Denise has sent me a short article from Tatler Magazine about the recent Laurent-Perrier event that REG attended. You know – the one he “announced his retirement” at ;-) You can read that here.

Both Joan and Denise have emailed me to say that it seems that the Second Series will now be finally released in July 2003 – according to the Amazon.co.uk website. No mention yet of whether they’ll do an American release but there’s always that chance. Details below:

The Scarlet Pimpernel – 2nd Series
List Price: £14.99
Our Price: £13.49
You Save: £1.50 (10%)
Release date: 21 July, 2003. Not yet available: you may still order this title. We will dispatch it to you when it is released by the studio.

Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)

Technical Information

Release Information:
Studio: Stax Entertainment Ltd
DVD Release Date: 21 July, 2003
Run Time: 270 minutes

Edition Details:
Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)
Box set, PAL
ASIN: B00009W37D

So start ordering! YAY!!

I’m making a request for interested parties to create and submit a piece of original REG artwork for possible selection for the first OFFICIAL REG Temple calendar 2004. Some of these pieces may also be considered for other REG Temple merchandise to be sold at the Official REG Temple Online Store, which should be open for business by the end of the year.

All artwork should be original, so photographic montages cannot be accepted unfortunately – unless of course the original photographs have been taken by the artists themselves. The artist’s interpretation of existing photographs and images (ie. from films, magazines, television appearances etc.) should be OK however.

Almost all of the profits from the sale of items from the store will go towards bursaries for the Waterford Trust Fund in Richard’s home country of Swaziland. The only exception being a small percentage from sales to pay for the costs of hosting the store itself. For this reason we ask that works be “donated” for use by the Temple Store. Copyright remains with the creators, however, and all selected works will be accredited to them.

The finished artwork will be reproduced at about 12″ x 9″ in actual size and with a full bleed. The artwork can be scanned by the creator and sent to us electronically. Ideally the scans should be of a fairly good resolution – about 300 dpi (Dots Per Inch) will be fine. Preferably the format for the scans should be .PNG – though Photoshop documents (PSD’s) will also be fine. If you are unable to supply these formats then .JPEG’s & .BMP’s will also be OK.

I will try and get together a bit of a “submission form” and maybe some better guidelines or an F.A.Q. page over the next few days or so. General inquiries can be sent to me via the Contact Form otherwise.

Stay tuned!

OK, well the interview with Richard finally turned up on Tuesday’s edition of the ITV “This Morning” programme, and not Wednesday or Thursday or Friday of last week as we had all been previously informed by the programme! Wow, and I thought Entertainment Tonight was the undisputed champion of stringing things out!!! Was I wrong! :-)

Anyway, the piece was about Richard’s and Jerry Hall’s new film “Tooth” and featured both of them talking about it from the set of the film. I’ve knocked together a bit of a report on the appearance from some of the REGimentals – primarily Denise and Joan – so I thank everyone involved for that. Denise has also very thoughtfully sent me some screen shots from the interview. You can see the pics and read all about it here.

UK Tatler Magazine – June 2003

Six hundred guests in varying shades of pink descended on Claridge’s for Laurent-Perrier’s annual party, making the ballroom look like a candy-floss bordello.

Lashings of L-P’s famous Rose Brut were served to a crowd – including Amanda Ursell, the most beautiful nutritionist in the country, and the polymathic historian and wine expert Giles MacDonogh – whose extraordinary thirst called for more. Amber Nuttall was suitably thrilled to win a pink KitchAid mixer, customised by Rita Konig, during a raffle held in aid of the Haven Trust, but her sister might be a little upset it didn’t match their new kitchen. She was even happier to pose for photographs with the suave Richard E Grant. He drew not only the winning ticket but also several wistful glances from the female guests, who waved their pink feather boas to him in a come-hither fashion.

To see a larger version of the scanned pic of the actual article, click the image below.

Richard and Jerry Hall interviewed on set of “Tooth” – Tuesday 10th June 2003

Richard appeared on the “This Morning” programme in the UK where he and Jerry Hall were talking from the set of a new film they’re making called “Tooth”. It was a very short and somewhat bizarre interview though, apparently, lasting only 3 or 4 minutes.

Richard is playing a retired fairy and wears a pale blue golfing outfit with an American baseball type cap (I noticed Burberry print on underside of eye-shade so this is probably up-market clothing). Jerry Hall (ex-model, ex Rolling Stone wife, currently actress) is playing Richard’s wife as well as a “fairy godmother”.

The plot was something about chaos in fairyland with all fairies going bad. One fairy is aware of the crisis and sets out to change things – enlisting the help pf Richard and Jerry. The fairy is played by a little girl (about 8 or 9)

Richard stated that he was working with three ‘troublesome’ little girls – not sure if he was amused or not? At one point the film clip showed him on-set sitting on floor with little girl next to him thumping his arm whilst he was listening to director – he looked like a patient father who was about to turn and correct errant child’s behaviour – ‘adults are talking, wait your turn!’ Then again he could’ve just been a bit distracted and they were just playing a game?

Richard was asked if the tooth fairy existed in Swaziland – it did – and the going rate was one old penny ‘which shows how old I am’. Interesting that the currency was British? It also seems that Richard was cheated on that “deal” – as fairies tend to leave silver coins and not copper ones!