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Watching an episode of QI. Emma Thompson just told the story of her Oscar-winning script for Sense and Sensibility being rescued by Stephen Fry. Her computer had fritzed, and her script was unreadable. She called a computer tech, who couldn't fix it, so she took her computer bodily (in her dressing gown, apparently) by taxi to Stephen's house, and begged him to fix it; she said it took him seven hours. Apparently Hugh Laurie was there, too.
Stephen Fry made a comment about the advantages of being a nerd. I know people like that, though - the people who fix computer problems that supposed computer experts can't fix.
(Alan Davies joked that he couldn't actually fix her computer, so he just wrote the script because it would be faster.)
If nothing else, it's also nice to know that Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson are all still friends, after all these years.
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What a fun story!
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June 24th, 2009 05:31 am (UTC) |
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She also talked about how she can make Stephen scream by locking the doors then coming downstairs naked. Then, later, when somehow the subject of Brazilian waxes and the like came up, he asked her (being the only woman on the panel) if she had one.
She started to stand up, saying, "Would you like to see?"
He screamed and hid. Because, as she said, he knew she'd do it. Apparently it's terribly satisfying to reduce brilliantly intelligent people to incoherence...
Gay though he may be, Stephen Fry is in general quite calm and interested in female anatomy; it's clear, at least to me, that this is something of a game for them. Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, and Stephen Fry were at Cambridge together, and were in things like the Cambridge Footlights Review, and they're just lovely representatives of decades-old friendships between brilliant theatre-type people.
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| From: | rainbow |
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June 24th, 2009 06:10 am (UTC) |
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Bwahahaha!!! I am grinning like a loon. I love seeing folks who've been great friends for decades and know all each other's cues and foibles.
That sounds such a fun show.
They are all adorable! Sometimes I check Stephen Fry's Twitter, and it's always interesting.
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