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Post by althea on May 14, 2010 0:54:48 GMT -5
Nanda has this on her site, but some of the words are cut off on the second page. Our mod over on Live Journal used to type up articles like this, maybe there wasn't a link to Evening Standard for it, either way this is the link back to Live Journal. Could someone try it to see if it works for non members, as the posts are now friends locked.............. community.livejournal.com/jamespurefoy/91806.htmlI really hope this works, some of the comments are very funny  Eva, I was thinking this could be the suit our lovely is wearing in those pictures you found from 2005, knowing what a compulsive buyer he is of designer clothes, (especially those made for him) it could well be  This is my all time favourite screen saver   |
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Post by Kaia0120 on May 14, 2010 6:20:37 GMT -5
The Rake's Progress - Evening Standard (London), Sep 3, 2004 by ANNABEL RIVKIN James Purefoy turns perfectly nice girls into lusty wenches. He is certainly handsome, but there are handsomer; famous, but there are famouser; flirty. No one could be flirtier I'm not sure James knows how to interact in any other way. He turns up sleepy-eyed and sleazily rumpled, whisks me off in his cool, old Citroen the one that he and his ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow were papped in and leads me to a garden-table at his local, leafy West London pub. I notice through my blushes that he keeps his voice so low and conspiratorial that I'm forced to sprawl across the table to hear him. It feels like a date. But then I suspect that every encounter James has supermarket checkout, dentist, passport office feels like a date. James, 40, was brought up in Somerset by middleclass parents, who split up when he was four. His mother was a businesswoman who owned an employment agency in Yeovil, and his father, a farmer, became an agent for a local Tory MP. James, by the time he left home, was a card-carrying, leaflet-distributing member of the Revolutionary Communist Party and is currently a Labour supporter who believes that 'Conservatism is what you choose if you've never thought about it'. Later this afternoon he's on his way to the House of Commons for a Children are Unbeatable meeting. 'Plenty of countries don't smack any more and their streets are not full of rampaging criminals.' He has a seven-year-old son, Joseph, with his exgirlfriend Waking The Dead actress Holly Aird, from whom he split three years ago after seven years together. 'Holly and I were friends for years and then we fell in love. Jo Jo was a really happy accident. He's mischievous and funny and bright and incredibly gentle. When he came out I felt like a man, like I'd done something that I was put here to do. What else are we here for?' At eight James was sent away to school, to Sherborne, which was not a success. 'I don't even want to talk about it because I end up sounding angry and bitter and I'm not really,' he says. 'I think things have changed and would be appalled to meet someone now who sent their child to boarding school against their will. It's a form of abuse. I don't have any negative feelings towards my parents for doing it because I don't think people really understood what separation anxiety was then.' He's a person with strong political affiliations and deeply held humanitarian opinions. 'Well, I'm a pathetic, wet, liberal new man,' he says. 'I cry at the drop of a hat, without sobbing, just tears.' He was kicked out of Sherborne with one O level and spent two years as a hospital porter, taking 'the first job the Jobcentre had on offer; Pounds 25 a week, 40-hour week, wheeling bloodied bodies and running like the clappers to get the crash trolley. I remember being asked to carry a big, heavy, plastic bag and I was standing in the lift holding it when through the plastic I felt toes. It was an amputated leg.' He went to night school and got a further ten O levels, then travelled ('I lived on a nudist beach for a few months marvellous. In my heart I'm still there. I get wistful talking about it') before going to a local college to take A levels. 'I went into the drama group and there were 16 girls and four boys, two of whom were gay, so the odds were good. That plan went really well actually.' James Purefoy has a formidable reputation as a shagger. 'That's a shocking thing to say,' he protests. He met his first serious love, Cold Feet star Fay Ripley (now married to Muriel's Wedding actor Daniel Lapaine) at college when she played Juliet to his Romeo. 'She's wonderful, extraordinary. I was 18 and she was 16 and we went on for 11 years but I was never the marrying kind, I'd seen too many divorces; my father married again and my mother's on her third. But I like long relationships.' He was very happy with Holly Aird but 'eventually we just went different places in our heads. She lives round the corner, though, and we talk every day.' He was linked with Gwyneth Paltrow two years ago, raising speculation as to whether he might play Ritchie to her Madonna. 'We dated for a bit,' he says after some prodding, 'full stop.' Lately, he spent two years with American actress Piper Perabo, who starred in Coyote Ugly, but 'we split because we couldn't take the whole 3,000 miles of water between us'. And there are many more encounters whispered on the showbiz grapevine he tends to pick actresses. 'Actresses understand what you do so there's no problem if you come home after filming some outrageous sex scene. And, by and large, they are bright, talented and beautiful. But it's a bore when my reputation gets in the way.' After A levels, Purefoy attended the Central School of Speech and Drama but pulled out to join the RSC. When he left the theatre company, in 1988, he says, 'The world was my oyster. I went up for 100 jobs and didn't get any. I was always down to the last two it was me or Hugh [Grant], me or Jeremy [Northam].' But the parts began to trickle in. He was a hit in the 1997 television blockbuster A Dance to the Music of Time. He has since starred in Mansfield Park, A Knight's Tale and, most recently, Mira Nair's (writer and director of Monsoon Wedding) Vanity Fair opposite Reese Witherspoon ( released in the US this week). She plays Becky Sharp, who marries his Rawdon Crawley. 'I stalked Mira,' he admits. 'I really wanted this part.' He's successful, but not as A list as many people think he should be. Julian Fellowes, for one, calls him lazy. 'He believes that he doesn't have to do much to be interesting on the screen,' says Fellowes, who wrote his 1996 series The Prince and the Pauper. He was once tipped to be the next James Bond. He thinks he's too old now, but wouldn't say no. But if Vanity Fair comes off, because it's Hollywood and high impact, I don't think Bond is an impossibility. He's certainly suave. 'Ken Cranham calls me the oldest juve in the business,' he says ruefully, 'but I'm jealous of the character actors. Tom Hollander and I are very close friends and he gets the parts I want. I play totty and he plays the interesting one.
'I'm not very attracted to fame. If you can do this job and make money and not be famous, then why would you want to find it difficult to go to the supermarket? Like David Beckham and my friend Jude who have to worry about mucking about in the park. I want to be well-known enough that the people who might offer me jobs know who I am. I never wanted to be a flashinthe-pan sensation that plan obviously worked!' For the next three years, Purefoy will be dividing his time between London and Rome, filming Rome an HBO extravaganza with a budget bigger than that of The Lord of the Rings: $14 million an episode. 'I play Mark Antony in skirts,' he says. 'There are times when it's ludicrous to be an actor where's the dignity? I'm trying to get muscly but when you hit 40 it gets difficult. I am trying, though, and my trainer is a vicious beast.
'In ancient Rome they had no secrecy about sex,' he continues super-quietly. 'I've never done such raunchy, unnerving sex scenes before. I actually come away shaking and alarmed because they are so strong.' I'm staring at the floor as he elaborates, 'You'll watch it. Won't you?' He leans right in across the table and whispers: 'Will you watch it in slow-mo?'
He's attractive, if unoriginally so, a bit predictable and rather well used. But I am completely undone. |
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Post by Kaia0120 on May 14, 2010 6:23:43 GMT -5
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Post by MRS-PUREFOY on May 14, 2010 9:13:08 GMT -5
The Rake's Progress - Evening Standard (London), Sep 3, 2004 by ANNABEL RIVKIN James Purefoy turns perfectly nice girls into lusty wenches.  I'm forced to sprawl across the table to hear him.  James Purefoy has a formidable reputation as a shagger. 'That's a shocking thing to say,' he protests.  'Will you watch it in slow-mo?'  |
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Post by althea on May 14, 2010 9:24:54 GMT -5
So, Kaia do I take it the link worked   |
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Post by foreversienna on May 14, 2010 10:32:06 GMT -5
The Rake's Progress - Evening Standard (London), Sep 3, 2004 by ANNABEL RIVKIN James Purefoy turns perfectly nice girls into lusty wenches. I'm forced to sprawl across the table to hear him. James Purefoy has a formidable reputation as a shagger. 'That's a shocking thing to say,' he protests. 'Will you watch it in slow-mo?' 1. What's a 'nice girl'? Never heard of that term. I know I'm NOT one! ;D 2. If she had to sprawl across a table to hear James, all that means is that he's got a sexy-as-all-get-out voice. LUCKY HER!!! I want to be in HER shoes. Right now. 3. Shagging?? With James??? Where???!! I'm in the FULL FRONTAL line!!!   4. "Will you watch it in slo-mo?" James, I'd rather DO IT WITH YOU in slo-mo!!!  |
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Post by evakub on May 14, 2010 11:26:01 GMT -5
yes that could very well be the same suit.But sometimes I wonder if he has to buy clothes at all,given that he allways nicks them from the films he plays in.Im sure a lot of the suits he did wear in Philanthropist are now in his possesion the link doesn´t work for me without registration,which for once doesn´t bother me personally,because I send the article to Nada.. |
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Post by kathy on May 14, 2010 20:27:06 GMT -5
"He's attractive, if unoriginally so, a bit predictable and rather well used. But I am completely undone" Me too ;D 
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Post by MRS-PUREFOY on May 15, 2010 2:02:00 GMT -5
"He's attractive, if unoriginally so, a bit predictable and rather well used. But I am completely undone" Me too ;D All thingy and undone
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Post by cat on May 15, 2010 12:53:33 GMT -5
Nanda has this on her site, but some of the words are cut off on the second page. Our mod over on Live Journal used to type up articles like this, maybe there wasn't a link to Evening Standard for it, either way this is the link back to Live Journal. Could someone try it to see if it works for non members, as the posts are now friends locked.............. community.livejournal.com/jamespurefoy/91806.htmlI really hope this works, some of the comments are very funny Eva, I was thinking this could be the suit our lovely is wearing in those pictures you found from 2005, knowing what a compulsive buyer he is of designer clothes, (especially those made for him) it could well be This is my all time favourite screen saver Thanks so much for sharing althea, I'm all thingy again too...and that was my favorite screensaver at work for many many months. Funny, I don't have James on my screen anymore, just lovely landscapes. Both Jim's in the house wouldn't quite appreciate...life has changed! I'm not in here as much as I use to be, but that doesn't mean that I don't think that James isn't the hotest  . Young Jim just picked up the ROME series this morning and checked it out, and I KNOW he will love it, 13 years old and a history buff. I hope we watch it soon!  Yes, quite shaggable...  Uploaded with ImageShack.us  |
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Post by MRS-PUREFOY on May 17, 2010 8:47:04 GMT -5
Will bbv approve of him watching Rome?
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Post by cat on May 20, 2010 21:35:32 GMT -5
So sorry it has taken me so long to reply! Geez....answer to your question; probably not!! But he gives into his son's desires (and mine) sometimes.... ;D
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Post by MRS-PUREFOY on May 21, 2010 8:47:46 GMT -5
So sorry it has taken me so long to reply! Geez....answer to your question; probably not!! But he gives into his son's desires (and mine) sometimes.... ;D  |
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