Steven R. Ford

Novelist, recording artist, & award-winning filmmaker, producer/director/writer of Intro & Outro & Empress. Music rep: BMI #musician #producer #director #writer

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@SaffronAsteria Well... I respect the bluntness.🤭

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@Lyons_Pen Never was a fan of colour. Sounds snooty.🤭

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@BubbleyBrain Clearly not well. Brush it off. It's more of an embarrassment to "Travis" to have posted that review than it will ever be to you.👊🏼

[Ian McKellen @IanMcKellen]

SIR PATRICK STEWART (1940-2026)

Before everything else, Patrick was defined by being born and bred in Yorkshire, the proud county in the north of England which he loved to the end. You could hear it in his accented voice and in the stern honesty with which he told you what he thought and felt. Yorkshiremen have no truck with half-truths or avoidance of big issues. He wore his heart on his sleeve, which made him a man to rely on, to admire and in my case, love.

We first met as ambitious young actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company half a century ago but we weren’t in the same productions. My first strong memory was a few years later, meeting him in the street in central London when he told me about an offer to take over a leading part in 'Star Trek'. “But Patrick think of your stage career in the UK. Do you really want to risk—getting lost in Hollywood for years and years?”. Well, he took the risk and thank goodness for us all that he did for not just his devoted Trekkies but film and theatre audiences, who marvelled at his using international celebrity to star in a string of cinema successes ('X-Men' of course) and in great classical plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Peter Shaffer, Pinter and Beckett at Stratford-upon-Avon, in London’s West End and on Broadway.

America was his adopted home, where he met his adored Sunny who has cared for him through sickness and health, through thick and thin. But he never forsook his origins: and the proudest achievement of the most respected and beloved actor of his generation on either side of the Atlantic, was his appointment as Chancellor of Huddersfield University in Yorkshire.

His farewell performance in 'Avengers: Doomsday' is yet to be seen.

Ian McKellen 29 October 2026

Photo: University of Huddersfield

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Easily one of the nicest celebrities I ever interviewed. Great man.

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Final question on tonight’s JEOPARDY ‘Life Achievement Unlocked’

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@ThomasPSulliva2 @TeaRoseKent Also a good one!

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@DKemeridou Black & silver.🤔

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@RGRyan777 We have instructions on shampoo bottles. We've been screwed for a long time.😆

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@JoeBerne1 Agreed. It was entertaining, but it wasn't great. Better than anything in the final trilogy though.😬

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@LKHamilton What is there in Anita's world that is similar, that activity, hobby, or aspiration she finds enticing but will never do?🤔

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@hwjohnston7 Kevin Conroy.

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@StevenTBoers63 I felt that.

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@Lyons_Pen Yes, and Utah, USA.

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@FrankMorrell17 Loved the Wundagore saga. Byrne turned every title he worked on into gold.

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@sarabushway It can change. I was more of a pantser until I realized that the more plotting and outlining I did the less aimless pantsing I had to do. Maybe over time plotters learn how to unclench a little.😉

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@TeaRoseKent Tacos are the correct answer.🌮😋

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@BellaDunnWriter Still here!🙋🏻‍♂️

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@LKCarter_Author "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don't stop believin'."
- Journey.

😉

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@AuthorAltoft I used to think that. Then I consulted some romance writers about my female characters, and it was eye opening.

"No, women wouldn't do that." "Women don't think that way." "A woman's inner monologue is much busier than that."

But it was helpful in creating an authentic FMC.