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Sarah Parish: ‘Sex scenes in the Nineties could get pretty awkward’

Sarah Parish: ‘Sex scenes in the Nineties could get pretty awkward’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Posh pissed English woman – that’s me, smoking,” says Sarah Parish, taking a drag on an imaginary cigarette. The laugh she emits moments later, throaty and faintly lascivious, sounds like a car engine turning over. The archetypal role she’s talking about, in films and TV, is in the likes of Christmas staple The Holiday (2006), as the sozzled Daily Telegraph editor to Kate Winslet’s lovesick columnist; patchy romcom The Wedding Date (2005), as the perennially worse-for-wear TJ; and across three series of BBC drama Mistresses, as a GP whose penchant for the wine rack is as liberal as her approach to medical ethics. “I wasn’t playing far from type,” she says, recalling times spent in the late Nineties staggering through Soho House, drink in hand. “We were of an age where we could do a whole day’s filming, then go out …

Sarah Parish: Piglets star wants to see women in their 50s having sex on TV

Sarah Parish: Piglets star wants to see women in their 50s having sex on TV

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sarah Parish has said she wants to see more women in their fifties in sex scenes on television, stating there is “definitely a place out there” for a show similar to her noughties hit Mistresses. The BBC drama, which ran for three series, followed four friends – including Parish’s GP character, Dr Katie Roden – and explored their often illicit sexual encounters and relationships. Fans often tell the 57-year-old that they would love to see Mistresses make a comeback and the actor has backed the calls in a new interview with The Times, telling the publication she’d also be happy to see fresh ideas in the same vein as the BBC hit. “I want to see women of my age having sex,” she said. “I want to see them thinking about things that we’re not allowed to talk about. As you …

New pipe organ signals rebirth for Episcopal parish after fire, flood and ‘plague’

New pipe organ signals rebirth for Episcopal parish after fire, flood and ‘plague’

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (RNS) — The organ arrived from Utah on a warm August morning. Greeted by holy water, incense and slide whistles, it came in a 53-foot-long truck that was double-parked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The Church of the Epiphany’s priests clambered up on the truck’s loading dock, tossed on stoles and blessed the long-awaited instrument. Their prayers were punctuated by the sound of confetti cannons shot off by about 30 parishioners. Then, for hours, children, adults and elders into their 90s hoisted pipes and boxes up flights of stairs to the church’s second-floor sanctuary. The biggest spectacle was the entrance of the 600-pound organ console, which parishioners and organ builders spent over 30 minutes wrangling up an external staircase. “What has been the most beautiful part of this organ is the way it has brought our entire community together,” Denise Cruz, a  vestry member, speech pathologist and mother of two, told RNS. “It was all hands on deck.” Even with reports of declining worship attendance in the U.S. — and an overall reduction …