Couple days ago somebody was searching for something like this in internet, and took a peek on my blog. Well as my memory is connected with feelings, I was a little sad, because I'm blond ;D. I was reading in one of the interviews something about brunettes. I was searching where it was, but maybe You will have more luck. Still this is some very interesting question ;D. Not talking closely about some Richard's photos from the past there were fair-haired and dark-haired women on them. As we know from Interview for Red Magazine (February 2009 - HERE on RANET to read) that Richard likes Nigella Lawson who is brunette, but in one interview he was talking that he was really amazed by beauty of Daniela Denby-Ashe as Margaret, that he really wished to kiss her. And she is fair-haired. Please don't ask me where it was. I had read so many interviews of Richard yesterday, that in my head is one big mess.
For Richard's characters there is dominance of dark-haired liaisons. I should only find this interview and brunettes probably win the whole hair thing.
I don't know if You abroad know this Polish band, not boys band.
There is one of their songs, worth to hear. Enjoy. :) Afromental - Radio Song
BTW. About Richard's dream girl you can read HERE. :)
Real is like 3D movie...no matter how You try, You don't catch it.
David Gray and Orbital – Illuminate
from the album "Work 1989-2002"
Paint the world anew
Find a way to open all the joy in order to
Illuminate/Alleviate the strain
Fireworks in the blue
B'yond the burstin' endless shine
Show me where the real light is
Buildin' a wall inside
Wall round my heart
Buildin' a wall inside
Yeah
BTW David Gray was in This Year's Love from 1999 as one of pub musicians :) and recorded song for this movie. More HERE.
Oh..and check Richard's interview with Chris Hawkins Show for BBC Radio 6 Music (Part probably 3) (3rd - 7th November 2008) there is about other song "Just Looking" performed by Stereophonics. :)
This is almost a year when I found mention about "some" Richard Armitage in Theatre Play "Use Me As Your Cardigan" in 2002 (year of Sparkhouse). And I didn't know if this is Our Fav Fellow.
On This site (now not working) HERE was that Use Me As Your Cardigan is produced as part of the 10xTen Festival. And there was "seductively free living Jez (Richard Armitage) when doctor husband Dan (Tim Hyam) heads off on his nightshift." I'm sorry I don't have more. :-/
So maybe about this play:
"Use Me As Your Cardigan" was written by Samantha Ellis. Her Blog HERE :)
Use Me As Your Cardigan
Synopsis:
Who's Who
Author : Samantha Ellis
Company : Charm Offensive (in association with Infinity Productions and Jacksons Lane)
Director : Gavin McAlinden
Design : Alexia Bertsatou
Lighting : Craig Bennett
Other : Jim Molloy (photography)
Performer : Richard Armitage (as Jez)
Performer : Joanna Bending (as Molly)
Performer : Imogen Butler-Cole (as Stacy)
Performer : Tim Hyam (as Dan)
Jacksons Lane
Outer London
19 February 2002 to 09 March 2002
20:00
Year ago was:
WORK: Use Me As Your Cardigan
I didn't want a child. My biological clock was not ticking. I never put a cushion up my jumper. You were so into it, you even got empathy pains. Dan wanted a baby. Stacy didn't. Most accidents happen in the home. This bitter sweet comedy takes a sly look at postnatal depression.
Work code: S0272693568.
Author Samantha Ellis
PRODUCTION:
Use Me As Your Cardigan is produced as part of the 10xTen Festival.
Production code: T01264275519.
Company Charm Offensive (in association with Infinity Productions and Jacksons Lane)
Director Gavin McAlinden
Design Alexia Bertsatou
Lighting Craig Bennett
Other Jim Molloy (photography)
Performer Richard Armitage
Performer Joanna Bending
Performer Imogen Butler-Cole
Performer Tim Hyam
Archive Listings
19 Feb 02 to 9 Mar 02
On DOOLLEE page of Mrs Ellis HERE is "A dark comedy about postnatal depression." And probably is mistake in company name.
On some site with Alexia Bertsatos We can see that HERE, we have a little from reviews about set design in newspapers "Theatre production ‘Use me as your cardigan’ written by Samantha Ellis and directed by Gavin McAlinden. (Very good reviews for the set design in Time Out, What’s On and the Irish Press."
And the best part of it is FACEBOOK Page of Charm Offensive HERE where is poster with very interesting discription by Gavin McAlinden: "Old show poster from 2002. Great piece of new writing from Samantha Ellis - one of the first leads played by Richard Armitage who I believe has just been cast in The Hobbit." (from 27 March 2011).
Well... I'm in shock myself :D
Edit:
I found old version of one of ARTS ARCHIVE site in Google cache HERE
This is copy from 15 Feb 2011 03:28:59 GMT
'Use Me As Your Cardigan' Jackson's Lane;Theatre Fringe
BYLINE: Sarah Adams
SECTION: Pg. 154
It's a mark of the success of Samantha Ellis's new play about baby blues that the problems faced by a young mother, deeply depressed eight weeks after the protracted birth of her son Adam, should elicit our sympathy without an overdose of bleakness. And the buzz generated by the Charm Offensive at Jackson's Lane is that rare combination of subject matter well targeted without pandering to its audience: what happens when young urbanites suddenly find their freedom thwarted?
But it's the humane, generous performances that really hook us in. Stacey (Imogen Butler-Cole) plays an ex-dancer turned morose mum, left in the hands of hard-nosed cousin Molly (Joanne Bending) and seductively free-living Jez (Richard Armitage) when doctor husband Dan (Tim Hyam) heads off on his night-shift. These actors stamp their mark so impressively, you wish they'd collaborated on the script. For if Ellis's dialogue is packed with sharp one-liners ('you're not my type, you're married with a kid'), it has a habit of scratching at insights, making speakers sound more functional ('we don't click any more') than sincere. And, rather like the cardigan of the title - a woolly metaphor for the comfort we seek in others - the themes remain underdeveloped, particularly as the spiral of events proves fragmented and inconclusive. Still, Gavin McAlinden's production crackles in Alexia Bertsatou's convincing north London flat, and Ellis's promise is more than embryonic."
Every Richard Armitage's supporter, fan, windmill etc. is very envy of these all journalists who can ask him about almost everything when they have interview with Our Fav Fellow.
If I will have this possibility and ask Richard for some things, there will be:
1. Sarah Brightman's video Captain Nemo.
Is Richard dancing there? or he is in other part of this vid?
Richard mentioned about it in his interview for Daily Mail/Mail Online "Me, a sex god? Spooks star Richard Armitage on his army of female fans" by Allison Pearson Oct 10th 2009. You probably red about it on forums and on other blogs. "When he was in the chorus of 42nd Street, he was so much taller than the other dancers that he had to stand right at the back and wear a specially shortened top hat. It was after playing a piece of seaweed in a Sarah Brightman video that he wisely decided he was 'in the wrong lane'."
Song recorded in 1993. This was first single from Sarah Brightman's album Dive. In that time he was working for musical theatre. This is photo probably from 42nd Street show programme, where Richard had very-that times-hair. In this vid we can see in the background two people dancing. And one had this same kind of hair.
But...Yes there is one "but"... We can see in this vid that there are some closeups of dancing people there, like material of costiume (not only Sarah's) and at 4:00 we can see man from profile in some kind of costiume from mesh, but this isn't Richard. And there is a question: is this man who is dancing? or maybe this is another extra in this vid?
I don't think that this is this man with periscope, because he has different ears. Is Richard swimming under water at 0:46? Hmm.... I don't think so.
2. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
In which scenes he was in this movie?
Part of Star Wars was shooting in Great Britain.
Leavesden Studios, Leavesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Studio scenes
Whippendell Woods, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK - Naboo forest
So lets go to Naboo forest.
This scene was shooting in UK Whippendell Woods, Watford, Hertfordshire.
Somebody mentioned that this is Richard. Well he looks like Richard.
This same scene on Keira Knightley (SABE) STAR WARS Collecting Card. And somebody mentioned that this isn't Richard.
"It was there that he spotted a request on the noticeboard for tall men to play fighter pilots in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. "I got incredibly nervous on the set and delivered my one line very carefully. I wondered why the crew were looking at me strangely, but when I watched the film, I realised my voice was completely computerised. I'm in one of those blooming white outfits with my face covered up."
His other lasting memory from the set was chatting up a beautiful young actress whom he believed to be Natalie Portman. She nodded politely as he called her Natalie over and over again, but when she stepped forward for her scene, Armitage realised she was Portman's body double, an unknown British actress by the name of Keira Knightley."
I wonder about this voice scene. (Part I of this Here: Richard Armitage in Star Wars - possibility of voice scene..??? Part 1)
The other problem is if he is in this scene?
and this one?
But we can be sure that he isn't in that one, because that scene was shooting in Italy and they had there Italian extras. This is Queen Amidala Naboo Palace and this starcase is in Palazzo Reale in Caserta.
3. Robin Hood Crew photo. Where he is there?
On C-19 Forum there is really wonderful discussion about this photo, and where is Richard?
The clues are:
Or all three?
4. CATS (1998).
Where he is in CATS vid? And if he is on this cast photo?
I really have no clues. There are mentions about similar nose, but was he there?
5. Fay Weldon's play The Four Alice Bakers (1999).
Are Dancing Banana photos real?
In his interview with Scott Mills & Becky for BBC1 May 4th 2010, Richard mentioned that when he was in Fay Weldon's play The Four Alice Bakers (Feb 1999) he was on stage in Banana Costiume. Play was on stage of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He was playing there with Sophia Myles who was in Spooks Season 9 as Beth Bailey. The easy way is go to library in this theatre and search there, but sad...I'm not living in UK.
I really love this photo
Mention about Richard in banana costiume is in this interview on This Morning September 20th 2010. See 3:50. "Yellow tights".
I think that this will be the best selling perfumes for X-mas, birthdays, etc. :)
I wonder about some classic scents from golden age of parfumes.
Dolce & Gabanna by Dolce & Gabanna for men.
Launched by Dolce & Gabbana in 1994, is classified as a refined, spicy, lavender, amber fragrance. This masculine scent possesses a blend of lemon, orange, lavender, sage, cedar and tobacco.
Or maybe
Light Blue by Dolce Gabbana
It starts with sicilian mandarin combined with frozen grapefruit peel, bergamot and juniper. Heart notes of rosemary, szechuan pepper and rosewood, and the mix is rounded out with base notes of musk wood, incense and oak moss.
Roma by Laura Biagiotti
Launched by the design house of Laura Biagiotti in 1994, Roma is classified as a sharp, oriental, woody fragrance. This masculine scent possesses a blend of a crisp oriental blended with sandalwood and patchouli.
And one more.
Blue Jeans by Versace
Launched by the design house of Gianni Versace in 1994, Blue Jeans is classified as a sharp, oriental, woody fragrance. This masculine scent possesses a blend of woodsy, citrus notes.
BTW about scents: I red that for men the most sexy scents are pumpkin pie with lavender, doughnut with liquorice and orange. The most famous perfumes for women were on the last places. So better rub pumpkin pie before date than Chanel No5. Here is article about it :)
Well I have much more questions, but these here are the most important.
