Bob Hoskins RIP - by the river

Farewell Bob Hoskins, a great London actor, so here he is (mostly) by the River Thames:

By Tower Bridge in the Long Good Friday

with Helen Mirren in The Long Good Friday

with Helen Mirren by St Thomas Hospital SE1 in Last Orders

with Michael Caine in Last Orders... scene shot in the Larkhall Tavern in Clapham

on the South Bank in the video for Jamie T's Sheila

with Helen Mirren in the Duchess of Malfi at the Roundhouse in 1981
- went to this on a school trip, it was amazing

See also: Shiraz Socialist; Dangerous Minds

London Calling at Tower Bridge

Today they unveiled the 'Olympic Rings' at Tower Bridge. Nearby on the south side of the river by City Hall there's a Joe Strummer phone box art installation. 

The phone box is one of a number across London as part of the BT ArtBox campaign, each decorated by a different artist.  Later in the year they will be auctioned to raise money for Childline. The Joe Strummer one is entitled 'London Calling' and was decorated by the photographer Peter Anderson (who I believe took the pictures of Joe Strummer used in the phone box).

'London calling, see we ain't got no swing

'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing...

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in

Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin

Engines stop running, but I have no fear

'Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river'

What would Joe have made of the Olympics spectacle? Who knows? I'm sure though he would have approved of some buskers nearby.