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Dispute breaks out between rivals over seafood menus

Edit Scotsman 18 May 2016
A seafood war has broken out in the picturesque west coast port of Ullapool, where a recently opened mobile shellfish shack has been threatened with closure by a cafe which has slapped seafood on the menu ... Paul Eddington and Joanna Munro, who operate the Gallery Cafe, said they changed their menu on a regular basis, and claimed they had been “vilified” over the situation. Mr Eddington said ... Miss Scobie said ... ....

Vote for laughs: TV's 10 best political satires

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 09 Apr 2016
From the classic bumbling British pollie Paul Eddington's James Hacker in Yes, Prime Minister, to Shaun Micallef's hapless Andrew Dugdale in The Ex-PM, fictional leaders have allowed us a chuckle at the sorts of scenarios that might be funny if they weren't true. When life imitates art in this genre, it is a beautiful thing ... #1 Yes, Prime Minister (1986) Advertisement ... #2 Mr. President (1987) ... Scott (Dr ... #3 The West Wing (1999) ... ....

Judi Dench wins record eighth Olivier award

Edit The Guardian 03 Apr 2016
81-year-old cements position as an all-time stage great with best supporting actress award, as Denise Gough wins best actress ... On Sunday her position as one of the all-time stage greats was cemented when she was awarded a record eighth Olivier award ... Related ... Related ... Twitter ... He said he was nominated for an Olivier 21 years ago when he was the “boy” up against Paul Scofield, Robert Stevens and Paul Eddington. “I’m now the old one ... Twitter....

Line's benefit to commuters hard to see

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 12 Jan 2016
LETTERS ... Hundreds of units are nearing completion beside Canterbury railway station, without any transport provision for the residents who will move in to the area ... John Bailey Canterbury. Jacob Saulwick hits a raw nerve in his piece about the Sydney Trains Network ... Paul Eddington, who played Jim Hacker, visited the NSW Premier's Department in 1987, and showed a detailed knowledge of how democratic governments work ... Vale David Bowie ... ....

Yes, Prime Minister: Still true to life after 30 years?

Edit BBC News 09 Jan 2016
The late Paul Eddington gave a memorable performance, bumbling from crisis to crisis, manipulated and checked by the late Nigel Hawthorne, who won successive BAFTAs for his verbal circumlocutions as Sir Humphrey ... Eddington, though, was thrilled ... The programme filmed exteriors in Downing Street, Eddington was allowed to walk through the famous door as Prime Minister Hacker, and the production designer was even given a personal tour....

I used to think booing was healthy. Now it’s out of control

Edit The Guardian 04 Jan 2016
In the 1980s, I wrote an article in the Guardian that began. “What’s wrong with booing at the opera, for goodness sake?” My view back then was that booing was unpleasant but at least it showed people cared ... And I concluded. “We need more booing in Britain, not less.” ... Related ... On the first night, he peeped out through a gap in the curtain to look at the audience and was instantly reprimanded by fellow actor Paul Eddington with the words ... ....

The retro hour

Edit Deccan Herald 25 Jul 2015
Tele rewind ... do these scenes sound familiar?. These are excerpts from TV shows that were shown a few decades ago and the scenes depicted then are worlds apart from our sitcoms today, we often remember them with great nostalgia ... Changing times ... I remember a place... No one was ever sure who was really funnier, the Minister Jim Hacker played by Paul Eddington or his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne ... ....

Why the 'Jerry from the Good Life' look is back in fashion

Edit The Daily Telegraph 25 Apr 2015
Harry Wallop visited Surbiton Golf Club to try out the 'sport luxe' look.  . Image 1 of 4 ... Richard Briers (left) as Tom Good in The Good Life with Felicity Kendal (Barbara), Paul Eddington (Jerry) and Penelope Keith (Margo) Photo. BBC ... At first glance, you might have thought Jerry, played by Paul Eddington, and Margo, played with champagne buckets of snobbism by Penelope Keith, were just a couple of old squares ... 1....

Felicity Kendal: I'm happy with my ex-husband - but won't marry him again

Edit The Daily Telegraph 03 Apr 2015
Felicity Kendal, star of The Good Life, on un-wedded bliss, being 'less-threatening sexy' - and the anti-semitism she has experienced as a convert to Judaism.  . Image 1 of 2 ... Naomi Jellicoe/Newspix/REX.  . Image 1 of 2 ... Getty ... Comments ... Starring alongside Briers, Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington, Kendal also credits the sitcom with helping her survive her first divorce from the actor Drewe Henley ... ....

The Times We Lived In: ‘Yes Minister’ actor at his eloquent best in Dublin

Edit The Irish Times 21 Feb 2015
It is, of course, Paul Eddington, aka the hapless Jim Hacker from the much-loved series Yes Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister ... Eddington died from skin cancer in 1995; before he passed away, he showed a different – though perhaps even more eloquent – face in a brave TV interview recorded five days before his death ... Arminta Wallace ....

Keeping up with Jones keeps memories alive

Edit Otago Daily Times 04 Jan 2015
Tony. Is your father wealthy, Jim?. Jim. Oh, yeah ... The series was inspired by the success of 1969 hit movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford and it certainly contains elements of both that film and that pair's 1973 movie, The Sting ... Nigel Hawthorne's Sir Humphrey Appleby was truly a masterpiece while he was more than ably supported by Paul Eddington (Jim Hacker) and Derek Fowlds (Bernard Wolley)....

Theresa May sleeps for five or six hours each night: 'There's a lot of work ...

Edit The Independent 23 Nov 2014
Theresa May survives on just five or six hours of sleep – only a little more than Margaret Thatcher, whom she has been compared to on the basis of being a similarly strong, female conservative political figure. Thatcher is famously rumoured to have had only four hours sleep a night ... “You’re probably talking about five or six hours, but there’s a lot of work to do.” ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... “Yes Minister The Compassionate Society”, Paul Eddington ... ....

Movies & TV Shows

Edit IMDb 03 Oct 2014
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