Kathryn Morris UK

Kathryn @ Ninten-do – October 2002

Welcome back to KM UK’s nostalgia corner.

We’re on the verge a new era of computer game consoles as Sony and Microsoft lock controllers in the battle to be the best of the 8th generation machines. The Xbox One (stupid name for the 3rd version) and PlayStation 4 (predictable name for the fourth) will be both hit the shelves in the coming month, varying slightly depending on manufacturer and region. I’ve not forgotten the Wii U launched a year ago, but everyone else appears to have done so.

Here we look back to the re-launch of a much loved 6th generation machine: the Nintendo GameCube. By this time the PS2 had been around a couple of years. The actual Xbox 1 was approaching it’s first anniversary, and the increasingly forgotten Sega Dreamcast was already ageing badly at 3. Being ahead of your time doesn’t always go well.

Nintendo chose to give their GameCube a glittery make-over just prior to the beginning of the all-important holiday period in the United States. The limited edition Platinum GC received a star-studded send off at Nintendo’s Gone Platinum Party, which took place on October 23rd, 2002. Eleven years ago!

If you want to launch something cute and shiny, invite someone that really shines and is very cute. Ladies and gentleman: Kathryn Morris.

See how it all ties up? I don’t just throw this stuff together you know!

5 photos have been added to the Gallery.

The Coin Is Underexposed?

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I thought our short film director (as in he directs short films, not the other thing) du jour had jumped the official gun again in announcing this today (or yesterday due to the time difference to LA). Turns out he didn’t, I just expected this to be officially announced in a few days.

The powerful and award winning short film The Coin will be getting another outing. This time it is at the Underexposed Film Festival in York County. A quick check on Wikipedia reveals nine York Counties, six of them in the USA, so we’ll need to narrow it down further. This is YC in SC, or the eastern state of South Carolina.

This is the second year of the film festival, organised by the Arts Council of York County, and runs from the 14-16th of November (Thursday-Saturday). The venue is the Community Performance Center on East Main St. in the county’s captial of Rock Hill.

The Coin is part of the festival’s “Directors Choice” section. The 8 minute long short being specifically one of 13 films in the set labelled “Narrative”. No word yet on the exact screening schedule. We’ll update you when we can.

More details about the Underexposed Film Festival can be found on their website HERE.

Kathryn @ Rape Treatment Center Benefit 2005

I did consider coming up with an alternative title for this post to avoid the use of a potentially awkward word, but that would not be the right thing to do. Such important issues should not be swept under the carpet to spare a few blushes. Over the past year the issues around rape seems to have hit the headlines a lot because of certain strongly held views on women and women’s health issues. Wrong views we should stress.

The latest edition of this event, an annual benefit and brunch for the Rape Treatment Center, Santa Monica, California, happened just last weekend (Sunday, 29 September) but we are heading back to 2005 when Kathryn attended. As you can see above fellow CBS crime drama star Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows in CSI: Las Vegas) and were Kathryn’s two Cold Case co-stars Thom Barry and John Finn (see below right).

Unlike Kathryn, Marg will be back on CBS this season with a new action drama called Intelligence, co-starring Josh Holloway (Sawyer in Lost). It is slated to start in February, once another new show Hostages completes it first season run. Both shows have fewer episodes than many of the big networks high profile shows.

You can read more about the good works of the RTC at the the 911rape.org website.

34 photos have now been added to the Gallery.

The Coin Lands Heads Up @ BBLIFF

Fabien Martorell, director of the The Coin, has let us know that his project has won an award!

This weekend’s Big Bear Lake International Film Festival concluded this afternoon (Sunday, 22 Sept) with the Filmmaker Awards Ceremony.

The 8 minute long short drama starring Kathryn, Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and young Jack Ryan Shepherd, won the “Best Short Film – Jury Award” at the event.

Congratulations to all involved.

The photo on the left of Fabien accepting the award is courtesy of the man himself.

A Time For Heroes Celeb Carnival 2005

The title of this occasion (or at least part of if) seemed a fitting follow-on from the anniversary marked yesterday of the 9/11 tragedies. We should not forget that events like those are not just about those lost, but those that acted heroically in putting others first.

Of course, this particular charitable event we are looking at today was not about that day in September 2001.

‘Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation A Time For Heroes Celebrity Carnival’ is an annual event to raise funding and awareness for the cause of HIV and AIDS in children, focusing mainly on Africa and India. Founder Elizabeth Glaser herself contracted HIV during a blood transfusion and unknowingly passed it on to her children. Discovering that the then current treatments were solely aimed at adults drove her to set up the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Elizabeth spent the rest of her life advocating for the issue.

You can read more about the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation on their website HERE.

Back in June of 2005 Kathryn attended the Time For Heroes event. Formal attire was clearly not required Not that Kathryn looked anything other than gorgeous in her more casual jeans, t-shirt, cardy and sneakers 😉

This is one that has been missing from the KM Gallery since its inception. We’ll put that right today in some style with a small collection of photos and a couple of videos now in the Gallery.