Marooned there for a week during the Golden Rose television competition they had been unable to see the pictures that all

Marooned there for a week during the Golden Rose television competition, they had been unable to see the pictures that all their friends and colleagues had been telling them about from home.
Then an enterprising exec persuaded ITN to send out an edited tape of the end of the six-day siege and all of them – executives, producers and journalists – gathered to watch. The National Portrait Gallery houses her video portrait of David Beckham: it shows footage of the footballer, sleeping, played on constant loop. pandora independent.co.uk. Dennis Kirkland, television producer and director: born North Shields, Northumberland 2 December 1942; twice married (two sons, one daughter); died London 16 February 2006. In May 1980, as the Iranian embassy siege came to an explosive climax in London, a group of Brits watched a TV monitor in tense silence in Montreux. “At the moment, she’s going to see the film every other night. “Obviously, she’s getting a bit sick of popcorn and fizzy drinks; I think Jay [Jopling, her husband] is getting pretty bored, too.” Taylor-Wood is fond of repetitive films.

So taken was ST-W by the flick that friends tell me she’s already been to see it another half-dozen times “Sam just can’t get enough of it,” I’m told. * Sam Taylor-Wood is the latest pillar of London’s chattering classes to develop an unhealthy obsession with Johnny Cash. A couple of weeks back, the modish artist reviewed Walk the Line – a biographical film about Cash – for an episode of Newsnight Review. It’s a terrible oversight, so if Meacher e-mails 50 words on the matter, I’ll carry them (in full) on Monday Fee: £40. These days, Meacher earns occasional shillings as a newspaper columnist, making him a perfect candidate to defend his fellow champagne socialist in print But, staggeringly, no one has yet commissioned him. * Chris Huhne was yesterday revealed to be the proud owner of not one, not two, but nine different homes.

For a (supposedly) left-leaning Lib Dem leadership candidate, this was considered something of an embarrassment. It does put him in good company, though: in 2001, the then Labour minister Michael Meacher was lampooned for owning a total of nine homes. “I haven’t even been baptised yet, but I’ve got half my family, devout Catholics, saying I won’t be going to heaven if we don’t,” she reports. McCrory – speaking after Josephine Hart’s poetry hour at the British Library – is under pressure to hold a Catholic wedding. In fact, Lewis acquired a ring several weeks ago, but failed to order the correct size. “It’s currently sitting on her thumb, actually,” he tells me.