Dan in Details magazine

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Geoff:
> > Yes. I did say "perceived, rightly or wrongly". I must admit that I
> don't recognise all the names on your list but certainly Elijah Wood
> comes to mind as someone not unlike Dan - comparisons have actually
> been drawn in the past.
> > 
> > I think that where there is discussion about young actors who have
> gone off the rails, there are less names which spring to mind over
> here in the UK.
> >
> Carol responds:
> 
> Possibly because the UK has no equivalent of Hollywood, a whole city
> devoted to the show business industry? That accounts in part for the
> celebrity-obsessed culture. The size of the country is probably
> important, too. It's much easier for a kid to commute from, say,
> Liverpool to London than from, say, Houston to Hollywood. The area of
> the continental U.S. is more than 3.5 million square miles as opposed
> to around 94,000 square miles for the UK. (California alone is  just
> over 163,707 square miles.) For whatever reason I think it's harder
> here for a young celebrity to live a normal life in the U.S.

Geoff:
I take your point. Certainly, many of the UK guys live at home. Dan 
still lives with his parents for example - when he isn't sleeping on a 
garret floor in NY while he appears in "Equus". 
:-)

His home is in Fulham, in South-west London, just on the north side 
of the river. For 45 years, I lived in Wandsworth, a mile or so on the 
other side; unknowingly, our lives in the area overlapped by about 
five years. My claim to fame!

Two of my other claims to fame is that, as a young man, I collided 
head on with Randolph churchill at the W.H.Smith's bookstall in 
Victoria railway station one day and I have a photograph of myself 
wearing a bow tie (oof!) standing near to Queen Elizabeth the 
Queen Mother when she visited my teaching college. Just don't ask 
for the date.
:-(