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June 9, 2003

- Two new Sindbad links here and here, found by Karen

June 6, 2003

- Joe advertising Jaguar:

edmunds.com reports:
April 24, 2003

Jaguar will launch a new ad campaign featuring techno artist Moby and actor Joseph Fiennes that will highlight the new XJ's features under the tagline, "Born to perform."

June 5, 2003

- The video clips can also be watched on the Christian Aid Website

June 4, 2003

- From Sonja comes this terrific link about Joe's time in Angola. It consists of a lenghty interview he gave to fish.co.uk and some very great video clips. Do NOT miss his 4:32 mins speech at the lauch of Christian Aid Week.

- Tricia reported that she has heard an advertisement for Jaguar and is pretty certain that it is Joe's voice. Has anyone else heard it or can confirm it's him?

- From the Telegraph (London Spy), 17 May 2003:

Is this a Fiennes romance?

Swarthy heart-throb Joseph Fiennes is said to have fallen for Hong Kong-born beauty Natalie Mendoza, his co-star on the film The Great Raid.

At yesterday's Miramax lunch in Cannes, Mendoza did little to dampen speculation. "Oh, no we're not really going out," she blushed. "We're... well, let's just say we're good friends.., shall we? He was great to work with, but it's early days."

Then she upped sticks and joined Fiennes at his table.

- From the Telegraph, 15 May 2003:

"Va-va-voom - Armani takes centre stage"

The dress code was pure Hollywood as the Almeida theatre celebrated its £7 million facelift.
Julia Robson reports:

On Tuesday evening, the crème de la crème of London society ditched Mayfair and headed north, braving the rain and cold winds, to attend a glittering gala evening at the Almeida Theatre in deepest Islington.

It was an extraordinary first night for an extraordinary theatre. The dress code was pure Hollywood, with some of the most exquisite little black dresses this side of the Kodak Theatre, home to the Oscars ceremony.

Held to celebrate the reopening of the theatre following a £7.6 million facelift, the party was sponsored by Giorgio Armani, who launched his new fragrance, Sensi, during the evening, too.

Emilia Fox, Lady Helen Taylor, Yasmin and Simon Le Bon, Sharleen Spiteri, Joseph Fiennes and many others gathered to enjoy Natasha Richardson play the leading role in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, directed by Trevor Nunn. After several standing ovations, all the guests, most of whom had arrived in limos or Daimlers, climbed aboard doubledecker buses destined for the Victoria Miro gallery in trendy Hoxton.

The gallery had been "Armani-ed" for the night. Pink minimalist lighting shimmered from the rafters. Orchids and Japanese lanterns lit the entrance and a specially-erected bar groaned under the weight of champagne flutes.

Inevitably the conversation turned to fashion.

"Armani is the perfect choice for every occasion," said Vanity Fair contributing editor Kate Reardon, who chose a kingfisher blue jacket with signature Armani embellishment and black palazzo pants.

Lady Helen Taylor, on her first official engagement since the birth of her third child, Eloise, wore a black trouser suit, tied at the front, with the hint of a sheer top underneath. "I chose this because it's comfortable and holds me in all the right places," she said, laughing.

Many of the female guests chose black. Models Yasmin Le Bon and Lucy Kemp, and Almeida actresses Claudie Blakley and Louisa Clein all chose short Armani shifts. Fashion designer Allegra Hicks wore vintage Dolce & Gabbana. The Serpentine Gallery's Julia Peyton-Jones chose a Zara jersey halter neck, because "it was the first frock to jump out at me at 6am this morning".

There were notable exceptions. Entering the party amidst a flurry of paparazzi flashbulbs, blonde hair tumbling to her waist, dripping in diamonds and sprayed into a va-va-voom, pink Armani number, Natasha Richardson was the undisputed star of the evening.

On the short list were Emilia Fox, who looked divine in red Armani; singer Leonie Casanova, who accompanied Joseph Fiennes in pale blue Armani; Sharleen Spiteri in an embroidered Dries van Noten dandy coat, and model Saffron Aldridge, whose spiral-print hippy dress oozed individual style.

White was the new black for the men at the party. Fiennes wore a white tie over a white shirt; The Lady From The Sea star Geoffrey Hutchings chose a handmade white suit, and David de Rothschild sported a jaunty white golf cap. Meanwhile, comic actor Richard Wilson reinvented the three-piece suit by teaming his dinner jacket and trousers with a Prince William-style baseball cap.