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Mackenzie Crook Fans Unite!
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| England fans- An Afternoon Less Ordinary |
[19 Jul 2009|08:22pm] |
According to (I'm guessing) an organizer on Twitter, Mackenzie will be taking part in "An Afternoon Less Ordinary" in London this Tuesday at 4pm along with Russell Tovey and Gina McKee. It's free for people under 26, all the info about it (including how to reserve a space) is on the official website: here.
Don't know how many people from this community are in the London area, but there you go if you are!
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| Broadway Cares 2008 |
[19 Jul 2009|03:35pm] |
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Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) gave a compelling speech after losing his head in A Man for All Seasons, while the prestige and enthusiasm of film star Peter Sarsgaard, making his Broadway debut as “Trigorin” in the acclaimed revival of Chekhov’s classic, The Seagull, played a key roll in raising over $47,000. This total also got a boost from the comic contributions of Mackenzie Crook (“Konstantin,” but best known as Gareth in the BBC version of “The Office”).
“We didn't do anything spectacular or unusual—just slow and steady every night,” said Artie Gaffin, Seagull’s production stage manager and a longtime friend of BC/EFA. Artie has coordinated collections for BC/EFA fundraising appeals at numerous plays and musicals since working on the hit revival of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1996.
“Peter always made the appeal. We also sold t-shirts with a cartoon on it that Mackenzie created (a seagull on a psychiatrist's couch) and some of his other amazing cartoons.” Gaffin praised the effort of everyone involved, including cast members Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan and Mark Montgomery, along with production assistant Adam Norrish and Assistant Stage Manager Jamie Greathouse.
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I didn't even think about checking on this last year! What great collectibles. C'est la vie!
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| Matthew Appleby's gardening blog |
[18 Jul 2009|05:37pm] |
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An insider's view of the world of horticulture
18 July 2009
Keira, Mackenzie Crook, Hilary, Piers and Myspace
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2. Gareth from The Office (Mackenzie Crook-also a one-eyed pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean with Keira Knightley, who is the feature of a HW story next week and I once saw in Hyde Park) is desperate to ape top gear's James May and design a Chelsea Flower Show garden. Mackenzie says he doesn't know anything about it but he knows what he likes. He's been to CFS for four years in a row. Knightley is to blame for some trees being chopped down for the Atonement film in Streatham, where I used to live. They never got replaced. See HW website 20 July. Or Google it.
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Horticulture Week
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| Diary listing pulled |
[14 Jul 2009|11:55pm] |
So I was perusing Amazon.com and noticed on my wishlist an entry that said they are 'no longer offering this title'.
Apparently the listing/cover art for Ragetti's Secret Diary has been pulled for the foreseeable future. The item's forum is still there, but that's all. My guess would be this has something to do with Disney's announcement of the possibility of a fourth Pirates film? Probably holding onto tie-in type merchandise?
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| Small new image from Jerusalem |
[14 Jul 2009|05:21pm] |
Hopefully/probably the Royal Court will eventually have a full fledged gallery for their new play Jerusalem but you can catch a glimpse of Mackenzie as Ginger on their main page:
Like the Adam Ant vibe
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| Solomon Kane at SDCC |
[13 Jul 2009|08:40pm] |
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from the director's blog:
"Also, and this is super cool, Solomon Kane is going to Comic-Con. It’s not finally, finalised but I think the hunky Mr Purefoy and myself will show a few little clips and maybe the trailer (if the damn thing is finished) around midday on Saturday 25th. Details still a little up in the air but I can’t wait to go. Stay tuned."
Here
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| Theatre is harder than a day in The Office, says Mackenzie Crook |
[13 Jul 2009|07:11pm] |
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The stage and screen actor admits TV and film work is 'mucking about' compared with the theatre. Just as we expected ...
In an interview by the Times this week, Mackenzie Crook, goggle-eyed Gareth from The Office, came out and declared what we've always secretly thought. On acting in theatre, compared with acting in film or TV, Crook claimed: "You feel as if you are actually working for a living, not just mucking about."
He makes a good point. Is the physicality and spontaneity of stage acting a more noble pursuit than acting for the screen? Well, yes it is. Of course. But perhaps the more important question is this: who'd want to actually work for a living? Mucking about sounds brilliant.
Mackenzie Crook seems to be one of those rare, established screen actors who actively makes time for the stage. He has, in recent years, built up quite an impressive stage portfolio. He's played Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he was internationally acclaimed following his Broadway run of The Seagull, and he's now appearing in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem at the Royal Court.
Honesty like this is a breath of fresh air, but perhaps Crook is doing film and TV acting a disservice. There can't be many people willing to spend vast stretches of time sitting across from Ricky Gervais as he shrieks and babbles without succumbing to the urge to throttle him. And in one of his most recent films – last year's Three and Out – Crook had to film a scene opposite Kerry Katona. If that's not a task calling for superhuman endurance, I'm not sure what is.
From Here
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| Opening: Crook in Jerusalem |
[13 Jul 2009|06:04pm] |
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Date: 13 July 2009
OPENING WEDNESDAY, 15 July 2009 (previews from 10 July), Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook star in the world premiere of Jez Butterworth’s new comedy Jerusalem at the Royal Court Downstairs, directed by former Court artistic director and frequent Butterworth collaborator Ian Rickson (See News, 11 May 2009).
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| Mackenzie refuses to chop down big tree. |
[13 Jul 2009|12:56pm] |
Story here
The 'Office' actor Mackenzie Crook claims he is helping late comedian Peter Sellers ''piss off his neighbours from beyond the grave'' by refusing to cut down a tree in his garden.
Mackenzie Crook has irritated his neighbours by refusing to cut down a beech tree.
The 'Office' actor lives in a house that was once owned by late British comedian Peter Sellers, and insists he won't chop down the foliage because Peter planted it.
He said: "There's a huge beech tree at the bottom of the garden that Sellers planted. The neighbours want me to chop it down because it casts a shadow over their garden but I won't. I like the fact that he is pissing off the neighbours from beyond the grave."
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| Taking the Flak review |
[08 Jul 2009|06:34pm] |
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The BBC's second big new workplace comedy of the night is on more familiar ground.
This could be Drop The Dead Donkey on location as we fly out with the BBC's foreign news pack to report on the strife-ridden African country of Karibu. "It wouldn't take much to make a difference here," junior reporter Harry Chambers (Bruce Mackinnon) explains. "A visit by Angelina Jolie or Fearne Cotton. Perhaps even a one-off drama by Richard Curtis."
A commissioning editor would green-light the script on the strength of that line alone.
As the BBC's big guns fly to Karibu to steal Harry's thunder, the laughs come as much from the characters as the situation - like the mumsy World Service lady who compares Africa's roads with pot-holes in Putney.
But the best gags come from TV Centre back in London where producer Nigel (Mackenzie Crook) is busy making Daleks out of his used coffee cups.
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| Crook: Theatre is more like work |
[06 Jul 2009|07:41pm] |
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Crook: Theatre is more like work
7 hours ago
Mackenzie Crook says working in a theatre is more like work than playing a part in a film or TV show.
The Kent-born star, who played Gareth in The Office, is about to start his new role in Jez Butterworth's comedy Jerusalem.
"You feel as though you're actually working for a living, not just mucking about," he told the Times.
Mackenzie plays Ginger in the play which is set on St George's Day and explores what it is like to be English today.
"Why has 'English' become a dirty word with connotations of the far Right when it is all right to talk about Scottishness and Welshness?" he asked.
"It's not a response to the BNP, Jez is just a big fan of rural life. It is a celebration of that and the way it is changing."
Jerusalem will be on at the Royal Court in London from Wednesday onwards.
Copyright © 2009 The Press Association. All rights reserved.
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| Hacks are write in the firing line |
[05 Jul 2009|06:33pm] |
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Martin Jarvis plays the big cheese, or the Bigfoot as it turns out, in this sevenpart comedy-drama about a BBC news team descending on an obscure African country to cover a small war.
Described as "The Constant Gardener meets Drop the Dead Donkey", it's the first sort of sit-com satirising TV news since Drop the DD ended in 1998.
With its hour-long episodes, the series may be more drama than comedy, which at least provides some excuse for generating far fewer laughs than DtDD, but it does have the advantage of genuine locations and even genuine news presenters taking part.
The pilot episode was filmed in Kenya as long ago as January 2007 but the rest of the series was filmed in Tanzania just last autumn and it's all set in fictional Karibu.
Newcomer Bruce MacKinnon plays local stringer Harry Chambers, who has been building up contacts and trying to get the country's war and his own face on the news for years, with minimal success.
He gets 'Bigfooted' when the BBC sends in top foreign correspondent David Bradburn (Jarvis), who knows nothing about the place but knows exactly how to get his mug on the Six O'Clock News.
Doon Mackichan plays Jane Thomason, Bradburn's harassed but endlessly resourceful producer, who is dedicated to getting the big story - when she's not busy bedding cameraman Jack (Lloyd Owen).
Mackenzie Crook also does a nice guest turn as Nigel Bagwell, the lazy creep on newsdesk back at BBC HQ, and Joanna Brookes has the misfortune to play Margaret Hollis, a BBC World Service reporter explore a whole of jokes about alarmingly dysfunctionaldigestive system.
Newscasters George Allagiah, Bill Turnbull and Sian Williams all convincingly play themselves.
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