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Inside this update
- Sky/Wrist/Network
- Doug’s Radio Blog
- Oscar Predictions
- Walk Along The Red Carpet
- Sky News Feature
- UK Theatre Reviews
- Facebook/Twitter Links




Hope you had a good week. I was contacted at the last minute this week to appear on Sky News. It all went very smoothly and you can see my nice blue plastercast on screen. It’s off now, and my wrist is slowly starting to heal. I have started typing again with two hands with this newsletter. Slowly but surely does it. 

It’s nice to see the social networks starting to get a few hundred people posting, blogging and connecting on theatre and film. If you haven’t already, take a couple of minutes to join, it’s simple and quick.

http://www.ukfilm.tv
http://www.uktheatre.tv


Have a great week ahead.

Douglas McFarlane

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Tune In to Doug’s Radio Blog at 12 noon on Saturday’s. 

This week’s show includes David Bowie, George Michael, Simon And Garfunkel, Kraftwerk and Savage Garden.
http://www.nevisradio.co.uk

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Oscar Predictions

Here are my predictions for tomorrow night’s Oscar’s with a link to all the nominees and printouts for you to make your own choices. I’ve also included a link to a bit of film footage I took in 2007 to share the experience of walking along the red carpet with you. I choose not to go this year for a change, but I’m keeping in touch via twitter as Jon Gripton, who introduced me to Sky News in October 2007 and who I subsequently bumped into on the red carpet last year. His tweeter id is listed at the bottom with some other tweeters for you to follow.


Actor In A Leading Role - Brad Pitt

Actor In A Supporting Role - Heath Ledger

Actress In A Leading Role - Kate Winslet

Actress In A Supporting Role - Penelope Cruz

Best Documentary Feature - Trouble The Water

Directing - Danny Boyle/Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button


http://www.oscar.com/nominees



Walk Along The Red Carpet

A short walk I took along the red carpet at the Oscars 2007 in order to share the experience. A section of this footage is used in the film Making It In Hollywood, currently being submitted to film festivals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFeBMgkbKH4


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Sky News Feature

Top Web Stories: A YouTube Symphony, Friends Reunited Try To Meet Buyer And More Popular Internet News
In this edition of Sky.com Movers Douglas McFarlane from uktheatre.net introduces a woman caught on camera having a tantrum at a Thai airport, a YouTube symphony and more popular stories from the internet.

http://tinyurl.com/cqgpdg


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Regional Premiere of Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll at Manchester Library Theatre

Rock ‘n’ Roll
Library Theatre, Manchester
17 February 2009

Abba has Mamma Mia; Queen has We Will Rock You; Madness has Our House; now Pink Floyd has Rock ‘n’ Roll, a jukebox musical which weaves the band’s greatest hits into a narrative about The Prague Spring and the eventual collapse of Communism in 1990.

http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/regional-premiere-of-tom-stoppardand39;s-rock-and39;nand39;-roll-at-manchester-library-theatre_35.html




The Last Resort
The Customs House, South Shields, Tyne & Wear
Strangeface Theatre’s production, The Last Resort, is an interesting concept that combines actors wearing half-masks, puppetry, original music and songs to tell the folk-tale of a remote town on the brink of ruin.

http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/the-last-resort_34.html



Cabaret
UK National Tour – Reviewed at Darlington Civic Theatre
Berlin 1930: The Kit Kat club is a place of decadent and flirtatious celebration, presided over by a sinister Emcee (Wayne Sleep). Sally Bowles (Samantha Barks) is a young British singer who performs there. Cliff Bradshaw (Henry Luxemburg) is an American writer who arrives in Berlin with the hope of finding inspiration to complete his latest novel.


http://www.uktheatre.tv/magazine/read/cabaret_33.html


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TWITTERS

Jonathan Ross
http://twitter.com/Wossy

Stephen Fry
http://twitter.com/stephenfry

Fearne Cotton
http://twitter.com/Fearnecotton

Jon Gripton, reporter for Sky News, at the Oscars
http://twitter.com/JonGrip

Sara Bareilles
http://twitter.com/sarabareilles

Barack Obama
http://twitter.com/BarackObama

My twittering link
http://www.twitter.com/ukfilm

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FACEBOOK GROUPS

Making It In Hollywood – Documentary film project currently submitting to Film Festivals
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2434134276&ref=ts

UK Film Network – Social networking for filmmakers and their audience
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2475992114&ref=ts

UK Theatre Network – Social networking for theatre performers and their audience
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3122300275&ref=ts

The Big Picture – Feature film project currently in script selection
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26318483196&ref=ts

The Time Project – Documentary film project currently in pre-production
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47590808842&ref=ts