RichardCurtis (born November 8, 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programs Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley and the movies Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually.
Curtis was the co-writer with Philip Pope of the Hee Bee Gee Bees' single "Meaningless Songs (In Very High Voices)" released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees disco hits.
RichardCurtis is not married to script editor and broadcaster Emma Freud, with whom he has four children.
RichardCurtis was born in New Zealand in 1956 and raised in Manila, Stockholm, Folkestone and Warrington.
During these years, Richard, Rowan and Ben staged two West End comedy revues and Richard wrote his first film, The Tall Guy, directed by Mel Smith and starring Jeff Goldblum, Emma Thompson (in her film debut) and Rowan Atkinson as a cruel heartless comedian starring in a West End show.
In 1994, Richard was made an MBE and started writing The Vicar of Dibley, a situation comedy for the BBC, starring Dawn French as a female vicar in a small village suspiciously full of eccentric characters.
Richard, president of RichardCurtis Associates, Inc., was the first president of the Independent Literary Agents Association and served as president of the Association of Authors' Representatives in 1996 and 1997.
Well, you might find RichardCurtis writing an authors' advice column for the writers publication, LOCUS, lecturing and conducting panels and seminars about the future of communications, testifying as an expert witness in publishing trials, writing his own books, playing softball or racquetball, listening to classical music, or painting.
RichardCurtis has written numerous books on the business of publishing, including How to be Your Own Literary Agent, Mastering the Business of Writing, This Business of Writing, and Beyond the Bestseller.
RichardCurtis: What happened is my life took a strange turn, which is that I decided about eighteen months ago that I'd stop writing and sort of dedicate my time to a bit of almost activist politics.
RichardCurtis: I think that you can never underestimate in any artistic endeavor how complicated the chemistry is. You know, why is it that when the one member of a band who never wrote a note leaves the band, the band collapses?
RichardCurtis: Every film has its challenges, and this film was exceptionally tricky, the end effect of which is probably more passionate about the politics than it is about the romance.
RichardCurtis Associates, Inc., is one of the publishing industry's leading literary agencies, representing over 100 top authors in every category of popular fiction and non-fiction.
RichardCurtis Associates brings nearly forty years of experience and negotiating skills to the changing face of authorship in the industry today.
Perhaps more pertinent to his presence on this web site, Richard is also one of the most respected and listened-to literary agents, writers' advocates, and e-publishers in the business.
RichardCurtis, president of RichardCurtis Associates, Inc., is a leading New York literary agent and well-known author advocate.
RichardCurtis was the first president of the Independent Literary Agents Association and President of the Association of Authors' Representatives.
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For the good or ill of British cinema, RichardCurtis holds the keys to the kingdom.
Considering he's carved out his reputation as a writer - normally the lowest form of pond-life in the shark- pool that is the film industry - the 42-year-old Curtis commands unprecedented respect and power.
He created Blackadder, one of the key sitcoms of the eighties, which is shortly to be turned into a feature film for display at the Millennium Dome.
RichardCurtis is one of the UKs leading Heelwork to music / Canine freestyle handlers.
As well as successfully competing in canine freestyle and obedience, Richard is a renowned instructor and regularly teaches Heelwork to music workshops in the UK and abroad.
Richard is a feature writer for Dogs Monthly and also has appeared on various radio and TV programmes
England's Golden Age is treated to the schemes and strategems of Edmund, Lord Blackadder as he curries grace and favour from the stark raving mad Queen Bess...
RichardCurtis' and Ben Elton's award-winning comedy in which Rowan Atkinson as the ubiquitous Blackadder, ably hampered by Tony Robinson as the loyal Baldrick, wreaks havoc throughout the centuries.
Amazon.com: Love Actually: Books: Richard Curtis(Site not responding. Last check: )
Richard Curtis's previous screenplays include The Tall Guy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bean, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary.
RichardCurtis, in this book, tells a bit about how the film came about, shares some scenes and storylines that were cut (some before filming, some afterwards), and of course includes the script.
The book also includes a gallery of posters for the movie, "Love" QandAs filled out by the stars (you'll be quite surprised to learn which ones are cynics and which are romantics at heart), and tons of photographs throughout.
As one expects with Curtis, the script is fairly literate and refreshingly free of tacky humor.
Still the characters are generally likable and the movie brims with wonderful bits: Rowan Atkinson, for instance, contributes a quietly hysterical turn as a prissy department-store clerk.
All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer RichardCurtis' first directorial effort.
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Having obtained his Law degree at University College London, he trained with a West End Firm with which he stayed as an assistant solicitor before moving to work in the property department of a City Firm.
richardcurtis evening dog demonstrations of canine freestyle heelwork to music
Following on from the heelwork to music/ canine freestyle workshops have been these demonstration nights showing training techniques and short routines with each of the dogs.
If you are interested in a Evening with RichardCurtis at your own club contact him on richard@k9freestyle.co.uk
