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God bless these two models, and whatever they were busy thinking about while being paid to stand outside London’s Scotland Yard, brandishing toy weapons at each other while promoting the 60th birthday of Clue.
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As far as board games that can get the “let’s bolt a plot onto this thing and try to make a TV show” treatment go,
Clue (or
Cluedo, if you’re feeling British) is pretty hard to beat. Not only is the basic premise color-coded weirdos solve a murder through simple deduction cribbed liberally from classic detective fiction, but the brand even has a proven track record, in so far as “We can’t stop quoting Madeline Kahn doing the ‘Flames” bit from the
Shook
WhatsOnStage has a first look at the new trailer for the captured recording of Samuel Bailey s Papatango Prize-winning
Shook.
The film will feature the show s original cast, composed of Josef Davies (Jonjo), Josh Finan (Cain), Andrea Hall (Grace) and Ivan Oyik (Riyad), with the original set/costume designer Jasmine Swan and sound designer Richard Hammarton returning.
The company s artistic director George Turvey will direct the piece alongside multi-Emmy-nominated director James Bobin (Flight of the Conchords). It will be released next month.
Bailey s play follows a group of young men in a young offenders institute. WhatsOnStage s Daniella Harrison gave the show four stars when it originally debuted, saying laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest, catching you off-guard with touching moments when you least expect it . It was nominated for seven Off-West End Awards.
21 Jump Street Director Reveals Origin of Film s Hilarious Taco Bell Line
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The classic sitcom and feature film 21 Jump Street had a premise that many might consider ludicrous, featuring adult cops posing as high school students in order to investigate crimes. Though it sounds like a purely fictional idea, it has some basis in truth. Phil Lord, co-director of the two movies starring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, revealed that one of the funniest lines of dialogue from the first movie was lifted directly from research they had done into actual undercover cops in high schools. The line in question comes from Dave Frango, whose reaction to learning that his friends are copes was We partied together, man. You bought us Taco Bell.