in a recent blog entry: "I love how Twitter confirms my all-too-often assaulted belief that most humans are kind, curious, knowledgeable, tolerant and funny. The absurd constraints of the 140-character tweet seem oddly to bring out the best in wit, insight and observation." -- TELEGRAPH. (The Age, Australia -- Technology)
PICK OF THE TWITTER Feb 19, 2009
Stephen Fry (comedian, actor): twitter. com/stephenfry. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Shopaholic tips for the credit crunch Feb 18, 2009
Five Minutes With: Stephen Fry. How do you count the stars. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Child poverty 'billions needed' Feb 18, 2009
Page last updated at 01:29 GMT, Wednesday, 18 February 2009. Child poverty 'billions needed. (BBC News -- UK)
No wonder Stephen Fry is all of a Twitter Feb 16, 2009
As Stephen Fry twittered from inside a lift last week: OK. This is now mad ... A message from Stephen Fry on the blogging site. (Daily Mail)
Twestival Wants To Raise $1 million For Charity Feb 13, 2009
Twitter's popularity in UK has been boosted by the participation of popular, mainstream figures, like Stephen Fry or Jonathan Ross. There are more than 4. (ITProPortal)
Join the Twitterati Feb 12, 2009
British author and performer Stephen Fry is a major Twitter advocate, to the point where he has become a willing, unofficial spokesman. He also responds to his followers although he says it's getting trickier as the numbers grow. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
The Power Directory Feb 9, 2009
530 S. Main St., Suite 1751Akron, OH 44311(330) 633-9203Ownership: Time Warner CableBasic Subs: 943,000 (Cleveland and Akron)Top Executive: Stephen Fry, division president. 16 Cox Arizona. (Multichannel News)
Period films: Cruise,Mortensengo backto WWII Feb 7, 2009
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Patrick Wilson, Stephen Fry, Tom WilkinsonDirector: Bryan Singer Story: Cruise stars as Col. Claus von Stauffenberg, a Nazi officer who loyally serves during World War II, but secretly hopes that someone will take down Adolf Hitler before Europe is destroyed. He decides to take action himself and joins the German resistance. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Brand plans to emulate Fry lift Twitter Feb 7, 2009
Russell Brand has joked that he is planning to "emulate" Stephen Fry by getting stuck in a lift. Fry used the internet blogging site Twitter to while trapped on the 26th floor of London's Centre Point tower on Tuesday. (Digital Spy)
