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Hello all,
Just wanted to point out this article on the BBC website:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6687667.stm>
--On 23 May 2007 11:17 +0100 Daniel Crewe <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi - Daniel from Profile Books here.
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> Victoria Wood was indeed annoyed with Profile for using her quote
> without asking on the cover, even though (for example) she had said what
> she said in a press release. I could go on but think I'd better not.
>
> Also...I hope everyone will get a chance to see the long piece in
> today's Daily Mail.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=
> 457077&in_page_id=1879
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> No - I wonder if there's more to it.
>
> She was very cross that the second ed of Nella Last's War was published
> with a line attributed to her on the front cover when she had already
> refused to write a new intro for Profile Books. Maybe they shouldn't
> have
> gone ahead without her permission but it was only a line. I heard from
> Profile that she was very cross about that and she may feel that the
> Archive was implicated somehow - though we weren't.
>
> There was also a suggestions that she might be filmed in the Archive at
> Sussex for the South Bank Show on her - with Melvyn Bragg. The South
> Bank
> show actually phoned me to start setting it up; then they changed it to
> ask
> if I could bring some of the original diary to London to be filmed but
> then
> nothing further was said. So who knows what was going on there? Maybe
> nothing at all.
>
>
> The other important thing to remember is that hers was a fictional
> version
> and it is very clear that she drew on her creative talents to make
> something new of the diary for TV. Maybe she wanted people to
> appreciate
> her specific contribution? Much of the programme was her imagination
> (esp.
> the MO office in London which was not in the diary though I did talk to
> her
> on the phone about that).
>
> She was perfectly nice to me while we were waiting in the wings at the
> Brighton Dome on the night of 11 May before her performance in the
> literary
> bit of the Brighton festival but perhaps very nervous.
>
> But there are always weird errors and misunderstandings with projects
> and
> the media - and I should add that I think Richard Broad (editor of
> book)
> got a nice message from her when he wrote and congratulated her. I have
> (blind) copied this to him in case he fancies joining in with his own
> observations. I don't think he is on jiscmail.
> Better get back to work........
> Dorothy
>
>
> --On 22 May 2007 07:51 -0400 David Allan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I think part of her subdued response may have been her surprise at
>> receiving the Best Actress award for what was an adequate but not
> exactly
>> earth shattering performance rather than any reluctance to acknowledge
>> the source material.
>> David
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