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Wednesday July 30, 2008

In brief: Sienna movie postponed

Filming of a new Robin Hood film, Nottingham, which stars Russell Crowe and Sienna Miller, has been postponed - because the leaves in Sherwood Forest will not be the right colour. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, had been due to start shooting this autumn, but that was scrapped after executives belatedly realised that halfway through filming the leaves would turn brown and begin falling off the trees… Kevin Spacey is to bring the worlds of art and theatre together at the Old Vic, where he is artistic director, in a slapstick comic production in October called Drama Queens. Well-known large sculptures, among them Andy Warhol's Brillo box and Jeff Koons's Rabbit, will be mounted on wheels and moved around the stage by remote control, while Spacey and other "top drawer" actors give the pieces voices. Promises Spacey: "It's an incredibly funny work. The sculptures discuss who they are and what they’re doing on stage"… The supermodel daughter of kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, Lydia Hearst, has become the new face of lingerie brand Myla… Irvine Welsh has reportedly received a "medium six-figure" advance to write a prequel to his most famous book Trainspotting. The novel, called Skagboys, is set in Edinburgh in 1984… More bad news for the Prime Minister: Jilted John, aka comedian Graham Fellows, is re-releasing his 1970s hit record Gordon is a Moron…The makers of the BBC comedy Dad's Army originally planned to use footage of real prisoners of war and Nazis in the opening titles but were stopped when the BBC controller ruled them offensive...

FIRST POSTED JULY 30, 2008

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