Bit of a landmark for team Holland today with my twins, Sam and Harry marking 20 years on planet earth. This is Motorola and Ericsson to the anyone who remembers my old stand-up routine. “Nokia (Tom) – he’s hands free now… obviously.” I remember doing that routine so clearly at The Comedy Store and elsewhere…
I am reminded of a passage in my book, Eclipsed when back in the day, Eddie Izzard came to watch me at a comedy club in London with a view to taking me under his wing. Maybe the audience knew somehow because they granted me an encore (rare for a club) and after the gig,…
Over the weekend, Sam and Harry shared with us some anecdotes of their world trip that they took together earlier this year – organised by Harry and paid for by mum and dad – and with ample spending money for them to have fun, remain fed and watered and see them both safely home. On…
An exciting day ahead for Mrs H as she spends the day on a film set watching her eldestĂ‚Â son, Tom – and I should imagine she might keep an eye out for Chris Hemsworth as well. Then this afternoon and evening,Ă‚Â Tom is due at Bafta on Piccadilly. I’m not entirely sure why. He has been…
BAFTA and Burberry Pick 17 Breakthrough Brits 9:44 AM PDT 9/25/2013 by Stuart Kemp 0 2 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Tom Holland in “The Impossible” Names on the inaugural list include actor Tom Holland (“The Impossible”), filmmaker Rowan Athale and writer Dominic Mitchell (TV’s “In the Flesh”). LONDON – ActorĂ‚Â Tom Holland, who appeared…
It has been an exciting couple of days. A short while ago, Tom announced thatĂ‚Â he intended to shoot a short film and busied himself with various storylines, none of which were particularly suitable. But then, sitting in the back garden one evening, a storyline suddenly emerged and a train was set in motion. Originally, it…
The following is an abridged extract from my book – how tom Holland eclipsed his dad – It is relevantĂ‚Â because today, Tom has a meeting in the same private members club as where the meeting I describeĂ‚Â in this extract took place. But here the similarity ends.Ă‚Â Today, my sonĂ‚Â is meeting a movie director who was…
Regular readers of this blog – Eclipsed – will recall that I worked with a lovely chap last year called John Williams. John was at stage school with one, Ewan McGregor – so a connection there… As well as being mightily impressed by his warmth on stage and comic flare, I was heartened to hear…
Last night, my twins were in the their house play at school. A competition amongst six houses – each team doing a section fromĂ‚Â a famous play. I arrived as a bad dad. For some reason, I thought my boys were doing an exert from Sherlock Holmes. Wrong.Ă‚Â Chatting with a dad in the interval, it emerged…
