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When we longed for the coming of what we once liked to call the New Man, don’t you sometimes think we should have been more careful what we wished for?

Back then, we thought we knew what we wanted. Moreover, what we thought we wanted didn’t sound unreasonable.

Put-upon women - run ragged by Neanderthal demands that we perform in the office, kitchen and bedroom - believed that if our partners could just be kicked up the backside of their latent sensitivity, they’d graduate from cavemen to soul-mates, and our lives would be that much easier for it.

A real man: Sean Bean, playing Sharpe, the rugged-looking soldier who bravely battled through the 19th century Napeleonic Wars

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2008 seems to be the year of the swashbuckling divas. We just had our aesthetic fill of Aishwarya Rai crossing swords in sensuous slashes with Hrithik Roshan in Jodhaa-Akba

Just when Sushmita Sen is heavily into pre-production work for her bio-pic on Rani Laxmibai, another Sen has silently slipped into Laxmibai’s land to shoot a swashbuckling epic with the Lord Of The Rings star Sean Bean.

Nandana Sen can barely contain her excitenent. “I’m currently transported to another era. I’m playing a 19th century princess opposite Sean Bean, shooting in Orchha (Madhya Pradesh) for a British production called Sharpe’s Peril.

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““It’s a huge ‘Indiana Jones’ styled extravaganza directed by Tom Clegg. I’m having great fun being a feisty horse-riding princess sparring with a swashbuckling Sean Bean,” she added.”

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THE MOVIE: 4 stars out of 5 National Treasure stars Nicolas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates who is obsessed with both his family history in the founding of the republic and with finding the legendary Knights Templar Treasure, the greatest treasure known to man. In order to find the treasure he receives financial and technical support from Ian Howe (Sean Bean) who turns on him and abandons him in hope of finding the treasure himself. Gates and Howe discover that the key to finding the treasure rests with a secret map on the back of the Declaration of Independence which Gates races to steal before it can be stolen by Howe. Needless to say, Gates is successful in his attempt to steal the Declaration but is eventually captured and forced to cooperate with Bean to escape the FBI and locate the treasure. While the premise of the film is rather over the top and totally implausible, the film itself is just good enough to get you to suspend your disbelief and by throwing in just enough actual historical facts to pull you into the action and suspense. The film was filmed in Washington, Philadelphia and New York and takes you into the National Archives in DC, Independence Hall, The Franklin Institute, The Reading Terminal Market and historic sections of Philadelphia and Wall Street in New York. National Treasure is a very enjoyable fast paced film and one I can recommend heartedly for fans of action adventures.

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DailyMail UK

[...] The show, which was mocked as a “poor man’s Star Trek” for its shoestring effects and scenery as wooden as the acting, was an unlikely hit - with audiences of up to nine million. [...]

Casting has yet to begin for the three main parts of rugged leader Blake, played in the original by Gareth Thomas, his brooding sidekick Avon, played by Paul Darrow, and beautiful but deadly Servalan, originally played by Jacqueline Pearce.

Sean Bean or Ashes To Ashes star Philip Glenister have been tipped as a possible Blake, with Spooks’ Rupert Penry-Jones as Avon and former EastEnder Tamsin Outhwaite as Servalan. [...]

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I put up a new LotR-related poll up on the left. check it out

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Variety

In a major step forward on “The Hobbit,” Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the New Line-MGM tentpole and its sequel.

The widely expected announcement — which had been rumored for several weeks — came Thursday afternoon jointly from exec producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, New Line president Toby Emmerich, and Mary Parent, newly named chief of MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group. [...]

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DNA India

[...] I write this week’s column from Khajuraho where we are currently filming Sharpe’s Peril, the 16th installment of the much beloved epic series that stars the internationally renowned actor Sean Bean.

It’s 40 degrees out in the blistering countryside where we are filming. The actors are wearing thick woolen East India Company uniforms and ride at full gallop pillaging and burning a picturesque village as frightened natives run helter skelter. We set a thatched hut on fire, call for “action” and then watch as skillfully choreographed pandemonium ensues. [...]

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For all you folks in the UK. Outlaw will premiere on Sky Movies today at 11.40pm.

Outlaw: Sean Bean and Danny Dyer head the cast of this gritty drama.When a world-weary soldier returns home to a lawless Blighty, he’s disgusted to find thugs have moved into his neighbourhood, and his wife has cheated on him.Matters get out of control when he and a gang of men take the law into their own hands.
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Boomtown

Bethesda’s huge success, The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion was a Role Playing Game not to miss on the Xbox 360 when it was first released. Boasting an enormous landscape to explore, hours of play time and a first class cast (wait, that was really Sean Bean?) it was of great satisfaction to most people that it was actually really fun to play. The term Downloadable Content (DLC) had been banded around by the hardcore gamers and Microsoft’s publishing arm, but before Oblivion it certainly wasn’t mainstream. After spending hours hacking your way through the (truly brilliant) game we all wanted more. Bethesda obliged, promising DLC for us to enjoy. Then it hit. The Horse Armour. It was released onto the Xbox Live Marketplace for 200 Microsoft points (£1.70 - a price it remains even today), as a way of judging what the right price point for DLC was. Ignoring my personal opinion that charging for ‘Themes’ and ‘Gamer Pictures’, essentially free publicity, for upcoming games seems ludicrous, the Horse Armour upset quite a few people. (read full article on boomtown)

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