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Hey there folks *wave*

I finally got it to add new pics *clap*

I'm a good girl, don't you think so? :D

Go and take a look at THE MATCH {Emotic(cool2)}

Sleep well everybody *waving*

Kisses and hugs
Denise

News for you :)

Hello there

Okay, today I have really good news for you :D

I have redesigned the first page a bit and we have now a wallpaper-section *clap*
Feel free to use each of them ;)

And this weekend I will finally be adding new screenshots for you, so as you can see, I am back and I have a lot of things planned for the page, so stay tuned *yeah*

Sleep well everybody
Kisses and hugs

Cinemagic Festival Gets Cranked Up To The Max

Actor Max Beesley is one of the stars who will be coming to Ulster's Cinemagic Film Festival. Max will be hosting an acting masterclass for Cinemagic and it'll be a unique opportunity to learn from the Mancunian who's currently top of his game. Judging from his present performance in the BBC2 Saturday night series Bodies, he will have a top tip or two to pass on to participants.

Forget the cast of Casualty, Holby City, and The Golden Hour - Dr Rob Lake, played by Max, must be one of the most troubled docs on the box. When Bodies launched last year, the young medic was straight out of college. His goal was to become a consultant, but he felt lonely and out of his depth in obstetrics.

When Dr Roger Hurley (The Office's Patrick Baladi) took him under his wing, it seemed like just the lifeline he needed, but rumours about the surgeon's incompetence unsettled the newcomer.

"Let's just say the patients' best interests weren't necessarily at the top of his list," explains Max, 34.

He was attracted to the project by his character's moral dilemma: having the guts to do the right thing, even though it might mean never working again.

"If the call is the right one, you're still a whistle-blower in the administrator's eyes, everywhere you might go and work," he explains. "If you call him out and there's no problem, then you probably won't work again in the medical fraternity." Beesley may have proved himself an adept thespian over the past few years, but Max got his showbiz break as a musician on tour with George Michael in the 1990s. As the son of jazz drummer Maxton Beesley and jazz singer Chris Marlowe he also toured with George Benson and performed with Robbie Williams (Live at Knebworth).

But it was in Berlin, on the George Michael tour that he met a model who knew Robert De Niro. From her he found out the name of the Italian-American's acting coach, eventually bluffing his way into getting lessons. Roles in the Mariah Carey movie Glitter, action thriller Torque, and BBC drama The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling have occasionally been eclipsed by his celebrity-filled love life. Although he won't talk about his romances or his friendship with Robbie Williams, his passion for this medical drama is clear. "It's dark, gritty and very well written," he enthuses. "Lake's a very astute chap and a good doctor, and I think the series works because it examines the ins and outs, and the mundanity of hospital life as well as the excruciatingly hard work it involves." Bodies was written by Cardiac Arrest and The Grimleys creator Jed Mercurio, who based some of the plot on his own experiences as a doctor. Once he got the script, Max was keen to ensure his performance was as believable as possible.

"I had some advice from members of a hospital in Stevenage and they're all fans of Cardiac Arrest. Thankfully they've seen Bodies and it's their new favourite show, which is nice."

In the third instalment, Hurley pours all his energies into hatching a plot to humiliate the equally sneaky Whitman (Keith Allen). The former stoops to his lowest level yet, using an emergency case as a pawn in his plans.
As if that wasn't bad enough, his despicable actions force Rob to decide once and for all where his loyalties lie.

The beleaguered young surgeon faces yet another choice and is again stuck between a rock and a hard place - which way will he jump, and can he hang on to his integrity at the same time? All will be revealed tomorrow night.

Source: newsletter.co.uk

‘Bodies’ cuts like a knife

Tonight’s TV picks will be televised in the King’s English:

“Bodies” (8 tonight, BBC America). Readers of our fall TV preview were alerted to this extraordinary medical whodunit, but in case you missed last week’s premiere, it’s not too late for you.

Which is more than can be said of the poor women who keep expiring mysteriously in the ob-gyn ward of a British hospital. It’s gotten so bad that resident Rob Lake (Max Beesley) is willing to pull himself away from all the steamy sex he’s been having with Nurse Donna (Neve McIntosh) and question his superior.

That, apparently, is a sin far worse than killing patients in “Bodies,” adapted by former doctor Jed Mercurio from his novel of the same name. Mercurio does not have a high regard for the universal health care system in Great Britain, but you don’t need to know or care about that (and most Americans watching this won’t) to be completely absorbed in this drama.

Bravo to BBC America for respecting its audience with a terribly grown-up program, loaded with scenes you thought you’d see only on HBO.



Source: kansascity.com

Just for letting you know :)

Hey there everybody

Just want to leave you a quick note: I am moving at the moment and I don't have internet connection at home yet, this is the reason, why there is nothing happening on the site these days, but I will do some other screenshots and upload them as soon as I am back :)

And I am planning a wallpaper section as well, so stay tuned and watch out :D

Take care everyone
xxx
Denise

Heavenly Bodies

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Heavenly Bodies: Critics Love the Arresting Medical Drama

It's unbecoming to toot one's own horn, but I've never been known for class or decorum, so to hell with it: the critics think Bodies is the bee's knees. Here's a sampling of the critical response:

"Though it is a word usually best left in the big drawer of critical clichés, 'gripping' is appropriate here: This is a series that won't let you go, even when you would very much like to be somewhere else. Somewhere happy, where a laugh track is playing, and doctors are all lovely, capable people and no one dies... I'm not sure that Marcus Welby, M.D. is technically toxic, but Bodies has the narrative advantage of lasting only six weeks. It is not a disease-of-the-week show or a series of ennobling crises to be endured by glamorous doctors; but a single (if several-branched) story that will draw to a conclusion. Things will get worse, therefore, before they get better. But it will be worth staying the course, if you're up to it." (Los Angeles Times)

"From across the Big Pond comes Bodies, not the medical drama of your father's ER...Bodies, with an excellent cast and very smart performances, is harsher and darker, shot very close-in and tightly, with enough gore to satisfy CSI: Crime Scene Investigation watchers. At least in the premiere hour, there are none of the goofy subplots that ER employs in most episodes. It's compelling and relentless." (Hollywood Reporter)

"Dark, intense, hypnotically captivating hospital drama in which the healers are far less than heroic... . As dramatically powerful as The Shield and far more gritty than ER, this British series overpowers the viewer with understated brilliance. If you give it five minutes, you'll give it a season." (Charlotte NC Observer)

"If Bodies were just about a courageous young doctor taking on his evil mentor, it wouldn't be nearly as terrifying as it is. Fortunately, writer Jed Mercurio is more ambitious than to do a simple white hat/black hat show, making Bodies into Catch-22 with stethoscopes and forceps... British content standards are more relaxed than they are here, and BBC America plans to show Bodies intact, with language and sex scenes more explicit than anything not on HBO. Mercurio uses that creative freedom to devastating effect in a scene where one of Roger's patients starts lactating as she looks at the photo of her stillborn baby. Fictional or not, you won't forget that image for a long time." (Newark NJ Ledger)

"Professional jealousies, cold-hearted cynicism, and incompetence: These are just a few of the themes explored in this dark and intense medical drama on BBC America." (Entertainment Weekly's Must List)

"EKGs this fall will leap for Bodies, a medical drama set inside the bureaucracy of the British health service, where careless docs kill the patients and the new guy...is more concerned with getting inside a nurse’s scrubs, which he does — often." (Kansas City Star)

Bodies airs tonight at 9 p.m. et on BBC America.