I’ve just got the latest “REGimental Exclusive” Questionnaire back from Richard, but I’m still setting it up to put on the actual site. As usual it’s a good ‘un, and it should be up in the next day or so.

I also emailed Richard to ask a few “random” questions that people have been wondering about, and one or two things that I wanted to know myself. I’ll post any info as soon as it comes to hand.

From “What’s on Stage News” (http://www.whatsonstage.com/)

“Play What Returns to West End Pre-Broadway, 30 Oct

The Right Size’s multi award-winning homage to comedians Morecambe and Wise, The Play What I Wrote, will return to the West End this autumn ahead of a Broadway transfer in March 2003. Producers today confirmed to Whatsonstage.com that the hit comedy, which finished its sell-out six-month run at Wyndham’s Theatre this past Saturday 5 May 2002, will reopen at the same venue for another limited season from 30 October 2002 to 4 January 2003.

The new West End engagement will follow a brief UK regional tour, encompassing some five stops, from late September. Exact tour stops and dates are expected to be confirmed in the next few weeks. Booking for the new West End run has already opened.

The Play What I Wrote first opened at Wyndham’s Theatre on 5 November 2001, following previews from 22 October and a regional tryout at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre. Wyndham’s is about to play host to another sell-out production – Madonna’s West End debut Up for Grabs, which has a limited (and long ago, sold out) run from 13 May to 13 July 2002.”

Stay tuned on further developments.

Waterford-Kamhlaba Website – May, 2002

By Richard Alexander.

STOP PRESS: Ex Waterford Student Richard E Grant, currently filming a movie about Napoleon Bonaparte in Cape Town, came to visit the school on Monday 27th May, speaking to the student body at Assembly. Richard is a very keen supporter of WK and is particularly active in the UK raising bursary funds. He is always a most welcome guest.

I’ve just been sent more than 70 film reviews for almost all of REG’s movies from Jolie over the weekend! I’ve been busy creating new pages, “cutting and pasting” the info and plugging in pictures in the appropriate places. They’re not quite ready to go just yet, but it should only be a matter of days before I put them online.

Stay tuned!

On other news, Richard is about to travel overseas again for film shoots. Rest assured that he’s got a whole bunch of questions from the REGiment to keep him happy and busy in between takes!

Denise tells me that she was doing some research on her computer and typed “grant” into the search engine of Encarta, and lo and behold this is what she found:

“Grant, Richard E. (1957- ), British actor, born in Mbabane, Swaziland, who studied drama at the University of Cape Town and moved to Britain in 1982. His acting career took off with his second film, Withnail and I (1987) in which, as one of a pair of unemployed actors at the end of the 1960s, he postured among the cultivated squalor of their flat in Camden Town, London. His performances in subsequent films – including L.A. Story (1991), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, directed by Francis Ford Coppola), The Age of Innocence (1993, Martin Scorsese), as the eligible Lord Warburton in Portrait of a Lady (1996, Jane Campion), in the Franco-German production, Le Baiser du Serpent (1997; The Serpent’s Kiss, Philippe Rousselot), and as Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) – have been variable.

His characterizations, when given their head, as in such films as The Player (1992, Robert Altman), display a self-consciously controlled but manic presence. His affected articulation and mannered gestures are both comic and threatening; his manner both seductive and dangerous. A hardworking actor with a star personality, he has reached out into writing diaries of films with which he is associated, and has also done memorable television work. He made a notable guest appearance in the comedy series Absolutely Fabulous (1992), appeared as Harthouse in Hard Times (1994), as the Prince of Wales in A Royal Scandal (1996), and in the final pair of dramas by Dennis Potter, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus (both 1996).

Contributed By:
Kevin Gough-Yates”

I’m not sure which version of Encarta Denise was using, but if you have a copy somewhere on your computer you might want to give it a try. I should also say that it’s interesting to note that Cary is present but not Hugh.