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| - Notting Hill was a London district. Ian Stratford had lodgings there for some time. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy) When Donna Noble was told of an Adipose "nursery", she realised that the Tenth Doctor wasn't referring to a crèche in Notting Hill, but instead, a nursery ship. (TV: Partners in Crime)
- Notting Hill was well received by critics and became the highest grossing British film released that year. The film won a BAFTA, was nominated in two other categories, and won other awards, including a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack.
- William Thacker (Grant) opens the film in voice-over by talking about Notting Hill itself, over a montage of scenes. "Notting Hill -- my favorite bit of London... There's the market on weekdays, selling every fruit and vegetable known to man... the tattoo parlour -- with a guy outside who got drunk and now can't remember why he chose 'I Love Ken'..." (A woman with hair dyed bright blue exits a hair salon) "The radical hairdressers where everyone comes out looking like the Cookie Monster, whether they want to or not."
- A 1999 Romantic Comedy starring Julia Roberts as staggeringly successful movie star Anna Scott who meets travel bookstore owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) in the eponymous area of London and begins a somewhat rocky relationship with him. They want to be together, but her mega-stardom is constantly intruding on their happiness. Along the way to love, there’s plenty of quirk and British accents to add a little fun and flavor. The movie is notable for taking several shots at show business, in particular how the movie business treats female stars.
- Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is a cosmopolitan district known as the location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival, the setting for the 1999 film Notting Hill starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, and for being home to the Portobello Road Market.
- (back to Music Travel) Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend, Monika Danneman lived in the basement flat of this apartment block. Hendrix died here on 18 September 1970, after a night at Ronnie Scott’s club, where he spent the evening jamming with Eric Burdon’s group War. Marc Bolan and his girlfriend June Child moved into this building in mid 1968. They lived first in the attic flat, then in the slightly larger flat on the floor below, where Bolan build a recording studio soundproofed with egg cartons, which he christened "Toadstool Studios". (back to Music Travel)
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| - (back to Music Travel) Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend, Monika Danneman lived in the basement flat of this apartment block. Hendrix died here on 18 September 1970, after a night at Ronnie Scott’s club, where he spent the evening jamming with Eric Burdon’s group War. Marc Bolan and his girlfriend June Child moved into this building in mid 1968. They lived first in the attic flat, then in the slightly larger flat on the floor below, where Bolan build a recording studio soundproofed with egg cartons, which he christened "Toadstool Studios". This church hall became the centre of the underground hippie movement in London for a few months in 1966. It all started in September 1966 with weekly fund raising dances to help out the Notting Hill Free School (located just up the street, in the basement of 22 Powis Terrace) which had run into serious debt. These "Sound and Light Workshops” featured a young band called “The Pink Floyd Sound”, and the dances became very popular. A few months later, the club moved to a larger venue in central London, which was christened UFO. Nearby, at 81 Powis Square, is the house featured in the cult movie Performance. In the film, Mick Jagger portrays a fading rock star named Turner (a character that appears to have been closely based on Brian Jones). This was Joe Strummer’s squat in the mid 70s, and provided the name for his first band, pub rock pre-punks, the 101ers. The band ran their own club on Wednesday nights above a nearby pub, The Chippenham (cnr Malvern and Shirland Rds). The club, which ran from December 1974 to April 1975, was named “The Charlie Pigdog Club” (in honour of the squat's mascot). The club is now a snooker hall. Mick Jones lived (on and off) with his grandmother on the 18th floor of this block of council flats from 1973 to 1980. It became an inspiration for several Clash songs, including London's Burning (which includes a reference to the flat's views over the scenic Westway motorway). However, Mick Jones did not write any songs about his life before he moved in with his Gran in the 18th floor council flat, when he was growing up with his Auntie in an art deco mansion block complete with porters and swimming pool. This was where seminal punk band London SS rehearsed (the band’s members went on to form The Clash and The Damned). This large bright basement squat (formerly occupied by a colony of hippies in the 60s) became a home base for a variety of local musicians from 1972 to the mid 70s. Damon Albarn, singer with Blur and more recently Gorillaz, lived near Portobello Rd in the mid 90s during the height of the Brit-pop revolution. It is a place he knows well, his parents were Notting Hill hippies in the 60s. Back in the mid 90s, Albarn was known to frequent the Portobello Cafe (67 Wornington Rd), a favourite for breakfast, Mandola (139 Westbourne Grove), his favourite romantic restaurant, and The Star Pub (near Portobello Rd), which was quite close to his house. This is where the Geoff Travis started the Rough Trade Empire, and it is till a decent record shop. (back to Music Travel)
- Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is a cosmopolitan district known as the location for the annual Notting Hill Carnival, the setting for the 1999 film Notting Hill starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, and for being home to the Portobello Road Market. Notting Hill has a contemporary reputation as an affluent and fashionable area; known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross). A Daily Telegraph article in 2004 used the phrase "The Notting Hill Set" to refer to a group of young Conservative politicians, such as leader David Cameron and shadow Chancellor George Osborne. However, the large houses have also provided multi-occupancy rentals for much of the 20th century, attracting Caribbean immigrants in the 1950s who eventually clashed with the indigenous Teddy boys in the Notting Hill race riots. In addition, Notting Hill has had an association with artists and "alternative" culture since its development in the 1820s. There are also areas of deprivation to the north, sometimes referred to as "North Kensington", or the "Ladbroke Grove" area, from the name of the same street.
- Notting Hill was a London district. Ian Stratford had lodgings there for some time. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy) When Donna Noble was told of an Adipose "nursery", she realised that the Tenth Doctor wasn't referring to a crèche in Notting Hill, but instead, a nursery ship. (TV: Partners in Crime)
- Notting Hill was well received by critics and became the highest grossing British film released that year. The film won a BAFTA, was nominated in two other categories, and won other awards, including a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack.
- A 1999 Romantic Comedy starring Julia Roberts as staggeringly successful movie star Anna Scott who meets travel bookstore owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) in the eponymous area of London and begins a somewhat rocky relationship with him. They want to be together, but her mega-stardom is constantly intruding on their happiness. Along the way to love, there’s plenty of quirk and British accents to add a little fun and flavor. The movie is notable for taking several shots at show business, in particular how the movie business treats female stars.
* Babies Ever After: Implied in the ending shot.
* Book Ends: The movie starts with a montage of Anna on the red carpet and ends the movie with the same.
* Bookworm: William is this to an extent. He owns a travel bookstore and he also suggests that Anna do a movie adaptation of a Henry James novel. Which she does.
* Breathless Non-Sequitur: "I'm sure you meant no harm, and I'm sure it was all just friendly banter and I'm sure you all have dicks the size of peanuts. Enjoy your meal the tuna's really good."
* Celebrity Is Overrated
* Chick Flick: With a distinct 90s feel no less.
* Crash Into Hello: William and Anna met when she bought a book at his store, but they literally run into each other later that day in the street and he spills orange juice all over her.
* Caustic Critic: Pajiba listed the movie's most famous line as one of the cheesiest movie lines ever written.
* Cloudcuckoolander: Oh, Spike. Honey is this to an extent as well, but Spike just takes the cake.
* Defrosting Ice Queen: Anna.
* Disabled Love Interest: Bella, Max's wife.
* The Ditz: Spike.
* Fun T-Shirt: Spike has a few including "You are the most beautiful woman in the world... fancy a fuck?"
* Hey, It's That Guy!:
* Luna's dad is roommates with Edward Ferrars!
* Charles and Alice are brother and sister and are friends with Lord Percy and Lord Grantham.
* Constable Goody helps the Prime Minister run a bookshop that both Erin Brockovich and David visit.
* Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Spike and Honey.
* Informed Ability: Subverted. Anna is the most popular actress working in the Hollywood of the movie and while we never see her act very much, Anna herself claims that she's not very good.
* I Was Young and Needed the Money: Anna took some pictures in her younger days that she very much regrets.
* Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Spike.
* Lap Pillow
* Misery Poker: After a dinner during which Anna meets all of William's friends, everyone in attendance competes for the last brownie by detailing the various ways in which they themselves are the saddest person at the table.
* Monochrome Casting: Aside two of Anna's co-stars, there are no racial minorities to be seen. What makes this stand out is that Notting Hill in real life is known for its black community.
* Nice Guy: Hugh Grant. As well as his roommate Spike.
* Old Shame: How Anna feels about some risqué pictures of her. And possibly how she feels about her on-again/off-again movie-star boyfriend.
* Open the Door and See All the People: Spike with the press.
* Period Piece: Towards the end of the movie, Anna is seen working on an adaption of a Henry James novel.
* Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure:
* Race For Your Love: William and his friends race around trying to find Anna before she leaves for America. Do they find in her time? Of course they do.
* Space Clothes: One of Anna's movies has her as a retro-space babe in a flattering astronaut suit.
* Stock British Phrases: It is set in England after all.
* Tabloid Melodrama: As might be expected for a movie-star, the tabloids swarm all over Anna throughout the movie.
* The Thing That Would Not Leave: Spike the "masturbating Welshman".
* Trailer Spoof: An excessively meta version; one trailer pretended to be for Austin Powers (itself well known for this device).
* What the Hell, Hero?: "You daft prick."
- William Thacker (Grant) opens the film in voice-over by talking about Notting Hill itself, over a montage of scenes. "Notting Hill -- my favorite bit of London... There's the market on weekdays, selling every fruit and vegetable known to man... the tattoo parlour -- with a guy outside who got drunk and now can't remember why he chose 'I Love Ken'..." (A woman with hair dyed bright blue exits a hair salon) "The radical hairdressers where everyone comes out looking like the Cookie Monster, whether they want to or not."
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