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| Co-writer of TV sitcom ‘Dad’s Army’ dies Posted: 27 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT LONDON, Sept 27 – David Croft, whose gentle humour kept Britons laughing through the 1970s and 1980s, often at serious issues such as World War Two, has died, his family said today. Croft jointly penned the military sitcoms "Dad's Army" and "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" as well as the wartime resistance comedy "Allo 'Allo" based in Nazi-occupied France with its exaggerated French accents. But Croft also co-wrote successful comedies about working at a holiday camp in "Hi-de-Hi" and serving on the shop floor of a department store in "Are You Being Served?" "He was a truly great man, who will be missed by all who had the great fortune of knowing and loving him," his family said in a statement on his website. Croft, who served in India and Singapore where he rose to the rank of major, was able to draw on his experience, to gently poke fun at military life. In Dad's Army, Croft and his co-writer Jimmy Perry, depicted life in the Home Guard, the last line of defence should the Germans have invaded Britain. Its endearing characters included the pompous bank manager Captain Mainwaring and the jumpy butcher Lance Corporal Jones with his famous catchphrase "don't panic!" The comedy is still showing on television 40 years after its original transmission. It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which he also co-wrote with Perry, had the butch and the camp surviving alongside each other in a Royal Artillery Concert party in India and Burma during the war. Croft died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Portugal aged 89, the statement said. –Reuters |
| Sam Worthington in ‘Man on a Ledge’ Posted: 27 Sep 2011 07:15 AM PDT
The footage opens with Sam Worthington (The Debt, Avatar) standing on a ledge of a high rise, prepared to risk his life to prove his innocence. Directed by Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cité Soleil), Man on a Ledge is the story of ex-cop and escaped convict who professes he was framed for a crime he did not commit. The film costars Elizabeth Banks (W.) as a police psychologist trying to talk him down from the ledge, Ed Harris (Gone Baby Gone) as the man who set him up and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) as the brother conducting the heist of a US$40 million diamond that was supposedly stolen. As Police SWAT teams assemble, the brothers communicate on earphones. But the operation is thwarted: it looks like the suicide attempt was a cover-up and the motive strictly revenge, as the plot takes another turn. Man on a Ledge opens in North America on January 13, in the UK and Germany on the 26th, and in other markets to follow. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBJSfqdhyTg – AFP |
LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 – The first trailer for Sam Worthington's latest film, action thriller Man on a Ledge, was released on September 25.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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