JRand, I checked the programme and Gaunt has listed the CHAMPIONS in his bio, so I assume it's the very one. I've never seen this series...what's it about? I had seen Gaunt a few years ago in a small but interesting role at the National in a play called HUMBLE BOY. I had found and read the play GATES OF GOLD on my last trip to London, because I like Frank McGuinness' writing. It's a fictionalized version about the relationship of Michael MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards who were lovers and founded The Dublin Gate Theatre in Ireland, centering on MacLiammoir's death. When I saw it was playing, I wanted to see it. It was playing in a theatre on Whitehall (its original name I can't remember) which has been recently divided into two playing spaces, called The Trafalgar Studios. Gates of Gold was in the smaller space, so intimate you could count the nose hairs in an actor's nostrils. Truly, you could literally reach out and touch them. Lovely play; terrific performance by Gaunt.
The Lovely Wife and I will nestle in for New Year's Eve, like we usually do, and have a stack of movies to watch...AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH; PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST; and THE BLACK DAHLIA. I know the reviews for BLACK DAHLIA have not been great (including BK's); but a friend of mine wrote it and had been working on the script for seven-eight years, back when David Fincher was still involved.
We've also been catching up on our WGA Award screeners. We watched LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE last night...very funny! Also have seen THANK YOU FOR SMOKING and NOTES ON A SCANDAL.
Films I need to see in the next few weeks areTHE QUEEN; HISTORY BOYS (saw the original play); and, most of all, VENUS with Peter O'Toole.