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  Inside this update
  - Sky/Wrist/Network
  - Doug’s Radio Blog
  - Oscar Predictions
  - Walk Along The Red Carpet
  - Sky News Feature
  - UK Theatre Reviews
  - Facebook/Twitter Links
  
  
  Hope you had a good week. I was contacted at the last minute this week to appear on Sky News. It all went very smoothly and you can see my nice blue plastercast on screen. It’s off now, and my wrist is slowly starting to heal. I have started typing again with two hands with this newsletter. Slowly but surely does it. 
  
  It’s nice to see the social networks starting to get a few hundred people posting, blogging and connecting on theatre and film. If you haven’t already, take a couple of minutes to join, it’s simple and quick.
  
  http://www.ukfilm.tv
  http://www.uktheatre.tv
  
  
  Have a great week ahead.
  
  Douglas McFarlane

   

   

  Tune In to Doug’s Radio Blog at 12 noon on Saturday’s. 
  
  This week’s show includes David Bowie, George Michael, Simon And Garfunkel, Kraftwerk and Savage Garden.
  http://www.nevisradio.co.uk
  
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  Oscar Predictions
  
  Here are my predictions for tomorrow night’s Oscar’s with a link to all the nominees and printouts for you to make your own choices. I’ve also included a link to a bit of film footage I took in 2007 to share the experience of walking along the red carpet with you. I choose not to go this year for a change, but I’m keeping in touch via twitter as Jon Gripton, who introduced me to Sky News in October 2007 and who I subsequently bumped into on the red carpet last year. His tweeter id is listed at the bottom with some other tweeters for you to follow.
  
  
  Actor In A Leading Role - Brad Pitt
  
  Actor In A Supporting Role - Heath Ledger
  
  Actress In A Leading Role - Kate Winslet
  
  Actress In A Supporting Role - Penelope Cruz
  
  Best Documentary Feature - Trouble The Water
  
  Directing - Danny Boyle/Slumdog Millionaire
  
  Best Picture - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
  
  
  http://www.oscar.com/nominees
  
  
  
  Walk Along The Red Carpet
  
  A short walk I took along the red carpet at the Oscars 2007 in order to share the experience. A section of this footage is used in the film Making It In Hollywood, currently being submitted to film festivals.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFeBMgkbKH4
  
  
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  Sky News Feature
  
  Top Web Stories: A YouTube Symphony, Friends Reunited Try To Meet Buyer And More Popular Internet News
  In this edition of Sky.com Movers Douglas McFarlane from uktheatre.net introduces a woman caught on camera having a tantrum at a Thai airport, a YouTube symphony and more popular stories from the internet.
  
  http://tinyurl.com/cqgpdg
  
  
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  Regional Premiere of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at Manchester Library Theatre
  
  Rock ‘n’ Roll
  Library Theatre, Manchester
  17 February 2009
  
  Abba has Mamma Mia; Queen has We Will Rock You; Madness has Our House; now Pink Floyd has Rock ‘n’ Roll, a jukebox musical which weaves the band’s greatest hits into a narrative about The Prague Spring and the eventual collapse of Communism in 1990.
  
  http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/regional-premiere-of-tom-stoppardand39;s-rock-and39;nand39;-roll-at-manchester-library-theatre_35.html
  
  
  
  
  The Last Resort
  The Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
  Strangeface Theatre’s production, The Last Resort, is an interesting concept that combines actors wearing half-masks, puppetry, original music and songs to tell the folk-tale of a remote town on the brink of ruin.
  
  http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/the-last-resort_34.html
  
  
  
  Cabaret
  UK National Tour – Reviewed at Darlington Civic Theatre
  Berlin 1930: The Kit Kat club is a place of decadent and flirtatious celebration, presided over by a sinister Emcee (Wayne Sleep). Sally Bowles (Samantha Barks) is a young British singer who performs there. Cliff Bradshaw (Henry Luxemburg) is an American writer who arrives in Berlin with the hope of finding inspiration to complete his latest novel.
  
  
  http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/cabaret_33.html
  
  
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  TWITTERS
  
  Jonathan Ross
  http://twitter.com/Wossy
  
  Stephen Fry
  http://twitter.com/stephenfry
  
  Fearne Cotton
  http://twitter.com/Fearnecotton
  
  Jon Gripton, reporter for Sky News, at the Oscars
  http://twitter.com/JonGrip
  
  Sara Bareilles
  http://twitter.com/sarabareilles
  
  Barack Obama
  http://twitter.com/BarackObama
  
  My twittering link
  http://www.twitter.com/ukfilm
  
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  FACEBOOK GROUPS
  
  Making It In Hollywood – Documentary film project currently submitting to Film Festivals
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2434134276&ref=ts
  
  UK Film Network – Social networking for filmmakers and their audience
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2475992114&ref=ts
  
  UK Theatre Network – Social networking for theatre performers and their audience
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3122300275&ref=ts
  
  The Big Picture – Feature film project currently in script selection
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26318483196&ref=ts
  
  The Time Project – Documentary film project currently in pre-production
  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47590808842&ref=ts

  February 21st, 2009 at 7:41 am

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