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UPDATE: Eddie will be appearing live for Q and A’s in Los Angeles after select BELIEVE screenings.

The documentary ‘Believe: The Eddie Izzard story’ is being released in cinemas next month. Screenings will be at Raindance Film Festival in London on 3rd October, then opening in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Sunset 5, West Hollywood on 9th October and in New York at the Village East Cinema on 16th October.

UPDATE:

>> NEW TRAILER HERE

The LA screening is October 8-15 (new dates added) at the Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre. This is a limited release of one week at present.

Laemmle’s Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, 90046
323-848-3500
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The New York premiere is on the 16th of October at the Village East Theatre. This is also a limited release of one week at present.

Village East Cinema
181-189 2nd Avenue
New York, NY 10003
212-529-6799

SYNOPSIS:
‘Believe’ chronicles comedian Eddie Izzard’s rise to fame from his early influences – losing his mother to cancer at a young age before being sent with his brother to boarding school to his close present day relationship with his supportive father. At school, when he saw what getting into the Cambridge Footlights Revue could do for your career his goal became to follow Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson and try for a place at the University. When that didn’t work out he headed to the Edinburgh Festival, equipped with nothing but a unicycle and some banter, eventually figuring out how to draw a crowd. He’s been working hard at it ever since.

‘Believe’ is the mantra of Eddie Izzard: if you want to be a singer, you’ve got to believe you can sing, if you want to be a comedian you’ve got to believe you can be funny. Eddie believes in Eddie and it was this rock solid self-belief that allowed him to perform onstage as a transvestite when it was considered career suicide. When his highly successful West End show, Dressed To Kill won critical acclaim he had only himself to thank for booking the theatre.

Director Sarah Townsend skillfully combines home video, stills and archival footage in this intimate and edgy portrait of the performer.

(synopsis courtesy of Raindance Film Festival)

For further details visit the movie’s official site.

[From themirror.co.uk]

Eddie Joins Hope Not Hate Campaign Anti-Racism Party

Eddie Izzard and ministers Ed Balls and Glenys Kinnock were among the crowd that turned out to urge campaigners to fight the BNP at the general election.

Nick Lowles, of anti-racism group Searchlight, said: “Nick Griffin may have made it into the European Parliament, but Hope Not Hate is growing. We are determined there will be no seats won by racists.”

Speaking at the event Eddie Izzard told the audience how inspired he had been by many of the people he had met on the Hope Not Hate campaign.

The comedian and actor added: “I was lucky enough to meet a Holocaust survivor and a veteran from the First World War, among many other inspiring individuals involved in this campaign.”

And Ed Balls apologised for the local election success of the far right in Britain.

He said: “I have to apologise for the BNP getting in in Yorkshire.

I promise you we’re going to redouble our efforts to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

The Mirror’s campaign bus has now made three annual trips across the UK celebrating modern, diverse Britain.

Chat show in which one week’s interviewee becomes the following week’s interviewer.

Eddie Izzard interviews former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell. He asks him about his breakdown, working for Tony Blair and his beginnings as a soft porn writer.

LISTEN HERE

Amazon UK has the Stripped DVD for pre-order. It releases November 23, 2009.

Eddie Izzard presents a rare profile of comedy actor, Stanley Baxter.

LISTEN HERE

Eddie has added 2 dates in Amsterdam to his 2009 tour:

Friday 13 November – Heineken Music Hall

Saturday 14 November – Heineken Music Hall

Fan pre-sale begins at 10am CET on Thursday 24th September 2009…HERE

Tickets go on general release at 10am CET on Friday 25th September 2009

Documentary about the life of Eddie Izzard, one of the most original comedians of our time. It’s set to hit theaters in select areas soon and will be out on DVD in January.

[from the Guardian.co.uk]

Eddie Izzard celebrated completing 43 marathons in 52 days by predicting today that he would run for parliament in Westminster or Brussels within the next 15 years.

Having closed out his 1,100-mile, seven-week slog for charity in London yesterday, the 47-year-old talked of his future plans as he went to Downing Street to meet Gordon and Sarah Brown and David Miliband, the foreign secretary.

The self-styled “action transvestite”, who was raising money for Sports Relief, put his success down to his “relentlessness”, saying “I’ve said I will stand as an MP or MEP at some stage, in 10 to 15 years. I like to make long announcements. But at the moment, I’ve spent so long trying to get my career going [that] I don’t want to throw it away.”

“I feel really good. My legs hurt, my body hurts, I’m very tired. I lost my toenails, had blisters and stuff, but to finish – it’s kind of like science fiction in a way,” said Izzard, who starts a 44-date tour next month in his more familiar role as a standup comic.

He said he wouldn’t stop running. “I do have to wind down but I want to keep a couple of long runs going a week. I don’t want to throw it all away.”

Izzard has already raised more than £200,000 after completing a programme that sometimes involved running distances of 31 miles a day. He trained for just five weeks beforehand and attributed his success to a victory of mind over matter.

“My analogy was world war two. They all did amazing things that they were not planning to do. They became commandos and they shot anti-aircraft batteries, and if you imagine in your head you are going to do this extreme thing then you do it.”

[from Channel 4 News]

Comedian Eddie Izzard is due to meet Gordon Brown after completing 43 marathons in 51 days.

The 47-year-old finished his final run on Tuesday afternoon, pounding his way to London’s Trafalgar Square in the pouring rain.

His 1,100 mile-plus mega-marathon has already raised more than £200,000 for Sport Relief.