"Only When I Laugh (TV series) Only When I Laugh is a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It aired between 29 October 1979 and 16 December 1982 and was set in the ward of a NHS hospital. The title is in response to the question, ""Does it hurt?"" It starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles, and Christopher Strauli as patients Roy Figgis, Archie Glover, and Norman Binns. Mr. Gordon Thorpe, their consultant surgeon, was played by Richard Wilson; and Gupte, the staff nurse from Delhi, was played by Derrick Branche. The show was one of many successes"
"The Beiderbecke Affair The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits in British television since the 1960s included the four-part mini series ""Get Lost!"" for ITV in 1981. ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" has a similar style to ""Get Lost!"", wherein Neville Keaton (Alun Armstrong) and Judy Threadgold (Bridget Turner) played in an ensemble cast. Although ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" was intended as a sequel to ""Get Lost!"", Alun Armstrong proved to be unavailable and the premise was reworked. It is the first part of ""The"
"Bewes died in November 2017. Bolam is known for being guarded about his private life. He once remarked: ""I'm having a man fix the track rods on my car. I don't want to know anything about him. Why should he want to know anything about me?"" In 1976, Bolam returned to straight drama, as Jack Ford in the BBC Television series ""When the Boat Comes In"", which ran until 1981. Since then he has mostly appeared in comedies and comedy dramas, including ""Only When I Laugh"" (as Roy Figgis) from 29 October 1979 to 16 December 1982, ""The Beiderbecke Affair"""
"contribute anything, but I listened and learned […] I was now being influenced by these musicians, particularly horn men. I could hum and sing all of the jazz choruses from the recordings made by Bix, Phil Napoleon, and the rest. Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the once-booming music industry contracted and work became more difficult to find. For a while, Beiderbecke's only regular income came from his work as a member of Nat Shilkret's orchestra on ""The Camel Pleasure Hour"" NBC radio show. However, during a live broadcast on October 8, 1930, Beiderbecke's seemingly limitless gift for improvisation"
"Only When I Laugh (film) Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's play ""The Gingerbread Lady"". The story is about an alcoholic Broadway actress who tries to stay sober, while dealing with the problems of her teenaged daughter and her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks, and a gay actor relegated to small roles in third-rate shows. Simon changed the main character's name to Georgia Hines for the film adaptation; the character was named Evy Meara in the stage version. The main character went from being a"
"Only When I Larf (film) Only When I Larf is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, and Alexandra Stewart. It is adapted from the novel ""Only When I Larf"" by Len Deighton, and features Attenborough as an ex-brigadier con man in a variety of guises. A trio of confidence tricksters (Attenborough, Hemmings, and Stewart), attempt to swindle an African state into buying crates full of scrap metal instead of anti-tank guns. ""Only When I Larf"" received mixed reviews, including ""a plodding adaptation""; and praise for its ""sound, unfussy direction and witty,"
"(writer). The book is non-fiction but it includes a Beiderbecke short story, ""A Brief Encounter with Richard Wagner"" by Alan Plater. It was written for BBC Radio 4 in the 1990s and this is its first publication in print. Accompanying the non-fiction book, the British Film Institute released an Author Video plus a series of official ""Beiderbecke Affair"" podcasts that include a video interview with William Gallagher and with Plater's wife, Shirley Rubinstein, plus audio commentaries by Gallagher for selected episodes of the Beiderbecke series. The Beiderbecke Affair The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom"
"Bix Beiderbecke Leon Bismark ""Bix"" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer. Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s. His solos on ""Singin' the Blues"" and ""I'm Coming, Virginia"" (both 1927) demonstrate purity of tone and a gift for improvisation. With these two recordings, as well as others, he helped to define the jazz ballad and foresaw what would become cool jazz in the 1950s. ""In a Mist"" (1927), one of a handful of his piano compositions and the only one he recorded, fused jazz with"
"Amazon via Columbia/Sony's manufacture-on-demand (MOD) business. Only When I Laugh (film) Only When I Laugh is a 1981 American comedy-drama film based on Neil Simon's play ""The Gingerbread Lady"". The story is about an alcoholic Broadway actress who tries to stay sober, while dealing with the problems of her teenaged daughter and her friends: an overly vain woman who fears the loss of her looks, and a gay actor relegated to small roles in third-rate shows. Simon changed the main character's name to Georgia Hines for the film adaptation; the character was named Evy Meara in the stage version. The"
"precise information has been forthcoming, and we even know the day—August 7—when he passed away."" The ""New Republic"" critic Otis Ferguson wrote two short articles for the magazine, ""Young Man with a Horn"" (July 29, 1936) and ""Young Man with a Horn Again"" (November 18, 1940), that worked to revive interest not only in Beiderbecke's music but also in his biography. Beiderbecke ""lived very briefly […] in what might be called the servants' entrance to art,"" Ferguson wrote. ""His story is a good story, quite humble and right."" The romantic notion of the short-lived, doomed jazz genius can be traced"
"him instead to take religion, ethics, physical education, and military training. It was an institutional blunder that Benny Green described as being, in retrospect, ""comical,"" ""fatuous,"" and ""a parody."" Beiderbecke promptly began to skip classes, and after he participated in a drunken bar fight, he was expelled. That summer he played with his friends Don Murray and Howdy Quicksell at a lake resort in Michigan. The band was run by Goldkette, and it put Beiderbecke in touch with another musician he had met before: the C-melody saxophone player Frankie Trumbauer. The two hit it off, both personally and musically, despite"
"observed thesping"". Only When I Larf (film) Only When I Larf is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Basil Dearden, and starring Richard Attenborough, David Hemmings, and Alexandra Stewart. It is adapted from the novel ""Only When I Larf"" by Len Deighton, and features Attenborough as an ex-brigadier con man in a variety of guises. A trio of confidence tricksters (Attenborough, Hemmings, and Stewart), attempt to swindle an African state into buying crates full of scrap metal instead of anti-tank guns. ""Only When I Larf"" received mixed reviews, including ""a plodding adaptation""; and praise for its ""sound, unfussy direction"
"Germany. Beiderbecke's mother was the daughter of a Mississippi riverboat captain. She played the organ at Davenport's First Presbyterian Church and encouraged young Beiderbecke's interest in the piano. Beiderbecke was the youngest of three children. His brother, Burnie, was born in 1895, and his sister, Mary Louise, in 1898. He began playing piano at age two or three. His sister recalls that he stood on the floor and played it with his hands over his head. Five years later, he was the subject of an admiring article in the ""Davenport Daily Democrat"" that proclaimed, ""Seven-year-old boy musical wonder! Little Bickie"
"to the National Register of Historic Places. Beiderbecke's music was featured in three British comedy drama television series, all written by Alan Plater: ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" (1984), ""The Beiderbecke Tapes"" (1987), and ""The Beiderbecke Connection"" (1988). In 1991, the Italian director Pupi Avati released ""Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend"". Filmed partially in the Beiderbecke home, which Avati had purchased and renovated, ""Bix"" was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. At the beginning of the 21st century, Beiderbecke's music continued to reside mostly out of the mainstream and some of the facts of his life are still debated, but scholars"
"the US on 29 September 2009. There are four books associated with the series. Alan Plater's first-ever book was a novelisation of ""The Beiderbecke Affair"" (Methuen, 1985) and then he originally wrote ""The Beiderbecke Tapes"" as a novel (Methuen, 1986) before dramatising it for ITV. Four years after the final serial aired, he novelised ""The Beiderbecke Connection scripts"" (Methuen, 1992). An omnibus edition ""The Beiderbecke Trilogy"" was released by Methuen in 1993. In 2012, the British Film Institute published a book about the series in its range examining key television shows: ""BFI TV Classics: The Beiderbecke Affair"" by William Gallagher"
"shared experiences contribute to the humour. This unreliable narration adds to the atmosphere around deceiving ""the marks"", but the characters' different perspectives on their mutual relationship (interspersed with Silas's day-dreams of a dishonourable wartime incident) look more like self-deception and often add a poignant note. The title is explained in a variety of unlikely anecdotes where in each case a critically injured third party bravely replies this when asked ""Does it hurt?"" A film adaptation of ""Only When I Larf"", directed by Basil Dearden, was released in 1968 starring Richard Attenborough as Silas, David Hemmings as Bob and Alexandra Stewart"
"that would result to her in going over this case."" It is not clear from the father's testimony if the girl had identified Beiderbecke. Earlier biographies ignored this incident in Beiderbecke's life. Historic documentation concerning the arrest and charge - including two police blotter entries and Preston Ivens' statement to the Grand Jury - was first published in 2001 by Professor Albert Haim on the Bixography website. Lion's 2005 biography also detailed the incident, but questioned the seriousness of the charge; nonetheless the author speculated that the arrest might have led Beiderbecke to ""feel abandoned and ashamed: he saw himself"
"Band. From these records, Beiderbecke learned to love hot jazz; he taught himself to play cornet by listening to Nick LaRocca's horn lines. He also listened to jazz from the riverboats that docked in downtown Davenport. Louis Armstrong and the drummer Baby Dodds claimed to have met Beiderbecke when their excursion boat stopped in Davenport. Historians disagree over whether such an event occurred. Beiderbecke attended Davenport High School from 1918 to 1921. During this time, he sat in and played professionally with various bands, including those of Wilbur Hatch, Floyd Bean, and Carlisle Evans. In the spring of 1920 he"
"best known as the producer of the thriller serial ""Harry's Game"" (1982). ""The Beiderbecke Connection"" was broadcast in four parts in November and December 1988 and averaged 8.8 million viewers over its run. Frank Ricotti was again nominated and this time won the 1988 BAFTA Award for Original Television Music for ""The Beiderbecke Connection"". All three series are available as individual DVD releases, as a boxed set, ""The Beiderbecke Trilogy"", and as a boxed set ""Beiderbecke Trilogy 21st Anniversary Edition"" (containing ""The Beiderbecke Trilogy"" plus ""Get Lost!"", cast interviews, CD soundtrack and collectors booklet), released on Region 2. The stories"
"(translation of German ""Die Damen aus der Hölle"") by German troops. A short story, “The Man from Hell”, by John Russell Fearn was published in ""Fantastic Adventures"" in 1939.) However, the ""Yale Book of Quotations"" attributes the phrase to Lewis. Richard Lewis (comedian) Richard Philip Lewis (born June 29, 1947) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s as a comedian specializing in self-deprecating humor before turning to acting. He is known for co-starring in the comedy series ""Anything but Love"" (1989–92) and for his recurring and semi-autobiographical role in ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" (2000–present)."
"Doyle's Dance Academy in Cincinnati became the occasion for a series of band and individual photographs that resulted in the most famous image of Beiderbecke—sitting fresh-faced, his hair perfectly combed and his cornet resting on his right knee. On February 18, 1924, the Wolverines first recorded at Gennett Records in Richmond, Indiana. The two sides made that day were ""Fidgety Feet"", written by Nick LaRocca and Larry Shields from the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, and ""Jazz Me Blues"", written by Tom Delaney. Beiderbecke's solo on the latter heralded something new and significant in jazz, according to biographers Richard M. Sudhalter"
"a battle against such common obstacles as art vs. commercialism, with his death being seen as a martyrdom for the sake of art. Beiderbecke remains the subject of scholarly controversy regarding his true name, the cause of his death, and the importance of his contributions to jazz. The son of Bismark Herman and Agatha Jane Hilton, Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa. There is disagreement over whether Beiderbecke was christened Leon Bix or Leon Bismark and nicknamed ""Bix"". His father was nicknamed ""Bix"", as was his older brother, Charles Burnette ""Burnie"" Beiderbecke. Burnie Beiderbecke claimed that"
"at High School, remaining a junior in 1921 despite turning 18 in March of that year. His interests, however, remained limited to music and sports. In pursuit of the former, Beiderbecke often visited Chicago to listen to jazz bands at night clubs and speakeasies, including the infamous Friar's Inn, where he sometimes sat in with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. He also traveled to the predominantly African-American South Side to listen to classic black jazz bands such as King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, which featured Louis Armstrong on second cornet. ""Don't think I'm getting hard, Burnie,"" he wrote to his"
"Only When I Larf Len Deighton's Only When I Larf is a late 1960s British comic thriller describing the activities of a team of three confidence tricksters led by Silas Lowther (late 40s), his girlfriend Liz Mason (late 20s) and wannabe apprentice and Liz-worshipper Bob (early 20s). It was published in 1968 by Michael Joseph and in paperback by Sphere. It is currently (2012) printed by Harper in the UK. The novel interleaves first-person narratives from Bob (76 pages in 7 chapters), Liz (78 pages in 6 chapters) and Silas (88 pages in 5 chapters). Their increasingly contradictory descriptions of"
"felt that the changes in how the BBC was run During Perkins' time as Head of Comedy, the BBC produced such hits including ""Coupling,"" ""The Thin Blue Line,"" ""Jonathan Creek,"" ""The Fast Show,"" ""The Royle Family"" and ""My Family"". Perkins also persuaded David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst to star in a new series of ""Only Fools and Horses"", the first of which was screened at Christmas 2001. Having left the BBC, Perkins became a creative director and executive producer for independent production company Tiger Aspect in late 2001. In this role, he was able to pursue a more hands-on role"
"film up to 20 episodes. In the end only three episodes were filmed and shown. Fadde Darwich Fadde Darwich (born May 5, 1966 in Qamishli, Syria) is a Swedish stand-up comedian and former security officer at the public central square Stureplan. Darwich was together with the model Emma Withers. He is often a topic of discussion in the leading Swedish tabloid ""Aftonbladet"". Darwich made a documentary some years ago for Swedish Television before he became notorious for the relationship with the former ""Big Brother"" contestant Linda Rosing (now known as Linda Thelenius). During the summer of 2007, the two also"
"When I Laugh"". His Iranian origin allowed him to play on the prejudices about immigrants from different countries, while also making jokes about racists of all sorts. This made him unpopular in the nationalist movements. He died in an automobile accident on E6 near Uddevalla at 26 years of age. Lasse Lindroth Lars ""Lasse"" Erik Oliver Lindroth (born Cambiz Fachericia; 9 November 1972 – 11 July 1999) was an Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer. Lindroth was born in Teheran, Iran, as Cambiz Fachericia, and was adopted by a Swedish family from Täby around the age of six months. He became"
"incredulity which the learned gentleman exhibited in court"". Later that year he played Hancock's office manager in the first of Tony Hancock's two principal film vehicles, ""The Rebel"". In 1962 he appeared in Wendy Toye's comedy film ""We Joined the Navy"" before reuniting with Peter Sellers in ""Only Two Can Play"", Sidney Gilliat's film of the novel ""That Uncertain Feeling"" by Kingsley Amis; Powell noted with pleasure ""the armour of his gravity pierced by polite bewilderment"". She compared Le Mesurier with the well-known American straight-face comedian, John McGiver. After appearing in another Sellers film in 1962—""Waltz of the Toreadors""—Le Mesurier"
"of recording and touring. Treatment for alcoholism in rehabilitation centers, with the support of Whiteman and the Beiderbecke family, failed to stop his decline. He left the Whiteman band in 1929 and in the summer of 1931 he died in his Queens, New York apartment at the age of 28. His death, in turn, gave rise to one of the original legends of jazz. In magazine articles, musicians' memoirs, novels, and Hollywood films, Beiderbecke has been envisaged as a Romantic hero, the ""Young Man with a Horn"" (a novel, later made into a movie). His life has been portrayed as"
"Wrestling Federation, but the character was portrayed by a different actor by the name of John DiGiacomo. He plays a fictionalized version of himself in the IFC series ""Maron"". Andy will star as Barry Bitterman in the dark comedy feature film The Fiddling Horse from director CJ Wallis In 1996, he offered $1 million to anyone who could produce a video showing where Whoopi Goldberg was funny. Kindler currently cohosts the weekly podcast ""Thought Spiral"" with friend and fellow comedian J. Elvis Weinstein. Kindler was Jewish. Andy Kindler Andy Kindler (born October 16, 1956) is an American comedian from Queens,"
"the blues, while Beiderbecke was influenced as much by modernist composers such as Debussy and Ravel as by his fellow jazzmen. Beiderbecke's most famous solo was on ""Singin' the Blues"", recorded February 4, 1927. It has been hailed as an important example of the ""jazz ballad style""—""a slow or medium-tempo piece played gently and sweetly, but not cloyingly, with no loss of muscle."" The tune's laid-back emotions hinted at what would become, in the 1950s, the cool jazz style, personified by Chet Baker and Bill Evans. More than that, though, ""Singin' the Blues"" has been noted for the way its"
"Lasse Lindroth Lars ""Lasse"" Erik Oliver Lindroth (born Cambiz Fachericia; 9 November 1972 – 11 July 1999) was an Iranian-Swedish comedian, actor and writer. Lindroth was born in Teheran, Iran, as Cambiz Fachericia, and was adopted by a Swedish family from Täby around the age of six months. He became popular in Sweden as a comedian in the mid-1990s, under the stage name ""Ali Hussein"". From there he went on to also write books and play parts in films and on TV. For example, he played in the TV series ""Sjukan"", which was a Swedish version of British sitcom ""Only"
"""Only When I Larf"" starring Richard Attenborough. Deighton wrote the screenplay for ""Oh! What a Lovely War"" and the opening title sequence was created by Len Deighton's lifelong friend Raymond Hawkey, the designer responsible for many of Deighton's book covers in the 1960s. In an attempt to shame other people whom he thought were claiming credit for things they hadn't actually done, Deighton decided not to be listed in the film credits, a gesture he later described as ""stupid and infantile"". The 1969 film transferred the ""mise-en-scène"" completely into the cinematic domain, with elaborate sequences shot at West Pier, Brighton,"