Kathryn Morris UK

KM UK Awards 2015

riche_teddy_bear_medal_oscar_128x128 It’s that time again.

Time to hand out some prizes in the annual KM UK Awards.

For the last couple of years we eschewed the silverware in favour of the more wallet-friendly “I ♡ KM UK” teddy bear. We’ve regained a little confidence economically but we’re not out of the woods (bear, woods, geddit?) yet so ‘austerity bear’ is back again. And, we love him so much it would not be the same without him now.

An Oscars-style awards ceremony doesn’t seem the same unless a statuette is involved though so I dipped into petty cash to buy a few new ones. There’s not enough for many full-sized versions so we bought miniatures instead. And, we found down the back of the sofa a few spare silver medals we handed out in 2012.

Put them all together and you get the medal-wearing, statue-clutching bear you see above. A ‘RichE’ wearing a ‘RichE’ and holding a ‘RichE’. Weird. Each winner will receive one.

Money is still tight though and these venues aren’t cheap to hire for the night so go easy on the free bar and buffet please.

That’s enough pre-event waffle from me. Let’s go over to our commentators, hosts, award givers and receivers.

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The Coin Is Short. Sweet. Fest?

Having previously (in the KM UK Xmas Message 2014) described The Coin as “the little movie that could” I had assumed we’d heard the last of it doing the festival circuit.

It’s most recent showing was at the Enfoque International Film Festival in Puerto Rico in November.

Well, you know what they say about assumptions… they can turn out to be wrong. “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.”

Late last week The Coin‘s writer/director/producer Fabien Martorell let it be known that his short film starring Kathryn and Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) has been selected for another festival. This time it is the ‘Short. Sweet. Film Fest‘ in Cleveland, Ohio.

I’d like to be able to pass on the news that the festival is happening on February 6th to the 8th at the Thwing (not a typo) Ballroom in University Circle. However the latest message from the organisers states that the event is scheduled for 10-12th April at the Alex Theater. There is no comment stating this is a change.

At the time of posting the festival’s own website is lacking up to date information so it is difficult to know what is going on. Either way, the denizens of Cleveland can look forward to an opportunity to see The Coin in the near (or medium) future.

Either way I’ll try and keep you informed as we get closer to the time.

Kathryn @ 2004 CBS & UPN Winter Press Tour Party

I don’t know how long the ‘2004 CBS & UPN Winter Press Tour Party’ event went on for on the 17th of January that year, but if the length of the title is anything to go by it was a lengthy affair.

Let’s break that title down:

2004: pretty self explanatory.

CBS: US TV network responsible for broadcasting many popular shows, including Cold Case.

UPN: A now closed television network that in 2004 was owned by Viacom. Shortly afterward it was taken on by CBS and then closed in 2006.

Winter: It was January!

Press: It was connected to a promotional event to which members of the press were invited to interview the cast and crew of various TV shows.

Tour: Presumably the press events took place in various cities, but it is not clear. This ‘party’ was only in one place!

Party: Do I need to explain? It was a post-event bash.

At the time this party took place Cold Case had aired only the first 11 episodes, having premièred the previous September. All the new shows that started that 2003-2004 season would have been on major promotional pushes to boost the audience as they headed towards the spring. If the figures dipped too low they’d be for the chop come the decisions in May for the following season. Cold Case had one of the biggest ever audiences (15.55 million) for a new show’s first episode on the network. A figure it beat several times over the course of the season and on it’s return for 2004-2005.

Six new photos of Kathryn at this event are making their début in the KM UK Gallery today.

As you can see Kathryn was sporting shorter hair at the time, as we saw in many other events (People’s Choice Awards 2004, a SAG Awards promo event, the Primetime Emmys). Which makes her very long ponytail at the actual SAG Awards in the February of that year more than a touch suspicious… Not exactly Cold Case material, still very much a hot one 😉

It’s Kathryn, But Not As You Know Her

It’s nice that someone thinks of Kathryn when they are creating a fantasy cast for a work of fan fiction.

Personally I’d “go another way” if I were to write such a thing involving Kathryn though. There’d be less plot, perhaps just involving a plumber or pizza delivery boy, oddly coloured clothes, and more… bow chicka bow wow 😉 And a car chase! A short instead of a feature too

Fan faction author Cleo Calliope has Kathryn down as Jemma Pierson in her latest story, Pack, based on Sherlock Holmes. It seems to be closer to the modern British TV version of Sherlock than many, albeit with an even younger Sherlock. The “real” thing stars, as the Guardian newspaper Twitter feed called him whilst posting the 2015 Oscar nominations, ‘benedict XCuebrvatch’. We thought the days of the ‘Grauniad’ were well and truly behind it thanks to modern technologies like the automatic spell-check in word processors. Clearly not.

We first meet Jemma in chapter three of Pack. She is, to say the least, already dead. Very dead. As Lilly Rush Kathryn’s used to people spilling their guts (as in confessing), not a person spilling hers. Jemma was also a drug-taking prostitute who went by the name Felicity. To quote from Pack:

Her mug shots showed a woman who had been rather pretty once but at 28 was starting to show the ravages of the life she led. Her hair had been badly bleached from her natural brown to a very unnatural blonde and she wore far too much makeup to cover the shadows under her eyes and the lines that had already begun to dig themselves into her face.

That’s Kathryn down to a tee 😕

Other fantasy cast members include Anna Maxwell Martin (Becoming Jane), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), and Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges).

To continue our People’s Choice Awards theme this week, if one post on Tuesday counts a theme, the photo Cleo chose to use to illustrate Jemma in Flickr album (which is how I found it) was from Kathryn’s appearance on the red of the event in January 2004. In fact she used the picture you see above.

You can see that photo, 35 others, and three videos in the KM UK Gallery.

Cleo Calliope’s story Pack is on FanFiction.net and photos of her proposed supporting cast can be seen on Flickr here.

Kathryn @ People’s Choice Awards 2010

Awards season 2015 has started already with the Golden Globes having taken place at the weekend. Congratulations to all the winners.

British actors Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything) and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) took top honours in their respective categories. Fellow countrymen Felicity Jones(The Theory Of Everything) , Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), and David Oyelowo (Selma) lost out in theirs.

Amongst those all gonged-up were Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Kevin Spacey (House Of Cards), Amy Adams (Big Eyes), Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honourable Woman), the films Birdman and Boyhood; and TV shows Transparent, Fargo, The Affair, Jane The Virgin, and The Normal Heart.

But enough of all that nonsense. What’s important (on this site at least) is that Kathryn attended the People’s Choice Awards around this time of year back in 2010.

To mark that historic occasion I’ve updated the already extensive KM UK Gallery with 20 more photos of Kathryn on the red carpet, arriving at the event held at the Nokia Theatre, LA.

As I am sure you remember Kathryn wore a dark blue Pamella Roland dress for the evening, which included presenting two awards with actor Greg Grunberg (Alias). There are already photos and video of the pair on stage in the Gallery.