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Post by aeromanda on Jun 5, 2012 21:11:31 GMT
Great article and I think he's hit the proverbial nail on the head. Agreed. Each of his points was dead on! Long Live Top Gear! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 16:28:44 GMT
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Post by dit on Jun 7, 2012 17:44:10 GMT
From a blog called What Glenn Thinks, published yesterday
"JAMES MAY
I watch very little television these days, but one person who occasionally makes it worthwhile is the British broadcaster James May. Just recently I have been studying his work closely.
Best known as part of the Top Gear presentation team, he has also made numerous educational and science-orientated programmes for the BBC. Cultured, and with an infectious enthusiasm about technology and science, and a keen appreciation of history, he manages to combine the erudite and eloquent with a common touch, a rare achievement indeed.
True, he occasionally exaggerates one facet or other of his on-screen persona, to suit the demands of particular circumstances, but he is never less than entertaining and endearing. He has probably enthused more young people about science and related subjects than any number of officially-sanctioned "experts". He has certainly had that effect on me...."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2012 21:55:28 GMT
"Cultured, and with an infectious enthusiasm about technology and science, and a keen appreciation of history, he manages to combine the erudite and eloquent with a common touch, a rare achievement indeed." This writer has nailed what makes James so attractive for me. Just because he isn't the most gorgeous face on the planet (no flames!  ), he is VERY sexy to me simply because he is very intelligent and witty. Don't give me a pretty face with no substance; I am so over that! |
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Post by dit on Jun 7, 2012 22:13:47 GMT
Couldn't agree with you more, lynnemezzo.
(Though I do like his face - it goes with the rest of him!)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2012 1:40:56 GMT
Dit, I think James has a very sweet face. He has a very sensitive appearance which indicates to me a thoughtful, insightful person. But I love when his face and nose just crinkle when he grins!
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Post by dit on Oct 11, 2012 22:57:12 GMT
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Post by dit on Jan 26, 2013 2:43:51 GMT
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Post by FizzyLogician on Jan 26, 2013 3:13:27 GMT
If she wants to complain about something, what about the sexist drivel down the right-hand side of that webpage, put there by the same business that pays her for her column?
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Post by amie8 on Jan 26, 2013 10:38:18 GMT
Shame the comments are closed already. My two penn'orth? The trailer distinctly shows that it is set in the BBC Wardrobe department. Go check out how many men work in wardrobe.
Wardrobe and makeup departments are both areas in which women can make a mark in film and TV. Not the only ones, of course, but good ones.
Just another case of the DM seeing exactly what it wants to see.
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Post by ladylurker on Jan 26, 2013 13:09:26 GMT
"I guess the trailer is meant to be funny, and, maybe, I should just ignore it because everyone tells me Top Gear is a national treasure (Jim’ll Fix It was a national treasure)."
 That's the most tasteless, ill advised comparison I've seen for a very long time. Is she seriously comparing Top Gear to that scumbag?
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Post by dit on Jan 26, 2013 13:46:30 GMT
I, too, cringed when I saw that comparison. It's so far over the top, especially from an experienced journalist.
(Does anyone else think that the layout of posts has gone a bit odd? I've had to modify this one to stop it being crammed at the top of the box, then ruled off with a huge space underneath)
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Post by slfriend79 on Jan 26, 2013 14:05:32 GMT
Either this woman just doesn't get the joke of the commercial  , because she has no sense of humor at all  , or she is just another one of these 'Ultra Feminists' who screams "Sexist!" no matter what they do on 'Top Gear'.  |
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Post by dit on Feb 5, 2013 18:42:41 GMT
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Post by FizzyLogician on Feb 5, 2013 19:52:12 GMT
There has been zero commentary on US websites about this (although that episode hasn't been aired here yet). That's pretty mild graffiti for Los Angeles.
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Post by amie8 on Feb 5, 2013 22:24:50 GMT
Over a thousand comments now, most of the "FGS" variety. Two episodes in and two negative articles in the DM
Hey ho
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Post by dit on Feb 7, 2013 23:51:53 GMT
This is from the website Popbitch, which publishes a weekly newsletter including various bits of scurrilous celebrity gossip. However, I smiled at this inclusion in today's edition - the editors must have been really disappointed.
Top Gear has been filming in Uganda. Sadly,
our man on the ground reports that May,
Clarkson and Hamster were "nice, down to
earth and drank a lot of expensive vodka."
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Post by liverbird on Feb 27, 2013 23:31:21 GMT
^^^^ my type of guys!!!!
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Post by cheekybrassmonkey on Mar 16, 2013 20:36:03 GMT
Well the TG3 have just been filming here in little old New Zealand, and Jezza LOVES us!! www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/8435743/Top-Gear-Presenter-NZ-is-the-real-holy-landWith characteristic humility, Clarkson uses his newspaper column to advise God that he made a mistake when choosing the Middle East as his religious base.
"If you were God and you were all-powerful, you wouldn't select Bethlehem as a suitable birthplace for your only child because it's a horrible place.
"And you certainly wouldn't let him grow up anywhere in the Holy Land.
"What you'd actually do is choose New Zealand."
If God really were all-knowing, continues Clarkson, "children at Christmas time today would be singing 'Oh little town of Wellington' and people would not cease from mental fight until Jerusalem had been built in Auckland's green and pleasant land."
Perhaps the most startling compliment, however, is Clarkson's claim that if God had got it right, "Jesus would have been from Palmerston North", a stark deviation from the verdict of his countryman John Cleese, who once said the North Island city should be renamed "suicide capital of New Zealand" because "if you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick". |
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Post by dit on Mar 24, 2013 1:31:54 GMT
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Post by slfriend79 on Mar 24, 2013 13:51:38 GMT
Once again it looks like another TV critic is totally clueless. 'The Show Is Perfect As It Is' is polling at 62.42%, leaving the other choices in the dust. ;D |
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Post by taliahrose on Mar 24, 2013 15:24:58 GMT
What a piece of utter drivel, the 'journalist' has obviously confused personal opinion with that of the general viewing public and has therefore only succeeded in making themselves look stupid. The viewing figures both here and world wide and the sheer amount of money that Top Gear generates, not to mention the hordes of people who flock to Top Gear live would suggest that TG is far from the tired, struggling show described in that article. As James would say, Tis bollox! |
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Post by dit on Mar 25, 2013 13:48:27 GMT
I found this article interesting. At first it appears to be one of those gossipy 'Jeremy does it again' ones, but actually it's pretty well-reasoned and also has a lot of detail about his and James' recent visit to Australia. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/07/top-gears-jeremy-clarkson_n_2829153.htmlEdit: Sorry, I should have said to click the link on 'Clarkson was reportedly angry....' to get the full article. Thanks for getting it right (below) FizzyLogician! |
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Post by FizzyLogician on Mar 25, 2013 18:38:12 GMT
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Post by jmsquared on Mar 25, 2013 23:49:45 GMT
This was a bit of a story over here, but nothing major. Same old, same old really. To be really blunt, a divorce would solve Jezza's pap "problems".
I spy James lurking in the background of one of those pics!!
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Post by ladylurker on Mar 26, 2013 8:20:09 GMT
I wish they'd just leave him alone. No matter what he's done or not done it's no ones business but his and his wife (and maybe Philippa Sage). Talking about (useless) journalism: I found this piece today. www.side3.no/article3596480.ece. What they've done, is basically re-telling his tweets from the last couple of days. And mistranslated "hat" (that is actually possible in Norwegian). Actually, they have copy/pasted most of the article from a more local paper: www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article6572447.ece (Nice picture here, btw.) But the local paper even had some information about what he was actually doing there. (They couldn't correctly translate "hat", however.) |
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Post by dit on Jun 2, 2013 19:49:58 GMT
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Post by Vivienne on Jun 3, 2013 1:47:28 GMT
Very tragic is right. To give credit to the guys, they've never endorsed speeding. Isn't Jeremy know for his quote about speed kills not people. When we were teenagers TG wasn't around and speeding and dying was an unfortunate truth. Racing on the dirt streets or streets unused at night.That guy should be doing life in prison.
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Post by Wyvern on Jun 3, 2013 23:07:44 GMT
The problem with that article is that it was clearly written by a frothing maniac.
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Post by amie8 on Jun 4, 2013 22:00:42 GMT
It's the Express. Nobody reads it
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), he is VERY sexy to me simply because he is very intelligent and witty. Don't give me a pretty face with no substance; I am so over that!
That's the most tasteless, ill advised comparison I've seen for a very long time. Is she seriously comparing Top Gear to that scumbag?
, because she has no sense of humor at all 
, or she is just another one of these 'Ultra Feminists' who screams "Sexist!" no matter what they do on 'Top Gear'. 
