Brits in LA book
John Altman | Composer
And there is another thing about Los Angeles I admire and yet it makes me mad – it is bigger than the sum of its parts. It represents so much iconography, it’s infuriating that it takes so little notice of its own history. How I long for Chasens, the Brown Derby, the Mocambo, the Vine […]
Anne Coates | Film Editor
Anne Coates Oscar winning film editor “Although I am now semi-retired, I still love to work and travel. Over the next few months I will be working on my next movie, Fifty Shades of Gray, which is being shot in Vancouver and post will be done in London. I am looking forward to spending the […]
Nigel Lythgoe at the Television Academy
Nigel Lythgoe TV Executive, Dancer and Choreographer “We conquered America with a simple idea – a dream that could transform a coffee barista in Charlestown into the most famous face on television, that turned an Oklahoma farmer’s daughter into a global superstar. I feel we brought the ’American Dream’ back to America, and in doing so, we […]
Ashley James: Cake in the Canyon
Ashley James Executive Chef and Television Host “When I was a child, I would run to my parents’ home in the outskirts of Wolverhampton, and the first thing I would do was hit the biscuit tin, indulging in my mum’s favorite biscuits. I would scrape the cake bowl to eat the raw cake batter and […]
Zandra Rhodes in her studio
Dame Zandra Rhodes Fashion Designer “For me, California was not so much a destiny, but fate – and what I do with that is up to me. Some people move here for the weather, but like Allan Jones and David Hockney, (UK painters,) I just love it when it rains! Additionally, I do try to […]
Lucy Davis in Hollywood
Lucy Davis Actress “I don’t particularly have what a lot of people might think an ‘L.A. life.’ I don’t have lots of stories of glitz and glamour, and red-carpet dramas, and nightly premieres; although I do have a trainer, and I do whiten my teeth – does that count? But I do have things that […]
Jim Tavare at the Laugh Factory Los Angeles
Jim Tavare Comdedian “I have always enjoyed American audiences. You get the feeling that they really want the comic to do well. On the whole, they tend not to get quite as drunk as the crowds back home so they can seem a little more focused and less combative. Having said that, I still return […]
Atherton Twins in Malibu
The Atherton Twins Cirque Du Soleil Acrobats “On the night of the Emmy’s, we were performing Varekai in L.A. and immediately after the award was presented, the documentary crew came to the big top so they could join us on stage for the final bow. For the next eight and a half years we toured […]
Ioan Gruffudd at the Chateau Marmont
Ioan Gruffudd Actor “The back of the house led up to a little vantage point where you could look out and see almost the whole of L.A. Every time I went up that little path and stood looking over this immense city I would feel a surge of excitementm twinned with a very unusual feeling […]