Lena Headey to direct

Empire magazine reports that Lena Headey is to make her directorial debut. in a film called Kill Drug, "a dark thriller about an underground society dedicated to murdering society’s ingrates, nincompoops and scallywags." It doesn't shoot until next January though.

Read the full article at http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=23958

Yet another Rebecca Hall post

I just found a good long article about Rebecca Hall on the Telegraph newspaper website. It seems to be dated December 2008 so perhaps its the article from the Stella magazine that I missed.

Anyhow, here is the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3900390/Hall-of-fame-Rebecca-Hall.html

Nice photo too!

Rebecca Hall, more news

The BBC report that Rebecca hall has been nominated for the Bafta's Rising Star award. The winner will be announced at the Bafta film awards in London on 8 February 2009.

You can read more about it at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7817533.stm

And you can vote for Rebecca at http://bafta.orange.co.uk/OrangeRisingStarAward/

Rebecca was featured in the January 2009 issue of Vanity Fair. You can see her photo at
http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2007/05/vanities_portfolio200705

Finally the new issue of Tatler is out with Rebecca on the cover.

Rebecca Hall in Tatler magazine

I have just discovered that Rebecca Hall is on the cover of the February 2009 issue of Tatler magazine in the UK.



She is also featured on one page in the current InStyle UK magazine.

Also I missed her in the Stella magazine that comes with the Telegraph newspaper. She was featured in it on 28 December 2008 according to a copy I saw on eBay.

Victoria Pendleton wants more cycling events

There's an article about Victoria Pendleton (MBE!) in today's Sunday Mail. In it she points out that she is limited in the number of events she can compete in because of her gender.

While Hoy, who was knighted in the New Year Honours, was able to fight for a hat-trick of gold medals, Pendleton was restricted to just one race because the Olympics limit the number of women's cycling events.

Fair enough.

The whole article is linked below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1104776/

The Diary of Anne Frank article in Sunday Mail

The BBC's new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank starts tomorrow night (5 January 2009).

The writer, Deborah Moggach, kept her own diary of the making of the series in 2007 and you can read it at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1104752/

Tess of the d'Urbervilles on Masterpiece Theater

Tess of the d'Urbervilles will be shown in the USA this month on PBS. I believe the first episode is on Sunday 4 January.

It's a good adaptation, but be warned, as it's a Thomas Hardy book there ain't many laughs.

I was very impressed with Gemma Arterton as Tess. Here she is with Alec. (Boo, hiss!)



Find out more at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/