Guy Ritchie

"What am I to say of "Snatch," Ritchie's new film, which follows the "Lock, Stock" formula so slavishly it could be like a new arrangement of the same song?", and writing in the "New York Times" Elvis Mitchell commented that "Mr. Ritchie seems to be stepping backward when he should be moving ahead".

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"If you've seen Guy's films, it's a new version of some of the stuff he's done, speeding up and slowing down the photography," he says. "That was a big part of giving him modern action but with Holmes' characteristics."

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"They took all these Post covers and painted over them. They're in my house in LA -- a signpost, a watershed moment." She added that her Sticky & Sweet tour was the only thing that kept her sane during her painful divorce from Guy Ritchie: "I think work saved me, and I'm grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building."

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"It was straight out of a Guy Ritchie movie and was full of cockney hardmen," he recalled. "But when I was with Thompson I was safe and I could have had anything in the pub that I wanted that night. "

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"He told his friends he was planning on marrying her and was heartbroken to learn in such a public way they weren't on the same page." Madonna - who has four children, daughter Lourdes, 12, son Rocco, nine, and adopted children, David and Mercy, both four - recently admitted there are some aspects of married life she misses. The pop star - who was previously married to movie director Guy Ritchie and actor Sean Penn - said: "Being a single parent means you're kind of in charge of everything. You can't say, 'Hey, can you give the kids a bath while I do something else.' There's no job sharing."

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"I loved the idea of an intellectual action hero," says the director. At first, he wanted to relaunch Holmes with an origin story, but once Downey expressed interst, Ritchie fell in love with the idea of setting the actor loose in the criminal underwold of Victorian London. "It seems impossible now that anybody other than Rob could have played him," Ritchie says. "He thinks like Sherlock Holmes, he's complicated like Sherlock Holmes, and he can really brawl. "

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"Holmes was a gentleman, but he was also a street guy who could scruff it up a bit. I thought the story had lost that part of its essence," Ritchie said.

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"Here you go: I still love her," Ritchie says. "But she's retarded, too."

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He said: "Here you go: I still love her.

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"I'm f****** telling you, I feel it, I've been through that. " What a transformation from the early days of their relationship, "Madonna, when she came in here, it was old-school London," Guy says.

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