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becky sharp
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 Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:56 pm Post subject: The Damned United |
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Shown on BBC 2 last night as part of the The BBC Films weekend
What a terrific film ...loved every minute of it ...superb performances from the lead actors! |
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Minx
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It was excellent Becky. Really enjoyed it. Thought Martin Sheen put in an impressive performance but maybe perhaps not quite as ebullient as the Brian Clough I remembered.
Billy Bremner and Johnny(?)Giles must have been pretty embarrassed.
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becky sharp
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| Minx wrote: | It was excellent Becky. Really enjoyed it. Thought Martin Sheen put in an impressive performance but maybe perhaps not quite as ebullient as the Brian Clough I remembered.
Billy Bremner and Johnny(?)Giles must have been pretty embarrassed. |
Did you see the documentary that followed,Minx? One of the Leeds players of the time (can't for the life of me remember which one  ) said Billy wasn't like how he was portrayed ...bit of artistic licence applied there maybe 
You can see why he wasn't made England manager  too hot for the FA to handle.. |
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Minx
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I must confess after the way Don Revie treated Clough, I was quite pleased to see what eventually happened to Revie. But that was a good piece of casting in that part, I actually thought it was Revie. (it wasn't was it?  )
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becky sharp
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| Minx wrote: | | I must confess after the way Don Revie treated Clough, I was quite pleased to see what eventually happened to Revie. But that was a good piece of casting in that part, I actually thought it was Revie. (it wasn't was it? ) |
Me too,Minx I did a double take when I first saw him ...in the interview, when Cloughie had got the push from Leeds, Revie said he hadn't purposely ignored Brian that first time .....but whatever way it was it shaped how Brian Clough thought of the man thereafter...... |
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Ian Robinson
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| Minx wrote: | | But that was a good piece of casting in that part, I actually thought it was Revie. (it wasn't was it? ) |
It was the actor Colm Meaney, who's best known for playing Chief O'Brien in Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. |
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Number Six
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Coming from Brighton I had a special interest. Sheen was brilliant as Clough but I wasn't sure about Timothy Spall. A great performance but it didn't seem like the Peter Taylor I remembered.
However, the whole thing was stolen by Colm Meaney as Revie. An absolutely towering (and Glowering) performance, I thought
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