Out and About July 2022 issue199
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the most popular free leisure read in Costa Blanca Spain, Out and About Magazine Costa Blanca. Read and relax with interesting articles and to find some great restaurants and local businesses. What is going on in the local areas of Moraira, Calpe, Javea, Benissa and Altea the \areas is known as the Marina Alta Costa Blanca. You can find the handy A5 printed version of Out and About magazine, at local bars, cafes, shops, and restaurants which you can keep with you when you are out for a walk or sitting on the beach.
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CELEBRITY PROFILE<br />
Brazil (1985) <strong>and</strong> Super Mario<br />
Bros. (1993). Hoskins was<br />
not initially aware that Super<br />
Mario Bros. was based on<br />
the popular video game of<br />
the same name. His son had<br />
asked him what film he was<br />
working on, <strong>and</strong> recognising<br />
it, showed Hoskins the video<br />
game on the Nintendo video<br />
game console. In a 2007<br />
interview with The Guardian,<br />
Hoskins spoke of his regret<br />
at appearing in Super Mario<br />
Bros. He revealed that<br />
despite being praised for his<br />
performance in the film, he<br />
was extremely unhappy with<br />
the film <strong>and</strong> greatly angered<br />
by his experiences making it,<br />
referring to it as the “worst<br />
thing I ever did”. During the<br />
late 1980s <strong>and</strong> early 1990s<br />
he appeared in advertising<br />
for the recently privatised<br />
companies of British Gas<br />
<strong>and</strong> British Telecom (now BT<br />
Group).<br />
Hoskins had a small role as<br />
a rock b<strong>and</strong>’s manager in the<br />
Pink Floyd film The Wall. He<br />
was slated to be a last-minute<br />
replacement in the film The<br />
Untouchables if star Robert<br />
De Niro had not decided to<br />
play Al Capone. When De<br />
Niro took the part, director<br />
Brian De Palma mailed<br />
Hoskins a cheque for £20,000<br />
with a “Thank You” note,<br />
which prompted Hoskins to<br />
call up De Palma <strong>and</strong> ask him<br />
if there were any more movies<br />
he didn’t want him to be in.<br />
Hoskins appeared in<br />
Who Framed Roger Rabbit<br />
(1988), for which he received<br />
a second Golden Globe<br />
nomination. Some of Hoskins’<br />
other notable appearances<br />
include playing opposite<br />
Cher in Mermaids (1990),<br />
boatswain Smee to Captain<br />
Hook inHook (1991), <strong>and</strong><br />
as the same character<br />
in Neverl<strong>and</strong> (2011),<br />
<strong>and</strong> Uncle Bart, the<br />
psychopathic <strong>and</strong><br />
violent “owner” of<br />
Jet Liin Unleashed<br />
aka Danny The<br />
Dog. He returned<br />
to television in<br />
productions for<br />
the BBC, including<br />
Flickers, David<br />
Copperfield as Wilkins<br />
Micawber (1999) <strong>and</strong> The<br />
Wind in the Willows (2006).<br />
He played Nikita Khrushchev<br />
as a political commissar<br />
in the film Enemy at the<br />
Gates (2001). He received a<br />
Golden Globe nomination<br />
for Best Supporting Actor<br />
for his performance in Mrs<br />
Henderson Presents, a film he<br />
also produced with Norma<br />
Heyman.<br />
Hoskins also directed two<br />
films, both of which he starred<br />
in; The Raggedy Rawney<br />
(1988) <strong>and</strong> Rainbow (1996). In<br />
2009, Hoskins made a return<br />
to British television in Jimmy<br />
McGovern’s drama serial<br />
The Street, where he played<br />
a publican who st<strong>and</strong>s up to<br />
a local gangster. For this role<br />
he received his only Emmy<br />
when he won Best Actor at<br />
the 2010 International Emmys.<br />
On 8 August 2012, Hoskins<br />
announced his retirement<br />
from acting after being<br />
diagnosed with Parkinson’s<br />
disease in 2011.<br />
Hoskins’ father was a<br />
communist <strong>and</strong> brought up<br />
Hoskins to be an atheist.<br />
In 1967, aged 25, Hoskins<br />
spent a short period of time<br />
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volunteering in kibbutz<br />
Zikim in Israel, <strong>and</strong> also<br />
herded camels in Syria. In an<br />
interview, when asked what<br />
he owed his parents, he said,<br />
“Confidence. My mum used<br />
to say to me, ‘If somebody<br />
doesn’t like you, f ‘em,<br />
they’ve got bad taste.’” When<br />
asked which living person<br />
he most despised, Hoskins<br />
named Tony Blair <strong>and</strong> claimed<br />
that “he’s done even more<br />
damage than Thatcher”. He<br />
made light of his similarities<br />
with film actor Danny DeVito,<br />
whom he joked would play<br />
him in a film about his life.<br />
With his first wife Jane<br />
Livesey, Hoskins had two<br />
children, Alex (born 1969) <strong>and</strong><br />
Sarah (born 1972). With his<br />
second wife Linda Banwell, he<br />
had two more children, Rosa<br />
(born c. 1984) <strong>and</strong> Jack (born<br />
c. 1986).<br />
On 29 April 2014, Hoskins<br />
died from pneumonia. He is<br />
survived by his wife Linda<br />
<strong>and</strong> his four children.