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Post by Bungle on Aug 17, 2006 23:57:36 GMT
On iTunes, search for Angela Lansbury and you'll find a MSW fan podcast - it's nothing of the sort, it's just the full length MSW theme, which I've never heard before. Quite cool, and free!
I've just read Lansbury's official biography and learnt that she hated the theme.
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Post by Ben on Oct 12, 2006 18:59:10 GMT
Of course Jessica is a serial killer herself, you know.
"Come to Cabot Cove. It's a great place to die."
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Post by Bungle on Nov 8, 2006 1:39:50 GMT
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Post by Bungle on Mar 29, 2007 14:27:43 GMT
Just seen some brilliant episodes, still working through my fourth season set.
One had no Jessica at all! Not even at the beginning and end! But lots of Lansbury - it was entirely set in England (fairly convincingly) and had her cousin Emma solving the crime. It was great, and really funny.
Before that there was another hilarious one about the ladies of Cabot Cove shagging the night Sheriff, he had a different lady for each day of the week! 'Even the Lord rested on a Sunday' said Amos. 'It was just good honest sex!' said the local nurse. Jessica got a bit turned on by a massage 'with hilarious results'. I laughed.
Now we have Diagnosis Murder, years before it happened! The episode takes place on the set of a show where a doctor discovers a new murder every week and uses his own initiative to solve the crime along with his sassy 'streetwise' nurse. 'It's really tough to think up new storylines every week' says a beleaguered writer. 'Our audience doesn't want to see new things going on. They want something familiar' says the producer. How self-reflexive!
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Post by jerriblank on Mar 29, 2007 20:57:07 GMT
Watching MSW at home ill the other month (which is always a thoroughly likeable experience), I was completely thrown when I noticed that in the opening credits, Jessica had swapped her trusty typewriter FOR A PC! And instead of ripping out the paper, SHE PRINTED IT OUT!
What have the crazy TV execs done now?! She'll be whoring herself out on Facebook next.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Mar 29, 2007 21:05:22 GMT
What have the crazy TV execs done now?! She'll be whoring herself out on Facebook next. Or Gaydar. Even Jessica Fletcher would call herself young on there. And then show a pic of her ringpiece.
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Post by Bungle on Mar 29, 2007 21:59:36 GMT
Jessica switches to a computer in the eighth season. There's at least one episode revolving around it as a plot point!
(And good on her - typewriters hurt my fingers)
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Post by Becky on Mar 30, 2007 9:51:20 GMT
I had a dream about Angela Lansbury after reading this thread and the Moira! treatment last night. Paul wrote another treatment which was actually being made into a tv show and everyone who we had imagined being in it was auditioning. La Lansbury was the main character. Emma Bunton was also in it.
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Post by latoyajunkie on Mar 30, 2007 11:30:06 GMT
I just love Murder, She Wrote! I wish they release a box of the TV movies too.
My favorite episode is the one where there are elections in Cabot Cove or something and Jessica goes to the beauty shop.
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Post by Adrian on Apr 10, 2007 9:55:06 GMT
On the Agatha Christie weekend on ITV3 which Boyfriend made me watch ad nauseum, I saw a clip of Angela Lansbury playing (presumably) Miss Marple. Amazing.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on Apr 10, 2007 10:30:36 GMT
On the Agatha Christie weekend on ITV3 which Boyfriend made me watch ad nauseum, I saw a clip of Angela Lansbury playing (presumably) Miss Marple. Amazing. A Oh it may not have been, because we watched Poirot's Murder On The Nile a few months back, and my mate who's a bit Christie obsessed (homo!) said he'd seen another version with Amgela Lansbury playing the lady in it who gets shot before revealing the murderer. But I hope she has played Miss Marple too, that'd be ace.
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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 10, 2007 12:02:00 GMT
Angela Lansbury was Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd which also starred - yes! - Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson. It also features Pierce Brosnan in his first film role getting hugged to the Taylor bosom.
She was also in Death in the Nile, playing a drunken drama queen of a writer and hamming it up something royal, even more so than Bette Davis and Maggie Smith, if such a thing can be conceived.
Fans of murder-related campery should definitely check out Evil Under the Sun, which features (a) Diana Rigg singing "You're The Top" (b) Maggie Smith being acidic (c) Roddy McDowell in a sailor suit (d) Jane Birkin going upstairs dressed like a mess and coming down again looking amazing in a big hat and (e) Nicholas Clay in a pair of very small swimming trunks for a significant portion of the film. Highly recommended.
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Post by Nicholas on Apr 10, 2007 12:40:42 GMT
Fans of murder-related campery should definitely check out Evil Under the Sun, which features (a) Diana Rigg singing "You're The Top" (b) Maggie Smith being acidic (c) Roddy McDowell in a sailor suit (d) Jane Birkin going upstairs dressed like a mess and coming down again looking amazing in a big hat and (e) Nicholas Clay in a pair of very small swimming trunks for a significant portion of the film. Highly recommended. Yes - I'd completely forgotten just how good this is - thank you for the synopsis. How fantastic is Agatha Christie without the plot? Maggie Smith is the best for acid. Still off topic - I like Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple - I think she is far and away the best. Joan Hickson just gets my goat.
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Post by [james] on Apr 15, 2007 8:18:47 GMT
Oh it may not have been, because we watched Poirot's Murder On The Nile a few months back, and my mate who's a bit Christie obsessed (homo!) said he'd seen another version with Amgela Lansbury playing the lady in it who gets shot before revealing the murderer. But I hope she has played Miss Marple too, that'd be ace. A friend of mine in high school was a bit Christie obsessed too and he came out last year. I should've knew - the bit screaming clue was there!
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Post by klee on Apr 16, 2007 13:00:49 GMT
Maggie Smith seemed to spend most of the 70s in Agatha Christie adaptations. I think some film producer bought a dried-up spinster Multipack from Beejam. She is, however, fantastic value if you need a line delivered witheringly at a reasonable price.
The Mirror Crack'd is amazing: especially Liz Taylor's rival, Kim Novak, who chews through the scenery while wearing a cantilivered push-up bra.
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Post by Ben on Apr 30, 2007 20:55:08 GMT
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on May 6, 2007 19:11:58 GMT
Ooh I wonder if anyone can help me here. Yesterday on ITV1 they were showing an MSW movie set in Ireland, with lots of irish cliches and amazing accents. However I had to go out and missed the 2nd half... so who was the murderer?
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Post by Bungle on May 7, 2007 19:54:55 GMT
All I know is that the Guardian claimed that it was The Last Free Man, when it was in fact The Celtic Ruddle - which I have never seen (and is the last MSW made). I only watched about 30 seconds of it near the end then switched off in annoyance because I had missed so much.
This is the only MSW story to be based on a book, by the way.
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Post by latoyajunkie on May 9, 2007 15:16:25 GMT
The Celtic Riddle is quite good I saw it one Sky Movies ages ago. Can't remember the killer, only that the Irish accents were hilarious. The Last Free Man is better though. I wish they showed MSW movies as often as crappy Columbo ones.
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Post by pauliepoos on Jan 6, 2008 12:02:38 GMT
Fans of murder-related campery should definitely check out Evil Under the Sun, which features (a) Diana Rigg singing "You're The Top" (b) Maggie Smith being acidic (c) Roddy McDowell in a sailor suit (d) Jane Birkin going upstairs dressed like a mess and coming down again looking amazing in a big hat and (e) Nicholas Clay in a pair of very small swimming trunks for a significant portion of the film. Highly recommended. Evil Under The Sun has just started on ITV, the perfect film to settle down to on the settee with a duvet, a chest infection and a big glass of fruit juice with ice.
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