sweeney 2
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dennis waterman and john thaw. sweeney 2 (1978). @ denniswaterman @ johnthaw @ sweeney2
£12 preview performances on 26 oct (7. 30pm) and 27 oct (2. 30pm )
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closing scenes of sweeney 2 (1978) with john thaw and dennis waterman letting off steam. @ det. sgt. georgecarter @ det. insp. jackregan @ denniswaterman @ johnthaw @ sweeney2
sweeney 2 was written by troy kennedy - martin, who also wrote the italian job. filming began on 7 th november 1977 and lasted for 5 weeks. locations included london and malta .
sweeney! and sweeney 2 are the two excellent big screen versions of the classic itv series, again starring the superb pairing of john thaw, as detective inspector jack regan, and detective sergeant george carter. a must have for any dvd collection. i highly recommended .
sweeney 2 was the second big screen spin off from the euston films tv series, following 1976' s sweeney! which was helmed by david wickes from a ranald graham script. this time around, the director is series veteran tom clegg and the script writing duties falls to troy…
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johnny depp appeared as sweeney todd in the 2008 film of the same name .
having viewed only the first 20 minutes of sweeney 2 online, it was a must have, along with the reagan pilot. tooks years actually. having no luck with multi format dvd players, a converting ripper was purchased and finally, albeit running through a computer, success - well worth the effort! surprisingly, sweeney! - trumped sweeney 2, in my opinion, as i found sweeney 2 a very strong start progressively running low on spark. where as sweeney! ramped up the action and intrigue throughout. having watched every episode countless times, the movies were indeed a fitting farewell. long live the best copper show ever. forty years on, as strong as the first day and an amazing accomplishment. footnote: many uk productions such as bulman, are unavailable here, so the transfer process must be used. yes - i am living the past, but oh what great times it was .
ray winstone is the sweeney. well, not quite but ray winstone is jack regan, the head of the sweeney in the sweeney. the sweeney is an elite department of the london police that catches armed robbers. winstone plays jack regan, a role made famous by john thaw in the 1970s series the sweeney. winstone was in new york promoting the film and we got to speak with him on the phone about his latest badass character .
hugh maynard was the first black actor to play sweeney todd in a uk professional production .
sweeney 2 sweeney 2 gets off to an exciting start and the suspense of how regan and carter are going to nail the crooks is kept up to the very end. but the compulsive appeal of the movie for repeated viewing lies in the crisp, salty dialogue written by troy kennedy martin (creator of the tv series z cars) and the sardonic humour that thaw and waterman bring to the partnership of regan and carter. nothing can shake their loyalty to each other or tempt them into accepting bribes for bending the law .
play book tag: the nest by cynthia d' aprix sweeney - 3. 5 * * *
sutton ce 1, lalor sj, sweeney cm, brereton cf, lavelle ec, mills kh .
sweeney 2 is a 1978 film made following the success of the 1977 film sweeney! which was a spin - off from the popular british tv show the sweeney. some of the action is transferred from the usual london setting to malta. denholm elliott appears as a corrupt ex - officer, who asks his former subordinates to take down a gang of armed bank robbers. nigel hawthorne appears as a bureaucratic superior officer, taking a role similar to that usually played by garfield morgan in the television episodes .
the sweeney started out as a british tv detective program all about scotland yard' s flying squad. its popularity spawned a reasonably satisfying 1976 feature film, starring the tv series' tom thaw. in sweeney 2, thaw is called upon to solve a series of carefully orchestrated bank robberies, which turn out to be the handiwork of an elite team of crooks headquartered in a posh maltese apartment complex .
strings: 6 violins; 2 violas; 2 celli; 1 string bass; 1 harp. keyboard: yamaha e5 organ; celesta. brass: 2 trumpets in c; 1 french horn; 3 trombones (2 tenors, 1 bass). winds: reed 1: flute; piccolo; (alto and soprano recorder optional). reed 2: bb and eb clarinet; flute; piccolo. reed 3: bass clarinet; bb clarinet; (flute optional). reed 4: oboe; english horn; (bb clarinet optional). reed: 5: bassoon; (bb clarinet optional). percussion: 3 timpani; concert bass drum; concert - size xylophone; vibraphone; snare drum; tuneable tom - toms; bass drum with pedal; orchestra bells; large tam - tam (at least 36 inches); full set of chimes; various suspended cymbals (4); wood block; crash cymbals; bell tree; tambourine; washtub .
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since “prayer for mad sweeney” is also the penultimate episode of season 1, it comes with a major revelation .
the character of sweeney todd will be portrayed by isaiah feken, currently a master’s student with an emphasis in vocal performance. when asked to describe his murderous character, feken claimed that sweeney was a normal man put into extreme situations .
when sweeney todd takes the stage, blood will be spilt, and the smell of pies will fill the air .
we’d love your help. let us know what’s wrong with this preview of the nest by cynthia d' aprix sweeney .
during the 70' s i was not a great fan of the sweeney tv series, but, i saw both of the feature films when working in london in the late 70' s and was hooked, particularly sweeney 2. maybe it' s middle aged nostalgia kicking in, but i felt the need to see both films again to see if they were as good as i remembered. i wasn' t disappointed, they are! both films are different in there own way, but the strength of the two main characters the brilliant john thaw as regan and dennis waterman as carter, and the sub plots involved, particularly in the first film, make them both great viewing. the sweeney was ground breaking tv at the time the series was aired in the mid seventies, tackling the very real subjects of police corruption in the metropolitan police and the the gritty world of the flying squad and the criminals they came up against. if you love the 70' s and enjoy a good realistic drama / action with some great dark humour thrown in, you will enjoy both sweeney and sweeney 2 .
sweeney 2 is a fairly decent score. composed by tony hatch, no album was ever released for the soundtrack, but there was a single released. it had “main theme” on the a side, and “regan’s key” on the b side, and was released on 21st april 1978. both tracks on the single differ somewhat from the versions we hear in the film .
i’m also going to start shipping this unlikely pair of laura and sweeney, though greater powers than i can figure out their catchy couple name .
sweeney 2 was the second big screen spin off from the euston films tv series, following 1976' s sweeney! which was helmed by david wickes from a ranald graham script. this time around, the director is series veteran tom clegg and the script writing duties falls to troy kennedy martin, creator of z cars and brother of the sweeney creator ian. for better or worse, this big screen sequel is much more like an extended bigger budget episode of the tv series than the first cinematic instalment was, which was essentially a hard edged bitter political thriller; interestingly, when love' s update was first announced it was mooted that it would be a straight remake of sweeney! and it' s rather a shame he changed his mind really, as the themes in ranald graham' s story are still rather relevant today .
cynthia d’aprix sweeney is the new york times bestselling author of the nest, which has been translated into more than 25 languages and optioned for film by amazon studios with sweeney writing the adaptation. she has an mfa from the bennington writing seminars and lives in los angeles with her husband and children .
recommend this novel to anyone who would even remotely consider themselves a millennial (whether by age or by temperament). i started to give this one 2 stars, because i finished it, but then realized that that was my own accomplishment, not this novel’s. 1 star. *
making a profit off the project would have required the game to be a major success .
anything less could put us out of business ,
sweeney said .
looks very dated now (but then the sweeney looked dated in the 70' s) but still an enjoyable watching a bit of nostalgia. now shut it you slaaaaags
perhaps of more significance, both women face a loss of identity. laura still struggles to find life beyond death when she knows that life has a deadline, and essie longs to become someone else, as she says in her story to sweeney about an “indian woman” named susan in the states. the same could be said of sweeney .
in 19th - century london, sweeney todd is a prosperous and successful fleet street barber – that is until his life is torn apart by a shocking miscarriage of justice .
victorian london, a mighty industrial city, the heart of a great empire: the ballad of sweeney todd begins, setting the scene for the awful tale about to unfold .
craveonline: the sweeney has another great tough guy role for you. at what point did this tough guy casting start for you, that people started seeing you as this type ?
the families of two students who had their throats slashed with a razor during a school production of sweeney todd have received an apology from the school, a year after the near - fatal incident .
there is a possibility that the two injured students, and the student who played the sweeney todd character, may also in the future suffer emotional or psychological injuries because of the incident .
general admission tickets run for $ 16, while students can get discounted $ 12 prices. two sunday matinee showings will be held at 2: 30 on april 17 and 24. other performances will be at 8 p. m. on april 14, 15, and 20 - 23 with all shows held in room 200 in the fine arts building .
a sadistic barber and his entourage of accomplices will take the stage for the spring musical “sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street, ” belting out songs of murder and “locally - made” pastries .
and with sweeney’s entertainment connections – her husband writes for conan o’brien’s show, she’s friends with amy poehler, who enthusiastically
blurbed
the book – you can bet your ass it’ll become a movie soon .
let' s not waste each other' s time. you already know whether this sounds like the kind of top bloke you' d fancy having a pint with. if so, the sweeney is your film .
chuck doesn’t like playing political games in which he doesn’t have an edge, and so he dismisses his dad’s assertions that he screwed up the foley deal and decides to take care of sweeney himself. first, he offers the potential candidate a spot on the rhoades ticket as his lieutenant governor. the arrangement is predictably rebuked by sweeney, and as is so often the case with chuck rhoades, if you refuse his offer of kindness he comes at you with a rocket launcher. in this case, that means having ira (ben shenkman) dig up dirt on sweeney — namely, that the candidate sent his son away for gay conversion therapy when he was 17. (a timely real - world issue that has dogged mike pence’s own political ascendancy .) that baggage is too much for sweeney, and he backs out of the race before it has even really begun. was this all a test by foley to see how rhoades would respond ?
when asked if the material they plan to present more closely resembled the tim burton rendition of sweeney todd or the original, theatrical source material, both butcher and feken reflected that it draws strengths from both despite being “it’s own entity. ”
we realized that the business really needed to change its approach quite significantly ,
sweeney said .
we were seeing some of the best games in the industry being built and operated as live games over time rather than big retail releases .
in celebration of the show, pouch pies located in downtown athens launched limited edition sweeney todd pies that will continue to be sold throughout the show’s runtime. these pies include “mrs. lovett’s signature steak pie” among other meaty selections, and a veggie - version called “the one that got away. ” pouch will be offering discounted pie prices with proof of ticket purchase for the show, and the show will offer discounted tickets with a receipt from pouch for one of their specialty sweeney todd pies .
the prose is polished and full of witty observations and heart; but despite what you’ve heard, it isn’t a laugh - a - minute satire. sweeney wants to go deeper than that, and i can see why people are comparing the book to franzen’s
sorry for the synching of the lips being a bit off. it kinda got messed up after i put it thru my video editor an inside look at the production design of sweeney todd includes his razors, barber' s chair, meat pies and set design
the university of georgia theater’s spring musical is scheduled for mid - april release, centering on revenge - bent barber sweeney todd who goes on a slaughtering spree to avenge his wife, and whose victims make up the meat pies his deranged neighbor serves to the public .
one of the darkest musicals ever written, sweeney todd: a musical thriller is the unsettling tale of a victorian - era barber who returns home to london after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. when revenge eludes him, sweeney swears vengeance on the entire human race, murdering as many people as he can, while his business associate mrs. lovett bakes the bodies into meat pies and sells them to the unsuspecting public. perhaps composer / lyricist stephen sondheim’s most perfect score, sweeney todd is lush, operatic, and full of soaring beauty, pitch - black comedy and stunning terror. it’s one of the signal achievements of the american musical theater of the last fifty years, and it’s the high water mark of sondheim’s six remarkable collaborations with director harold prince .
the two 16 - year - old actors were rushed to auckland city hospital on wednesday night after sustaining the injuries during a performance of
sweeney todd: the demon barber of fleet street
at st. kentigern college, a private school in auckland, the new zealand national broadcaster reported .
2. 5 once again my reception of this book will have me swimming upstream from most of my friends on this site whom have already read this book and loved it. . i have given it three stars for the writing alone but the characters and the story i did not care for. self absorbed, unlikable, selfish is how i found these four siblings. i occasionally felt a slight interest in bea, but not for long. too many side characters, which occasioned constant breaks in the narrative did not help matters. the endi
no, i don’t think so. we’re probably cynical about everything. i don’t think so. i felt with the sweeney, it’s a good point you’re making but we’ve had nothing but support. to be quite honest with you, i haven’t seen anything that’s been written about the sweeney that is derogatory to us in any way. there might have been. i might have missed it. i don’t look at many of them but we’ve just had great feedback. i think because we’ve done a good job. i think if we had done a bad job with it, i think quite rightly we would’ve been assaulted .
the title of the long middle section of the novel (“the kiss”) takes on lots of significance and weight as the book progresses, and made me admire sweeney’s artistry. and there are some knockout scenes, including at least three parties (two birthday parties and one humiliating literary event) that i will never forget .
tearing up the streets of london, the sweeney is a stylish, exhilarating action thriller proving sometimes you have to act like a criminal to catch a criminal. armed and dangerous, the sweeney flying squad are old school crime fighters enforcing the law. led by legendary detective jack regan (ray winstone) and his loyal partner, they have their own unique way of operating and always get results. with a bank heist in progress and his old enemy making a reappearance on the london crime scene, regan will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even defying orders from his no - nonsense boss (damian lewis). (c) eone
yet that profit was later mitigated by increasing development costs. 2011' s gears of war 3 cost
about four or five times more
to make than gears of war did in 2006. according to sweeney, the way epic games was going, the fourth game would have boasted a more than $ 100 million budget .
with some luck, she seduces the captain of the ship, convinces him to bring her to london as his wife, and then once he sets sail on another journey, essie flees into the city with his valuables. one move leads to another and her life of thievery lands her in jail in a cell next to mad sweeney .
it’s what sweeney does with it that’s so impressive. initially, her characters are all very unlikeable: entitled, spoiled, lazy. but the depletion of the nest forces them all to begin communicating with each other and confronting some brutal truths about their lives. they have a chance to redeem themselves. will they rise to the challenge ?
for example, there was the appearance of veteran actress sian phillips in a small but pivotal role as a posh, ailing lady who knew lula (and whose dead son was a friend of strike’s), the appearance of strike’s vaguely neurotic half - sister lucy (sarah sweeney) – and backdrops of a rain - sodden, visually arresting london .
“the original penny dreadfuls were specifically written for teenage boys in the victorian age as thrillers with gratuitous violence and sex, ” he said. “sweeney todd is the precursor to freddy and jason today. people who don’t know the story will be surprised by how fun it is, and if you do know it you’ll hear it sung and performed beautifully. ”
gears of war 4 would have cost more than $ 100 million to make, epic games estimated. anything but a major success would have put the company out of business, co - founder tim sweeney told polygon. the sky - rocketing development costs led the company to sit on the game, ultimately selling off the gears of war property to publisher microsoft .
the show would not be complete without the powerful, and often murderous ballads sung by the cast. feken praised individuals chords more than songs “of a different flavor, ” in harmonic shifts in “my friends” especially. meanwhile, butcher gushed about the fun involved in her first number, “worst pies in london, ” and the brilliance of original “sweeney todd” director stephen sondheim .
2. 5 once again my reception of this book will have me swimming upstream from most of my friends on this site whom have already read this book and loved it. . i have given it three stars for the writing alone but the characters and the story i did not care for. self absorbed, unlikable, selfish is how i found these four siblings. i occasionally felt a slight interest in bea, but not for long. too many side characters, which occasioned constant breaks in the narrative did not help matters. the ending was clinched and predictable. did, however, learn a valuable lesson, never promise your children a large sum of money while you are still alive .
this element in and of itself revealed that sweeney is as out of touch with the real world as her characters are, and that made the read unenjoyable—in fact, a chore. it wasn’t nearly pushed far enough to be satire; this is really the world she wanted to paint, which would have been fine, possibly even funny, as a satire but nothing more than that .
unlike sweeney! , the great thing about this sequel is that troy kennedy martin truly appreciated the ability to mix humour with action and drama in his brother' s series. as a result he offers up some crisp, salty and sardonic dialogue that continues to delight on repeated viewings. there' s so many great moments i love in this film, here are just a few of them ...
this follow - up to sweeney - - it' s far better than the original - - finds thaw and waterman on the trail of bank robbers. the thieves support their families on a mediterranean isle by making periodic visits to london banks for armed withdrawals. the plot is farfetched, but the film, directed with style and humor, is quite engaging. the acting is uniformly good, ... read more
by cynthia d’aprix sweeney did absolutely nothing for me. (i clearly seem to be of the minority here, but i’m fine with that .) i had high hopes for this one going in—another brilliantly written cover flap did the trick—but my expectations were never met, and by mid - way, i stopped hoping and assuming that they eventually would be. in fact, this one almost didn’t get finished; sheer perseverance pushed me through .
one of bryan fuller and michael green ’s favorite “coming to america” stories in neil gaiman ’s american gods was the tale of essie tregowan, a woman from cornwall whose unfortunate fate prompted her to lead a life of con artistry, thievery, and prostitution. in translating the story for the show, it became a great way to incorporate actress emily browning and offer a parallel to laura moon’s journey while giving the leprechaun mad sweeney an origin story .
unlike the other “coming to america”s, this one takes up a significant portion of the episode, unpacking more of laura’s journey with sweeney. laura and essie, both played by browning, have a strong impulse to turn every shift coming their way to good fortune, even when it seems their situations are comfortable. laura, unsatisfied with her picture - perfect marriage to shadow, turns to thievery much as essie does when she’s transplanted to london .
“don’t count your chickens before they hatch” if only someone had said this to the plumb siblings in cynthia d’aprix sweeney’s entertaining first novel, the nest, the characters would have been spared a lot of anxiety and humiliation. but then again, if they had heeded this advice, this highly readable book wouldn’t have been so gripping or cathartic. “the nest” refers to the modest nest egg provided by the patriarch of the plumb family, to be dispersed to the children when the youngest, melody, tu
“sweeney todd has always been one of my favorite musicals, and i always knew it was brilliant, ” said george contini, the show director and head of the theater department’s season selection committee. “but then when you really start to tear it apart it explodes your mind and you wonder how can one mind come up with all these layers? i really wanted to focus on each of the characters, what sort of revenge they’re seeking in the play, and then that led to the design. ”
from the blurb: this is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. in this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love. it is truly one of the most outstanding debut novels in
only then does todd recognise her: his wife, his beloved lucy, the one person in the world his poisoned heart still loved. and, because mrs. lovett lied and made him think lucy was dead, he has killed her. he takes his twittering landlady in his arms, they dance and he flings her in the furnace before he, in turn, is killed by tobias. when johanna, anthony and the police arrive, the boy is grinding the mincer: the gruesome finale to the ballad of sweeney todd .
the nest by cynthia d’aprix sweeney did absolutely nothing for me. (i clearly seem to be of the minority here, but i’m fine with that .) i had high hopes for this one going in—another brilliantly written cover flap did the trick—but my expectations were never met, and by mid - way, i stopped hoping and assuming that they eventually would be. in fact, this one almost didn’t get finished; sheer perseverance pushed me through. the nest is about the plumb siblings, four middle - agers whose lives are thr
after essie, through another series of lucky events, winds up in the u. s. as a wet nurse to a tobacco farmer, she marries him, bears his children, and lives out the rest of her days on the farm. but, as she finds in becoming a grandmother, there’s no place for her or her stories from the old country in this new world. sweeney, too, feels lonely and adrift, which is why he takes a liking to essie and visits her at the end of her life .
a short promo video for our 2014 production of sweeney todd. this amateur production is presented by arrangement with josef weinberger ltd. on behalf of music theatre international of new york. 12 - - 14 mortimer street, london, w1t 3jj. email: amateur @ urltoken tel: 020 7580 2827 music & lyrics by stephen sondheim book by hugh wheeler from an adaptation by christopher bond originally directed by harold prince originally produced on broadway by richard barr, charles woodward, robert fryer, mary lea johnson, martin richards in association with dean & judy manos
3 + of 5 stars to the nest by cynthia d' aprix sweeney. i was excited to read this one because it fits right in with my own choice of writing: family dramas. and it doesn' t disappoint. the family feels very real - - a little too much drama / secrets for one family, but then again, it did keep me interested. it has something for everyone, characters to love and characters to hate. i am disappointed in one of the 4 children especially since i don' t feel we got a good ending for this person' s post - boo
down at the docks, two men disembark and greet their native city. for anthony hope, after years overseas, there' s no place like london. sweeney todd echoes that sentiment but for different reasons: london is a hell hole, a black pit in which all the vermin of the earth are gathered. as they part, a deranged beggar woman pathetically offers herself to them. todd is cruelly abusive, to the surprise of anthony, who has only known him as kind and gentle. now, he seems embittered and hateful. but london can do that. todd relates the sad story of the barber and his wife - and the rich, powerful man who desired her .
“the kingmaker” refers to “black” jack foley (david strathairn), one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in new york, the kind of guy who can pull strings and create political leaders. he’s also the guy who killed the sandicot deal, as a favor for his old buddy chuck rhoades sr. (jeffrey demunn). much of the drama this week consists of discovering how foley will use his power next. at the start, it doesn’t look good for chuck, as foley tells rhoades sr. that he’ll be putting his weight behind someone else, two - term buffalo mayor bob sweeney (the great matt servitto of the sopranos). chuck couldn’t get foley’s granddaughter the clerkship, so foley is backing another horse .
seriously. we only had literally about five hours to shoot that. we had 10 cameras set up and we ended up using most of it with a steadicam because it kind of worked like a ballet dance. we wanted to see the journey. it took us about four or five hours to shoot it. we then came up the square, shot the robbers coming out of the bank which happens before the shootout. that was because the director and the boys around him had actually done their homework. they went there and they [ prepped ] it. we had talks and the london councils really allowed us to do it. there’s no other film, other than bond, that probably would have been allowed to do what we’ve done there. that says a lot for the name of the sweeney .
baby boomers are expected to play their part by succumbing to the looming wave of death — the greatest degeneration — and bequeathing some $ 16 trillion to their children over the next three decades. for princes and princesses of american aristocracy, these bittersweet transactions hold little suspense. but for upper - middle - class americans balancing mortgage payments, tuition bills and retirement plans on a brittle tower of monthly paychecks, this bounty looms with the promise of salvation. if you find yourself overanticipating such financial relief, take a break from the death watch to read cynthia d’aprix sweeney’s debut novel, “the nest, ” a comedy of filial greed and affection. here, in scenes both witty and tragic is a warning about what comes of waiting for... . to read the rest of this review, go to the washington post: urltoken
i really enjoyed this dysfunctional family drama. siblings counting on a promised family inheritance, called
the nest ,
come unglued when it is revealed that the trust fund money has been depeleted to bail out their feckless older brother. in additional to the 4 siblings and their parents, there are interesting side characters that come into play to help reveal the true characters of the main players. while many of the main characters were weak, dishonest or just plain unlikeable, i could in some way relate to each of them. money can divide a family like nothing else and can expose and deepen fractures that lie just below the surface. i honestly had no idea how this would end, but i like how d' aprix sweeney wrapped things up at the end. it felt right to me. if you enjoy well - written family dramas and aren' t put off by unlikeable characters, give this one a shot - loved it !
if i had to describe this book in one word it would be
shallow
. there was no depth to the characters, the plot, the problem the characters faced - just pure surface level, mind - numbing, shallow reading. i really hesitated in reading this book because the blurb didn' t appeal to me. i wasn' t enthused about reading about these four siblings who are just sitting waiting for their inheritance. i decided to give it a go because if the ratings - really wish i didn' t. i didn' t feel anything for these characters. i think sweeney made a huge mistake by having so many different povs - this took away from the main story and really did nothing for plot progression and character development. a lot of the smaller plots could have been left out to make room for the bigger stories. also, the ending was so cliché and eye - rolling, i barely made it through. if you are looking for a shallow read, this book might help .
leaving the docks, he makes his way to fleet street and mrs. lovett' s shop, wherein are sold the worst pies in london. there are lodgings above, difficult to let since a nasty incident a while back: there was a nice gentlemanly barber who worked and lived there with a young daughter and a pretty little wife who attracted the attentions - poor thing - of a corrupt judge and his beadle. they had the barber unjustly transported, lured his sweet naive wife to the judge' s house, where she was raped and her beautiful child taken from her. the barber was never seen again, the wife took poison, but the girl johanna still lives with the judge. even as she tells the tale, mrs. lovett knows to whom she speaks: sweeney todd has returned to have his revenge. she hands him the tools of his trade, carefully kept by her since the day he was convicted. my friends, murmurs todd, caressing his razors .
i' m your friend, too ,
adds mrs. lovett. he takes the lodgings and sets up business as a barber .
a superb spin - off sequel from the classic television series. it was the first and only time some of the locations were filmed outside the uk, from the usual london setting to malta. john thaw appears far more world - weary and visibly greyer in this movie, a trait which continued in the final fourth television series. this is particularly noticeable with his reaction to hearing a robbery is taking place on the radio, and thaw’s brilliant acting when alone in a small bathroom after witnessing a villain commit suicide, as he frantically attempts to wash off the blood and brains that were splattered over him during the incident. during this scene it appears as though jack regan is having a temporary breakdown. denholm elliot appears as a corrupt ex - officer, who asks his former subordinates to take down a gang of armed bank robbers. nigel hawthorne appears as a bureaucratic superior officer, taking the role usually played by garfield morgan in the television episodes. it was probably the most violent of the sweeney stories, and contained considerably more bad language than the first film. bizarrely, the use of the f - word doesn’t appear in the film until the latter half .
how had they raised children who were so impractical yet still so entitled ?
the nest
is a trust fund, promised as a reward whenever the youngest of the four siblings turns forty. each of the
children
expects to receive $ 500, 000. that' s a nice sum of money; enough for a college tuition or two, or perhaps a chance to pay off some risky investments that headed south. they' ve all been waiting, counting the days until they can relax, breathe freely and have their debts wiped away. so it' s really too bad when most of the money goes to cover up an indiscretion by the oldest son. hey, whoever said life is fair? while their mother insists the fund was meant to be only a
modest assist
and not a true inheritance, her children are at loose ends. they were counting on that money! now what? will they let this tear them apart, or will losing the nest somehow bring them closer together as a family? this was a terrific book, full of interesting, though not necessarily likable characters; even the bit players were fascinating people. there' s a wonderful mix of humor and pathos. it' s hard to believe this is a first novel. here' s hoping sweeney has a few more inside waiting to get out .
3 + of 5 stars to the nest by cynthia d' aprix sweeney. i was excited to read this one because it fits right in with my own choice of writing: family dramas. and it doesn' t disappoint. the family feels very real - - a little too much drama / secrets for one family, but then again, it did keep me interested. it has something for everyone, characters to love and characters to hate. i am disappointed in one of the 4 children especially since i don' t feel we got a good ending for this person' s post - book life. but still, this is a good read and i will look for more by the author. i didn' t give it a higher mark only because i felt the story for the one character was a bit unfinished and the ending didn' t seem to be the right one for me. that said, the pacing was good. the point of view and voice were strong. i enjoyed the differences among all the siblings and characters. i would have preferred it focused on just the 4 siblings, instead of some of the people they interacted with, as it threw a few curves balls for me. plus some of the personalities were not likable... but that' s when a book is good; it makes you dislike characters. just above a good book, but not as stellar as i' d hoped. about me for those new to me or my reviews... here' s the scoop: i read a lot. i write a lot. and now i blog a lot. first the book review goes on goodreads, and then i send it on over to my wordpress blog at urltoken, where you' ll also find tv & film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 daily challenge and lots of blogging about places i' ve visited all over the world. and you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who / what / when / where and my pictures. leave a comment and let me know what you think. vote in the poll and ratings. thanks for stopping by .
a warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. every family has its problems. but even among the most troubled, the plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in new york city as melody, beatrice, and jack plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, leo, freshly released from rehab. months earlier, an inebriated leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen - year - old waitress as his passenger. the ensuing accident has endangered the plumbs joint trust fund, “the nest, ” which they are months away from finally receiving. meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid - life supplement, the plumb siblings have watched the nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self - inflicted problems. melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, walker, to keep his store open. and bea, a once - promising short - story writer, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. can leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? or will everyone need to reimagine the future they’ve envisioned? brought together as never before, leo, melody, jack, and beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present - day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. this is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. in this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love .
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second cinematic spin - off from the popular 70' s police series. regan & carter head a flying squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well - armed villains who are flying in from the continent .
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the name of the police unit was
the flying squad
. this is in real life an actual police division. wikipedia explain it as being
a branch of the specialist crime & operations section, within london' s metropolitan police service. the squad' s purpose is to investigate commercial armed robberies, along with the prevention and investigation of other serious armed crime. possibly one of the best known operations of the squad was their foiling of the millennium dome raid
.
when regan is talking to the telephone operator in the hotel where the bomb is being defused, one shot shows the mouthpiece of the operator' s headset pointing correctly towards her mouth. however in the next shot from the opposite side, the mouthpiece is pointing in the wrong direction, away from her mouth .
mckyle is defending superintendent jupp on corruption charges. regan refuses to testify as a character witness for jupp
] my client is a distinguished police officer with whom you had a close working relationship for the past three years .
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john thaw is regan, a heavy - drinking womanizer, tough as old boots and bitterly resentful of the interference from his know - nothing superiors. regans partner is carter (dennis waterman), younger, slicker but no less hard than his boss. together they make up the meanest, toughest and best - known team to ever hit the small screen. now sit back and enjoy their first big screen outing.
sweeney 2 is a british action movie made by euston films , released cinematically in the uk in 1978 . a crime drama about the flying squad , a division of london 's metropolitan police , it was made as a sequel to the successful 1977 film sweeney ! , which was a spin-off from the popular british television series the sweeney ( 1974-78 ) . some of the action in the film is transferred from the usual london setting to malta . the series was based upon a fictionalised version of the flying squad . the term the sweeney is derived from cockney rhyming slang , originating in the expression sweeney todd : flying squad , and is a real term used by the london underworld to refer to the squad , whose brief was to investigate armed robbery within the mpd ( metropolitan police district ) , an area roughly corresponding to greater london . the leader of the squad is the fictional detective inspector jack regan ( john thaw ) , and his second-in-command is detective sergeant carter ( dennis waterman ) . 
sweeney 2 is a british action movie made by euston films, released cinematically in the uk in 1978. a crime drama about the flying squad, a division of london's metropolitan police, it was made as a sequel to the successful 1977 film sweeney! , which was a spin-off from the popular british television series the sweeney (1974-78). some of the action in the film is transferred from the usual london setting to malta. the series was based upon a fictionalised version of the flying squad. the term the sweeney is derived from cockney rhyming slang, originating in the expression sweeney todd: flying squad, and is a real term used by the london underworld to refer to the squad, whose brief was to investigate armed robbery within the mpd (metropolitan police district), an area roughly corresponding to greater london. the leader of the squad is the fictional detective inspector jack regan (john thaw), and his second-in-command is detective sergeant carter (dennis waterman).
sweeney 2 is a british action movie made by euston films, released cinematically in the uk in 1978. a crime drama about the flying squad, a division of london's metropolitan police, it was made as a sequel to the successful 1977 film sweeney! , which was a spin-off from the popular british television series the sweeney (1974-78). some of the action in the film is transferred from the usual london setting to malta. the series was based upon a fictionalised version of the flying squad. the term the sweeney is derived from cockney rhyming slang, originating in the expression sweeney todd: flying squad, and is a real term used by the london underworld to refer to the squad, whose brief was to investigate armed robbery within the mpd (metropolitan police district), an area roughly corresponding to greater london. the leader of the squad is the fictional detective inspector jack regan (john thaw), and his second-in-command is detective sergeant carter (dennis waterman).