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On screens
24 hours a day in the UK is the 2007 Celebrity Big
Brother. The show started a week a go on Channel 4
and its associated channels. Hammer fans might have
taken note of two of this years' celebrities in the
house. Veteran film director, Ken Russell (The Devils,
Altered States, Women In Love, Lair of
the White Worm) took his place as the oldest
inhabitant of the house to date. Aged 79, Ken left the
show of his own choice just a few days into the show,
having grown frustrated by the antics of fellow
contestants. Russell turned down an offer from Hammer to
direct in the 1970s telling them he'd love to make a
horror film with Hammer, but that the script on offer
simply wasn't a real horror film!
Also
entertaining viewers is 61 year old American actor Dirk
Benedict. Benedict is perhaps best remembered for his
apperances in The A Team and the original
Battlestar Galactica. In 1983 he took the lead role
in Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense episode
The Mark of Satan. |
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