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- RICHARD CURTIS GOT THE IDEA FOR THE FILM WHILE LYING IN BED ONE NIGHT. "When I was lying sleepless at nights I would sometimes wonder what it would be like if I just turned up at my friends’ house, where I used to have dinner once a week, with the most famous person at that time, be it Madonna or whomever, " Richard Curtis recalled.
- CURTIS LISTENED TO THE SAME SONG OVER AND OVER WHILE WRITING IT. "There’s a version of 'Downtown Train' by Tom Waits performed by Everything But The Girl and when I was writing Notting Hill, that was all I listened to," Curtis revealed in 2014.
- ANNA SCOTT WAS NOT BASED ON JULIA ROBERTS. Curtis said Anna Scott was a hybrid of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. Still, as far as Curtis, Hugh Grant, and director Roger Michell were concerned, Julia Roberts was the perfect choice for the part.
- ROBERTS WASN'T IMPRESSED BY THE SYNOPSIS. "When I sat to read [the script], I did not have any great expectations," Roberts admitted. "I had been given a brief synopsis and it sounded unappealing.
What we now understand as the 1958 Notting Hill riots began on Bramley Road outside the Latimer Road Tube Station on the evening of Friday 29 August when a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison, married to a Trinidadian, was attacked by a crowd after she tried to help a West Indian man being attacked.
Aug 30, 2011 · The foundation this model is built on is that stories follow the three act structure: Beginning (Act I), the long middle (Act II), and the end (Act III). Mr. Bell argues that a novel's structure is held together with a well thought out initial disturbance and two doorways of no return leading to grand finale.
Jan 1, 2001 · Who hasn't ever dreamed of meeting a movie star, falling in love, and discovering the feelings are mutual? Richard Curtis's Notting Hill is a funny, enchanting, lighthearted take on just such a fairy-tale premise.
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Notions of aesthetic decadence inevitably shift with time, since later generations smile or puzzle over works that outraged our grandparents, but Arthur Machen’s The Hill of Dreams still merits the claim to be the most exquisite novel ever written.
May 28, 2019 · As Julia Roberts-Hugh Grant starrer "Notting Hill" turns 20, screenwriter Richard Curtis talks about the production and the film's impact.
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May 1, 2021 · One Guardian writer theorized back in 2006 that Notting Hill could be based on the relationship between Madonna, one of the most famous pop stars of all time, and British film director Guy...
