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• 21:31 @Matthew_Lucas Good review. Twilight was a guilty pleasure New Moon just felt like it had money thrown at it. #
• 21:33 @trevfee Thanks will investigate #
• 18:39 Off to see Skunk Anansie. Their 'we don't hate each other any more and need the money' gig. It's going to be brilliant. #

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About nappy coats in Dr Who and future projects including a pilot for NBC in LA

Happened upon this set of interviews in my Whishaw files. It includes not only Ben but Eddie Redmayne, whom I know for playing Angel in the recent TV version of Tess of the D'Uberville's, Rupert Friend who was wonderful as Prince Albert in the Young Victoria and Aaron Johnson who I don't really know.
I like it for its relaxed and candid nature. And for not having the usual pretty but dumb interviewer.

The odds were stacked against me liking the film of New Moon. I loved the book and the scene where Edward leaves Bella is one of my favourites and had me an emotional wreck when I first read it.
So when I started seeing trailers which showed the scene in the film and it just didn't seem the same as how I remembered it, I wasn't hopeful.
I'm not saying that I didn't enjoy the film, I did, but it seemed to lack the charm and freshness of Twilight which was inevitably shot on a much smaller budget. It was like the film makers made a list of all the things that would make the teen girls scream and added them by bucket load.
Now I'm all for admiring a finely worked out male torso but it was gratuitous ripping off of shirts at every possible opportunity, or so it seemed. The audience actually started to laugh.
Edward's smoky appearances were just to appease the Pattinson fans and almost looked cartoon-like .

The CGI wolves were, well, I don't watch a lot of films with CGI as I think it often looks too animated and Jacob et al looked like they'd be at home on CITV in their furry form.
And to top it all the Volturi - who I actually did like - had opera as lift music. I mean, please.
The way Bella just immediately forgives Edward irked me in the book too. I just wanted her to yell, just a little bit. Particularly as one of the bits in the book that I liked for its added emotional impact was the fact that Edward cleared out her room of all the things he'd given her so she didn't have any reminders.
There is only a fleeting reference to this in the film. I thought that was not only very mean but made Edward a far more interesting character. Well lets face it, leaving Bella is the most interesting thing he does in pretty much the entire series.
I am strangely tempted to see it again though to see if its better second time around when I'm more relaxed about what they've done and can sit back and enjoy it as a film in its own right.
Strangely I'm actually quite hopeful for what they will do with Eclipse. It is the weakest of the books with a big build up to a pretty lame confrontation. No one dies, there isn't anything tragic, its all a bit disappointing. Now the film-makers aren't going to kill someone off but they can certainly add a bit more drama. I think some of the action sequences in Harry Potter work much better in the films than in the books. 
So overall a bit disappointed really. It was OK but definitely could have been better.

• 07:32 Ben Whishaw wins at international Emmys. bit.ly/8NyQFT #
• 18:22 London to get its own fringe festival? I hope so! bit.ly/5emUIh #

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New Moon broke The Dark Knight's single day box office record. Are you planning on seeing this teenage vampire love story? If so: Team Edward or Team Jacob?

Seen it. They've sold out big time, it is a real shame. I'm too old to choose.

(Fuller review coming as soon as I've got time to write it!)

In the summer, I noticed a heart-shaped leaf on my money tree. Since then a few more have appeared.
Timing is quite ironic.

• 20:49 #xfactor I'm so glad Jedward chose a song that reminds everyone just how crap at singing they really are. #
• 20:54 #XFactor Sanity is restored. Well as much sanity as you can get on reality TV #
• 20:56 @nok32uk Yeh but not as talented #

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• 10:01 Today I will be mainly drinking tea and sitting on the sofa. Probably at the same time. #
• 10:04 @AndrewOrange Not sure I really know what spotify is so perhaps that's why I didn't get an invite #
• 11:45 Heavy rain and sky signal gone again. Switching to listening to Jon Richardon via the internet #
• 11:47 Just seen the biggest flash of fork lightning in my life. It's too close and I'm scared. #
• 14:05 The White Ribbon last week now about to watch Haneke's film Hidden. It has come very highly recommended. #

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Muse played a couple of songs at the special concert put on at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC's annual Children in Need fundraiser - this is Undisclosed Desires. It was the same night as their second 02 gig - traffic from west to east London on a wet Friday night must have been fun.