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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Wednesday, 30th January 2008
There's a picture of Matt on TA page at the moment and I saw it before I could look away. He's not Matt and now I've got to repress the image. Wouldn't a picture of a skylark have been better?
No, Matt would have made sure the Echo ran a picture of him with the piece.
(For those brave enough to look, the story is at:
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:11 GMT, in reply to Keri Davies - Host in message 2
Ye gods and little fishes, he is a dead ringer for Pascal Couchepin (Swiss politician and present President of the Confederation). Bette will appreciate the joke!
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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Wednesday, 30th January 2008
Gawd Keri, thanks for the reply, always vaguely flattered and intrigued to actually to get a response, but I'm getting a bit confused with where we are and who's what in this make-believe, now.
Wot's the Echo got to do with it? This is a piece on TA website not the front of the fictional and not recently to my knowledge existing 'Echo' and it advertises a page on the fictional but existing Ambridge website. Other characters, helpfully and wisely have their pictures covered. But here, this thin, handsome toff is standing-in for the real, disgusting, short, fat Matt without so much as a by your leave.
Back off down the rabbit hole now....byeeee
I saw "Matt Crawford" on TV in an afternoon play once. I recognised the voice, and checked to see if it really was him. I agree the actor looks nothing like the Matt in my head.
But this is true of so many TA actors!
Alma.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:41 GMT, in reply to Almond_Aire in message 5
In my mind, I think Matt Crawford looks like an older and less reputable version of the Private Eye played by Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".
Or was it "Who Shopped Sammy Skylark?"???
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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Thursday, 31st January 2008
And, Keri, the How Good Looking is Matt? thread in DTA would seem to back up what I say. Character Matt and actor Matt very diff indeed. Why put his pic on the front page then?
>Character Matt and actor Matt very diff indeed.
That's completely a matter of opinion.
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Posted by Blanche Fury (U10266196) on Thursday, 31st January 2008
I agree with Rose Parade. The actor looks much nicer than the Crawford in my head.
The character pages give you the choice to hide the pictures of the actors. Maybe you could do that for the front page as well? Would it be technically very difficult?
Unfortunately that is probably one of the actor's "Stage" photos, what a shame the Echo couldn't have got a special "slyly smirking" photo.
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Posted by Doctor Darling (U10735496) on Thursday, 31st January 2008
I did have a flashback to the ver' ver' old joke "So, what first attracted you to the millionaire Matt Crawford, Pussycat?". Although, on the plus side, he does have nice eyes and probably looks rather yummy through gin goggles.
Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:08 GMT, in reply to Keri Davies - Host in message 2
Ohhh!!
So he doesn't advertise sofas for a leading company then !!
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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Thursday, 31st January 2008
Yes. Mine.
Seriously, if you think the Matt you're portraying comes over as anything like that photo I think you're misinterpreting your own scripts and voices. Which is thoughtful-making.
For a notion of how he comes across, try a Greg-Dyke-alike on a bad day in bad taste clothes or some of the other suggestions on the thread in DTA.
And even more seriously, I don't think his pic should be there since you have this excellent policy of not foisting RL photos on us if we don't want them.
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Posted by Rose Sal Volatile Parade (U4705648) on Thursday, 31st January 2008
Oh and that's the point, isn't it? It's a matter of opinion. But a photo isn't a matter of opinion. It just sits there being itself.
I'm off to find another slipper to chew now
yap yap!
the matt in my head looks like david sullivan the birmingham city fc chairman ! the one i got spot on was linde snell. she is, in real life, exactly the same as my imagination pictured her.
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