Jason informs us that REG also reads some of the Ian Fleming, James Bond books, “Dr. No” and “Thunderball”.

Robert has also tracked down all the REG movies currently available on laserdisc:

Dracula
Hudson Hawk: Special Edition
Spice World
Pret-a-Porter (Ready to Wear)
Portrait of a Lady
The Player: Special Edition
L.A. Story
Henry & June (NC-17 Version)

Another Keep the Aspidistra Flying pic, thanks Nikki.

Well REG was a host at this years BAFTA Awards in the UK, and presented 4 or 5 awards, but according to Chris, he was reduced to a bunch of snippets in the edited highlights! This is just not good enough!!! For a start REG should be winning the damn things, not handing them out to some other tossers, and if he is there, surely they should be devoting more screen time to Britain’s greatest actor!!

A few of the REGiment have found there to be two movies sharing the same name, one is the REG movie “The Cold Light of Day”, which was released in 1994. The non REG film of the same name is apparently also about a serial killer, but was made in 1989. They are two different films, but it’s easy to get confused so just make sure you’re getting the right one if you order the video over the Internet. Click here to see a cover shot of the REG version.

REG was a guest host at this years British Film and Television Awards. Much to the chagrin of the UK REGiment, he only appeared in quickie snippets of highlights, which sucks!! Here’s some pics of him arriving with his wife Joan anyway, snapped off the TV (thanks Lesley!)

REG and Joan – Up close and personal.

British actors Richard E. Grant and Alex Kingston (star of US hospital drama “ER”) pose for the media at the 51st BAFTA Film Awards at the business Design Centre in London, after presenting awards at the ceremony. 11-04-99.

“I’ve just read Jack Maggs by Peter Carey which is one of the few books that I’ve read in recent years that is unputdownable.

It’s a story about an English convict who’s been sent off to Australia, and then returns with a new persona to reclaim his property and to find his surrogate son. The process and the people that he meets along the way and how the story unfolds and what happened to everybody is page turningly brilliant. It’s the most immediate visceral and entertaining novel about Victorian London that I have ever read. It reinvents Dickens. Even if you meet somebody who’s a paragraph’s worth, you know exactly who they are because he describes a kind of kink in somebody’s character that gives you physiological insight into how this person’s mind operates which is an astonishing gift in a writer.”

A founding member of the REGiment, in fact the source of the name, has recently seen Hard Times and you can read Chris’ review here.

And Eve has found another Scarlet Pimpernel article. Click here to read it.