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YOU TELL US...
Dear Buzz,
I draw your attention to your recent review of the Bayside Brassiere, which was dreadful.
The food sounded like it was stuck in a time warp/ 5-10 years behind the times/trends.
Zzzz!! Basically just summed up in one review why I left this land of Wales 25 years ago.
Mediocre. Banality. Lack of imagination. My heart bleeds for this insecure little country.
I weep. Ciao! PS- Peanuts and monkeys spring to mind. Maybe Donna should have “gone
large”
- Anonymous
Dear Anonymous, we must admit that we’re a little confused by your letter. Perhaps if a quickie
you would articulate exactly what the issue is we could give you better feedback? Still,
we’re almost 100% certain that there are no direct links between the standard of food
served in Cardiff’s restaurants and the state of national feeling.
with...
JAMES MASTERS
James, could you tell us a bit about your
WE DIDN’T KNOW
evil character in Dragonball?
THAT LAST MONTH
Lord Piccolo is a maniac who has been locked
away in a prison for 2,000 years for one mistake
and then he bursts out of jail and escapes. In
the prison, there were no mirrors and to his
1 - Female monkeys in Thailand have been monitored
horror when he gets out, he finds that he is
showing their young how to fl oss their teeth.
old and ugly and decrepit. He is furious and
2 - A saucy $14m was reportedly paid for a domain entitled
decides to seek revenge.
sex.com, making it a record breaker.
You’ve worked with many directors,
3 - In the 17th and 18th century, ‘YR’ was an abbreviation
James. How does James Wong stand out
do you think?
for your.
I come from theatre and in theatre we say that
4 - Holding hands on a rollercoaster the casting is 85% of the job. As a director, if you
can cause the torso to be
do your casting right, everything else works out
stretched, enhancing physical
and James is so great at casting. Everyone is
sensations.
perfect in his or her roles. He is confident in the
actors and can just let us act and do our jobs.
5 - The average number of
friends a person accumulates
You’ve had a very varied career. How
over 35 years is 150.
exciting is this film for you?
This is a good stage in my career. It’s been
fabulous to train maniacally hard and watch
my body keep up. I am doing the heaviest stunt
you what?
work I’ve ever even tried.
What kind of training are you doing
specifically?
We are working on a lot of fight choreography.
“
Two men standing in front of an electrical box with wire cutters:
And when I say stretching, there’s nothing gen-
tle about it. It’s torture. We see how far I can
Man 1: Try the green wire. I reckon it’s the green one.
go every day and my trainer Danny comes up to
me when I am in severe pain and says, “I love
Man 2: I’m telling you, it’s the blue one!
you brother. Grrrrrr.” Then he just forces my
face down on the mat. Sometimes I can’t walk
-Not what you want to hear
very well at the end of the day when I go home.
What is it like working with all the visual
“
Girl on Castle Street:
”
effects?
I enjoy it. Ten years ago special effects were
Do they have leprechauns in Wales? I mean, it’s a very demanding because you had to do a lot of
Celtic country so it’s basically the same as Ireland
things on the set, but now it’s all done on the
computer so all we have to contend with is a lot
right?
of blue screen. It is all about imagination nowa-
days and I think that computers are making it

-
Uh oh, run
”
easier, not harder.
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