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Заголовок: Тюдоры (продолжение) </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Потрясающий сериал. Посмотрела только несколько серий.. 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Заголовок: "The Lady in th.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR> <BR> "The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn," by Alison Weir (Ballantine, $28). Publication date: December. <BR> <BR> If you spent some time gazing at the above photo, then you know this is a good time for a book about Anne Boleyn. The third season of "The Tudors," starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII and Natalie Dormer as Anne, aired earlier this year, with the fourth and final season coming in the spring. Entertainment Weekly's Alynda Wheat doesn't think much of the series overall, but she has been wowed by how the "randy courtiers shtup like crazy." (The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, wrote admiringly of Dormer's "super-hot nightgowns.") <BR> <BR> So now, having gotten all flushed and twitchy watching the Showtime series, you may want to know how true to life this portrayal is. Not very, of course. The threat of the plague is shown in a single scene, writes one critic, with "the camera passing over the night-blue faces of beautiful women taken too young -- the Black Death as a fashion shoot you would find in Italian Vogue." Needless to say, the glossily sculpted Rhys Meyers has no place in historical 16th century England. Contemporary portraits of the real Henry show a scowling, rather homely man, with a double chin rather than steel abs. And Anne, though by many accounts a pretty young woman (and an excellent dancer to boot), was much more sexually modest than "The Tudors" would have you believe. <BR> <BR> annieboleyn.jpgThe real Anne BoleynIndeed, it may come as some surprise to Showtime viewers that, to Anne, Henry's allure was primarily his political power, not his sexual prowess. In "The Lady in the Tower," historian Alison Weir insists that England's break with the Catholic Church wasn't just about Henry's frustrated desire for an annulment from Catherine of Aragon. The author asserts that, even before she supplanted Catherine and became queen, the relatively well-educated, free-thinking Anne was a radical evangelist who exerted significant sway over Henry's decisions regarding Church reform. Further, Weir rejects as myth that Henry had Anne executed for her inability to conceive a son. Instead, the vain, insecure Henry became suspicious of Anne's popularity at court. (Anne didn't help her own cause by snickering at Henry's love poems.) Chief minister Thomas Cromwell preyed upon his king's faults and launched an investigation. Jealous of the queen for her sophistication and influence, Cromwell framed Anne. She was falsely convicted of adultery, incest and high treason and beheaded in May of 1536, after only three years as queen. <BR> <BR> That's compelling stuff, full of political intrigue and packing an emotional wallop. Maybe Natalie Dormer should get an Anne Boleyn spin-off series all to herself. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/11/i_want_to_read_the_lady_in_the.html"><u>http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2009/11/i_want_to_read_the_lady_in_the.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="021"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3116<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0221" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("022","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0222" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("022","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#022" name="022"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 16.12.09 08:27. Заголовок: Having become a sex .. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Having become a sex symbol playing King Henry VIII for three seasons on The Tudors, Meyers talks about beheadings, love and staying fit. Also out this week on Blu-Ray/DVD is Inglorious Basterds, The Hangover, G-Force, Star Trek, Taking Woodstock & others. <BR> Portraying Great Britian's seductive, lustful, merciless and most powerful monarch, King Henry VIII, for three seasons on the highly rated Showtime series The Tudors (Season 3 is now on DVD) has turned Irish-born actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers into hot, bankable property in La-La-Land. And, thanks to his fine work on The Tudors, not only has Meyers quickly ascended Hollywood’s ladder to stardom, he's now an annual fixture on The Sexiest Man Alive lists across the globe. But most importantly, Meyers, who has an impressive film resume (that includes such motion pictures as Velvet Goldmine, Mission Impossible 3, August Rush, Titus, Elvis and Bend It Like Beckham), has single-handedly and believably transformed the once legendary, seemingly indestructable and larger-than-life King Henry VIII into an insecure, overly-ambitious, overindulgent and regret-filled lonely man during his time on The Tudors. <BR> In Season Three, just released on DVD, Henry weds his fourth wife, Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis), just days after having, his third Queen, Anne Boleyn (Natalie Dormer), beheaded. After Jane makes peace between Henry and his first daughter Lady Mary, Jane becomes pregnant and soon gives birth to a male heir. But, the Queen dies shortly afterwards. Although Henry is broken-hearted, he soon agrees to a political, loveless marriage (urged on by Cromwell) with the German aristocrat Anne of Cleves (played by pop music star Joss Stone), but surrounds himself with a number of mistresses. With plans to annul Anne, he begins to move ahead to marry 17-year-old Katherine Howard. Politically, as a ruler, Henry cruelly crushes members of the religious-based, Pilgrimage Of Grace uprising, he puts Cromwell to death and continues to fight with the Pope (Max Von Sydow), who is encouraging Spain and France to attack the British Isles in the name of Catholicism. <BR> For the 32-year-old Meyers (born Jonathan O’Keefe in Dublin), his time as King Henry VIII comes to end in 2010 when the Fourth and Final season of The Tudors airs on Showtime (beginning in January). But Meyers already has a busy film schedule filled with one movie role after another (starting with the February 2010 spy thriller From Paris With Love) to keep him busy. But, he will always be grateful for having nabbed the role as one of England's greatest rulers – a challenging role for any actor. “Playing Henry VIII has been one of the most educational and exciting roles of my career…and my life,” Meyers said during an LA press junket. “It’s been incredible being able to play a character for a number of years and being able to grow along with him. At the end of the day, The Tudors has taught me how to be a better actor. That's the best way I can say it.” <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/283884"><u>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/283884</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="022"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3118<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0231" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("023","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0232" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("023","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#023" name="023"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 16.12.09 23:29. Заголовок: 'Walking onto th.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>'Walking onto the Tudors set is like stepping back in time' <BR> Donal Godfrey spent a day at Ardmore Studios in Bray during the filming of The Tudors – and he even got to meet the king himself <BR> <BR> * Share <BR> o Digg <BR> o del.icio.us <BR> o Google <BR> o Stumble Upon <BR> o Facebook <BR> o Reddit <BR> * Print <BR> * Email <BR> * Text Size <BR> o Normal <BR> o Large <BR> o Extra Large <BR> <BR> <BR> Above: Dónal with Jonathan Rhys Myers on the set in Bray. Left: Rhys Myers as King Henry VIII. <BR> <BR> Ads by Google <BR> Irish Clothing <BR> <BR> Top Quality & Value from Ireland's Leading Woollens Retailer <BR> <BR> AranSweaterMarket.com <BR> Cineflex Aerial Camera <BR> <BR> High-performance gyro-stabilized camera for breathtaking footage <BR> <BR> www.Axsys.com <BR> Hotels in Wexford <BR> <BR> Compare hotels and save up to 75%! 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But having spent a number of days on the set of the ?75 million TV series 'The Tudors', I must admit that perception would be totally wrong. <BR> <BR> From the minute I arrived at Ardmore Studios in Bray recently, where The Tudors has been based for the past four years, I found everyone, from staff in the production office, to grips, electricians, camera operators and assistant directors – even the star of the series, Jonathan Rhys Myers – as helpful and courteous as could be. <BR> <BR> The series, which depicts the life and loves of King Henry VIII, and which featured actress Maria Doyle-Kennedy (who grew up in Enniscorthy) as his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, has been a huge success worldwide and in doing so has also shown the world what the Irish film industry is capable of doing. <BR> <BR> My chance to get on the set came about through Bagenalstown based artist Laurence O'Toole, who has worked on many films over the years, including such blockbusters as The Commitments, Saving Private Ryan, Michael Collins and the Count of Monte Cristo, and his girlfriend, Jen Griffin, who worked as an accountant on The Tudors. Thanks to their help I was afforded the opportunity to experience at first hand all that goes into making a hugely successful television series. <BR> <BR> As with any new adventure I felt like a fish out of water on arrival at the Ardmore studio but within minutes one of the assistant directors had taken me in hand – not literally – and began explaining the very basics of the business, such as who does what, where to find equipment, how a scene is put together and all the other work which the audience never sees. <BR> <BR> I was immediately struck by the attention to detail for everything on the set. It is incredible. If you think the sets and costumes on the show are elaborate what you see on your television screen doesn't really do them justice. Walking onto the set is like stepping back in time to the court of King Henry, even down to the dust on the furniture. <BR> <BR> Walking through the wardrobe department I saw rows upon rows of costumes and over 200 baskets containing trinkets and all sorts of jewellery. <BR> <BR> Each of King Henry's wives had their own style, hence there was never a question of over-lapping of costumes, and as all his wives were going to appear in a dream scene near the end of the series, even though some of the actresses had not worked on the show for a couple of years, their costumes were kept in <BR> <BR> Out on location is another matter entirely. First impressions are of the enormous amount of equipment needed. An entire fleet of trucks are first to arrive, carrying tonnes of equipment, lighting, cameras, props, temporary road, generators – you name it – not to mention the miles upon miles of cables, and all the workers needed to create whatever scene the director has in mind. <BR> <BR> Next come the actors, extras, makeup crews and assistant directors, – all arriving in a fleet of taxis – and caterers, complete with a mobile canteen – an old converted doubledecker bus. <BR> <BR> To some the attention to detail might border on the boring, but to a film buff like me it was pure entertainment. <BR> <BR> What also amazed me was the friendliness on the set among all departments. <BR> <BR> 'I see you are back to your old self again – young and sexy,' remarked one of the crew to King Henry – a reference to the fact that for several previous scenes he had worn a lot of make up to make him look old. 'Young, at least,' the actor replied. Naturally I was keen to have a photograph taken with the man, but how does one approach the star of a ?75 million show? This was his last day of filming for the entire series so it was now or never. As he ducked into his tent just after shooting a segment of his 'dream' scene I managed to pluck up the courage and ask for a photo. Expecting a ' no' but hoping for a 'yes' I gestured to the camera. Just imagine my relief when he stepped forward. Quickly handing the camera to a nearby grip to do the honours, I stepped forward, not paying any attention to the fact that the sun was shining directly into our faces. But ever the actor the king quickly changed positions to allow for a better angle – and a better photo for me – checked the photo was OK, before hopping back on set to complete the scene. <BR> <BR> Anyone in the business will tell you that timing is everything and thankfully I had chosen my timing wisely because after the scene was shot someone noticed something was not quite right, which meant it had to be done all over again – leaving the king with a scowl on his face to say the least. <BR> <BR> Before I knew it the day quickly drew to a close and with it my involvement with The Tudors. All that remains now is to wait in anticipation for the time the two final episodes are shown and to see the difference between reality and make-belief. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/lifestyle/walking-onto-the-tudors-set-is-like-stepping-back-in-time-1977241.html"><u>http://www.wexfordpeople.ie/lifestyle/walking-onto-the-tudors-set-is-like-stepping-back-in-time-1977241.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="023"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3119<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0241" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("024","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0242" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("024","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#024" name="024"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 17.12.09 08:07. Заголовок: 1. The Tudors This .. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>1. The Tudors <BR> <BR> This is remarkable on so many levels. It's sexy and romantic at the same time. It has as much to say about power and the abuse of power as The West Wing did during that landmark drama's heyday. It has encouraged a renewed interest in history - at least in the U.K., where the whole idea of a monarchy is once again a matter of public debate - even though historians nitpick over The Tudors' many historical inaccuracies. The Tudors has some of the most adult, literate language on TV today, but without the occasionally opaque wordplay of a Shakespearean play. Jonathan Rhys Meyers continues to amaze as a randy, ever-youthful King - this is definitely not your grandfather's Henry VIII - but it's the women who consistently take the breath away. This season, that was Annabelle Wallis as ill-fated Jane Seymour, who died in childbirth; R&B singer Joss Stone as hard-luck Anne of Cleves; and, especially, a luminous Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary, the doe-eyed idealist who, like Ellen Parsons in Damages, would become hardened and cynical in her older years. This season, The Tudors was all about how Princess Mary became Bloody Mary, and it was heartbreaking to see. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Best"><u>http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Best</u></a>+2009/2330901/story.html<BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="024"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3120<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0251" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("025","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0252" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("025","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#025" name="025"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 17.12.09 08:07. Заголовок: * 1. The Tudors: The.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>* 1. The Tudors: The show I recently called my favourite is remarkable on so many levels. It's sexy and romantic at the same time. It has as much to say about power and the abuse of power as The West Wing did during that landmark drama's heyday. It has encouraged a renewed interest in history – at least in the U.K., where the whole idea of a monarchy is once again a matter of public debate – even though historians nitpick over The Tudors' many historical inaccuracies. The Tudors has some of the most adult, literate language on TV today, but without the occasionally opaque wordplay of a Shakespearean play. Jonathan Rhys Meyers continues to amaze as a randy, ever-youthful King – this is definitely not your grandfather's Henry VIII – but it's the women who consistently take the breath away. This season, that was Annabelle Wallis as ill-fated Jane Seymour, who died in childbirth; R&B singer Joss Stone as hard- luck Anne of Cleves; and, especially, a luminous Sarah Bolger as Princess Mary, the doe-eyed idealist who, like Ellen Parsons in Damages, would become hardened and cynical in her older years. This season, The Tudors was all about how Princess Mary became Bloody Mary, and it was heartbreaking to see. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.kelowna.com/2009/12/10/the-big-bangs-the-best-tv-of-2009/?doing_wp_cron"><u>http://www.kelowna.com/2009/12/10/the-big-bangs-the-best-tv-of-2009/?doing_wp_cron</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="025"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3177<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0261" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("026","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0262" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("026","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#026" name="026"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 24.01.10 13:32. Заголовок: As one of our most b.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>As one of our most beautiful young actresses, it's only natural that Dublin starlet Sarah Bolger has been linked with a string of handsome men. <BR> <BR> But the TV daughter of Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the steamy historical drama series The Tudors has exclusively revealed that she is definitely on the market for 2010. <BR> <BR> And she has rubbished reports linking her romantically with the handsome son of the former US ambassador to Ireland, Tom Foley Jnr. <BR> <BR> The young pair set tongues wagging after turning up to see his dad, also called Tom, marry former White House lawyer Leslie Ann Fahrenkopf at a lavish VIP ceremony in Celbridge last year. <BR> <BR> Attendees at the exclusive bash included RTE's Gerry Ryan with girlfriend Melanie Verwoerd, U2's Larry Mullen, Pat Kenny and wife Cathy alongside Gay Byrne with Kathleen Watkins. <BR> <BR> Ridiculous <BR> <BR> However, Sarah (18) has insisted that she is definitely not dating the strapping American, nor anyone else, as she's too busy concentrating on her career. <BR> <BR> "No I wish - that would be good. To be honest, I've been single a long time. I've had a load of guy friends and the papers write this stuff about you, like what happened with me and Tom, that was ridiculous. He's my best friend, but there's no romance there," she said. <BR> <BR> One of the stars of the Oscar-nominated movie In America, she has been catapulted into the TV limelight too, thanks to her role as Princess Mary in the Tudors, for which she has been nominated for an IFTA. <BR> <BR> And despite her tender years, she insists her parents have no problem with her co-starring in such a saucy series detailing the exploits of her bed-hopping father King Henry VIII. <BR> <BR> "I have to admit, my character is the least sexually active! I had dresses that were buttoned up the whole way to the neck so I was quite modest -- but the Tudors is what it is. It's like the historical soap opera of the TV world -- I loved working on it. They have been like a family to me for the last three years. <BR> <BR> She also shot down reports that the lead actor's well-documented battle with the booze ever spilled over onto the set of the Irish-based drama. <BR> <BR> "He's amazing, I absolutely love him. It's such a gentleman. You read so much stuff in the press but I'm honestly never experienced anything like that," she said. "Any day I've been on set, he's always in on time and he knows not only your lines but the entire script - he's such a perfectionist." <BR> <BR> The year ahead is also going to be a busy one for young Sarah, as she will be making a new movie with Mary Harren, the director of American Psycho. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/romance-im-just-too-busy-to-find-my-own-leading-man-says-sarah-2027067.html"><u>http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/romance-im-just-too-busy-to-find-my-own-leading-man-says-sarah-2027067.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i031.radikal.ru/0804/ee/60b5e37e6a11.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="026"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3324<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0271" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("027","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0272" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("027","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#027" name="027"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 25.02.10 00:34. Заголовок: A DROGHEDA-based fil.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>A DROGHEDA-based film director has had two short films snapped up by Channel 4 television in the UK. <BR> <BR> 'Whatever Turns You On' is an Irish Film Board funded tale of a homeless man on a quest and has charmed audiences at over 50 festivals world wide since it's premiere in 2008. <BR> <BR> It qualified for Oscar consideration this year when it won the prestigious Aspen Shortsfest in the USA but failed to make the final 10. <BR> <BR> The film has sold to television stations in Belgium, Poland, France, Australia and Irish audiences will soon have a chance to see it on RTE 2. <BR> <BR> ' The second film that Channel 4 bought was quite a surprise,' revealed multiaward winning Cassidy, who recently made Drogheda his home. <BR> <BR> 'I wrote and shot 'I Hate That Smile' over 24 hours for a film-making competition that the Attic Actors Network in Temple Bar were running. A bunch of us got together and had a laugh with it. We were surprised enough to win that competition but I was gobsmacked when Derry O'Brien, my distributor got on to say that Channel 4 were buying that as well as 'Whatever Turns You On'. <BR> <BR> The film maker is currently sponsoring a digital filmmaking course in the town with FÁS and Drogheda Youth Development aimed at encouraging young people to explore this opening market. <BR> <BR> He is also in the middle of a photography project in Drogheda which will see him photograph local people of every age from newborn to 70 years old. <BR> <BR> ' The exhibition of this work is going to be called 'Three Score and Ten' from the biblical reference about the lifespan of humans. I'm still looking for volunteers to be photographed,' he added. <BR> <BR> Anyone wishing to be part of the exhibition can contact Cassidy through his website at www.declancassidy.com. <BR> <BR> Meanwhile, the celebrations are still on-going in the Holmes-Fagan household after the local husband and wife production team brought home an IFTA from the glittering ceremony in Dublin last Saturday night. <BR> <BR> Labour councillor Eoin Holmes and Niamh Fagan won the Special Irish Language Award for their TG4 drama Rásaí na Gaillimhe, which aired last year. <BR> <BR> It was one of five nomi- <BR> <BR> the <BR> <BR> production nations received. <BR> <BR> Directed by Robert Quinn and starring Don Wycherley and Ruth Bradley amongst others and proved to be the most viewed TV drama on the Irish language channel. <BR> <BR> 'Niamh and I are delighted to have won. It's a great honour,' says Eoin, who runs Great Western Films, with Niamh, mum to their four children Nora (6), Milo (4), Hannah (2) and Arlo (9 mths). <BR> <BR> 'We share this award with lots of other people though, not least the writer and director, and we are thrilled that a second series is in the pipeline, given that it was the most successful series ever commissioned by the channel.' <BR> <BR> There was an incredible third local link to the IFTAs last Saturday, as Gormanston girl Kate McCullogh was part of the team honoured for the Ken Wardrop film 'His and Hers' which won the George Morrison Feature Documentary Award, in documentary and current affairs. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/channel-4-snaps-up-local-directors-films-2077347.html"><u>http://www.drogheda-independent.ie/news/channel-4-snaps-up-local-directors-films-2077347.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="027"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3404<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0281" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("028","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0282" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("028","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#028" name="028"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 30.03.10 07:34. Заголовок: "The Tudors".. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>"The Tudors" returns for its fourth and final season on Sunday, April 11 at 9 p.m. on Showtime. <BR> <BR> In the third season, King Henry VIII's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) relationships with Jane Seymour (Annabelle Wallis) and Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone) crumbled. <BR> <BR> Henry suppressed protests over England's break with Rome and the Catholic church, and the season ended with the execution of his cunning chief minister, Thomas Cromwell (James Frain) <BR> <BR> Season two of “The Tudors” exceeded the first with deepening storylines and building court drama. It was the story of the fated climbing Boleyn family that took center stage. <BR> <BR> That season was also defined by the unraveling of the Catholic Church and rise of Thomas Cromwell’s power and influence; it was Cromwell, a cunning self-educated man, who was an architect of the Reformation movement in England with the introduction of religious leader Thomas Cranmer to King Henry VIII's court. <BR> <BR> These actions in the earlier seasons were the frame for Henry’s courtside politics and affairs of love in season two, three and now four. <BR> <BR> And like season one, they are penned as a clever blend of actual history and creative commissioned entertainment by the hand of show creator and writer, Michael Hirst. <BR> <BR> The cast and crew worked their magic at Ardmore Studios, near Dublin. The crew remains the same - and this season you will again truly appreciate the outstanding achievements of Emmy award winning costume designer Joan Bergin, who took the honor in 2007 for her exemplary work on “The Tudors.” <BR> <BR> Her craftsmanship abounds in the gowns and adornments for all the King's wives, as well as his own regal costuming. <BR> <BR> Bergin’s eye captured the smallest details of the commoners and various court denizens. “I did a lot of research into Spanish and Italian fashion from the period. I’ve amalgamated Tudor style with more European influences, so overall the look is softer. ..This season we’ve created in the region of 1500 costume pieces,” revealed Bergin to M&C in a past interview. <BR> <BR> The final season will feature Henry's last two wives, Catherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant) and Catherine Parr (Joely Richardson). <BR> <BR> Rhys Meyers will be donning prosthetics and changing grey hair to more accurately portray Henry in his older, more unhealthy years. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1544492.php/Jonathan-Rhys-Meyers-shines-as-King-Henry-VIII-for-round-four-of-Tudors"><u>http://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/news/article_1544492.php/Jonathan-Rhys-Meyers-shines-as-King-Henry-VIII-for-round-four-of-Tudors</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="028"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3422<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0291" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("029","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0292" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("029","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#029" name="029"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 08.04.10 07:31. Заголовок: I'm Henry VIII: .. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>I'm Henry VIII: Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Annabelle Wallis, who played Jane Seymour, one of Henry's many wives, in Showtime's The Tudors, which returns on Sunday. <BR> <BR> Soon, we won't have Henry VIII to hiss at anymore. <BR> <BR> Not that he's going away. Oh no, the 16th-century English king and his Tudor clan are never going away, or so it seems from the torrent of Tudor content that pours into contemporary culture: in best-selling books and award-winning movies, flashy TV series and catchy advertising, in songs, plays and operas, in videos on YouTube, discussion groups on Facebook, and about a half-million websites on the Internet. <BR> <BR> "Henry VIII and his court are like celebrities, like Brad and Jennifer and Angelina," says Claire Ridgway, who runs TheAnneBoleynFiles.com, a U.K. website that attracts fans of Henry's second wife. "We're hooked on the crazy private lives of these Tudor characters." <BR> <BR> PHOTOS: Meet the cast of 'The Tudors' <BR> TRAILER: See a preview of the new season <BR> TUDOR MANIA: It's a media obsession <BR> <BR> Crazy, and hooked, indeed. Henry VIII is perhaps the most famous/infamous king in the history of kings — and Americans, especially, can't get enough of him and his descendants. People even eat like Tudors. Look up Henry VIII's diet and follow it, if you dare. It was probably one of the things that helped send him to his richly deserved death, at 55, not long after beheading Wife No. 5 and marrying Wife No. 6. <BR> <BR> Now, with the return Sunday of Showtime's The Tudors for its fourth and final season, Henry's demise approaches as the sex-and-violence-and-history soap opera winds down. This season will cover the fate of Henry's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) fifth wife, pathetic teenager Katherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant), and move on to his final wife, the older, steadier Catherine Parr (Joely Richardson), who nursed him and survived him. We don't actually see him die; the king's bloated, smelly corpse will be carted off stage, and that will be that. We won't get to hear the riveting details of what happens to the other Tudors — his three children, who reigned in turn as Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. <BR> <BR> "People are upset the show is ending — and why end with Henry? Why not go on to Elizabeth, who was one of the best monarchs?" asks Anne Rodill, mistress of a fan blog, TudorsOnline.com, which she says can draw up to 75,000 visitors a week during the show's season. <BR> <BR> But it turns out The Tudors didn't need all the Tudors, having managed to captivate a respectable audience (averaging a little less than 1 million viewers for its Sunday premieres) for three years with a lavish retelling of the familiar tale of one particular Tudor: the matrimonially challenged Henry VIII. <BR> <BR> Ridgway says The Tudors is popular because it's all about sensory overload. "It's packed full of beautiful people, wonderful sets, exquisite jewelry and costumes," she says. "It has all of the ingredients of a good soap opera: goodies, baddies, romance, sex, violence, family dynasty, birth, death, murder, passion, betrayal, infidelity, hatred, suspense and cliffhangers. But it's a true story." <BR> <BR> Well, mostly true; some license has been taken for purposes of clarity. <BR> <BR> "The story is so dramatic, you couldn't make it up," says British historian and novelist Alison Weir (her latest book is The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn), who objects to inaccuracies in The Tudors but acknowledges she has watched it as "gripping drama." <BR> <BR> 'An evil, evil man' <BR> <BR> As The Tudors extravagantly detailed, Henry, in desperate need of a male heir, married six women and executed two of them, chopping off their heads. He crushed one church and invented a new one with himself as head. He tortured and killed scores of innocents, confiscated his subjects' land, and generally tyrannized his island kingdom for decades in the early 16th century. As played by Irish actor Rhys Meyers, 32, Henry is the ultimate self-absorbed blowhard, deteriorating from youthful beauty and grace into declining health and mounting megalomania, culminating in murderous malevolence. <BR> <BR> "An evil, evil man," says self-described "royalist" Dean McKinnon, 62, a travel-industry analyst in Dallas. "I can't wait until Season 4. Showtime is doing an outstanding job of entertaining and teaching English history. Of course, if they had followed the complete facts of history, they would not have had the audience they had." <BR> <BR> A wealth of information <BR> <BR> The facts are known, Weir says, because so much of what happened during the Tudor era was written down by multiple sources, unprecedented documentation for an English dynasty to that point. As a result, historians are continually re-examining the Tudor era in fiction and non-fiction, as are screenwriters for series like The Tudors or movies like Cate Blanchett's two Elizabeth films and Natalie Portman/Scarlett Johansson's The Other Boleyn Girl. <BR> <BR> No other dynasty in history could draw a TV audience like the Tudors, with the possible exception of the ancient Romans (and even HBO's Rome lasted only two seasons), says Steve Donoghue, managing editor of Open Letters Monthly, an online arts and literature review, who has written regular essays following the action on The Tudors. <BR> <BR> "Go into any bookstore and piles of Tudor books will be on a front table, not tucked away back in the history section," Donoghue says. "They're not there for a lark — they know Tudors are going to sell. A book about the (French dynasty) Bourbons, I guarantee it won't be on that table." <BR> <BR> The Tudors matter because they ushered in a new era in England, says screenwriter Michael Hirst, who has become an expert after writing every episode of The Tudors plus the two Elizabeth movies. "The whole culture of England was turned on its head," he says. "The Tudors shaped England as a culture and society more fundamentally than any dynasty or king before." <BR> <BR> But Henry wasn't the first king to divorce his wife, nor the first to kill his wife, nor the first to war with the Catholic Church and the pope, literally as well as spiritually. And great as Elizabeth might have been, she also had the Tudor talent for propaganda — they were the first spinmeisters — and was shameless in flogging her own glory. <BR> <BR> "They have become not merely famous but posthumous stars in the 21st-century firmament of celebrity ... their names synonymous with greatness, with glory," writes author G.J. Meyer, author of a new book, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty. <BR> <BR> In an interview he says, "We should be aware that neither Henry nor Elizabeth were as glorious as they are commonly depicted — they were ruthless killers." <BR> <BR> So why are we Tudor junkies? <BR> <BR> Maybe, says Hirst, it's because they seem so much like ... us. "You can almost say that they're the first modern rulers," Hirst says. "England was moving irrevocably from a medieval society to a modern one. The Tudors were on the cusp, we can identify with them, we know what they're talking about." <BR> <BR> And it's not just Westerners who obsess over the Tudors, says novelist Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl, who has written a series of novels about Tudor figures. "My books have been published in places, such as Japan and Korea, where I think people would not be interested in the Tudors," says Gregory. <BR> <BR> "But that's an illusion, because (the Tudor legacy) is about how someone behaves when he has total power, (about Henry's) sense that he could do anything and how he behaves toward women. It's a striking story for women, who identify with his wives." <BR> <BR> Purists, as usual, are shocked at some of the inaccuracies in The Tudors, and it's a frequent topic on Tudor blogs. Plus, it took some getting used to Rhys Meyers as the Welsh-English Henry given that he's not a redhead, he's not fat and he's not English. As envisioned by Hirst, it's a portrait illuminated by the latest scholarship and spiced by modern notions of what sells on TV (lots of sex and frontal nudity). <BR> <BR> In the end, Rhys Meyers' Henry is at least as plausible as that of predecessors such as Eric Bana, Keith Michell, Ray Winstone and Charles Laughton. <BR> <BR> Some plot points seem unbelievable but are true, such as Henry's period of grieving following the death of Wife No. 3, Jane Seymour, when he's so nuts he thinks he can rewrite the Ten Commandments. Hirst says he picked that up from a footnote in the research. "There is so much brilliant, dramatic, rich, unbelievable material, you find yourself saying, he didn't do that, did he?' " he says. <BR> <BR> S.J. Parris, author of a new thriller set in the Tudor era, Heresy, wrote on TheHuffington Post recently that the enduring appeal of the Tudors is the way the clan seems to "encompass every human passion on a grandiose scale." <BR> <BR> "The Tudors let it all hang out," she writes. "They have tantrums, they lust after people they shouldn't have, they betray lovers, siblings, sons and daughters, they wreak revenge on those who stand in their way, and above all, they love fiercely. <BR> <BR> "They remind us what it means to live." <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-04-08-tudors08_CV_N.htm"><u>http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-04-08-tudors08_CV_N.htm</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="029"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3425<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0301" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("030","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0302" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("030","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#030" name="030"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 08.04.10 23:25. Заголовок: Jonathan Rhys Meyers.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Jonathan Rhys Meyers is best known for his role as Henry VIII in the Showtime series The Tudors. Henry VIII was of course a rotund drunken womanizer while Meyers is a very thin, pretty drunken Irishman whose womanizing status is up to question. (He has a longterm girlfriend and we don’t hear much about him picking up women.) <BR> <BR> Meyers has a new interview with Parade in light of the fourth and final season of The Tudors, which starts airing April 11. He says he’s ready for the next chapter in his life but that he loved the role and his work on the show. He also comes across as vain and completely unapologetic about it. Meyers wasn’t about to sacrifice those razor sharp features and tight abs for a role and says he couldn’t be bothered to gain weight in order to portray Henry VII later in his life. <BR> <BR> On not gaining weight to portray Henry VII <BR> “He was a lot heavier and taller than I am, but so what? I think I’d have been stupid to put on a fat suit and I wasn’t about to gain a lot weight. But I think Henry was better looking than he was portrayed in the classic portrait by Hans Holbein. I think he would have hated it. It may be great art, but it’s not a good picture. I’ve seen fat, ugly pictures of Brad Pitt because some paparazzi got him from a bad angle on a bad morning. So how would he feel if that were the sole image of him that would be seen by future generations? He’d be going, ‘What the hell? I was a great looking guy.’”… <BR> <BR> As for getting passionate on the set. <BR> “Actually, it’s not unpleasant to get it on with beautiful actresses and you don’t have any nasty repercussions afterward. To make it work, you have to experience a little sexual chemistry. But it can be a bit taxing when you’re doing sex scenes in front of a crew of like a hundred people under hot lights with cameras poking into all sorts of private areas.” <BR> <BR> Go ahead and call him a hot hunk. <BR> “I’d rather people think I’m sexy than not. Let’s be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you’re in the wrong business.” <BR> <BR> [From Parade] <BR> <BR> I love how Meyers justifies not gaining weight for a role by saying that a portrait artist just got Henry VII at a bad angle! The guy was obese as an older man, but Meyers didn’t even want to wear a fat suit to portray him. He just can’t not look pretty. He does do that exceptionally well, you have to give that to him. As much as Meyers was criticized for not physically embodying the legend of Henry VII, he was also praised for making the monarch so damn sexy. One journalist even called him “lickable.” <BR> <BR> It looks like there’s plenty of male eye candy on this show. I just discovered another actor that’s arguably more attractive than Meyers - a guy named Henry Cavill who plays Henry VII’s brother in law Charles Brandon. That Brandon guy also looked nothing like the beefcake Cavill, below. Who really cares, though, when you get to stare at hotties like these? <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://panditrealm.co.cc/2010/04/08/jonathan-rhys-meyers-refused-to-get-fat-or-wear-a-fat-suit-for-henry-viii-role/"><u>http://panditrealm.co.cc/2010/04/08/jonathan-rhys-meyers-refused-to-get-fat-or-wear-a-fat-suit-for-henry-viii-role/</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="030"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3426<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0311" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("031","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0312" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("031","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#031" name="031"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 08.04.10 23:26. Заголовок: Опять повторение ста.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Опять повторение старого о том что Джонатан не стесняеться сниматься в постельных сценах <img src="//forum24.ru/gif/smk/sm17.gif"> <BR> 'The Tudors' star Jonathan Rhys Meyers claims it is 'not unpleasant' to film sex scenes with attractive co-stars. <BR> <BR> Jonathan Rhys Meyers thinks sex scenes are'not unpleasant'. <BR> <BR> The Irish actor insists he doesn't have any problems getting up close and personal with his female co-stars, though admits it can be difficult with so many different people on set filming the action. <BR> <BR> He said: "Actually, it's not unpleasant to get it on with beautiful actresses and you don't have any nasty repercussions afterward. To make it work, you have to experience a little sexual chemistry. But it can be a bit taxing when you're doing sex scenes in front of a crew of like a hundred people under hot lights with cameras poking into all sorts of private areas." <BR> <BR> The 'Tudors' star - who has portrayed monarch Henry VIII in four series of the TV drama - also claimed he doesn't mind getting cast for parts on the basis of his looks. <BR> <BR> He added to Parade.com:'I'd rather people think I'm sexy than not. Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. 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Заголовок: Tudors star Jonathan.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Myers has said that filming sex scenes is "not unpleasant." <BR> <BR> Speaking to Parade, the 32-year-old revealed that he has no problem acting in intimate scenes with his female co-stars. <BR> <BR> "Actually, it's not unpleasant to get it on with beautiful actresses and you don't have any nasty repercussions afterward," Myers said. <BR> <BR> He added: "To make it work, you have to experience a little sexual chemistry. But it can be a bit taxing when you're doing sex scenes in front of a crew of like a hundred people under hot lights with cameras poking into all sorts of private areas." <BR> <BR> Myers also revealed that he accepts the fact that might land roles based on his looks. <BR> <BR> "Let's be honest. Physicality is going to have a bearing on the parts you get. And if you think differently, you're in the wrong business," he said. <BR> <BR> Meyers recently admitted that he is glad to be moving on from The Tudors. The BBC/Showtime series is currently in its final season. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a213237/rhys-myers-sex-scenes-not-unpleasant.html"><u>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a213237/rhys-myers-sex-scenes-not-unpleasant.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="032"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3428<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0331" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("033","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0332" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("033","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#033" name="033"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 09.04.10 07:33. Заголовок: Seducing another man.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Seducing another man's wife is often risky business, but making a play for King Henry VIII's adored teenage bride, well, that's bound to end with both lovers' heads on the chopping block. <BR> <BR> That possible scenario didn't stop Thomas Culpepper, one of the king's grooms, who befriends and then beds the naive young Katherine Howard in the fourth and final season of Showtime's hit costume drama "The Tudors," which launches its last 10 episodes beginning Sunday. And that's after he rapes a peasant woman and kills her aggrieved husband. <BR> <BR> "He has no redeeming features at all," series creator and writer Michael Hirst said recently from London. "Lots of other characters in the show have a dark side, but he's a total villain, which makes him sort of enthralling." <BR> <BR> Though the series has had its share of virtuous characters, such as Henry's first wife, the devout Katherine of Aragon, and beloved religious leader Sir Thomas More, it's the sinners who have propelled much of the action and helped draw in 2.3 million viewers last season. <BR> <BR> "It's fun to watch people who create chaos," Hirst said. "They're charismatic but unstable and unpredictable." <BR> <BR> There's been a veritable rogue's gallery of schemers, liars and all-around heels in the series, including home-wrecker extraordinaire Anne Boleyn; her pimp-father Thomas Boleyn; assassin-for-hire Sir Francis Bryan; and brutal reformer Thomas Cromwell. In the upcoming season, Culpepper (played by Torrance Coombs) takes his place among the worst of the worst, as does the Earl of Surrey, who tries to overthrow King Henry. (It ends badly for him, naturally). <BR> <BR> "Villains are always more complicated psychologically and emotionally than the good characters," said Karen Tongson, professor of English and gender studies at USC. "You want to figure out what drives these rich and thick, gnarly personalities. They're strangely alluring." <BR> <BR> On top of that list is Henry himself, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who devolved during his 16th century reign into "a tyrant and a monster," Hirst said, but one who has fascinated fans of the steamy period soap opera. It probably doesn't hurt that this chiseled Henry, played by a two-time Golden Globe nominee, looks like he just stepped out of a designer jeans commercial. (He did). <BR> <BR> Rhys Meyers said he sees Henry as "a very complicated and egotistical man" who slaughtered 70,000 of his own subjects, beheaded wives and executed even close friends on a whim. In the new season, he starts a war with France just because he's having a midlife crisis, and being in battle invigorates him. <BR> <BR> "People were disposable to him," Rhys Meyers said. And even though the king is shown to be consumed with regret by the end of the series, "there's no redemption for the devil," he said. <BR> <BR> That kind of anti-hero is right at home on Showtime, where series based on borderline or full-blown sociopaths have become the pay cable network's bread and butter. "Weeds," "Dexter" and "Nurse Jackie" all center on dynamic figures who are written to repulse and compel at the same time. <BR> <BR> "Audiences have embraced these willful, flawed central characters who don't do the right thing and don't ask for forgiveness," said Bob Greenblatt, Showtime's president of entertainment. "But viewers still have to care about these characters and root for them." <BR> <BR> One of Hirst's goals for "The Tudors" was to dispel some myths about such people as Boleyn and Cromwell, who have had a lot of bad press over the years. "I wanted to undermine the clichés," Hirst said, while not overlooking the killings, betrayals, tortures and manipulations that are undeniably part of the characters' résumés. <BR> <BR> History provided plenty of villains from the Tudor era, Hirst said, and he used their exploits to help the series resonate with contemporary audiences, taking them "out of the museum and showing them as human beings." <BR> <BR> Alan Van Sprang, as Henry's drinking buddy and mercenary Sir Francis Bryan, played the baddie with relish -- aided greatly by an eye patch -- because he saw evil as the predominant force in "The Tudors." "You couldn't be a hero in King Henry's court," he said. "If you tried, you'd be executed immediately. That would be the end of your heroism." <BR> <BR> Van Sprang's Bryan was responsible for one of the most cringe-worthy scenes of Season 3, in which he purposely got the executioner drunk the night before Cromwell's beheading. As a result, the barely standing hatchet man sawed away at Cromwell's head until someone else had to step in to finish the job. "If people didn't hate Sir Francis before that," he said, "they certainly did after." <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-tudors9-2010apr09"><u>http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-tudors9-2010apr09</u></a>,0,5540881.story?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter<BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="033"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3430<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0341" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("034","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0342" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("034","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#034" name="034"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 09.04.10 23:02. Заголовок: In the fourth and fi.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>In the fourth and final season of "The Tudors," we learn Henry VIII's all-purpose cure for whatever ails you: jail bait. <BR> <BR> At times, the opening night of season four gets almost that silly, though at other times it returns to its strongest suit, which is illustrating 1) the coexistence of powerful, conflicting forces inside the same person, and 2) the idea that absolute power corrupts. <BR> <BR> The character who proves both those points is Henry VIII himself, portrayed with fierce and often scary determination by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. <BR> <BR> As his reign unfolds, he makes moves, such as launching the Reformation in England, that would shape Western civilization for centuries. <BR> <BR> He also becomes increasingly capricious, unfaithful and nasty, not to mention murderous. All this roughly parallels the ever-growing self-absorption that becomes too tempting for an absolute monarch to whom almost everyone gives total, unquestioning obedience. <BR> <BR> Nor does it help that he is gaining weight - though you wouldn't necessarily know it to look at Rhys Meyers - which accelerates a physical debilitation that makes him even crankier. <BR> <BR> As we pick up the story, in the sweltering summer of 1540, Henry has had his fourth marriage, to Anne of Cleves, nullified. <BR> <BR> Because he can. <BR> <BR> Meanwhile, he has noticed Catherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant). She's reported here to be 17, though she acts more like 13, and flirts like 16. Soon, she is wife No. 5. <BR> <BR> The 16th century didn't really regard 17 as jail bait, of course, and Henry claims to find great restorative powers in young blood. <BR> <BR> Catherine, however, would be mostly annoying even if she were 67, and she spends way too much time telegraphing missteps serious enough that even her, uh, charms may not be enough to protect her from Henry's, uh, mood swings. <BR> <BR> Meanwhile, palace, countrywide and international intrigue continue to swirl, and it doesn't help that Henry sees traitors behind every whisper and French ambition in every field report. <BR> <BR> All this has become a little harder to follow as the series has moved along and subordinate characters have been herded in and out. Still, Henry is so dominant that any viewer who follows him can absorb much of the rest. <BR> <BR> The fourth season will carry him to his death in 1547 - though the Tudors would continue to reign into the next century in the person of his daughter Elizabeth. <BR> <BR> In any case, don't count on many of these folks living happily ever after. Anyone who saw "The Tudors" as a costume drama lost that illusion a couple of seasons ago - and the ugly brutality of British life and aristocratic privilege in the time of the Tudors shows no signs of abating as we watch Henry head into the last turn. <BR> <BR> Read more: <a target=_blank href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/04/09/2010-04-09_teen_girl_gets_a_private_tudor.html#ixzz0kdRXnV78"><u>http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/04/09/2010-04-09_teen_girl_gets_a_private_tudor.html#ixzz0kdRXnV78</u></a> <BR> <BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="034"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3431<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0351" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("035","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0352" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("035","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#035" name="035"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 09.04.10 23:03. Заголовок: Max Brown has praise.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Max Brown has praised his Tudors co-star Jonathan Rhys Meyers for having "great energy" on set. <BR> <BR> During an interview with Digital Spy, Brown, who confessed to having difficulty learning his lines, said that Meyers is "always word perfect". <BR> <BR> "Jonny's great - he's got such a great energy on set and is someone who is always word perfect," he said. <BR> <BR> "You can often work with people who are quite safe, but Jonny always likes to push the boundaries and do something different in a scene, which will sometimes work and sometimes not!" <BR> <BR> The Tudors returns to US screens Sunday, April 11 at 9pm on Showtime. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a213400/meyers-has-great-energy-on-tudors.html"><u>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a213400/meyers-has-great-energy-on-tudors.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="035"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3432<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0361" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("036","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0362" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("036","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#036" name="036"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 09.04.10 23:04. Заголовок: PREMIERES: The fou.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR> <BR> <BR> PREMIERES: The fourth and final season debuts on Sunday, April 11 at 9pm on Showtime. Only two more queens to go! <BR> <BR> WHY YOU MIGHT LIKE IT: As far as crazy rulers go, Henry VIII is definitely up there—and if history has taught us anything, it's that crazy people always make for entertaining television. So if you like watching impulsive monarchs change the course of history forever, tune in. The show's writers deftly weave an intense drama out of the complex relationships within the Tudor court and the kingdom's role in 16th-century Europe. The show's unexpected casting has made for some great performances, with Sam Neill as a discerning Thomas Wolsey, Peter O'Toole as an exceptionally irreverent Pope Paul III, and even Joss Stone as a German-accented Anne of Cleeves. Plus, it's hard not to get a big kick out of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, because if you’ve ever seen that Hans Holbein portrait of ol' Hank, you’ll likely agree that looks-wise, he could have been played by, say, Simon Pegg. That said, it's impossible not to get drawn into Meyers' emotional performance—especially when he flashes his crazy eyes. <BR> <BR> WHY YOU MIGHT HATE IT: If you’re a stickler for absolute historical accuracy, this show is not for you. The writers have taken liberties with both the historical timeline and characters who populate it in order to create a more compelling, twist-filled, and sexed-up period piece. Filled with tyranny, sappy sex scenes, English accents, beheadings, and harpsichords, The Tudors takes itself very seriously; you won't find any self-deprecating humor here. Avoid the show if you have a hard time believing that everyone back then had such good teeth. <BR> <BR> THE PREMISE: Like Rome, The Tudors is historical drama series. While the show focuses mostly on the personal life of the very impulsive and arrogant Henry VIII, it also takes an in-depth look at the king's political advances and downfalls, the rise of the Church of England, the spread of Protestantism, the Pilgrimage of Grace, and the ongoing battles between England and its neighboring empires. <BR> <BR> WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Well, there are a lot of characters and plotlines to track, so here's the very abridged version. Henry divorced his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, because she gave birth only to a daughter (Mary) and not a male heir. Plus, the king had already fallen in love with Anne Boleyn. With the help of Chancellor Thomas Wolsey (who eventually fell out favor) the king tried to receive the pope's consent to divorce Catherine, but was eventually denied. As a result, he separated from the Roman Church, declared himself king of the Church of England, and married Anne. Many people found the marriage reprehensible, including Thomas More, (author of Utopia) who was eventually beheaded for not attending the queen's coronation and not supporting the king's break from the Catholic church. Like Henry's first wife Catherine, Anne was only able to birth a girl (who eventually became Queen Elizabeth I), which didn't fulfill Henry's quest for a male heir—so he started courting Jane Seymour. Before long, Henry had Anne Boleyn beheaded for high treason; then he married Jane, and she gave birth to Edward VI. Jane died not long after, leaving Henry devastated. Under the advice of chief minister Thomas Cromwell, Henry married Anne of Cleves to create a stronger alliance with Germany. But Henry wasn't jazzed about Anne's appearance, and resented Cromwell for his advice. Once Henry learned of Cromwell's heretical devotion to Protestantism, Henry had Cromwell beheaded for treason. When we last saw the king, he was courting the 17-year-old Catherine Howard and annulling his marriage to Anne of Cleves. Which makes young Catherine queen number five. <BR> <BR> At the start of Season 4, a jousting injury has caused Henry to gain an exceptional amount of weight, and his health is in decline. The thought of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an unattractive man is incentive alone to watch. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.tv.com/show-101-the-tudors/story/22185.html"><u>http://www.tv.com/show-101-the-tudors/story/22185.html</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="036"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3441<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0371" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("037","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0372" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("037","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#037" name="037"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 10.04.10 12:33. Заголовок: LOS ANGELES (Reuters.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – He might have been just another young Hollywood actor on the rise, but Jonathan Rhys Meyers chose to become a king -- on TV. And doing so, the actor said, changed his life. <BR> <BR> Four years ago, Rhys Meyers was coming off an Emmy nomination and a Golden Globe win for playing Elvis Presley, and he had wowed audiences in Woody Allen's "Match Point" and worked opposite Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible III." <BR> <BR> He was among the hottest young actors in Hollywood, but the Irish-born Rhys Meyers traded his Tinseltown calling card to move to play King Henry VIII in Showtime drama "The Tudors." Initially, Rhys Meyers thought the role might last only a year. He was wrong. <BR> <BR> The show debuts its fourth and final season on Sunday, as King Henry, by now in his late 40s, battles illness, takes his country to battle and, of course, marries and remarries. <BR> <BR> The role has earned Rhys Meyers two Golden Globe nominations, and while he told Reuters it is now time to move on, he also said the part made him a wiser and better actor. <BR> <BR> "I've changed. My concepts have changed. Everything I've done up until now has been an apprenticeship," he said. "Now, I think, at 32 years old, I've garnered enough experience to know what I don't want. Now, I know what I do want." <BR> <BR> What Rhys Meyers wants, he said, is to work with directors who will challenge him, confront him when he's not getting a role right, and always push him to be a better actor. <BR> <BR> He said directors with whom he has worked in the past, such as Allen, Ang Lee and Robert Altman, have done just that, and the role of King Henry has only strengthened his abilities because of the many facets of the character. <BR> <BR> Henry VIII reigned from 1509, when he was a teenager, until his death in 1547, at age 55. He was the second ruler from the House of Tudor, and his time on the throne was marked by the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church and by his six marriages. <BR> <BR> "The Tudors" has covered it all, with Rhys Meyers portraying the English monarch from youth to middle age. The fourth season picks up with his marriage to a young Katherine Howard and sees him through his final years as he becomes obese, ill and an increasingly cruel ruler. <BR> <BR> But Rhys Meyers reckons there was always a method to King Henry's madness, and learning how to tap into the monarch's manipulative nature has helped improve his own acting skills. <BR> <BR> "I must psychologically put everybody on edge...that is an art, and I've had to learn that over time." he said. "And as he gets older, you see more of the internal struggle inside him." <BR> <BR> As Rhys Meyers looks at his own career, he views the past 14 years as little more than an apprenticeship in acting, and believes the next 20 years will bring some of his best work. <BR> <BR> He looks at painters and other artists in their middle ages as examples and says that with age comes experience and maturity that ideally leads to excellence. <BR> <BR> The king is dead, long live Rhys Meyers. <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100410/people_nm/us_rhysmeyers"><u>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100410/people_nm/us_rhysmeyers</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="037"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f88ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f99ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3450<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0381" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("038","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0382" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("038","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#038" name="038"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 12.04.10 23:04. Заголовок: Soon, we won't h.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Soon, we won't have Henry VIII to hiss at anymore. <BR> <BR> Not that he's going away. Oh no, the 16th-century English king and his Tudor clan are never going away, or so it seems from the torrent of Tudor content that pours into contemporary culture: in best-selling books and award-winning movies, flashy TV series and catchy advertising, in songs, plays and operas, in videos on YouTube, discussion groups on Facebook, and about a half-million websites on the Internet. <BR> <BR> "Henry VIII and his court are like celebrities, like Brad and Jennifer and Angelina," says Claire Ridgway, who runs TheAnneBoleynFiles.com, a U.K. website that attracts fans of Henry's second wife. "We're hooked on the crazy private lives of these Tudor characters." <BR> <BR> PHOTOS: Meet the cast of 'The Tudors' <BR> TRAILER: See a preview of the new season <BR> TUDOR MANIA: It's a media obsession <BR> <BR> Crazy, and hooked, indeed. Henry VIII is perhaps the most famous/infamous king in the history of kings — and Americans, especially, can't get enough of him and his descendants. People even eat like Tudors. Look up Henry VIII's diet and follow it, if you dare. It was probably one of the things that helped send him to his richly deserved death, at 55, not long after beheading Wife No. 5 and marrying Wife No. 6. <BR> <BR> Now, with the return Sunday of Showtime's The Tudors for its fourth and final season, Henry's demise approaches as the sex-and-violence-and-history soap opera winds down. This season will cover the fate of Henry's (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) fifth wife, pathetic teenager Katherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant), and move on to his final wife, the older, steadier Catherine Parr (Joely Richardson), who nursed him and survived him. We don't actually see him die; the king's bloated, smelly corpse will be carted off stage, and that will be that. We won't get to hear the riveting details of what happens to the other Tudors — his three children, who reigned in turn as Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. <BR> <BR> "People are upset the show is ending — and why end with Henry? Why not go on to Elizabeth, who was one of the best monarchs?" asks Anne Rodill, mistress of a fan blog, TudorsOnline.com, which she says can draw up to 75,000 visitors a week during the show's season. <BR> <BR> But it turns out The Tudors didn't need all the Tudors, having managed to captivate a respectable audience (averaging a little less than 1 million viewers for its Sunday premieres) for three years with a lavish retelling of the familiar tale of one particular Tudor: the matrimonially challenged Henry VIII. <BR> <BR> Ridgway says The Tudors is popular because it's all about sensory overload. "It's packed full of beautiful people, wonderful sets, exquisite jewelry and costumes," she says. "It has all of the ingredients of a good soap opera: goodies, baddies, romance, sex, violence, family dynasty, birth, death, murder, passion, betrayal, infidelity, hatred, suspense and cliffhangers. But it's a true story." <BR> <BR> Well, mostly true; some license has been taken for purposes of clarity. <BR> <BR> "The story is so dramatic, you couldn't make it up," says British historian and novelist Alison Weir (her latest book is The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn), who objects to inaccuracies in The Tudors but acknowledges she has watched it as "gripping drama." <BR> <BR> 'An evil, evil man' <BR> <BR> As The Tudors extravagantly detailed, Henry, in desperate need of a male heir, married six women and executed two of them, chopping off their heads. He crushed one church and invented a new one with himself as head. He tortured and killed scores of innocents, confiscated his subjects' land, and generally tyrannized his island kingdom for decades in the early 16th century. As played by Irish actor Rhys Meyers, 32, Henry is the ultimate self-absorbed blowhard, deteriorating from youthful beauty and grace into declining health and mounting megalomania, culminating in murderous malevolence. <BR> <BR> "An evil, evil man," says self-described "royalist" Dean McKinnon, 62, a travel-industry analyst in Dallas. "I can't wait until Season 4. Showtime is doing an outstanding job of entertaining and teaching English history. Of course, if they had followed the complete facts of history, they would not have had the audience they had." <BR> <BR> A wealth of information <BR> <BR> The facts are known, Weir says, because so much of what happened during the Tudor era was written down by multiple sources, unprecedented documentation for an English dynasty to that point. As a result, historians are continually re-examining the Tudor era in fiction and non-fiction, as are screenwriters for series like The Tudors or movies like Cate Blanchett's two Elizabeth films and Natalie Portman/Scarlett Johansson's The Other Boleyn Girl. <BR> <BR> No other dynasty in history could draw a TV audience like the Tudors, with the possible exception of the ancient Romans (and even HBO's Rome lasted only two seasons), says Steve Donoghue, managing editor of Open Letters Monthly, an online arts and literature review, who has written regular essays following the action on The Tudors. <BR> <BR> "Go into any bookstore and piles of Tudor books will be on a front table, not tucked away back in the history section," Donoghue says. "They're not there for a lark — they know Tudors are going to sell. A book about the (French dynasty) Bourbons, I guarantee it won't be on that table." <BR> <BR> The Tudors matter because they ushered in a new era in England, says screenwriter Michael Hirst, who has become an expert after writing every episode of The Tudors plus the two Elizabeth movies. "The whole culture of England was turned on its head," he says. "The Tudors shaped England as a culture and society more fundamentally than any dynasty or king before." <BR> <BR> But Henry wasn't the first king to divorce his wife, nor the first to kill his wife, nor the first to war with the Catholic Church and the pope, literally as well as spiritually. And great as Elizabeth might have been, she also had the Tudor talent for propaganda — they were the first spinmeisters — and was shameless in flogging her own glory. <BR> <BR> "They have become not merely famous but posthumous stars in the 21st-century firmament of celebrity ... their names synonymous with greatness, with glory," writes author G.J. Meyer, author of a new book, The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty. <BR> <BR> In an interview he says, "We should be aware that neither Henry nor Elizabeth were as glorious as they are commonly depicted — they were ruthless killers." <BR> <BR> So why are we Tudor junkies? <BR> <BR> Maybe, says Hirst, it's because they seem so much like ... us. "You can almost say that they're the first modern rulers," Hirst says. "England was moving irrevocably from a medieval society to a modern one. The Tudors were on the cusp, we can identify with them, we know what they're talking about." <BR> <BR> And it's not just Westerners who obsess over the Tudors, says novelist Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl, who has written a series of novels about Tudor figures. "My books have been published in places, such as Japan and Korea, where I think people would not be interested in the Tudors," says Gregory. <BR> <BR> "But that's an illusion, because (the Tudor legacy) is about how someone behaves when he has total power, (about Henry's) sense that he could do anything and how he behaves toward women. It's a striking story for women, who identify with his wives." <BR> <BR> Tweaked for modern times <BR> <BR> Purists, as usual, are shocked at some of the inaccuracies in The Tudors, and it's a frequent topic on Tudor blogs. Plus, it took some getting used to Rhys Meyers as the Welsh-English Henry given that he's not a redhead, he's not fat and he's not English. As envisioned by Hirst, it's a portrait illuminated by the latest scholarship and spiced by modern notions of what sells on TV (lots of sex and frontal nudity). <BR> <BR> In the end, Rhys Meyers' Henry is at least as plausible as that of predecessors such as Eric Bana, Keith Michell, Ray Winstone and Charles Laughton. <BR> <BR> Some plot points seem unbelievable but are true, such as Henry's period of grieving following the death of Wife No. 3, Jane Seymour, when he's so nuts he thinks he can rewrite the Ten Commandments. Hirst says he picked that up from a footnote in the research. "There is so much brilliant, dramatic, rich, unbelievable material, you find yourself saying, he didn't do that, did he?' " he says. <BR> <BR> S.J. Parris, author of a new thriller set in the Tudor era, Heresy, wrote on TheHuffington Post recently that the enduring appeal of the Tudors is the way the clan seems to "encompass every human passion on a grandiose scale." <BR> <BR> "The Tudors let it all hang out," she writes. "They have tantrums, they lust after people they shouldn't have, they betray lovers, siblings, sons and daughters, they wreak revenge on those who stand in their way, and above all, they love fiercely. <BR> <BR> "They remind us what it means to live." <BR> <a target=_blank href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-04-08-tudors08_CV_N.htm"><u>http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-04-08-tudors08_CV_N.htm</u></a><BR><BR></div> <FORM action="/" method=POST target=gw><table width=100% cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 border=0><tr class=font2 valign=bottom><td><i><img border=0 src="http://i071.radikal.ru/1002/57/50c5d59180da.jpg"></i></td><td align=right> <a href=#msgid_t alt="" title="">Спасибо: 0</a> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=42><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="17"><INPUT type=Hidden name=msgid value="038"><INPUT type=Hidden name=filenumber value="00000005"><INPUT type=Hidden name=addspasibofromuser value=""> </td></tr></form></table> </td></tr><tr bgColor="#f99ff"><td><a href=javascript:window.scroll(0,0);><IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/pg.gif" width=33 height=11 border=0></a></td><td> <A target=_blank href="/?32-bel4bet"><IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/pr.gif" border=0 alt="Профиль"></A> </TD></TR> <TR bgColor="#f88ff"><TD valign=top><table class="user-table" border=0 cellPadding=0 cellSpacing=0 width=100%><tr><td> <div class=font3> <b>Вельвет</b> </div></td><td align=right> </td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=top><div class=font2>администратор <img width=9 height=15 src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/a.gif"><br> <IMG src="http://jpe.ru/gif/102/s10.gif" alt=""> <br> <br><img src="//rhysmeyers.forum24.ru/favr/r/rhysmeyers/avatar/bel4bet.gif"><br> <br></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 valign=bottom class=font2> Сообщение: 3453<br> Настроение: МУРЬ<br> Откуда: Москва<br> Репутация: 1 <br> <TABLE id="0391" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("039","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"><input type=hidden name=ballr value='plus'>плюс почему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> <TABLE id="0392" style="position:absolute;visibility:hidden;z-index:200;" width=200 bgColor="#faaff" border=0 cellPadding=6 cellSpacing=1 width=100%> <TR bgColor="#faaff"><TD vAlign=top class=font2> <FORM action="/" target=gw method=POST onSubmit=javascript:reytopen("039","");> <INPUT type=Hidden name=work value=36><INPUT type=Hidden name=razdel value="bel4bet"> <INPUT type=Hidden name=adresat value="bel4bet"> <input type=hidden name=ballr value='minus'>минуспочему Вы так решили: <br><textarea rows=5 cols=20 name=pochemu style="width:100%;height:40;"></textarea> <br><input type=submit value="Оценить"><input type=checkbox name=podpis style="border:0" checked> - подписаться </form> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table></TD><TD vAlign=top><div class=font2> <a href="/?1-17-0-00000005-000-20-0#039" name="039"> <IMG src="//forum24.ru/gif/img/p.gif" border=0 width=12 height=9 alt="ссылка на сообщение"> </a> Отправлено: 14.04.10 07:12. Заголовок: Интервью с Джонатано.. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>Интервью с Джонатаном <BR> Illicit affairs, political intrigue and a teen vixen are in the royal mix when 'The Tudors' returns to Showtime tonight at 9PM ET for its fourth and final season. <BR> <BR> The show, which depicts the history and personal life of King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in lurid detail, begins season 4 just as the king has married his fifth wife, the 17-year-old Katherine Howard (Tamzin Merchant). Lacking royal lineage and prone to the type of behavior befitting girls her age, Howard's poor behavior catches up with her, and her eventual execution leaves the King to marry for a sixth and final time. <BR> <BR> His next queen is Catherine Parr [Joely Richardson], a much more mature woman than her predecessor. As Henry enters his mid-40s, he becomes more unpredictable, ruling with an iron fist and picking fights with other countries more out of a mid-life crisis than a desire to expand his rule. <BR> <BR> Just ahead of the season 4 premiere, 'Tudors' creator and writer Michael Hirst chatted with AOL TV about his experience working with Meyers, his "mourning" for the show and what he'll be doing next. <BR> <BR> What was it like working on the final season, and what has the transition been like since it wrapped? <BR> It was many things, the final series for me. It was great to know that we could actually finish [the show] in the way that we wanted to finish it, because from year to year you never know whether the thing's going to be picked up, or whether you're going to be able to do what you originally intended to do. So, it was fantastic when it was picked up, and it was fantastic to finish it properly and tell the whole story of Henry VIII ... And then it was pretty unendurable to write the last episode, because I felt I was dealing with the deaths of lots of my favorite characters, and leaving behind a whole world that I'd lived in for five years. The last episode was, physically, quite difficult to write, and very emotional. <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Why did you choose to structure the seasons the way you did, and end it after four seasons? <BR> It was organic because the first couple of seasons had dealt with [former queen] Catherine of Aragon and then [Queen] Anne Boleyn. It took a long time for Henry to deal with the end of his relationship w Catherine of Aragon, and when he actually got married to Anne Boleyn, Henry and Catherine Parrit wasn't long before he killed her. After that, the wives came along pretty thick and fast, so it was actually concentrated history. So I had a much shorter historical period to deal with. Each wife was only taking up two historical years as opposed to six or eight initially ... I just came to the end of his wives. <BR> <BR> I wasn't so interested in his ending, I was always interested in his relationships with women because 'The Tudors' is really a kind of extended essay on love in some ways, and different kinds of love he had with his wives and mistresses. Once I got to his last wife, Catherine Parr, I'd almost reached the end of the story. It was just a natural place to end it. <BR> <BR> Where do we pick up with Henry and what's his arc for this season? <BR> There's no question about it that Henry becomes a complete tyrant, a murderer. When we pick up at the beginning of the series, he's going to marry Katherine Howard, who's ... 17, and who briefly rejuvenates him. He was getting very cynical. He had probably fallen out of the idea of love, and he was probably impotent. The relationship with [former queen] Anne of Cleves (Joss Stone) had been disastrous. <BR> <BR> Katherine HowardHe wasn't aware of how manipulative his courtiers were in producing this young girl, Katherine Howard, for him to enjoy. But for a while he was kind of fooling himself, pretending to be young again. And he does two things: He falls in love with Katherine Howard and he also goes to war with France. Two things which suggest a mid-life crisis. He doesn't buy a red Ferrari ... He's probably clever enough to know that the relationship with Katherine Howard isn't real -- he's in denial. And in fact, the war with France is a similar thing. ... Six years later, he's going to sell [the conquered town] to the French ... <BR> <BR> He really is getting unhinged by now. And because he's killed Cromwell, his last great servant [who was executed in season 3], it's like the ship's status is foundering. Nobody knows what he's going to do ... who he's going to kill. I think even Henry doesn't know that. <BR> <BR> Season 4 also reveals a little bit Henry's isolation, such as when he meets again with Anne of Cleves. <BR> This is Henry VIII the human being, as opposed to the king. As a human being, I think he knew perfectly well that Katherine Howard was unsuitable for him. But he recognized that his immediate reaction to Anne of Cleves had been wrong. When she changed -- she became very Anglified -- [he realized] he totally overreacted to her, and that she's a much more appropriate woman for him. That's very human that he would go back [and see her] ... One of the things, hopefully, that 'The Tudors' is full of, is human moments as well as historical ones. <BR> <BR> Has your work on the show affected your perspectives on modern power and manhood? <BR> What studying history tells you of course is that what goes around comes around, and that history continuously repeats itself. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So, ultimately, Henry is a monster. But the interesting thing I think about the show is that still right at the end, you can feel great sympathy for him. When you remember where he started from, how much he wanted to be an enlightened monarch, how much he wanted to reform the system, how much he wanted to be a just ruler. And then during the course of the four seasons, we've seen how all those dreams have been destroyed and corrupted and corroded. And in the end, he's almost mad in his tyranny. It reminds you slightly of any leader you've put your faith in -- it's almost impossible for them to produce what they've promised. <BR> <BR> What were some of the specific challenges you faced in the making of season, as well as some of the goals? <BR> It was very difficult to approach the end, even though I had some idea of how I wanted to end it. I had the culmination of four years of living with this guy [Henry], and I wanted to say things about him. The easiest thing would have been for me to kill him off -- and there would have been some cheap emotion. I didn't want to do that, but I did want to say something about both him as a man, and about his place in history. Occasionally I've been criticized for my portrayal of him. I wanted to make the point that even historians make it up. I knew that with the last couple of episodes, I was approaching this juncture, between what I'd been developing and writing, and what historians had said. So the last episode, I had to confront these things. I couldn't run away from the fact that this is my Henry VIII. <BR> <BR> Jonathan Rhys MeyersDo you believe you achieved what you set out to do? <BR> I do. The last day of shooting, we shot this visionary scene, where Henry imagines himself dying, and the scene of what he sees when he faces death. And Johnny [Jonathan Rhys Meyers], who'd by this stage aged a lot -- we'd changed his appearance quite a bit -- and in this vision right at the end, he becomes young again. We were all watching, and we had a very special set. It was outside in a tunnel of trees, and we had wind machines and leaves and white horses ... it was a hyper-tense, beautiful set. And just to look on the monitor, and see Johnny as the young man as we'd first seen him, was so incredibly moving, as if we'd come full circle. I did try hold it together, but I did break down when I [saw] Johnny. This guy has held the show together for four years. <BR> <BR> Did Meyers have feedback for you throughout that process? <BR> I talked a lot more to a lot of the other actors. A lot of them were more intellectual, where they'd read more history books. Johnny knew his stuff, but he wasn't interested particularly in the historical [perspective], it was more the immediacy of it ... We had emotional discussions about things. He's very instinctive as an actor. <BR> <BR> Are you ready to move on from 'The Tudors'? <BR> There's a sort of mourning period [afterward]. <BR> <BR> And what are you looking to do next? <BR> I'm doing 'The Borgias' for Showtime, which is the next big, historically based Showtime series. We're shooting that in Hungary. Neil Jordan's directing, has written the first two episodes, and I'm taking over as show runner, and possibly writing the [remaining] episodes. I never meant in a position of writing all the episodes for 'The Tudors,' it just worked out that way ... 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Заголовок: rish actor Jonathan .. </div><hr size=1 color="#600cc"><div class=font1><BR>rish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers has earned international acclaim for his performance in "The Tudors," currently airing its final season on Showtime. <BR> <BR> During his four-year run on the show, however, his off-camera life was nearly as turbulent as that of Henry VIII, marked by the death of his beloved mother and intermittent reports of problems with alcohol. <BR> <BR> The actor says he has gotten past all that, though, and is calmly considering his next projects. <BR> <BR> "I think the nature of life is to change and to evolve - chrysalis to butterfly, however you want to put it," he tells Zap2it. <BR> <BR> "You may have to go through periods of great unrest, but those bring periods of great clarity and calm. I think where I am now is a direct result of all the work that I have done and all the difficulties that I have had to push through to get to the place where I am at 32 years old. Now I can sort of look back reflectively on that time, which also gave me great strength." <BR> <BR> He says the films he took during his hiatuses from "The Tudors" often were selected more for their shooting schedule than for the inherent quality of the material, something he wants to avoid in the future. <BR> <BR> "I finished 'The Tudors' and went straight the next day into costume tests for 'From Paris With Love,'" Rhys Meyers says. 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