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	Ian La Frenais - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ian La Frenais, born 7 January 1937 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, is, in partnership with Dick Clement, one of the most influential television writers in Britain.
		La Frenais himself adapted the very popular series Lovejoy from the Jonathon Gash books for BBC television in the 1980s.
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	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ian_La_Frenais (175 words)

	La Frenais, Ian
		Ian La Frenais ranks among British television's most accomplished comedy writers, most of his greatest successes being collaborations with BBC writer-producer Dick Clement; with Clement he has contributed several of the most enduringly popular comedy series of the last three decades.
		La Frenais's writing showed facility with characterization and an easy grasp of northern traits and humour, as well as a certain acuteness in exposing the absurdities of the British class system in a rapidly changing world.
		Though, with Clement, La Frenais enjoyed significant success as a writer for the cinema with his script for the cult film The Commitments (a triumph that prompted the pair to attempt a television version under the title Over the Rainbow).
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/L/htmlL/lafrenaisi/lafrenaisi.htm (780 words)

	The Unofficial Gary Holton Web Site
		La Frenais and his writing partner Dick Clement had been drafting storylines and working on an idea given to them by Franc Roddam, ex-foreign worker and director of "Quadrophenia".
		Little did they know at the time, but la Frenais and Clement had just created not only the most famous comedy/drama of the 1980's, but a programme that would be a landmark for British television.
		Ian la Frenais and Dick Clement duly obliged and again wrote thirteen episodes of brilliant comedy/drama.
	garyholtonsite.tripod.com (2345 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| 'Everything we've done is a fraud'
		La Frenais wrote Spender with Jimmy Nail and Lovejoy on his own, and Clement has directed films, but their greatest hits have been joint efforts: Whatever Happend to the Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, and their exuberant film adaptation of Roddy Doyle's novel, The Commitments.
		La Frenais was in his "gap year", which seems to have gone on for quite a bit longer than 12 months: "I was always just about to go to university." Clement was a radio producer.
		Clement and La Frenais were not credited on it, but they injected a lot of life into the script at the last moment.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/04/26/batvpet26.xml (1115 words)

	Dick Clement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dick Clement (born September 5, 1937) is an English writer.
		Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement is, in partnership with Ian La Frenais, one of the most successful television writers in Britain.
		Generally, Clement and La Frenais write comedies, or dramas with a comic tone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_Clement (199 words)

	Observer \| Still the likely lads
		You'd never guess it from the perfectly manicured nails or the discreetly expensive jacket worn over a shirt open to expose a mannerly amount of chest hair, but despite 27 years living and working in LA, when Ian La Frenais opens his mouth what comes out is pure Geordie.
		Clement was a BBC trainee, La Frenais unemployed after a stint flogging cigarettes nationwide for Gallahers.
		Clement and La Frenais followed this with Porridge, the prison sitcom starring Ronnie Barker as 'Fletch' Fletcher.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4402887-102281,00.html (1249 words)

	Thick as Thieves - zonExplorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The series, which is serial in nature, was written by veteran comedy writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet; La Frenais (sans Clement) was the screenwriter for the Lovejoy series).
		If you are familiar with and have enjoyed Clement and La Frenais' other works (particularly Porridge, which is the only other half-hour britcom mentioned and which is the most similar in style and tone to this one), then you may wish to give this one a try.
		La Frenais, this is not in the same league as their classics
	www.celtic-one-design.com /php/B000096I8N.htm (751 words)

	THE COMMITMENTS - COLLECTOR'S EDITION DVD
		screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais and Roddy Doyle
		Giving it a hint of cultural topicality, the screenplay by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, and Roddy Doyle (based on Doyle's novel) has the characters in turn express a wizened, resigned attitude towards unemployment.
		Of interest, though, is a section featuring author Doyle, co-screenwriters Clement and La Frenais, and producers Linda Myles and Roger Randall-Cutler wherein the difficulty of adapting a book to the screen is combed in intimate and revealing detail.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/commitments.htm (1213 words)

	BBC - Drama - Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (Writers)
		The writers behind the first two series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet are back for the new run.
		"When we were writing for the characters after all this time it was just like slipping on an old pair of shoes," admits Ian La Frenais.
		Ian La Frenais is confident the new series will have a broad appeal.
	www.bbc.co.uk /drama/pet/clement_lafrenais.shtml (590 words)

	Television Heaven
		A to Z of TV This hugely enjoyable ITV sitcom from the prolific writing team of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais came about when BBC producer Jimmy Gilbert commissioned from them a single 30-minute episode for the Ronnie Barker series Seven of One.
		The idea behind Prisoner and Escort was based on life in a prison, but when Clement and La Frenais originally wrote it they found themselves moving in a different direction from the one planned.
		Instead, Clement and La Frenais personally chose two actors to play the key roles of Stan and George: John Thaw and Bob Hoskins, respectively.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /thickas.htm (570 words)

	Villain (1971)
		Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, Villain is taken from James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof.
		Dakin is a sadistic, razor-wielding, mother-fixated bank robber whose boyfriend Wolf (Ian McShane) is a pimp catering for establishment peccadilloes such as those of crooked MP Gerald Draycott (Donald Sinden).
		Police Inspector Bob Matthews (Nigel Davenport) of Scotland Yard is on the case and determined to put the gang behind bars.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/thriller/filmography/010.html (132 words)

	Ian - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	Honest - Movie Preview Online
		But, when it came to writing the screenplay for Honest, Stewart had the good sense to call on veterans Dick Clement and Ian La Fresnais for help.
		Not only have the pair written some of the best British television series (including all-time classics The Likely Lads and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet), but they had recently done a couple of music-based stories: Alan Parker’s The Commitments, and Brian Gibson’s Still Crazy, about the improbable late-nineties revival of a seventies glam-rock band.
		It has action and bad guys that are real bad guys, and good guys who are real good guys, and everything in between.” “Dave drew the characters of the story from a particular time of his life and the meeting of a girl he knew years and years ago,” says Ian La Frenais.
	www.preview-online.com /may_june00/feature_articles/honest (903 words)

	Television Heaven
		Two came from Roy Clarke, two from Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, two from Hugh Leonard, one from Gerald Frow (which Yorkshire Television later turned into a series starring Clive Dunn), one from N.F. Simpson and one from Ronnie Barker himself.
		Clement and La Frenais had enjoyed great success in the 1960s with The Likely Lads, a sitcom that proved so popular that the BBC asked the writers to revive the series in 1973.
		But Clement and La Frenais, along with John Rich the US producer of On The Rocks were becoming increasingly unhappy about the compromises they had to make for ABC.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /porridge4.htm (2793 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Porridge Scripts
		by Webber, Richard, Clement, Dick, Frenais, Ian La
		Regarded by many critics as Britain's best sitcom, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973 and ran until 1977.
		Richard Webber's knowledge of British television sitcoms is second to none and he has written a number of bestselling books on the subject as well as contributing to many newspapers and magazines over the years.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/?whatfor=0747258627 (220 words)

	Spender (an Episode Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Spender goes undercover on an oilrig as a fitters mate after a worker is murdered and his body washes up on shore.
		Spender is put in charge of security of a female politician during an election as she has been receiving threats.
		Spender poses as an ex army buddy of the courier and then teams up with another north east detective to try and find out who is manufacturing the drugs that killed the student.
	epguides.com /Spender/guide.shtml (2108 words)

	ABC Shop - Porridge — The Inside Story Richard Webber, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
		Richard Webber, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
		Regarded by many critics as one of Britain's best sitcoms, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973.
		Three series were transmitted before the prison show finally closed its doors in 1977.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=502947 (148 words)

	ModsnRockers2006
		Writers/producers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais reinvigorate the familiar scenario of ‘aging rockers struggling with past glories and demons to make comeback’ - turning it into a glorious, hilarious paean to rock ’n’ roll camaraderie and Seventies excess tempered with sweet poignancy.
		The evening is dedicated to the memory of their brother Ian Copeland – who died of melanoma at the age of 57 in May. Ian is featured in the Police documentary – and was a guiding light behind "Urgh!
		Short on plot and high (very high) on laughs – the film follows the clueless duo as they drive a vehicle made entirely of dope from Mexico to the US – blissed out and blissfully unaware that they are in a mobile stash.
	egyptiantheatre.com /archive1999/2006/ModsnRockers2006.htm (6441 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: "Porridge" Scripts: Books: Richard Webber,Dick Clement,Ian La Frenais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The collected scripts show that it wasn't just the superb acting of Barker, Beckinsale, McKay and the rest that made it so brilliant, but the tautness and economy of the scripts.
		There isn't a wasted word in Clement and La Frenais' scripts - they're densely plotted and full of twists and turns.
		What's also evident is how much the writers loved language - constrained by what was acceptable on pre-watershed television they still managed to get a kind of bizarre lyric poetry out of the bowdlerised version of prison slang that they could get away with.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Porridge-Scripts-Richard-Webber/dp/0747258627 (618 words)

	Goal!
		Soccer always has had a bad time at the movies, typified by the image of Sylvester Stallone flapping away as a goalkeeper in John Huston's daft 1981 World War II picture "Victory," about a team of Allied soldiers playing the Nazis.
		"Goal!" is little better, missing the net with a starry-eyed screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais that has all the predictable elements of a Roy of the Rovers comic book tale.
		With top-level international soccer widely available on television and the World Cup due next year in Germany, the film's timing appears to be good.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001263028 (534 words)

	Honest - Preview Online
		Prod: Eileen Gregory, Michael Peyser; Exec prod: Keith Northrop; Dir: David A Stewart; Scr: David A Stewart, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Karen Street; Ph: David Johnson; Prod des: Michael Pickwoad; Cost des: Mary Jane Reyner; Ed: David Martin; Mus: David A Stewart.
		“I guess she was candid and there was just no bullshit about her,” says La Frenais, “which always resonated with him - and gave him the title of the movie.
		She’s the muse for his story of the clashing cultures of London in the sixties.
	www.preview-online.com /may_june00/feature_articles/honest/page2.html (716 words)

	AWN Headline News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Winslet will be Rita, the female sewer rat who helps pampered rat Roddy (Hugh Jackson) survive in Ratropolis after he is accidentally flush down the toilet.
		The film will be Aardman’s first 3D CG feature and will be produced in L.A. instead of its regular studios in Bristol, England.
		The film will be directed by Henry Anderson, David Bowers and Sam Fell from a script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
	news.awn.com /?int_check=yes<ype=top&newsitem_no=12622 (343 words)

	Movie News for Across the Universe
		The love story is set during the turbulent decade of the '60s and has a backdrop of music by the Beatles.
		Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (The Commitments), the love story about a British boy and an American girl is not about the Beatles specifically, but their songs will be used to move the narrative forward.
		The romance will be set during the social upheaval of the 1960s, and the actors will both sing and dance to the Beatles tunes.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /tickermaster/movienews.cfm?TMID=1918 (252 words)

	Lovejoy Episode Guide - Lovejoy Season Episodes - TV.com
		The wife and brother of a man killed with a fabulous pair of Regency duelling pistols engage Lovejoy to find the pistols and bring about the downfall of the murderer.
		In the process, Lovejoy puts Jane's life at risk and challenges Dr La Grange to a duel.
		Sam Wendell, an old forger, dies of a heart attack while being pursued by a mysterious priest, leaving behind one of his small forgeries.
	www.tv.com /lovejoy/show/1511/episode_guide.html (793 words)

	Ian La Frenais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.imdb.com /name/nm0478588 (241 words)

	Zeeks! - eZone - ZBuzz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Veteran British TV and movie writers IAN LA FRENAIS and DICK CLEMENT are attempting to make history by securing the right to fill the soundtrack of their new film with BEATLES songs.
		La Frenais says, "Everyone has a memory associated with the Beatles.
		Whether it was your first kiss or the first time you saw that girl standing across from you at the high school dance, chances are that the DJ was playing a Beatles song."
	www.zeeks.com /ezone/zbuzz/index.html?story=apga3bsr (314 words)

	Lovejoy (an Episode Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Created for television by Ian La Frenais, based on the books by Jonathan Gash.
		After a robbery at the local museum, and the death of a local forger, which seem to be connected, Lovejoy goes on the trail of a hidden hoard of Roman coins in the Isle of Man. He soon discovers that a couple of Americans are also interested in the hoard.
		Charlie seems to have done a moonlight flit, leaving his father in charge of Felsham Hall, and then there's a mad Greek priest, a Dutch civil servant and a strange woman....
	epguides.com /Lovejoy/guide.shtml (6208 words)

	Playbill News: Lion King's Taymor to Direct Movie Musical
		Matt Gross, Suzanne Todd and Jennifer Todd will produce "All You Need Is Love" with Derek Dauchy as executive producer and Ben Haber as co producer.
		The film is being written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
		Julie Taymor received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical for her work on The Lion King; Taymor was the first woman in Tony Award history to receive the prize.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/91008.html (346 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Thick As Thieves / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The three live warily together, while the men continue their inept criminal capers and vie for the affection of the woman who obviously loves them both.
		Terrific writing by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (The Commitments, The Likely Lads) and spot-on comic timing from the first-class cast make for laugh-out-loud fun.
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