The Crying Game

Before making a name for herself as a screen star, Miranda Richardson had previously led a hugely successful and extensive theatre career. Starting out with juvenile performances in Cinderella (the title role) and Lord Arthur Saville's Crime (as Sybil Merton) at the Southport Dramatic Club, the young thespian enrolled at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, making her stage debut in Moving at the Queen's Theatre, London. Soon afterwards, Richardson appeared in reportory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End ...

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The new company's main function was not film production but the provision of distribution and financial guarantees for independent producers. Among those appointed to a re-organised board of directors were practical film-makers such as Roy and John Boulting, Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, all of whom were to make a number of films at the studios. These included Sidney Gilliat's The Constant Husband (1954) and Left, Right And Centre (1959) ; Frank Launder's Geordie (1955) and Blue Murder at St Trinian's (19 ...

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Shepperton Studios, Shepperton Studios - Formation, Shepperton Studios - World War II special tasks, Shepperton Studios - Postwar re-openning, Shepperton Studios - British Lion Films, Shepperton Studios - Government sell-off, Shepperton Studios - Acquisition of Shepperton Studios

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Richardson has a number of film and television projects in various stages of production: Gideon's Daughter [TV] (Completed) Stella Provoked (Completed) — Veronica Scott Merlin's Apprentice [TV] (Completed) — Lady of the Lake Southland Tales (Post-Production) Spinning Into Butter (Post-Production) — Catherine Kenney Puffball (Pre-Production) — Mabs See also:

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The Scott brothers, Ridley and Tony, acquired Shepperton in January 1995. In 2001, Pinewood Studios, famed for its James Bond movies, bought Shepperton Studios to enable the joint company to attract big-budget film-makers. The two studios continue to retain their individual trading identities despite the merger, but will be under common ownership and management. In 2004 Pinewood Shepperton floated successfully on the London Stock Exchange. In 2005 Pinewood Shepperton aquired Teddington Studios. Collectively the company now has 41 stag ...

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In 1945, Norman Loudon announced the re-opening of Sound City's six-stage studio, although he was to retire from the film industry within 12 months. In the same year, Sir Alexander Korda severed what had been a brief connection with MGM, and brought London Film Productions. London Films then purchased the controlling interest in British Lion Films, and in 1946 acquired a 74 per cent controlling interest in Sound City (Films) Limited for £380,000, together with its studios at Shepperton. Sound City (Films) Limited was renamed the British Lion Studio Company. British Lion was now in a position to bec ...

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Channel 4 - Film Four. Channel 4 has had a long record of success in funding the production of films through Channel Four Films, later renamed FilmFour in 1998 to coincide with the launch of its digital channels. Among its biggest successes are The Madness of King George, The Crying Game, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. However, this dedicated film-making wing was scaled back in 2002 as a cost-cuttin ...

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The highest audience ever attained by Channel 4 was 13.8 million for the film A Woman of Substance, broadcast on 4 January 1985. Excluding films, the channel's highest rating was 10 million viewers for the final of the third series of Big Brother on 27 July 2002. The channel's daily share of viewing on that date was 22.8%, then the highest recorded by the station. This record was beaten on Monday 12 September 2005, the final day of the 2005 Ashes, when the channel's daily share of viewing in UK homes was recorded as 23.2%. This was also the first time that Channel 4 had been the highest-rating ...

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Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990. In 1980 Britain had three terrestrial television channels: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. The 1980 Broadcasting Act began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4 was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982. After some weeks of test broadcasts it began scheduled transmissions on November 2, 1982. From the start, the channel set out to provide an alternative to the existing channels. In doing so it sometimes, in the eyes of its critics (including the public decency c ...

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Channel 4, Channel 4 - History, Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990, Channel 4 - Independence: 1990–Today, Channel 4 - Management, Channel 4 - Chairmen, Channel 4 - Chief executives, Channel 4 - Other channels, Channel 4 - Film Four, Channel 4 - attheraces, Channel 4 - E4, Channel 4 - T4, Channel 4 - Quiz Call, Channel 4 - More4, Channel 4 - 4Learning, Channel 4 - FourDocs, Channel 4 - Future proposals, Channel 4 - Programming, Channel 4 - Audience records, Channel 4 - Building, Channel 4 - Advertising regions

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The minimum requirements for a person to be considered transsexual are debated. Some feel that hormone-induced changes, without surgical changes, are sufficient to qualify for the label transsexual. Others, especially health care providers, believe there is a certain set of procedures that must always be completed. The general public often defines "a transsexual" as someone who had or plans to have a "sex change" surgery. The current term in widest use for modification of sexual characteristics is sex reassignment surgery (SRS), a ter ...

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Every society throughout history has had a set of norms, views, guidelines, or laws, regarding the wearing of clothing and what is appropriate for each sex. Cross-dressing is behavior which runs counter to those norms and therefore can be seen as a type of transgender behavior. It is not, however, necessarily transgender identity since a person who cross-dresses does not always identify with another sex. The term cross-dressing denotes an action or a behavior without attributing or proposing causes for that behavior. Som ...

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The highest audience ever attained by Channel 4 was 13.8 million for the film A Woman of Substance, broadcast on 4 January 1985. Excluding films, the channel's highest rating was 10 million viewers for the final of the third series of Big Brother on 27 July 2002. The channel's daily share of viewing on that date was 22.8%, then the highest recorded by the station. This record was beaten on Monday 12 September 2005, the final day of the 2005 Ashes, when the channel's daily share of viewing in UK homes was recorded as 23.2%. This was also the first time that Channel 4 had been the highest-rating ...

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[[1]]The actual determination of cross-dressing is largely socially constructed. For example, in Western society, trousers have been adopted for wear by women. This is generally not regarded as cross-dressing. In cultures where men have traditionally worn skirt-like garments such as the kilt or sarong these are not seen as female clothing, and wearing them is not seen as cross-dressing for men. As societies are becoming more global in nature, both men and women are adopting styles of dress associated with other cultures. Surfer ...

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1990s - World leaders. Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia) Prime Minister Paul Keating (Australia) Prime Minister John Howard (Australia) President Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello (Brazil) President Itamar Franco (Brazil) President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada) Prime Minister Kim Campbell (Canada) Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Canada) "Paramount Leader" Deng Xiaoping (People's Repu ...

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Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan) is the most normal of the priests on the island. He is a bon vivant, exiled to Craggy Island for something referred to only as "That Lourdes Thing." This apparently involved him misappropriating church funds which were intended to be used to send a poor child to Lourdes to go on a gambling trip to Las Vegas. Ted has frequently claimed that the money was "just resting in my account", although Dougal points out "it was there for a very long time Ted... A good long rest". Ted was previously in We ...

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Channel 4 - Film Four. Channel 4 has had a long record of success in funding the production of films through Channel Four Films, later renamed FilmFour in 1998 to coincide with the launch of its digital channels. Among its biggest successes are The Madness of King George, The Crying Game, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. However, this dedicated film-making wing was scaled back in 2002 as a cost-cuttin ...

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Channel 4 is run by a chief executive, whose role is similar to that of the Director-General of the BBC. The chief executive is appointed by the chairman, which is a part-time position appointed by Ofcom. Channel 4 - Chairmen. Edmund Dell (1982–1987) Richard Attenborough (1987–1992) Michael Bishop (1993–1997) Vanni Treves (Jan 1998–Dec 2003)See also:

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In the 1970s and 1980s British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman, Alien, Star Wars and Batman. Some of this reputation was founded on the core of talent brought together for the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey who subsequently worked together on series and feature films for Gerry Anderson. Thanks to the Bristol-based Aardman Animations the UK is still ...

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The release of Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1978) marked the beginning of a successful period of UK art cinema, continuing in the 1980s with film-makers like Peter Greenaway and Sally Potter. Unlike the previous generation of British film makers who had broken into directing and production after careers in the theatre or on television the Art Cinema Directors were mostly the products of Art Schools. Many of these film-makers were championed in their early career by the London Film Makers Cooperative and their work was the subject of detail ...

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Until the 1980s Black British and Asian British culture was significantly under-represented in mainstream British cinema, as they were in many areas of British life. Pioneers such as Horace Ové has been working in 1970s (Pressure, 1975), but the 1980s saw a wave of new talent, with films like Burning an Illusion (1981), Majdhar (1985) and Ping Pong (1986). Many of these films were assisted by the newly formed Channel 4, which had an official remit to provide for "minority audiences." Commercial success was first achieved with My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). Dealing with racia ...

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Cinema of the United Kingdom - Pre-WWII. Low, Rachel. 1985. Film Making in 1930s Britain. London: George, Allen and Unwin Rotha, Paul. 1973. Documentary diary; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York: Hill and Wang Swann, Paul. 2003. The British Documentary Film Movement, 1926-1946. Cambridge University Press Cinema of the United Kingdom - World War II. Aldgate, Anthony and Richards, Jeffrey 2nd Edition. 1994 ...

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Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990. In 1980 Britain had three terrestrial television channels: BBC1, BBC2 and ITV. The 1980 Broadcasting Act began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4 was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982. After some weeks of test broadcasts it began scheduled transmissions on November 2, 1982. From the start, the channel set out to provide an alternative to the existing channels. In doing so it sometimes, in the eyes of its critics (including the public decency c ...

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Channel 4, Channel 4 - History, Channel 4 - IBA Control: 1982–1990, Channel 4 - Independence: 1990–Today, Channel 4 - Management, Channel 4 - Chairmen, Channel 4 - Chief executives, Channel 4 - Other channels, Channel 4 - Film Four, Channel 4 - attheraces, Channel 4 - E4, Channel 4 - T4, Channel 4 - Quiz Call, Channel 4 - More4, Channel 4 - 4Learning, Channel 4 - FourDocs, Channel 4 - Future proposals, Channel 4 - Programming, Channel 4 - Audience records, Channel 4 - Building

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Contrary to frequent rumours, Mathews and Linehan did not originally pitch the series to the Irish network RTÉ, but rather offered it directly to Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 in the UK. Nevertheless, it is a rich irony that what went on to be one of the most popular TV shows in Ireland, performed largely by an Irish cast, and containing so many accurate (albeit comically exaggerated) depictions of national Irish eccentricities, was paid for and shot by a British broadcaster. Somewhat controversially, RTÉ initially did not buy the ri ...

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