![]() He switches briefly into an American accent to announce, with an affable flick of his hand, “You crazy guys!” “I suppose they were deliberating whether or not they were going to go ahead with this crazy scheme,” by which he means Operation Desert Storm. … A lot of people whispering into the cuff of their tuxedos and making signs at each other.” The next day, the Masterpiece contingent got a White House tour “while Bush sat in the Oval Office,” he says. So Washington was quite an exciting place to be on that particular night. “It was,” he thinks, “the night before the United Nations deadline ran out just before the first Gulf War. But that wasn’t the real reason for the rather charged atmosphere, Laurie says. Pairs of British actors were scattered at tables decorated with props related to their performances. Beloved Masterpiece host Alistair Cooke was among those in attendance. It was an exciting, proud night for internationally minded patrons of the arts. State Department,” says Laurie, who at the time was a 31-year-old goofball whose comedic series, ITV’s Jeeves and Wooster, was a Masterpiece pick on American TV. screens, was turning 20 years old, and “PBS celebrated with a dinner in the U.S. Masterpiece Theatre, the program that delivered quality British television to U.S. When Hugh Laurie visited Washington, D.C., in January 1991, for a reception honoring the Public Broadcasting Service, “we felt there was a bit of a buzz in the air,” the actor recalls. From Masterpiece Theatre to Love Island, join us as we look back on some of the iconic shows that have crossed the pond in the past century. To mark the anniversary, The Ringer is celebrating one of the BBC’s chief exports to the United States: British TV. Transmitting news and entertainment across radio and television, the BBC would go on to have a far-reaching impact on not only the United Kingdom, but also audiences worldwide. In the past year or so fans have been noticing that TCM host Robert Osborne doesn’t look so well and sometimes he seems to have difficulty with words.One hundred years ago this week, the company that would become known as the British Broadcasting Corporation was founded in London. Also his speech seems a little difficult or impaired, but nobody seems to know the answer to the question about what might be causing this. Some people say that he has lost weight under medical supervision and that his old clothes don’t fit him well. ( 1990) Mouseterpiece Theater is an American television show that ran on The Disney Channel that premiered on the channel's launch date on April 18, 1983, 1 and continued with reruns into the 1990s. Others have said that a weight loss of 10 pounds in a man his age should be compensated by better lighting so as to not reveal the unflattering effects of the weight loss. Mouseterpiece Theater: Created by Robert Cunniff. Lately, however, he looks as though he has gained weight, and as of April 1, 2015, he seems to be the heaviest he’s ever been. ![]() In a hysterical spoof of Alistair Cooke, host George Plimpton provides a critical analysis of vintage Disney cartoons with a deadpan parody of Masterpiece Theater. More recent photos of Robert Osborne here: Daily Pics TCM. Well, he is eighty and there could be a lot of things that could cause a man his age to slur his words. A recent tribute to Osborne on the occasion of his 20 th anniversary as on air host featured a blooper reel wherein he seems a little tipsy, and in one instance he implies that he is indeed drunk.Īnother one of the usual suspects would be Bell’s Palsy - an irritation of the nerves serving his face. This usually runs it’s course and goes away but sometimes it lingers on for a long time. Robert Osborne inspired us, befriended us and supported us for more than 20 years. The medical reasons number into the hundreds, but he still has the energy to get to work, so how bad can it be ? As a matter of fact sometimes he speaks perfectly, but then again we don’t really know when segments were actually filmed.Ĭheck out possible causes of slurred speech: FREE THEATRE PRESENTATIONS To meet the exceptional demand, we ve DOUBLED the. Today we say good-bye to a dear member of our TCM family. ![]() Programming Mousterpiece A little help for any fellow AMX moue owners who. Osborne is a good guy and he’s great at his job so let’s hope there is nothing seriously wrong with him.
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