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My life as a body double-Nicola Curzon
-Posted by: Phoebe
 Nicola Curzon, 27, from Bulwell, starred as a body double for Lyra Belacqua in The Golden Compass. The casting agency needed a body double for Dakota because she could only do a set number of working hours. A friend of Nicola's was working with the film's casting agency and due to her 4ft 10in figure, she was given an audition. Nicola admits she and Dakota got on very well and still stay in touch:
"As it was my first film as well it was a chance to go through the journey together and it was a really nice one. We became very close." ... Read More ...
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Brighton Children Book Festival
-Posted by: Phoebe
 Dakota attended "Brighton Children Book Festival" a while ago where she answered questions about "The Golden Compass". Brighton Children Book Festival is actually "Britain's brightest new children's book festival for readers and writers", and Dakota was in the highlight of the event. I pressume that one of the reasons that Dakota was invited is the fact that she lives in Brighton. No pictures have been out yet.
Source: bcbf.org.uk
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DVD Review: The Golden Compass (Two Disc Special Editon)
-Posted by: Quivi
 Personally I blame it on a literary tradition that dates back to some guy name Geoffrey Chaucer. They don't even attempt to deny it either, you know. In an interview included on the special features disc of the special edition DVD of The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman, the guy who wrote the His Dark Materials trilogy, says he reads Shakespeare and Dostoevsky for pleasure. With attitudes like that is it any wonder that the British keep churning out wonderful books for children that have has as many adult readers as they do younger ones?
From Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, and J.R.R. Tolkien, to the latest generation of J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, they have inundated us with great books that have been and are being turned into remarkably good movies. The latest of these to be given its celluloid treatment are Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, as book one, The Golden Compass, was released in cinemas in December of 2007 and on DVD Arpil 29, 2008. Going upon the recommendation of the person who has always been my best guide in all things literary, my older brother, I picked up a copy of the two disc special edition release of the movie this past weekend. (I don't know about anywhere else, but in Canada it was only three dollars more than the regular edition at Jumbo Video in Kingston, Ontario) ... Read More ...
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-Posted by: Bob
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