I am watching BALLET SHOES and it is HEAVENLY... do NOT miss it, you will cry and be sad forever

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ooooooh, only 20 mins in and am excited beyond belief. Harriet Walters is masterly, Emilia Fox a pleasant surprise as usuallly i find her a posho show-off.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Oh I think Mr Smith was one of the first boarders - they got that scene with Petrova looking past him at the car perfectly.

All the scenes from the book were done very well

Lots of changes from the original book.
But perfect for a Boxing Day treat.

Yes Simpson I meant. Found copy of book in the garage - DD looked at it and said "well it was nice muummy but I don't think I need to read it". Isn't that tragic?

Smith and/or Simpson

What was Posy sleeping on in that doorway? It looked like a nice warm blanket but she left it behind!

And what was that string of lights on Pailine/Petrova's bedhead all about? Surely at that time most houses (esp skint ones) struggled to put a 20w bulb in each room!

Not enough of Harriet Walter(?s), imo.

Yes - I thought that re: the lights, ww - very strange. Not to mention the fact it looked as if it came from Claire's Accessories.

HELLO sorry I know you are all reminiising but....
I am recording it, will my 8yrold dance mad DD like it or too old for her???

Yes, she will, scramble (but make her read the book, too!)

I think she'll like it, definitely worth a try! Ballet Shoes the book doesn't actually feature much ballet, though.

I don't remember Garnie being so terribly ill either? (but that could just be my failing memory...)

Also, in the drawings in my book GUM looked like old man Steptoe

what was that bit about mr simpson's son dying??

Is it repeated? I missed it! I was seeing a client and came home and forget to sky+ it. Sob!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh not much ballet , never seen or read any of it before, please give me the basic run down .

Wot, not a lot of ballet?

Yes, Gum was virtually a hunchback with a flasher's mac and a very long scarf in mine.

Richard Thingummy's stomach always frightens me somewhat...

Yep, the dead wife and son were made up too, weren't they.

It could have done with much more audition/theatre/dancing/Nana and less invented romance.

(But it was still fab!)

so, who is dancing in this?

i realise emma watson's not a dancer.

but, erm, is there some ballet in this??

Actually sounds quite wierd what with dead husbands and flasher macs

Only Posy.

Posy was just fabulous, weasn't she?

(There is some dim soft-focus of Posy having her individual lessons with Madame F, plus her crashing in on Manoff's class (he was rather nice...)

Posy needed to be dropkicked into the orchestra pit, what a brat (yes I know, true to the book) - DH said "she's very convincing at that, isn't she"

cooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee repeats please! Thank you!

Are they showing the whole of her dancing?

Because if they're just doing that editorial thingy of showing her head moving about and then feet and lower legs dancing, she's NOT dancing!

ARrgggggh! Shirley McLaine and Lesley Brown were really dancing in 'The Turning Point', not that saddo Anne Bancroft who couldn't dance!

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Why do you think Patrick Swayze got the role in 'Dirty Dancing'? Because he was a real dancer!