| BBC - History - Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689) c.1675, English dramatist, novelist and poet Aphra Behn c.1675, English dramatist, novelist and poet Aphra Behn © Behn was the first professional woman writer in English literature, best known for her plays and her novel 'OroonokoEmperor of the Moon' (1687), forerunner of the modern-day pantomime. Behn's novel 'Oroonoko' (1688) was the storyconsidered a foundation stone in the development of the English novel. As well as plays and prose Behn wrote poetry and
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| Film review: Garfield 2
humour stems from annoying, repetitive gags and virtually every English character conforms to age-old stereotypes of the Brits as eitheractor sounds like he's also on auto-pilot. Billy Connolly's pantomime-style villain, meanwhile, is simply excruciating and frequently
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| Jeremy Beadle: The Times Obituary | Times Online Obituary
at almost every turn photograph of TV Presenter Jeremy Beadle Jeremy Beadle suffered a perversely English fate. Born with a deformity, mocked at school and tipped for failure by his teachers, he nonetheless achieved massive successpromptly heaped on a load more. Beadle’s autobiography, Watch Out! flew straight on to the remainders piles and a pantomime he was to star in was cancelled after selling just 13 tickets. He went back to compiling facts, this time for
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| Film review: Flushed Away
emerged this year. It looks terrific, retains a very English sensibility and has enough gags to keep audiences of all agessupporting players, such as SIr Ian McKellen s deliciously OTT pantomime villain Toad, his dim-witted henchmen (voiced brilliantly by
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| James McAvoy Biography
Actor and director David Hayman lived next door to the boy's English teacher and was asked, when McAvoy was 16, to come in andSocial Science at Glasgow University and a chance to read English and Politics at Strathclyde, McAvoy had also applied to thestick with Stone when the director put on his traditional pantomime in collaboration with Sheila Thomson at the Adam Smith Theatre
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| Stage and screen obituaries
Deborah Kerr Actress of serene beauty who shed her English reserve in such films as From Here to Eternity and The Kingwho won an Oscar and achieved international renown with The English Patient Anthony, my teacher, my friend catchphrase ‘I’m free’ made him a star of sitcom and pantomime The New Avengers Gareth Hunt
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