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Post by lynette on Oct 10, 2020 22:13:15 GMT
Maureen Lipman. Give me strength. All those years of relentless self-promotion paying off. There’s loads of proper actors more deserving than her - Juliet Stevenson for example. Fiona Shaw. Loads more. A bit mean spirited, Jan. |
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Post by londonpostie on Oct 10, 2020 22:41:57 GMT
Maureen Lipman. Give me strength. All those years of relentless self-promotion paying off. There’s loads of proper actors more deserving than her - Juliet Stevenson for example. Fiona Shaw. Load many, esp. in the arts, who quietly decline.
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2020 10:17:20 GMT
Maureen Lipman. Give me strength. All those years of relentless self-promotion paying off. There’s loads of proper actors more deserving than her - Juliet Stevenson for example. Fiona Shaw. Loads more. A bit mean spirited, Jan. Yes. One actor who turned down a knighthood several times was Paul Scofield - he fully deserved it but he always said he liked the sound of "just plain Mr". In the end they made him a Companion of Honour which seems to be a higher status award as the numbers are limited. He stuck to his principles - after his fantastic success in Amadeus at NT he refused to go to Broadway with the transfer because "I was there once before and didn't like it". That meant someone else got the Tony award and someone else got the Oscar when they cast the film. I suppose the fact he'd already won the Tony/Oscar double for A Man for All Seasons made the decision a bit easier. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 11, 2020 12:44:40 GMT
Griff Rhys Jones (OBE) - what do we think ? He's someone with a reputation in the business for not being all that easy to work with.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 11, 2020 18:33:09 GMT
Maureen Lipman. Give me strength. All those years of relentless self-promotion paying off. There’s loads of proper actors more deserving than her - Juliet Stevenson for example. Fiona Shaw. Loads more. A bit mean spirited, Jan. Fiona Shaw's Irish, can she be a dame? Didn't Juliet Stevenson turn it down? |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 19:04:58 GMT
Many quietly decline, of course. My first reading of that interpreted it as "Many gradually deteriorate until nobody cares enough to give them an honour". It was only on seeing the link I realised what you meant. |
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Post by Jan on Oct 12, 2020 6:19:11 GMT
A bit mean spirited, Jan. Fiona Shaw's Irish, can she be a dame? Didn't Juliet Stevenson turn it down? Fiona Shaw has a CBE so I assumed she'd be qualified, but I am not an expert. |
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 12, 2020 10:00:18 GMT
Fiona Shaw's Irish, can she be a dame? Didn't Juliet Stevenson turn it down? Fiona Shaw has a CBE so I assumed she'd be qualified, but I am not an expert. Maybe I've misunderstood, or the internet is wrong, both entirely possible, but if the honour involves a title that goes before the recipient's name, so Sir or Dame, then approval must be sought from the Irish government; if it goes after, like CBE, then it's almost the same as a qualification or membership of a professional body. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_honours_system |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 12, 2020 11:31:49 GMT
Fiona Shaw's Irish, can she be a dame? Didn't Juliet Stevenson turn it down? Fiona Shaw has a CBE so I assumed she'd be qualified, but I am not an expert. Must be able to then. Geldof has one but thought it was a special award |
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Post by jojo on Oct 12, 2020 11:48:47 GMT
I think they can award them to anyone they like, and the letters go with that, but technically you need to be British to be known as Sir or Dame ... I've heard that with Bob Geldolf - he's not officially supposed to be called Sir, but everyone does it anyway.  |
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Post by theatreian on Jun 11, 2021 21:42:11 GMT
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Post by TallPaul on Jun 12, 2021 8:15:42 GMT
Pleased to see Steve Tomkins has been recognised.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jun 12, 2021 8:28:22 GMT
Dame Prue Leith? Seriously? Alison Moyet? Sue Barker AGAIN?
Can we just stop giving prizes out to already hugely fortunate and wealthy people and just reward ordinary people who are doing wonderful things?
Lulu CBE??? Jeez.
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 12, 2021 20:13:44 GMT
MBE for Ruth Wilson, such a brilliant actress, obviously in Luther but onstage in Hedda Gabler she was astonishing.
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Post by Jon on Jun 12, 2021 20:26:56 GMT
I'm surprised it's taken this long for Jonathan Pryce to be knighted, even SRB got a knighthood before he did.
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Post by theatreian on Jun 1, 2022 21:57:43 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2022 14:05:51 GMT
Nice upgrade for Damian as he has helped push a lot of good causes and with the tragic loss of Helen last year.
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Post by Jan on Jun 2, 2022 17:53:02 GMT
Gregg Wallace and John Torode
1) Who ?
2) Why ?
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Post by lynette on Jun 2, 2022 18:06:29 GMT
Greg Dorian? Anything? I wonder if he has refused or if he already has. Please enlighten me.
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Post by Jan on Jun 2, 2022 20:04:57 GMT
Greg Dorian? Anything? I wonder if he has refused or if he already has. Please enlighten me. Doesn't deserve anything. No departing AD of the RSC has ever been knighted, you have to be AD of the NT to be offered that (Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn got it during their NT tenure). |
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Post by lynette on Jun 4, 2022 22:43:53 GMT
Greg Dorian? Anything? I wonder if he has refused or if he already has. Please enlighten me. Doesn't deserve anything. No departing AD of the RSC has ever been knighted, you have to be AD of the NT to be offered that (Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn got it during their NT tenure). Just spotted spelling error which you are too polite to mention. Was I channelling Dorian Gray…anyway, I hadn’t realised RSC Artistic didn't get honours but the Exec Director has. what goeth on? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2022 7:08:06 GMT
Slightly confused by Anthony Cotton getting one, especially when you consider his reputation
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Post by alece10 on Jun 5, 2022 8:27:42 GMT
Slightly confused by Anthony Cotton getting one, especially when you consider his reputation I believe he got it for services to armed forces charities for which he is an ambassador. Do tell about his "reputation" I love a bit of gossip. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2022 11:17:49 GMT
Slightly confused by Anthony Cotton getting one, especially when you consider his reputation I believe he got it for services to armed forces charities for which he is an ambassador. Do tell about his "reputation" I love a bit of gossip. Oh I thought it was common knowledge. Nasty piece of work by all accounts, and some members of corrie won't share scenes with him. Ironically including Gail platy who is also in the latest honours list haha |
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Post by crowblack on Jun 5, 2022 11:52:04 GMT
Gregg Wallace and John Torode 1) Who ? 2) Why ? I'm not a fan of TV cooking competition shows (I prefer the sort that teach you stuff rather than food porn), but he started his broadcasting career on Radio 4's Veg Talk which was a super programme back in the day. |
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