Hooray! Celine Dion rumour false! +movie casting

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> > Talk of Gormenghast recently, reminds me that June Brown (Dot 
> Cotton from
> > Eastenders) played Nanny Slagg in that.  I think she'd be great 
for 
> Mrs Figg
> > when the time comes.
> 
> I can't agree with you more. I think June Brown would make a 
> wonderful Mrs. Figg! Furthermore, when I first read about MacNair I 
> pictured  Ross Kent (Grant Mitchell). For Stan Shunpike, I pictured 
> Dean Gaffney (Robbie Jackson)
> 
> Milz (who devotedly watches the "EastEnders" eventhough we're 3 
years 
> behind the UK and is just watching the ones with Alex the sexy 
Vicar)

Neil, that is inspired!  I wonder if Mrs Figg chain smokes too?  OK, 
keeping the soap theme, how about Sarah Lancashire as Rosmerta, or 
perhaps Letitia Dean? Although neither are as attractive as I imagine 
Rosmerta to be, they both have a certain pneumatic quality that would 
appeal to many heterosexual men...

Catherine