I never cared especially for England source television, but in movies I find many as being brilliant entertainers. Hugh Laurie, be before becoming a California resident, and playing Dr. House, was Stuart Little’s adoptive father, and one of the dognapping henchmen in the live version of 101 Dalmatians. I enjoy what he brings to characters, but there is also a largely American influence there.
Alan Rickman (alive forever in my heart), the entire cast of all the Harry Potter movies – wonderful all young and old, many of the seasoned actors are in Sense and Sensibility and bring to screen a great flavour of English sense of class and social behaviours, Margaret Smith is a fabulous talent and person. Many types of talent besides movies, David Bowie – fun in concerts and on screen, The Beatles – almost a species apart from the human race. They were, are, a force all their own.
There is so much more which could be said about entertainers English, but there are other things to like.
I get a kick out of learning how English terms and slang differ from what we are familiar with as Americans. I would like to have opportunity to know more. Ha ha, my daughter learned what we call trash can is known there as dust bin. Thereafter she insisted I say dustbin, or I would be ignored.
@KNOWITALL mentioned antiques. I enjoy watching Antiques Roadshow. People will stand in line with native American blankets, clothing, and beadwork. They are dumbfounded to learn this doll belonged to a little girl three hundred years ago, and as an adult was gifted to her close Dutch friend. Then comes on British Antiques Roadshow. “Lovely piece, belonged to nobility, great condition, unfortunately only seven hundred years old, worth about four hundred pounds.” It gives you a new sense of how young our country’s government is.
Although I find the small villages charming as seen in books or on television, I am sure I could not live well in the seclusion of such villages myself. I do miss from my own childhood the fresh eggs and produce of such rural living here. Ahhh, thank goodness for the efforts of Amish to bring their goods to we city dwellers.
I have the dvd Theory Of Everything. When Stephen Hawking is left in the small old lab where great past minds conducted experiments, I could almost smell the ancient sense of remaining scientific thinking he must have in real life experienced.
