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Taresm Singh’s The Fall takes place in Los Angeles during the 1920’s. The story revolves around a little immigrant girl (Catinca Untaru) who finds herself in a hospital recovering from a fall. She strikes up a friendship with a bedridden man (Lee Pace) who captivates her with a whimsical story that removes her far from the hospital doldrums into the exotic landscapes of her imagination. Making sure he keeps the girl interested in the story, he interweaves her family and people she likes from the hospital into this extraordinarily visual tale. We recently caught up with both the film’s director Taresm Singh as well as his leading man, Lee Pace, for some insight into the production.

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IN THE past five years, Lee Pace has played a corrupt CIA agent, a cold-blooded killer and a transvestite whose lover is beaten to death.

So his latest role, as one of Amy Adams’ many admirers in the ’30s romantic confection Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day provided some welcome light relief.”All my character Michael really has to do is fall in love with Amy – and that’s an easy thing to do,” says the American actor of the strawberry blonde Enchanted star, and 2006 Oscar nominee, pictured with Pace.

“For a bit of a challenge, I decided to give myself a northern accent and model him on a rough, heart-on-your-sleeve, Albert Finney kind of character.” Continue…

Lee was at the Superheroes Fashion and Fantasy Costume Institute Gala on 5th May. A few pictures are in the gallery.

   

Anna Friel has ruled out having any more children until ‘Pushing Daisies’ has finished.

The 31-year-old actress - who has a three-year-old daughter Gracie with partner, actor David Thewlis - wants to expand her family, but is more concerned with continuing her role in the hit US TV show.

Anna plays Charlotte Charles, who is bought back to life by her high school sweetheart, but discovers she will die again if she ever touches him.

She said: “I definitely want more kids. I’d like another two probably, but not yet. I can’t right now - I’m not sure how they would explain my character on ‘Pushing Daisies’ getting pregnant when her leading man can’t actually touch her. What am I - the Virgin Mary?”

Anna also said she is not worried about coping with pregnancy in weight-conscious city Los Angeles because the obsession with size is unhealthy.

She added: “I don’t think being self-obsessed is a very endearing quality to have. Just being self-aware and healthy is enough, I think.”

Anna Friel has revealed that getting naked in front of the cameras never gets easier.

‘Any scene that involves stripping off is hell,’ she says.

‘You just know it’s going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it’s always uncomfortable.

‘All you can do is grin and bare it.’

But Anna, 31 - who has daughter Gracie, 2, with boyfriend David Thewlis, 44 - says it has nothing to do with being self-conscious.

‘I’m in a really good place,’ she tells Celebs On Sunday.

‘I used to be a right worrier, but being in a steady relationship has made a massive difference.

‘I was on my own for 3 years before meeting David. I’m very happy with him, he’s a fantastic man.’

Imagine being a young actor just off your first big film and a director meets you with this most unusual job offer: You are to play a paralyzed soldier and not let on to anyone you know - not even your co-stars or the film’s crew - that you can walk in real life.

It happened to Lee Pace, now the star of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” who filmed his part in director Tarsem Singh’s epic fantasy “The Fall” four years ago when he was not yet famous. He played a bedridden man in a hospital who befriends a young girl with a broken collarbone and starts telling her a vivid, fantastical story of exotic lands.

“I thought, `Great! I’ll really be acting now, great method stuff,”‘ said Lee, who was trained at Juilliard. “I had only done one movie before this. He had seen `Soldier’s Girl’ and thought I’d be perfect for this one. God knows why.” Continue…

While Chuck makes mood enhancing pies for her aunts Lily and Vivian, Ned comes in covered with bee stings.

Knowing that Chuck misses making honey in her former life, Ned has set up beehives on the rooftop for her.

Now that Olive knows Chuck’s real identity, she ponders on how to expose her until a messenger pigeon crashes into the window of The Pie Hole and is accidentally brought back from the dead by Ned.

In a bizarre chain of events, the group sees a crop duster plane crash into The Broadview Apartment complex and private investigator Emerson Cod follows the ambulance in hopes of reward money.

Ned, Emerson and Chuck then begin to unravel the mystery of what happened to the pilot and try to determine whether or not the pilot had committed suicide.

This episode is on ITV1, Saturday 26 April 2008 @ 9.05-10.05pm.

Kristin Chenoweth may not be on Broadway right now, and she’s still on hiatus from her popular ABC sitcom Pushing Daisies, but she’s one busy lady. On May 6, she performs a solo concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; on May 18, she helps Encompass Opera Theatre celebrate the birthday of Apple Tree composer Jerry Bock, and on May 20, she’ll join Marvin Hamlisch, Raul Esparza, and the New York Philharmonic for the Broadway Showstoppers concert at Avery Fisher Hall. In between her preparations for all these events, she took a few minutes to chat via email with TheaterMania.THEATERMANIA: You’re heading to Chicago soon? Does that city hold any special memories for you?
KRISTIN CHENOWETH: I remember we opened You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in nearby Skokie, and Chicago became one of my favorite cities. Continue…

ITV1’s second instalment of Pushing Daisies - actually the third in the series - was watched by 1m fewer viewers than the opening episode.

ITV decided not to air the second episode of the US drama to make space in its schedules for Euro 2008 football. The move sparked an angry reaction from fans on the Digital Spy forums. The broadcaster had claimed that it was the only instalment that could be dropped “without spoiling the storyline”.

Saturday night’s show was watched by 4.7m, 28% of the viewing audience, at 9.05pm - down from 5.7m the previous week and falling below ITV’s 5.1m (23.4%) slot average.

Earlier on the channel won a huge audience of 10.3m (43.3%) for Britain’s Got Talent. The average for the 8pm slot is 5.8m (26.8%).

The rest of the terrestrial pack were far behind. BBC One’s latest National Lottery vehicle, 1 vs 100, was watched by 4.8m (20.1%) while BBC Two’s world snooker championship coverage drew 1.1m (5%) from 7.30pm.

THE intensely annoying, never-ending, smug voiceover of Pushing Daisies drained all the fun from the latest American import.The tale of pie-maker Ned, whose touch can raise the dead, began promisingly enough, but the narration just went on and on and on … until I was ready to scream every time the pesky voice piped up to state the obvious.

Yes, Ned’s second touch sends the walking dead back to their maker, yes, Ned’s lonely. OK, we get it, please, just shut up for two minutes.

Former Brookside beauty Anna Friel put on her best American accent to play Ned’s childhood sweetheart Chuck. She was his dream girl except for one teeny problem - she was as dead as a Norwegian blue parrot.

Ned’s magical touch restored her to life after she was murdered with a plastic carrier bag on a cruise ship, but they both know a second touch will kill her so it’s definitely a hands-off romance.

ITV’s new Saturday show is quirky and original with lots of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, but that voiceover needs to be silenced … for good.

Even Desperate Housewives limits its voiceover to a minute at the beginning and end. Pushing Daisies should bring in the same time limit as quickly as possible otherwise the silent button on the remote might be getting a work-out.