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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Roberts’ bill for Notting Hill
Julia Roberts pretty much played herself as Anna Scott in 1990s romcom Notting Hill – a big American film star working in the UK (and hilariously wooed by West London bookshop owner William Thacker – Hugh Grant). During one scene, … Continue reading
Thought for the Day from Notting Hill
“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her – when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?” Notting Hill (1999) This … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Notting Hill, Ntting Hill Carnival
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London’s Electric Cinema celebrates its century with the Eclectic Electric All-Nighter!
London’s Electric Cinema celebrates its century with the Eclectic Electric All-Nighter on Saturday 26 February, screening a selection of films from the Cinema Club’s 1970s programmes. The much-loved Notting Hill cinema, designed by Edwardian architect Gilbert Seymour Valentin, opened 100 … Continue reading
Couch Potato Wedges – Dipping into some lesser-known Love Actually trivia
Teaser: Love Actually features the lead actors from another well-known movie. I’ll leave you pondering that thought. More on that later… Cameos Can you name all of the Love Actually cameos? No doubt you can reel off Claudia Schiffer, Rowan … Continue reading
Posted in Couch Potato, Films on TV
Tagged Alan Rickman, Anne Reid, Ant & Dec, Bean, Bernard, billy bob thornton, Blackadder, Bridget Jones's Diary, Claudia Schiffer, David Hague, Denise Richards, Dominic McHale, Emma Thompson, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Frances de la Tour, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Jeanne Moreau, Jo Whiley, Julia Roberts, Kate Winslet, Kris Marshall, Liam Neeson, Love Actually, Michael Parkinson, Notting Hill, Richard Curtis, Rowan Atkinson, Ruby Turner, Sandra Oh, Sense and Sensibility, Shannon Elizabeth, The Boat That Rocked, The Vicar of Dibley, Thomas Sangster, Titanic, William Wadham
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Couch Potato Pickings | Kidulthood and Adulthood
London’s urban youth lingo was once a complete and utter mystery to me. For many years, whenever I heard kids chatting on their phones on my commuter train, I’d feel incredibly frustrated. I just couldn’t make any sense of what … Continue reading
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Tagged 4321, Adulthood, emma roberts, Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Kidulthood, Noel Clarke, Notting Hill
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Couch Potato Pickings | The Wedding Date and Hollywood’s Britain
In this frothy movie, Will & Grace‘s Debra Messing plays single New Yorker Kat Ellis. With her half-sister’s London wedding looming, Kat realises that she must finally confront her old life and her ex-fiancé, so she hires escort Nick Mercer … Continue reading
Couch Potato’s London Staycation Diary: Notting Hill, Brigitte and Bats
As promised yesterday, here’s the final part of my London staycation diary, and we’ve reached the West London district of Notting Hill. What can you expect to see when visiting Notting Hill? Travel bookshops? Filmstars? Julia Roberts? Hugh Grant? I … Continue reading
Couch Potato Pickings | The Shining and hotels in the movies
Tonight’s movie about a hotel that exerts an evil influence over its caretaker enjoys cult status as one of the best horror films in film history. Read more about it here. The Overlook Hotel is the name of the creepy … Continue reading
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Tagged A Room with a View, And Then There Were None, Beverly Wilshire, Burgh Island, coming to america, Degli Orafi, Ellangowan Hotel, Hart's War, Hotel del Coronado, Lost in Translation, Maid in Manhattan, Notting Hill, Octopussy, Overlook Hotel, Park Hyatt Tokyo, Pretty Woman, Scent of a Woman, Serendipity, Some Like it Hot, Staney Kubrick, Stanley Hotel, Stephen King, The Out-Of-Towners, The Pink Panther, The Ritz, The Shining, The Tai Lake Palace, The Waldorf-Astoria, The Wicker Man, Vertigo, Vertigo Hotel
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Couch Potato Pickings | Love Actually has been pulled from today’s schedule
Love Actually had been scheduled to show on ITV2 tonight but the channel has decided to pull it from the line up and replace it with The 40 Year Old Virgin. Now, despite the fact that Love Actually is one … Continue reading
