June 29, 2005 - Site updates include the Fry & Laurie page, with some video clips of selected sketches from series 1 of "A Bit of Fry & Laurie, " and several articles about Stephen Fry, including link to these:
From Metro Cafe, 60 second interview, Stephen Fry
Varsity Online - Jane Mulkerrins and Sam Coates talk to the unfeasibly fluffy Stephen Fry. Stephen talks about a website dedicated to him (among other things)
There's a very strange woman over there who runs a Stephen Fry web site. It's weird because I was in Boston for a film, late last year or early this, and I was looking at her pages. There's one section which says 'where is he now?', which said 'currently in Boston, filming, though tomorrow he'll be flying to Toronto to talk to his publishers, then he'll be spending a week in Montreal doing some book publicity'. The worrying thing was that this was all true. How did she know this? It really is extraordinary, she just devotes her entire life to me.
as well as this mention of Hugh:
Hugh Laurie is also making a film at the moment - I was talking to him in America the other day. He's coming back for Christmas, as he and his family always do. I'm a Godparent to all of his children and they've spent every Christmas of their lives here
And this article about Mr. Fry from the Times Online
Hugh Laurie and House mentions from
There are also a couple of online articles added to the House page, including this one from the June 24 issue of the Daily Express. I've also added episode 6 screencaps.
Kristin (Watch with Kristin) from E! Online has posted her Emmy MUSTS list and thinks either House or Grey's Anatomy should be nominated for an Emmy (Not sure why she lumps the two shows together, as being medical shows is really the only thing they have in common) AND she puts Hugh on her must list and believes he might be the dark horse favorite to win it:
2005 Emmy Musts: Actor, Drama
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Matthew Fox, Lost Hugh Laurie, House Julian McMahon, Nip/Tuck Kiefer Sutherland, 24 Dylan Walsh, Nip/Tuck |
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And, of course, Hugh Laurie was quite possibly the breakout dramatic heavyweight of the season, making House a new phenomenon for Fox. He should not only get a nod, but he could be a dark horse to win.
Don't forget The Girl From Rio is now available on DVD! Check your local video stores, as well as Barnes and Noble and Amazon
June 23, 2005 - Updates include a few photos added to the Gallery and Appearances pages, and a couple of articles - one from the Daily Mirror and the other from a 2003 issue of Daily Express Saturday. The Daily Mirror article is not complimentary of Stephen Fry or Hugh (as part of Fry and Laurie), but Hugh has won the author over with his portrayal of House. Irritating as the article is in may ways, It's interesting to read another article regarding how Hugh Laurie has nearly completely changed his image in the UK with his role as Greg House.
Some recent online articles:
From News.com.au - Rocking the House. Interview with Bryan Singer who among other things had this to say about Hugh:
Laurie was not the obvious choice to play House, having made a name for himself in British comedy. But the actor's audition tape (made in a hotel bathroom in Africa where he was shooting a movie) was so convincing, Singer had no idea he was a Pom.
"I saw the tape and he did a flawless American (accent) and he was all shaggy and unshaven and he kind of just jumped out of the screen," Singer says.
But would viewers take to a caustic, limping lead character who informs his eager interns in the pilot episode "treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable"?
"That was always a concern," Singer says. "But to me, I felt as long as he's good at what he does and he's saving lives and he's got those Hugh Laurie eyes, then he could get away with anything.
Mentions from SFGate.com and The Boston Globe
From The Portland Phoenix (2004 article - some facts are wrong - House didn't have a heart attack and Hugh isn't in his 50s of course. )
But though the young actors (including the terrific Omar Epps) who buzz around House are engaging and the weird medical mysteries are brain-teasy enough, what really grabs you about House is not its similarity to CSI. No, the star of House is, well, its star. British actor Hugh Laurie, of the basset-hound eyes and vaguely smirky scowl, is a familiar face to Anglophiles. He played numerous roles on Black Adder, suffered hilariously as the sullen Mr. Palmer (miserably married to chatterbox Imelda Staunton) in Ang Lee’s Sense & Sensibility, and was Bertie Wooster on the Masterpiece Theatre series Jeeves and Wooster. As Dr. Gregory House, a surly yet brilliant diagnostician basking in tenure at a prestigious New Jersey teaching hospital, Laurie has the kind of role that turns obscure actors into pop-cultural icons overnight. It will be a pleasure watching the droll Cantabrigian (from the English Cambridge) negotiate the idiocy of American TV stardom.
As House, Laurie sports a smooth (if generic) American accent, a perpetual day’s growth of beard, and a bad case of bed head. Acerbic and tactless, House is damaged both physically and emotionally. He walks with the aid of a cane as a result of a heart attack that cut off oxygen to his muscles and left him with constant leg pain. He pops Vicodin as if they were Tic Tacs. He appears to have no family, no social life, no hobbies besides watching General Hospital. House pontificates to his young doctors, and he tosses off such delightfully misanthropic bons mots as, "Treating illness is why we became doctors. Treating patients is what makes most doctors miserable. . . . Humanity is overrated." He prefers the theoretical to dealing with people, but he’s required to devote a certain number of hours each month to plain old sniffles and aches at the hospital clinic. These doctor-patient confrontations are a squirmy joy. For example, a guy comes in complaining that his skin has turned orange. House takes a supremely bored look at him and says, "You’re orange, you moron." Oh, and your wife must be having an affair if she hasn’t noticed that you’re orange. And stop taking mass doses of beta carotene. (He’s right, on all counts.)
House is, in short, a great, juicy, colorful protagonist. And Laurie plays him with a sourpuss charisma and a wit so dry it crackles. The 50ish actor is one of those un-handsome Brits who is, somehow, devastatingly sexy. (Think BBC America stalwarts Robson Green and John Hannah.) House is locked up and turned off, except when a patient comes along with a collection of funky life-threatening symptoms to arouse his interest. And this inaccessibility makes him prime sex-symbol material. Which of the show’s two female co-stars will be able to break down the gimpy doc’s defenses? Will it be flinty hospital administrator Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), with whom he verbally spars, or young immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), whom he hired mainly, he says, for her beauty? If House catches on (and Laurie is too good for it not to), it’ll be because middle-aged female viewers are tuning in to see the doctor operate.
Hugh narrated an employee/employer performance review film in the UK a few years ago. (He's participated in many such industry films). training/reference.co.uk has a link to two video clips with Hugh's narration in them.
June 20, 2005 - I've finally added the Maybe Baby screencaps and video clips. The Video clips feature scenes from the Region 2 DVD with Ben Elton and Hugh providing commentary. I haven't included all scenes or all commentary, but much of it is posted. The region 2 DVD also features cast interviews, and the comments of Hugh are also included in the update.
Also, I've added House episode 21 - Three Stories - screencaps. Slowly but surely they will all be posted.
Thanks to Zara, the Daily Mail Weekend edition on June 11 has been added to the Articles page, as well the Daily Mail Weekend edition from December 2003 fearuring The Young Visiters.
The June 19th online edition of The Hollywood Reporter featured this animated gif promoting House as an Emmy contenter. (it's not animated here, unfortunately)
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Another wallpaper - from the Daily Mail Weekend pic
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June 16, 2005 - Hugh is featured in the June 24 issue of Entertainment Weekly as part of The Must List - 122 PEOPLE AND THINGS WE LOVE THIS SUMMER
Just fiddling around - some wallpaper
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The June 13th issue of the Hollywood Reporter featured Emmy Watch : Actors. Below are the Hugh Laurie mentions (the third scan doesn't mention Hugh, but it's a continuation of the article) :
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The June 15th issue of the Hollywood Reporter featured Emmy Watch: Critics picks. They featured 6 critics and who they think deserve recognition this year. Here are the scans of the 4 that mention House/and or Hugh. Three critics, David Bianculli of the New York Daily News and Melanie McFarland of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer don't mention Hugh or House, so I didn't bother to scan those. ;-) Rob Owen of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette doesn't mention him either, but he was on the page, so I included it.
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Also, for your enjoyment, two high-resolution pictures of Hugh. The first is the photo from the People Magazine shoot in April, and the second is from the Gersh Agency shoot during the Upfronts last month.
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From the Guardian Unlimited:
Hugh Laurie is fondly remembered as Bertie Wooster, who had the minimum amount of brain required for locomotion. If you can play comedy, you can play anything, and Laurie is a revelation as the coruscating consultant House (Five). House is best approached in thick leather gloves. His sarcasm is serrated. When a young patient disappears after one of House's devastating (and frequently incorrect) diagnoses, there is panic. "Should we call his parents." "Why?" asks House with silky lack of interest. "Are they hiding him?" You would be looking at him for some time before you were reminded of Dick Van Dyke. It is a brilliant tour de force. An interesting side effect is that you physically cannot see anyone else in the show.
House is, of course, a genuflection to Holmes, who in turn was based on a doctor. And so the whirligig of inspiration goes round and round. It was Sherlock Holmes who deduced that a man's wife no longer loved him by looking at the dust on the man's hat ("Really, Holmes!" said Watson).
Dr House, more entertainingly, drew the same conclusion when a wife failed to notice her husband had turned bright orange (overdosing on beta carotene).
By the way, if you have a cleft in your chin and your parents don't, try to have a quiet word with your mother.
June 14, 2005 - Several online articles have been posted the past few days from the UK, as House made it's premiere last week. A couple from the Sunday Times have been added to the House page. From contactmusic.com and SouthLondon.co.uk
More Emmy speculation and links from Emmy-05 - Hugh Laurie, House. The newcomer in a hit show - very good chance.
The June 10th issue of Daily Variety featured an article on Hugh, as well as snippets from him in an article titled Drama's Top Villians and a full page Emmy ad. Read it in the Articles page. This excerpt regarding how his mood colors his character (Greg House)
We all have mean days and happy days, and I probably can't stop some of that leaking into the character. If I know there's a pizza on it's way, that could make me happy. On the other hand, if I learn it's got anchovies, things will go the other way.
Another excerpt:
I think of House as a hero. He's got so many facets. He's always trying to point out some hypocrisy but takes a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Yet the purpose is always noble, the search for the truth. He's willing to sacrifice friendship to achieve that. He's sacrificing comfort for right. And by the way, it's a TV show.
Toronto Trek 2005, Canada's largest Sci-Fi fantasy event (July15 -17) is holding an auction to raise money for The Ronald McDonald House of Toronto. A color autographed picture donated by Hugh Laurie is among the items up for auction. Unfortuntely, they don't have a picture of the photo on the site as of yet (unless I can't find it), so I'm not sure what it looks like.
Hugh serves ice cream during The Shop Assistance charity day to raise money for two Aids charities: Frontliners and the Terence Higgins Trust. July 30, 1988
Hugh did a radio interview with Steve Wright for BCC 2 last Thursday (June 9). I edited it and will post tomorrow, but in the meantime you can visit the BBC's Steve Wright page and listen to it (if you haven't already). Click Thursday's show - it's around 22 mintues or so into the program
June 9, 2005 - Apologies for lack of updates and for the site being down for several days. My webhost has been having major server issues this month, including losing all of my data, so I had to upload eveything again once they had it up and running. I am keeping my fingers crossed that the issues have been resolved. Anyway, much of this is old news by now, but I have added the June 5th TV Guide, along with three UK reviews of House to the Articles page, as well as a couple of articles to the House page. The update also includes a few more House publicity stills, as well as The Young Visiters and Peter's Friends pages.
Article from the Scotsman.com - Bertie Wooster takes the Hippocratic Oath
Hugh Laurie made an appearance on the UK morning show called Richard and Judy today. I am hoping to have a video clip of the interview soon. In the meantime, the Devoted to Hugh forum has it posted in the multimedia section. (members only however)
Look for the first season of House to be released on DVD at the end of August
Many folks at the GoldDerby forums have Hugh Laurie on their list of likely Emmy nominees. Nominees will be announced on July 14. Episodes submitted for consideration are Everybody Lies and Detox
Also, a wallpaper made from the TV Guide cover
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