http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/tag/english/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/tag/english/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/A35B8640-5CA2-4991-AF60-E83A005F1E70/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/">Babe_ORiley</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0240039420080702" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0240039420080702">www.reuters.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sacha Baron Cohen will star as detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as his loyal assistant, Watson, in an upcoming film comedy inspired by tales of the fictional English sleuth, Columbia Pictures said on Wednesday.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/Babe_ORiley/512/142672A0-B2DC-4C38-844F-9E67F5FD4EE3.jpg" alt="Photo" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Cohen, 36, and Ferrell, 40, last appeared together in the 2006 auto racing spoof "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," with Ferrell in the title role and Cohen playing his rival, a French speed racer.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Screenwriter Etan Cohen, no relation to the British comedian who sprang to movie fame as "Borat," has been signed to pen the screenplay for the as-yet untitled Sherlock Holmes film, the Sony Corp.-owned studio said in a statement.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The story will use as a starting point the principal characters created by Scottish-born author and physician Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 19th century.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>No launch date for the production has been set, and no other decisions about casting or a director have been made.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ali+g/" rel="tag">ali g</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/borat/" rel="tag">borat</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/will+ferrell/" rel="tag">will ferrell</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sherlock/" rel="tag">sherlock</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/watson/" rel="tag">watson</a></div>http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN0240039420080702Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:31:57 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/659EB91A-CA08-4B91-ABF1-2C0B0A46ADA0/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/Babe_ORiley/">Babe_ORiley</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> there's more to the English than the stiff upperlip <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509">www.reuters.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>LONDON (Reuters) - England is an irritating and insular country full of overweight, binge-drinking, reality TV addicts, a new guide warns tourists.<SPAN id="midArticle_byline"></SPAN></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But in the new Rough Guide to England, the English are also hailed as a nation of animal-loving, tea-drinking charity donors who love nothing better than forming an orderly queue.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Gone, it seems, is the image of a genteel country awash with Englishmen politely tipping their bowler hats, groping through the London fog and being kinder to pets than kids.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The writers confess to bafflement over the quirky English, concluding that of the 200 countries the guide reviews there is none "so fascinating, beautiful and culturally diverse yet as insular, self-important and irritating as England."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>But there are constant contradictions. In a country priding itself on patriotism, they have a Scottish Prime Minister, an Italian football coach and a Greek married to the Queen.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/guide/" rel="tag">guide</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/english/" rel="tag">english</a></div>http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL0941780120080509Sat, 10 May 2008 07:37:36 GMT