'The Player' Starring Richard E. Grant Turns 30 in 2022?🎬👏

The Player (1992)

I've never watched the movie 'The Player' before watching it last night on Amazon Prime, apart from watching a You Tube once about the opening tracking shot lasting for over 7 minutes.

 'The Player' only came to my attention this year because I was going through Richard E, Grant's acting roles at his IMDB page and saw the movie was available for free with my Amazon Prime subscription.

Everywhere I Look Lately There's Richard E. Grant?👀

Richard E Grant and Dispatches from Elsewhere?📨🎄📲

Conversations Episode 
Broadcast 30 Nov 2022

What struck me in that WTF? way while watching 'The Player' was how Greta Scacchi played June Gudmundsdottir from Iceland in that movie, as I'm in the middle of reading a book about Iceland and its sagas called 'Saga Land' co-written by Richard Fidler who has just interviewed Richard E. Grant on his 'Conversations' radio/podcast show -

Deer Me, You Wouldn't Read About it, Would You?📖🦌

Starring Tim Robbins as Erik

I also watched Tim Robbins the star of 'The Player' playing 'Erik the Viking' in the 1989 Monty Python type comedy after I had watched 'The Player'.

It's one of the most boring and unfunny comedies I've ever seen to be honest.

Who Was Snorri Sturluson?📖

I only really took notice of Richard E. Grant as an actor this year after noticing him in a number of movies I was watching because of books I was reading this year, such as Henry Miller's crap book 'Tropic of Cancer' and then watching movies he had starred in, like 'Henry & June' and the 30-year-old 1992 movie 'Dracula' -

Dracula, Love Remembered... and 30 Years?🧛💌

'1001 Books You Must Read 
Before You Die' 

I was surprised to learn of the passing of Fred Ward this year, as Fred played Henry Miller in 'Henry & June' and the head of studio security in 'The Player'.

Fred Ward (1942-2022)

All the world is a stage ... screen, book or podcast, it seems?-)
1001 TV Series Based on a Book That You Must Watch Before You Die?🐒🙈🙉🙊

Withnail & I (1987)

I had never watched 'Withnal & I' until 2022 and was amused that it was set in the English town of Penrith and in the movie a guy comes into the Penrith pub and bashes an eel to death on the bar.

The Penrith Panthers are the current NRL champions beating the Parramatta Eels in the 2022 NRL grand final:-)

Withnail & I (1987)

LIFE/TIME/MEME?