Last Will And Testament-Will And Testament

Episode Five of the Production Diaries for THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF ROSALIND LEIGH profiles the art department: Art Director & Props Master Twitch Couvier, Production Designer Jason McQuarrie and Art Director Susan Eves.

Reta Boger

A heart warming BBC documentary following the steps that Bob and his Beloved wife Brenda Fenton took in the making of their last Will and Testament. It is a true reflection of our Mum’s strength and determination. Sir Gerry Robinson helped and guided the family through the process. The programme features the five Fenton girls and their families. It was filmed in February 2010, prior to Brendas’ cancer diagnosis. Sadly she passed away , aged just 63, on 23rd August 2010 at her home surrounded by those she loved the most. Just six months after filming. Ironically, without this programme being made, we would not have known her wishes. She is sorely missed and very much loved by her devoted husband, five daughters, five grandsons , seven granddaughters, extended family and many, many friends. Her legacy lives on and on. The most strongest, bravest and loving person you could ever meet. ‘If tears were a stairway and memories a lane we would walk up to heaven and bring you home again.’ xx22xx

Tish Bodo

Vancouver Ukulele Circle at Our Town Cafe, Vancouverm BC. Jan. 2011.

Marie

I received my part of my grandfather’s estate and I have been asked a favor. What’s your take?

Chris Colton

Director: Vijay Bhatt Haria lives with his widowed and elderly grandmother at a tea estate. He has no knowledge of his biological father, as his mother died at the time of his birth. He now works as a Mahout (Elephant driver) at the tea estate, with elephant-friend, Raja. He meets and falls in love with a gypsy girl, Gulabi, and both want to get married. But Gulabi has another suitor, none other than Ajay, the only son of the tea estate owner. When Ajay finds out that Gulabi loves Haria, he plans to get rid of Haria, but fails. He waits for the right moment, and has his men abduct Gulabi. But before he could have his way with her, she is rescued by Raja, but Ajay subsequently shoots Raja to death. An enraged Haria wants to kill Ajay in return, but Ajay’s dad stops him from doing so. Then Ajay’s dad finds out a secret about his past life, and decides to change his last will and testament. Ajay finds out about this and lays in wait with a shotgun to kill his very own father – and anyone else who dares to stand in his way. Jeetendra … Haria Babita Kapoor … Gulabi Shatrughan Sinha … Ajay Asrani Durga Khote … Haria’s maternal grandma Kanhaiyalal Sunder … Gulabi’s maternal uncle Purnima … Nirmala (Ajay’s mom) Ramesh Deo … Ajay’s dad

Weldon Reppell

Horoscope – Ballet (1938) VI. Bacchanale VII. Valse for the Gemini VIII. Pas de Deux IX. Invocation to the Moon and Finale This is the surviving music from the ballet “Horoscope” by British composer Constant Lambert (1905-1951). Lambert was a child prodigy who began composing orchestral music at age 13. By age 20, Sergei Diaghilev commissioned Lambert to write a ballet (Romeo and Juliet) for the famous Ballets Rousses. Lambert was highly interested in jazz and African American music, and he intended his cantata “The Rio Grande” – probably his most famous composition – to feature a black choir. He became a successful conductor with the Vic-Wells ballet (later the Royal Ballet). After the popular failure of his major choral work “Summer’s Last Will and Testament” (after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe), Lambert decided that he had failed as a composer, and he concentrated almost exclusively on conducting for the last 14 years of his life. He was a central figure in the intellectual circle of Sacheverell Sitwell and Anthony Powell, who probably modeled the character Hugh Moreland in “A Dance to the Music of Time” after Lambert. An alchoholic, he passed away at age 45 from diabetes and pneumonia. The ballet “Horoscope”, choreographed by Frederick Ashton, is based on astrological themes (like Gustav Holst’s The Planets). The famous ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who was having an affair with Lambert, starred in the 1938 premiere. The scenario concerns a young man and …

Leon Jelden