I Am A Swede

Of course I know he's an actor! Like I said, I was just skimming through the list and saw the name Adewale, and he's the only Adewale I had heard of, so for a split second, no more than that, his image popped up in my mind.

Skimming through the list and coming to number 12 I thought "what has Adebisi from Oz done to Russia"? And then I realized that that was Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje!

You know, reading that article about Paula really brought it home how much I miss the older characters on Emmerdale nowadays. I know that the Covid epidemic is a big reason for their absence but still.... Diane's departure really left a big hole on the canvas, in more ways than one. I miss the (unholy) trinity of Betty, Pearl and Edna sitting in the Woolpack, offering their (sometimes unwanted) opinions on everything and everyone, like a Greek chorus. Speaking of that, has there been any on-screen explanation for Pearl's disappearance or has she just vanished into thin air? If any explanation has been given I must have missed it.

Aww.... I miss Paula (and Betty)

The result at the BAFTA Awards: Best film Winner: The Power of the Dog Belfast Don't Look Up Dune Licorice Pizza Outstanding British film Winner: Belfast After Love Ali & Ava Boiling Point Cyrano Everybody's Talking About Jamie House of Gucci Last Night in Soho No Time to Die Passing Leading actress Winner: Joanna Scanlan - After Love Lady Gaga - House of Gucci Alana Haim - Licorice Pizza Emilia Jones - Coda Renate Reinsve- The Worst Person in the World Tessa Thompson - Passing Leading actor Winner: Will Smith - King Richard Adeel Akhtar - Ali & Ava Mahershala Ali - Swan Song Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog Leonardo DiCaprio - Don't Look Up Stephen Graham - Boiling Point Supporting actress Winner: Ariana DeBose - West Side Story Caitriona Balfe - Belfast Jessie Buckley - The Lost Daughter Ann Dowd - Mass Aunjanue Ellis - King Richard Ruth Negga - Passing Supporting actor Winner: Troy Kotsur - Coda Mike Faist - West Side Story Ciaran Hinds - Belfast Woody Norman - C'mon C'mon Jesse Plemons - The Power of the Dog Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Power of the Dog Director Winner: Jane Campion - The Power of the Dog Aleem Khan - After Love Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car Audrey Diwan - Happening Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza Julia Ducournau - Titane EE Rising Star Award Winner: Lashana Lynch Ariana DeBose Harris Dickinson Millicent Simmonds Kodi Smit-McPhee Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer Winner: The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel (writer/director) After Love - Aleem Khan (writer/director) Boiling Point - James Cummings (writer), Hester Ruoff (producer) Keyboard Fantasies - Posy Dixon (writer/director), Liv Proctor (producer) Passing - Rebecca Hall (writer/director) Film not in the English language Winner: Drive My Car The Hand of God Parallel Mothers Petite Maman The Worst Person in the World Documentary Winner: Summer of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Becoming Cousteau Cow Flee The Rescue Animated film Winner: Encanto Flee Luca The Mitchells vs The Machines Original screenplay Winner: Licorice Pizza - Paul Thomas Anderson Being The Ricardos - Aaron Sorkin Belfast - Sir Kenneth Branagh Don't Look Up - Adam McKay King Richard - Zach Baylin Adapted screenplay Winner: Coda - Sian Heder Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi Dune - Denis Villeneuve The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion Original score Winner: Dune - Hans Zimmer Being the Ricardos - Daniel Pemberton Don't Look Up - Nicholas Britell The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat The Power of the Dog - Jonny Greenwood Casting Winner: West Side Story - Cindy Tolan Boiling Point - Carolyn McLeod Dune - Francine Maisler The Hand of God - Massimo Appolloni, Annamaria Sambucco King Richard - Rich Delia, Avy Kaufman Cinematography Winner: Dune - Greig Fraser Nightmare Alley - Dan Laustsen No Time To Die - Linus Sandgren The Power of the Dog - Ari Wegner The Tragedy of Macbeth - Bruno Delbonnel Costume design Winner: Cruella - Jenny Beavan Cyrano - Massimo Cantini Parrini Dune - Robert Morgan, Jacqueline West The French Dispatch - Milena Canonero Nightmare Alley - Luis Sequeira Editing Winner: No Time To Die - Tom Cross, Elliot Graham Belfast - Una Ni Dhonghaile Dune - Joe Walker Licorice Pizza - Andy Jurgensen Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Joshua L Pearson Production design Winner: Dune - Patrice Vermette, Zsuzsanna Sipos Cyrano - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer The French Dispatch - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo Nightmare Alley - Tamara Deverell, Shane Vieau West Side Story - Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo Make-up and hair Winner: The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram, Justin Raleigh Cruella - Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne Cyrano - Alessandro Bertolazzi, Sian Miller Dune - Love Larson, Donald Mowat House of Gucci - Frederic Aspiras, Jana Carboni, Giuliano Mariano, Sarah Nicole Tanno Sound Winner: Dune - Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Doug Hemphill, Theo Green, Ron Bartlett Last Night In Soho - Colin Nicolson, Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin, Dan Morgan No Time To Die - James Harrison, Simon Hayes, Paul Massey, Oliver Tarney, Mark Taylor A Quiet Place Part II - Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Proctor, Ethan Van Der Ryn West Side Story - Brian Chumney, Tod Maitland, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom Special visual effects Winner: Dune - Brian Connor, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Gerd Nefzer Free Guy - Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis, Daniel Sudick Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Aharon Bourland, Sheena Duggal, Pier Lefebvre, Alessandro Ongaro The Matrix Resurrections - Tom Debenham, Huw J Evans, Dan Glass, JD Schwaim No Time To Die - Mark Bakowski, Chris Corbould, Joel Green, Charlie Noble British short film Winner: The Black Cop Femme The Palace Stuffed Three Meetings of the Extraordinary Committee British short animation Winner: Do Not Feed the Pigeons Affairs of the Art Night of the Living Dread

^^ Oh, wow. That is really unexpected!

Nah, I'm more in the mood for nostalgia right now.....

I no longer watch on a regular basis, but back when I did watch the couple with the most intense (non-romantic) chemistry on B&B was obviously Stephanie & Brooke. Susan Flannery and Katherine Kelly Lang worked so well opposite each other. I quickly grew tired of the Brooke/Ridge/Taylor love triangle and could never understand why those two ostensibly intelligent women kept fighting over that undeserving block of wood. Instead it was Stephanie vs Brooke that kept me watching.

Naomi Osaka: Former world number one in tears after heckling during Indian Wells defeat

How sad. I usually look out for things like this, but I have missed this completely. I'm so glad that we got those dvd-releases of early Emmerdale Farm, so we could see some of his work. I liked him. Too bad we didn't get any more dvd's. It would have been so nice to maybe get the entire 1970s. I guess the cost outweighed the benefits....

What the hell is going on in Russia! Have they (Putin and his cronies) completely lost their minds? War in Ukraine: BBC suspends its journalists' work in Russia Our public broadcaster SVT has also pulled out their correspondent in Russia.