'So, inevitably and wonderfully, the sweating and the jigging led to, in the middle of a take, both of the chicken fillets slipping from their desired residence to land with a plop, on the floor, at Toni's feet.Īt which point she lost it totally and collapsed into hysterical laughter.'

'The scene called for Loretta to get hot and sweaty and flushed, which wasn't hard because of the amount of dancing Toni had to do.īecause Loretta was pregnant, the costume department had bulked her up in the chest department with pink latex paddings that look a lot like raw chicken breasts. 'This was where Toni had to, as the pregnant Loretta, dance an Irish jig for the evil Mrs Haggerty, who made her dance and dance and dance,' Griffin said. If I'm telling you something you know already, then apologies - but this is a really enjoyable film.Antonia PrebbleAsk Outrageous Fortune writer James Griffin for dirt on Antonia Prebble, who plays apple-cheeked minx Loretta West in the long-running television series, and the response is swift: the 'chicken fillets incident'. If you haven't seen it and you'd like to see a charming, self-effacing and slightly eccentric photographer spend 90mins answering questions on the what, why and how of his career, it is fantastic, IMO. After much sodding around, I've just tried it in my Apple Mac CD/DVD player and, although I needed to change the zone, that was a doddle. Once home, I put it into my player only to find that my player didn't recognise the zone, even though it was supposedly able to be played in the UK. I'd recently seen the retrospective on his work, so I bought the DVD. It's split into 13 'chapters' and Saul provides his insight and opinions into the various topics.

I'm not a fan of much of the modern art contained in there but there are a few interesting things, the turbine hall (currently undergoing some work and inaccessible) is a great space and the gallery does have a half-decent photography section in its bookshop.Īnyway, I was thumbing through the books when I stumbled across a DVD of 'In No Great Hurry' a documentary about Saul Leiter, filmed whilst he was still alive. During a recent amble along London's South Bank, I popped into Tate Modern.

In no great hurry