And he TOTALLY has a little crush on Elinor when they're leaving to escape Plague o' Marianne.

Oh, he so totally does! His eyes and voice go all soft in that scene, and I started writing backstory fic in my head in which Mr. Palmer had this great unrequited love for Elinor. Laurie and Thompson are close friends, and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they dated years ago, and later settled on being friends.

Thompson later married Greg Wise (the hot younger man who played Willoughby) whom she met on the set, and I think that was not long after Kenneth Branaugh dumped her for Helena Bohnam-Carter (who, incidentally, played her sister in Howards End. British film world is so freakin' incestuous.)

Wow, I have a lot of useless information in my head.

I hear Ang Lee's new movie, Lust, Caution, is not very good, which is sad-making. I'll of course go see it nevertheless, because it has Tony Leung.

Naked Tony Leung.

The DVDs of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" include, in the extras, the whole Cambridge review thing that Fry, Laurie, Thompson, and others were involved in (including Tony Slattery, if you want to get obscure-Brit). There's a hysterical sketch with Thompson and Fry as Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Discovering Emma Thompson was originally (and still can be) a comedian was a jolt to my understanding of acting, lo these many years ago. I think I hurt something that time she guested on Ellen (the sitcom, not the talk show) and "came out" about the fact that she was actually from Ohio. Complete with annoyingly nasal midland accent.

(She also tearfully confessed that Sir Laurence Olivier had been born in Arkansas, and had been putting on that plummy accent all his life.)

Speaking of Jane Austen:

Singer Lily Allen is set to take on an acting role in a spoof movie version of 'Pride and Prejudice'.

According to The Sun, Allen will play the part of Lydia Bennett, with comedian and television presenter Russell Brand set to play her lover George Wickham.

Reports also claim that Stephen Fry will take on the role of Mr Bennett, with Carrie Fisher set to play the part of his wife.

British film world is so freakin' incestuous.

Jeebus Margie and Jeremy, it is. And eventually all of them will have appeared in an HP film. I'm convinced of it.

There's a hysterical sketch with Thompson and Fry as Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

It's up on YouTube, and it's really, really funny. I should try finding the link.

I'm confused, not necessarily with what Raq is saying, but in general. Do people still claim that Deckard isn't a replicant since the last director's cut?

It never even occured to me that Deckard was a replicant until I heard Scott talking about it. For a long time I kinda blew that off, because it didn't make any sense to me, particularly how adding in the image of a unicoran was supposed to indicate that he was, in fact, a replicant. I have since started to see the light, both in the book and in the film. But only because of how emotionless Deckard is, not because of the unicorn.

For a long time I kinda blew that off, because it didn't make any sense to me, particularly how adding in the image of a unicoran was supposed to indicate that he was, in fact, a replicant.

It wasn't the unicorn itself, it was the oragami unicorn that Gaff left for Deckard that was the indicator (i.e. Gaff knows Deckard's dreams because he knows Deckard is a replicant). Without the dream the oragami is just another random one Gaff made and left to show Deckard he was there.

I've seen it on You Tube, and just fell apart laughing. Definitely worth a search. Which I will attempt.

I remember Tony Slattery from the British Whose Line is it, Anyway? He was wonderful! As was John Sessions, whom I almost didn't recognise in The Good Shepherd.

Thompson and Fry. Liquids warning.