After the recent success (multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations and recipient of many awards already) of the movie My Week With Marilyn, which is based on the time Marilyn Monroe came to England to film The Prince And The Showgirl, they will be making [...]]]> Have you heard the one about the Prince and the showgirls?

After the recent success (multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominations and recipient of many awards already) of the movie My Week With Marilyn, which is based on the time Marilyn Monroe came to England to film The Prince And The Showgirl, they will be making a sequel.  That’s Hollywood for you.  It will be called The Prince And The Showgirls: I’m Back!  This time Elsie’s great-granddaughter (Kathryn) meets Prince Albert of Monaco at a TV festival and tries reconcile him with his estranged son.  So far, so predictable.  The twist is that helping Elsie in her endeavours is a beautiful blonde cyborg (Kristanna Loken).  These images were taken on the set.  It’s got hit (with a silent ‘S’) written all over it! 

OK, not really   I said in a previous post that two things dominated Kathryn’s 2007 public appearances: promoting the movie Resurrecting The Champ and motor sport. And the Monte Carlo Television Festival.  For this update we are opening door number three.

Kathryn attended a cocktail party reception at the Monaco Palace hosted by HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco in June of 2007.  As you can see actress Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3) and American royalty/occasional president Dennis Haysbert (“24″) were also there.

Kathryn, of course, looks fabulous in a dress that is dangerously close to some form of undergarment.  I wish she’d (un)dress like that more often

Kristanna and Kathryn know each from working together on Pensacola: Wings Of Gold.  Their characters ended up sharing a house.  Oh, imagine the pillow fights

As usual we don’t do things the easy way around here, and we try and bring you best that’s available, so the main image above is around 3 times (or is it 9?) larger in size than previously seen anywhere.  All 3 photos are now available in the Gallery.

New girl Katie‘s promo video, which we posted about earlier this week, [...]]]> Happy Kathryn Birthday Eve

As I’m sure you all know tomorrow is Kathryn’s birthday, but today we get to declare the Fan Art Video section of the KM UK Gallery open.  Sound of ribbon being cut.  Polite applause.  Cheese and wine consumed. 

New girl Katie‘s promo video, which we posted about earlier this week, is our first exhibit.  Thanks to Katie for getting us off to a great start.

Lolly and Katie have provided wallpapers, some with a birthday theme to help mark Kathryn’s big day.  Birthday fan art from previous years is still in the Gallery, of course.

If you create Kathryn-related fan art (wallpapers, banners, avatars, buttons, drawings or videos) and would like to showcase it here on KM UK please contact me.

Update:  Thank you to amei for sending a lovely additional image (left thumbnail below).

Update 2:  And another thank you to Kareen T for creating a great collection of 7 new wallpapers (see the middle thumbnail below for one of them).

A bit of blatant self-publicity disguised as bigging-up a fellow fan

Prolific YouTube user Katie (previously mentioned here) has managed to tear herself away from making videos counting down to Kathryn’s birthday to put together a video specially for KM UK.  The 90 second piece outlines the many great aspects of [...]]]>

A bit of blatant self-publicity disguised as bigging-up a fellow fan

Prolific YouTube user Katie (previously mentioned here) has managed to tear herself away from making videos counting down to Kathryn’s birthday to put together a video specially for KM UK.  The 90 second piece outlines the many great aspects of KM UK that you’ve come to know and love.

Called Kathryn Website! you can find Katie’s video on her Kathryn Morris FTW YouTube channel.  A copy will be added to the as-yet unopened Fan Art Videos section of the KM UK Gallery in an upcoming Fan Art update.

Thanks to Katie for creating the video for us.

The 4th of August [...]]]> Two things dominated Kathryn’s 2007 public appearances: promoting the movie Resurrecting The Champ and motor sport.  And the Monte Carlo Television Festival.  Three things dominated Kathryn’s 2007 public appearances: promoting the movie Resurrecting The Champ, motor sport and the Monte Carlo Television Festival.  And the Sundance Film Festival.  Four things… 

The 4th of August 2007 saw Kathryn combine the first two in an interesting bit of PR north of the border when she attended a NASCAR race to promote the movie Resurrecting The Champ.  Built on a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River, the Canadian Circuit Giles Villeneuve hosts the Nationwide Series NASCAR NAPA Auto Parts 200.  Since it was first run in 2007, the event is the only NASCAR race to be held outside of the USA and one of the few road courses used.  I don’t know how it is received by the stock car drivers and fans but the Montreal track is definitely a favourite of Formula 1 fans, having been the site of many classic races.  Last year’s event that was effected by severe rain was particularly memorable.

The movie promoting activities involved a participating race car adorned with stickers announcing Resurrecting The Champ’s release date of August 24th, 2007.  It can’t have been the most difficult deal to strike because the car was driven by Stanton Barrett, brother of Kathryn’s then boyfriend David.

To business.  For this update we could just have posted the 3 small photos from this event that have been seen quite widely for years.  Here at KM UK we like to go the extra mile (or 2.71 miles in the case of the Circuit Giles Villeneuve).  Not only do we have one of those 3 in a much larger size (the last thumbnail below) than previously seen, we also have the great image that you’ve already noticed above left.  We have to thank Eric Gilbert of Motorsport.com for allowing KM UK to showcase his rather enigmatic photo of Kathryn.

All 4 images (2 big, 2 small) are now available in the Gallery.

We will be returning to many of the above topics in future updates.

I’m hoping to celebrate the occasion with some appropriately themed fan art.

Fellow obsessive and YouTube user Katie (kayandvivi) has been getting into the spirit already with a countdown of [...]]]> There is only one week to go until a special day for a certain special someone.  I think you know what I’m talking about

I’m hoping to celebrate the occasion with some appropriately themed fan art.

Fellow obsessive and YouTube user Katie (kayandvivi) has been getting into the spirit already with a countdown of videos on her new Kathryn Morris FTW YouTube channel.  We have not yet opened the fan art video wing of the KM UK Gallery.  Perhaps we will be cutting the ribbon in a few days time.

If you would like to contribute any fan art please use the contact form to let me know, or email me directly if you have the details.

American TV show Silk Stalkings had a bumpy ride over its 8 year run.  After initially being broadcast in a prime slot on CBS it got moved to the [...]]]> I can’t believe it has taken me this long to get around to this one.  Before we go any further:  spoilers abound, you have been warned.

American TV show Silk Stalkings had a bumpy ride over its 8 year run.  After initially being broadcast in a prime slot on CBS it got moved to the USA network.  The original male lead (Rob Estes as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo) wanted out before his 5 year contract was done but stuck it out.  His character was killed off during season 5 and his female co-star (Mitzi Kapture as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance) didn’t want to extend her contract beyond the end of that year.

Season 6 saw wholesale changes to cast and crew with two new leads.  I’m sure many fans were not happy about this but the show continued for three more seasons so it must have kept a fair few of them.

Silk Stalkings is a cop show, a procedural like so many others, including Cold Case.  It is set in Palm Beach and has a definite Miami Vice look to it.  Det. Sgt. Cassandra ‘Cassy’ St. John (Janet Gunn) and Det. Tom Ryan (Chris Potter) are the new cops on the beat.  The twist in their relationship is that they used to be partners in anti-crime, were married and then divorced.  Now they are partners again.

Kathryn guest starred in this, the second episode of the 6th season, which aired in September 1996.  It is called Compulsion, a title that, like the best ones, covers various aspects of the story in the way that Cold Case often did.  The crime of the week was a possible murder-suicide of a gay couple, Stewart and Lance, that ran a beachwear company.

We first see Kathryn when the cops go to interview Ricky Rivers, the third partner in the company.    She’s talking to someone (Kathryn) that appears to be her second in command about arrangements for the launch event of a new product line.  But first Ricky.  During her chat with the police officers she describes Judith Millay as being in charge control of quality control, and we’ll soon find out why she’s perfect for the job.

Kathryn is Judith Millay.  Judith is an obsessive compulsive, she is rearranging already perfectly straight chairs when Det. Tom goes to question her.  He thinks he recognises her from some parties around Palm Beach.  Clearly a sensitive soul, Judith is upset about Stewart and Lance and is concerned about the fact that their dog, Bernard, is missing.  She is very sweet.  Judith explains that the business partners did fight but always made up soon afterwards, she also has an alibi for the murder.

Next up Tom and Cassy talk to Chance Reynolds, Ricky’s ex.  Chance was also close to the designer pair but his divorce from Ricky strained relations all around and he claims he hadn’t seen them in a while but they were happy.  Ricky’s finger prints were found on bullets in the murder weapon so it is back to Ricky.

Cassy and Tom argue over the fact that Tom has obviously developed feelings for Judith (and why not ) and won’t treat her as a suspect.  Tom arranges to have breakfast with Judith to get more background information.  Yeah right!  There is plenty more evidence of Judith’s OCD tendencies on display here, such as her watch alarm going off every 15 minutes.  She’s not the full “Monk” but Judith has issues with combining food types like apple and cheese, and spooning small amounts of water from a glass to make it exactly half full.  Throughout the discussion there is definite flirting going on between her and Det. Tom.  There are lots of heart-melting smiles, the sort that only Kathryn can do.  It’s a fun little scene between the two of them.

The upshot of the “interview” is that Chance is not trustworthy and he was given a large chunk of the company in his divorce settlement with Ricky.  Also, Stewart and Lance had a big fight with Ricky.  Back to Chance.  He fesses-up to lying, he saw Stewart and Lance recently and had given his share to them, making Ricky a minority holding.  He throws in a curve ball by claiming he is gay and was lovers with both Stewart and Lance.

All this sleuthing must be making Tom a hungry boy and he likes eating out with Judith (who can blame him ).  This time it is more of a date and things get off to a rocky start as Judith is unhappy with Tom’s timekeeping (he was 5 minutes late) but soon brightens up and gives him a gift.  Judith wants to bring out the anal retentive in Tom too with an electronic organiser.  Tom’s after more personal information this time but once passed the basics Judith deflects and changes the subject away from her past.  We get some more of those amazing smiles before that though.  Another fun scene for our favourite lady.

Cassy has run a background check on Judith and finds some interesting facts.  Before he gets to confront Judith with that he and Cassy have to prove that Ricky’s gun was not exactly secure.

He’s found Bernard!  Tom meets Judith again and has the pooch with him.  Man, that’s a short skirt!  On Judith, not Tom or the dog   In a particular clever (not) bit of chatting Tom gets around to asking Judith about her rap sheet.  Judith was arrested for drug dealing.  Taking drugs might have started off as a bit of fun but with her addictive personality she got in too deep.  Stewart and Lance helped save her, hence her loyalty to them and fear now they are gone.  Her lack of trust in herself and knowing that Tom is unlikely to fully trust her because of her past behaviour, and her lies to him puts an ends to their relationship.  Kathryn puts in a fine performance in this scene going from happy to upset and a little angry.  Awww, looks like someone needs a hug.  And that is Kathryn done.

Just to round things up:  Stewart and Lance were convinced by Ricky leave their share of the company to her.  Chance found this out by bugging Ricky’s office and killed them before they changed their wills.  A car chase finishes the show with Chance quickly cornered.  There was no little post-case round-up or amusing bit.  Not sure if that was standard for Silk Stalkings.

The End.

I had not seen any episodes of Silk Stalkings before.  I don’t know if it was ever shown in the UK.    The show is nearer the lighter end of the spectrum.  It is not exactly a CSI or Cold Case in terms of taking it seriously.  The banter between the the two leads, much of it based on their past relationship, added a reasonable amount of humour to proceedings.  Based on the evidence this episode it seemed like an entertaining hour.  Apparently the show had a distinct “T&A” element to it but I gather that it was toned down in the last three seasons (6 to 8).  We certainly don’t see much evidence of it in this episode, mores the pity    But more importantly, and why where here, it was great to be able to see Kathryn in one of her earlier roles.  She does a great job portraying a complex character and she looks fantastic in her neck-length blonde locks and various outfits.

Back in December 2010 YouTube user Wendy made this episode of Silk Stalkings available to us all in 4 separate parts.  Later she was able to swap those for another that had the whole thing in it.  You can see my post about it at the time here.

Wendy was kind enough to give me access to her source file used for the upload to YouTube.  This means it is slightly higher quality, suffering less from compression artefacts etc. though the quality is still not great.

I’ve created 216 screencaps which can now be found in the Gallery.

Thanks to Wendy for her assistance.

Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that so I’ll assume you said “bad”.  The bad news is that I’m able to confirm that Kathryn does not feature at all in the extras on the US Moneyball Blu-ray, except for the deleted scene we already know about.  Get [...]]]> You want the good news or the bad news?

Sorry, I didn’t quite catch that so I’ll assume you said “bad”.  The bad news is that I’m able to confirm that Kathryn does not feature at all in the extras on the US Moneyball Blu-ray, except for the deleted scene we already know about.  Get the Blu-ray as it is still worth watching in HD.  Robin Wright goes unmentioned as well, but at least she got a scene in the flick

And the good news… no peaking at the subject above… what do you mean you’ve already read it?  We’ll if that’s your attitude I’m not going to tell you 

Oh, OK, I can’t stay mad at you   The good news is that we now have 30 full HD (1080p) screencaps of the lovely oh-so Kathryn from the Billy/Tara restaurant scene.  You can find them in the Gallery.  They are a little grainy, which is probably down to the darkness of the restaurant setting.

I’ve managed to get hold of a short preview of a deleted scene from the forthcoming Moneyball DVD, due out in early January.  In the scene Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his wife Tara (Kathryn) share a meal in [...]]]> Xmas has come early this year   So much for having a quiet few days

I’ve managed to get hold of a short preview of a deleted scene from the forthcoming Moneyball DVD, due out in early January.  In the scene Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his wife Tara (Kathryn) share a meal in a restaurant.  Billy is talking about work and Tara is being supportive.  It’s sweet.  Looks like being Mrs Brad Pitt agrees with Kathryn

At this stage I don’t know if there will be other scenes starring Kathryn on the DVD or Blu-ray.  Hopefully they will be more and they will be in HD.  We’ll have more news on that at a later date.  For now you’ll just have to manage with the small video and screencaps you can now find in the Gallery.

As posted about previously Moneyball is due for release on DVD and Blu-ray in America on the 10th of January.

It’s been an incredible year of fan art donations.  Since the Fan Art wing opened in late 2010 we’ve amassed an amazing total of 560 items across Avatars, Banners, Buttons, Drawings and Wallpapers.

Many [...]]]> Appropriately our final KM UK Gallery Fan Art update of 2011 is dedicated to one of our most prolific creators: IcyWinter.

It’s been an incredible year of fan art donations.  Since the Fan Art wing opened in late 2010 we’ve amassed an amazing total of 560 items across Avatars, Banners, Buttons, Drawings and Wallpapers.

Many thanks to (in alphabetical order) Alpha, Amei, IcyWinter, Karen, Lolly, Lynne, Marianna, Richard, Smallbarbie, Tianna, TRB and Zoé for all their efforts over the course of this year.  We’ll be back with more Fan Art in the New Year, starting with Kathryn birthday at the end of the January.

If you have made some Kathryn-related Fan Art and would be willing to let it be shown here on KM UK please contact me.