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  • Picture of the week: The rower boner

    Picture of the week: The rower boner

    An internet sensation involving the anatomy of an Olympic rower

     

    When some athletes win an Olympic gold medal, they cry. Others raise a cheery smile. Henrik Rummel, instead, got rather overexcited and let something in his lycra express his feeling for what he’d just achieved.

     

    Henrik Rummell expresses his joy at winning a gold

    For this very reason, here we display The Steeple Times picture of the week.

  • Terry Venables

    Terry Venables

    “El Tel” is best known as a footballer manager but he’s a man of many talents. Few know that this national team manager of England (1994 to 1996) also co-authored four novels with Gordon Williams and was the co-creator of the ITV detective series Hazell. A Chelsea resident, he’s often to be found at Motcomb’s, the Rib Room Bar & Restaurant and Sette in Sydney Street.

  • Sinking television

    Sinking television

    Sinking television

    A review of Julian Fellowes’s “Titanic”

     

    Against better advice, I watched all four episodes of Julian Fellowes’s Titanic television drama. Nothing much happened in the first three episodes but unlike many others, I preserved and watched the final episode on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the White Star passenger liner.

     

    Julian Alexander Fellowes, The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL pictured with his “turban-clad” wife Emma Joy Kitchener LVO. The pair, who reside at Stafford House near Dorchester, Dorset, changed their surname from Fellowes to Kitchener-Fellowes on 15th October 1998.

    Fellowes is a man who has had remarkable success with both Gosford Park and Downton Abbey. After playing bit part roles in such series as Fantasy Island, Our Friends in the North and Aristocrats, his career took off in 2002 when Gosford Park won an Oscar for the Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen. Since then he has been ennobled and become a darling of the middle classes.

    The RMS Titanic which sank on 15th April 1912 at 41°43'57"N, 49°56'49"W
    The RMS Titanic which sank on 15th April 1912 at 41°43'57"N, 49°56'49"W
    One of the RMS Titanic's dining rooms
    The RMS Titanic's ornate Grand Staircase

    Described by John Doyle of The Globe and Mail as “a high-grade nobs-and-slobs story,” viewing figures fell from 9 million to 3.5 million between episodes 1 and 3 with good reason. To me this was a drama that lacked pace and repeatedly rehashed the same tales. It was tediously futile and an utter waste of four hours of anyone’s time.

     

    A scene from Fellowes’s Titanic featuring Toby Jones as John Batley and Maria Doyle-Kennedy as Muriel Batley

    Fellowes’s Titanic was truly a damp squib of a drama. May it, like the 1,514 tragic souls lost on 15th April 1912, rest in peace.

     

    View ITV1’s official website for Titanic at: http://mip.itvstudios.com/programmes/drama-comedy/618/titanic

     

    For more information on The Titanic Memorial Cruise, go to: http://titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk