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FROM BALHAM TO BOLLYWOOD When a cricket-loving actor auditioned for an Indian film, he no idea he would end up as a moustachioed villain batting on a mud pitch carved out of the desert with dynamite
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The Oscars have never interested me very much. The tiresome tears,
the fancy frocks, the 'I just want to thank people you haven't heard
of for the next 20 minutes' speeches, the gritted teeth of the
losers... it all adds up to some of the most buttock-clenchingly
unendurable television of the year.
Last Sunday, however, it was different. I stayed up into the small
hours, glued to every glistering moment - because there was a chance
my cricket team might win an Oscar.
My team is called An England XI. I have a pool of a couple of
dozen mostly out-of-work actors and comedians to draw upon, and ...
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