Raise a glass to Nancy, the legendary landlady celebrating 50 years behind the pumps at The Peveril of the Peak
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Nancy Swanick at Peveril of the Peak Manchester (Image: Supplied)
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4:11 PM January 29, 2021
Dog tags presented to the late Hampstead costume designer Patrick Wheatley for his work on the film Saving Private Ryan went under the hammer at Dawsons this week
- Credit: Dawsons Auctions
Costume designs by Cecil Beaton and Yves Saint Laurent went under the hammer this week alongside film memorabilia including a script with the working title Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death .
A script with the working title Indiana Jones and the Temple of Death
- Credit: Dawsons Auctions
They were all owned by the late Hampstead film and stage costume designer Patrick Wheatley who died last year. Dawsons Auctions, based in Heath Street close to Mr Wheatley s former home, auctioned some items from his estate this week with more set to feature in February s online sale.
Cracker
When his bungling led to boss Christopher Eccleston’s murder by serial stabber Robert Carlyle (how’s that for a cast?), Lorcan Cranitch’s creepy cop descended further and raped colleague DS Jane Penhaligon (Geraldine Somerville). Even after Beck died, Fitz (Robbie Coltrane) was unforgiving: “I spit on the bastard’s grave every time his name is mentioned.”
Lieutenant Gilles Escoffier
Spiral
“Gilou” (Thierry Godard) was the lover and most trusted enforcer of Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust). He’d beat up suspects, snort cocaine and steal from gangsters, then give a Gallic shrug and somehow get away with it.
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In David Lean s celebrated 1946 adaptation of Great Expectations , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, whose terrifying encounter with the farm boy Pip opens the story, was sweaty and grimy, with a prisoner s butch cut. The Magwitch in Mike Newell s 2012 version is a clump of hair, filth and grease with Ralph Fiennes blue eyes peeking out. That s the general Muppet-style approach to character in this edition, in which Helena Bonham Carter enacts disturbed heiress Miss Havisham broadly enough to confuse her with the saucy hostess she played in Les Miserables , or any of her Tim Burton vamps. Peering with Look at me, I m crazy! pop-eyes from under layers of dusty veil, she s about as wrong for this role as James Franco s recent attempt at middle-aged Hugh Hefner in Lovelace .