My plan is to write a final and full take – at some point today – and post at some point tomorrow. This is unlikely to happen. I can only write this now because my entire family are currently watching Merlin. To repeat myself and to borrow… Read More »Merry Christmas to one and all
A family’s ‘Impossible’ journey of healing 0 Twitter 2 WALLY SKALIJ, LOS ANGELES TIMES Actress Naomi Watts, left, portrays Maria Belon in “The Impossible.” BY NICOLE SPERLING,Los Angeles Times December 23, 2012 Maria Belón wasn’t proud of her dumb luck. It had been nearly… Read More »LA Times putting it much better than I can
The Impossible At 16, Londoner Tom Holland has his first Hollywood role in The Impossible under his belt. Nick Curtis meets a boy who has surpassed his famous father…. 1 of 2 On the road to success: Tom Holland at home in south London (Picture:… Read More »evening standard yesterday
Many people were kind enough to get in touch recently when Ian Hislop inadvertently mistook Dominic Holland for Francois Hollande – and luckily for me, Richard Osman was on Ian’s team and he corrected him. Free publicity I guess and my phone melted. I have… Read More »Have I got news for you…
Thank you to all the people who have been in touch about ‘Daybreak’ today featuring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor from the forthcoming film, The Impossible. Tom is not appearing on this interview as he was at school on the day it was recorded where… Read More »Scooping Fleet Street
but I am snowed with finishing the ebook – signing off my novel, The Fruit Bowl – and having the file of my first ever stand up show completed – plus I still have four kids to contain – so for now I would give you a lovely new… Read More »New blog is coming…
London today on this cold and miserable day. I don’t normally like buses. Big, uncomfortable, noisy things that get in the way. This one made me smile though. I didn’t see what number it was, distracted as I was…
Now that the story of Eclipsed is complete – this site is going to morph in to a more general DH site. (no pressure on me to keep people’s attention on my own!) For this reason, Eclipsed will remain a section on the new site with all… Read More »Don’t know what to call this post
This post today (no.119) concludes a story about how a kid danced his way from Billy Elliot in the West End all the way to Hollywood and overtaking his ‘celebrity’ dad along the way. I am the ‘celebrity’ dad and my eldest son, Tom, is the kid… Read More »Eclipsed Take 119 – His mum should really have been here to see this
Yesterday Tom and I flew to LA first class. No big deal for Tom perhaps, because he made the very same trip only last week. But a huge deal for me although I don’t let on to anyone around me in the lounge or in the plane. Oh… Read More »Eclipsed Take 114 – There’s Gwyneth Paltrow, don’t look!