He can:Īs with all such honours, of course, there are downsides: Nice of Sir Tim to say so, but all those other people don’t get the amazing perquisites he now has at his fingertips. "This is an honour which applies to the whole Web development community, and to the inventors and developers of the Internet, whose work made the Web possible," said Berners-Lee in a statement. Berners-Lee, 48, a British citizen who lives in the U.S., is being knighted in recognition of his "services to the global development of the Internet" through the invention of the World Wide Web. The rank of Knight Commander is the second most senior rank of the Order of the British Empire and one of the Orders of Chivalry the Queen awards every year on New Year’s Eve. I’ve done my bit.Buckingham Palace announced today that Tim Berners-Lee, famous for inventing the World Wide Web, will be named a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire (see Web Inventor Gets Knighted). Is Frears looking forward to seeing it? “Well all my friends are making it – I’ve been twice sacked from the programme.” When asked to explain when and how, he plays a straight bat, “I can’t remember.
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Now Netflix is making a series inspired by Peter Morgan’s script, The Crown, which will cover all of Her Majesty’s reign. Sentimental enough to make the 2006 film The Queen, for which star Helen Mirren won an Oscar. Like everyone else, I’m sentimental about the Queen.” He was incredible in his time, but on the whole I would prefer it if people were not knighted.” The only time Frears stumbles is when I ask if he’s refused honours: “Er, that’s not relevant. “I don’t generally believe in people being knighted," he says. Recently, there has been a call for Muhammad Ali to get knighted, but it’s not one that Frears backs. I love the North, or I used to love the North – now I don’t go there very much.” “You just remember how wonderful the North is, was, I don’t know what it’s like now. He’s been listening a lot to the late, great Victoria Wood. I thought, you look like Marlene Dietrich, so I’ll photograph you like that.” “One day I came to set and he was standing under a lamppost. “Dan was like Marlene Dietrich,” Frears remembers. Based on a Hanif Kureishi story, the film starred Daniel Day-Lewis. He had to wait until his third film, the 1985 interracial drama My Beautiful Laundrette, to make his mark. The Cambridge graduate spent his early years learning his trade at the BBC. Frears is part of the great triumvirate of British directors, alongside Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, often feted by Cannes and given the auteur treatment. Several times in the conversation, Frears talks about being old – yet, like a fine vintage, he seems to be viewed with more deference with each passing year. I mean, I’m quite old, so it’s not that unfamiliar to me.” One of the attractions of the film was that it enabled him to make a good old-fashioned film, “Films used to be like this, about rich society and people," he says.
“Somehow it’s in the contract that you have to go and recreate this world. Frears has never been to watch a concert at the New York venue, but had a look around as part of his research.
Hammersmith Apollo in London was used as a double for Carnegie Hall. So he set about doing his homework, watching and marvelling at clips of Jenkins on YouTube. “I knew that Maureen Lipman played her,” he says, referring to the play Glorious, performed at the Duchess Theatre in London in 2005. Frears did not have much knowledge of the singer. He decided to make Florence Foster Jenkins on the strength of Nicholas Martin’s script. I don’t know why he makes the films that he makes – not that I’ve seen them.” “I always thought Hugh was a brilliant actor, so I’m pleased with what’s happened,” Frears says, referring to the positive early notices – although the director admits that, apart from Four Weddings and a Funeral and About A Boy, he has not seen too much of Grant’s work. He’s more loquacious when talking about Hugh Grant, who gives his best turn in years playing Jenkins’s confidant, partner and manager St Clair Bayfield, the sometime stage actor who helped Jenkins put on a show at Carnegie Hall in 1944.
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