Richard Armitage Anonymous

[Fettle]

Over here ladies!

MrsLN - Should that not be Guy Angus John [Porter, in this case] Whatever-He-Was-In-Sparkhouse Lovelace-Thornton-Bateman-North?

Radio Armitage is now taking requests. This one is going out to MrsLucasNorth, who has a . Feel the lurve (but supply your own visuals).

Flowers I love that clip,it's so funny and so apt .

Fettle - If you watch the various Mr Armitage in the Vicar of Dibley clips (which I don't particularly recommend as the role comes across as having been written with Hugh Grant in mind and Mr Armitage's fine Shakespearean acting skills are wasted in it plus he wears very boring clothes and never a cravat or frock coat) then YT suggests that one too.

Have you seen all the Armitage bedtime stories on CBeebies? To think that while my own tot watched them I was probably doing something inessential such as cooking her tea, when I could have been swooning enjoying the classic piece of children's literature that is Flat Stanley.

Fettle - Have been thinking. You should start work on your own Armitage script. Acting is a profession with a notoriously high unemployment rate - even for someone as gifted as Mr Armitage - so we need to ensure that he has plenty of high quality work to our liking.

I'm thinking perhaps a reworking of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. This would allow him to demonstrate the full range of his acting talents, in portraying two contrasting characters and the transition between them, and there would be almost unlimited cravat/floppy white shirt/frock coat potential. It would draw too on your scientific training and you could be his personal scientific consultant.

Worth a try?

Can we make requests for web chats? Do you see where I'm heading?

We would need to find a way to block everyone elses questions though. Flowers can you romance tech with your poetry and get him on side? I am sure I have heard it said that he bears an uncanny resemblance to our beloved.

Flowers. My phone didn't play that clip for some reason.

To be honest I've limited my YouTube watching to the links kindly provided by you all and not seen any solely vicar of dibley ones. I have to agree that the cravat was solely missing!. Although did under him wearing glasses in one medley of him. I do quite like a man in specs - adds to his intellectual looks obviously!

By the way, have to whisper this - please can someone reassure me that that wasn't a bald patch I noticed as Lucas fell tonhis knees yesterday?. Not that lovely dark hair which is so necessary for his deeply studied and explored character acting.

We can but try LeQueen..

BALD???

Look, Stripey, if I had any talent for wooing anyone with poetry, I would be hanging around outside Mr Armitage's agent's on Hobbit contract signing day, spouting that well-known Shakespearean sonnet, Wanna Be My Toyboy? On behalf of a friend, you understand.

I should stop posting on my phone! In case you were wondering I meant the cravats were sorely missed! And I think I meant I saw him wearing glasses in VoD although maybe it was a freundian mistype to say under him!!

Many many crossed posts!!

Flowers. Rofl about poetry wooing!! Why aren't you?. You're wasting your admirable talents on us!!. But don't leave us.

I am liking your idea of a script - does it matter that I haven't read the original? I'm sure I could teach him a few biology lessons for sure!

Also don't forget writers that I have experience as a continuity person so would be best placed to ensure not a stray hair was in the wrong position during any scene that would distract from the beauty of the play itself!

That's the second mention of a bald spot. You ladies are so shallow. A little male pattern baldness does not mean that a gentleman has not got it. If you want a full head of hair you will need to go for some callow youth.

Please supply a reference for when Lucas fell to his knees (what scene was it?) so that I may check. I will, clearly, need to know for my Byron masterpiece.

Yes, I need to check too for I shan't believe it until i have witnessed it myself.

To be fair though he is 180 years old so a little hair loss must surely be expected?

You're right. Tis a sign of vitality I believe! My own mr fettle is receding backwards at -an alarming rate !

Fettle - I am sure you know enough of the Jeckyll and Hyde story to write your own dramatic reinterpretation of it. After all, think of the liberties being taken in Guy In Da Hood, where LeQueen has Guy of Gisborne riding around on a Harley Davidson.

I am, though, a little worried about your claim to (and I quote) teach him a few biology lessons. I thought you and I were the ones acting from the purest motives of Art, Beauty and Truth, rather than the, ahem, baser motives displayed by others. Mr Armitage is on record (in that fine organ the Daily Mail, I think) as saying that he does not (and again I quote) put it about. So these wantons will fail in their disreputable endeavours and then you and I can dress him up in a floppy white shirt and cravat and gaze at his manly features. So we will have the last laugh.

Stripey - You are confused. Mr Thornton is (by my calculation) a sprightly 190 years old. Guy of Gisborne, it was said on the first thread, is a fine figure of a man of 850 or so. Lucas is a mere stripling of, what, 35?

Oh flowers how can you doubt me? I simply meant i could explain the exact workings of the heart and maybe also give some logical scientific reason behind the swoon effect he may have noticed while merely walking down the street.

Oh Fettle, I am so sorry. It's just that I have spent weeks surrounded by these shameless hussies and was misled. Thank you for explaining your entirely honourable intentions. I think we have all learned a great deal about the exact workings of the heart by watching North and South.

Meanwhile, I have found another .

When you say floppy white shirt do you mean like this?