Tallulah Bankhead The outrageous Tallulah Bankhead sent the Stork Club into an uproar one evening when she encountered director Otto Preminger and actress Marlene Dietrich there, and decided to have a little fun with them. ‘Daaahlings, I haven’t seen you in a long time’, she gushed. ‘Do you like […]
WARGAMES (1983) This intriguing and highly entertaining film is largely due to the excellent performance by 20 year-old Matthew Broderick in only his second film. Faced with choosing between this picture and the Alex Keaton role in the TV series Family Ties, he picked the movie and Michael […]
MOVIE QUIZ #7 Q1 MAX BIALYSTOCK AND LEO BLOOM ARE THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN A COMEDY FIRST MADE IN 1967, THEN IN 2005. NAME THE FILM. Q2 WILLIAM HURT, ALBERT BROOKS & HOLLY HUNTER ARE INVOLVED IN A LOVE TRIO IN WHICH 1987 FILM SET IN A […]
THE MAN FROM BLACKHAWK (1959-60) 37 EPISODES It is generally believed that this short-lived series was created to take advantage of the popularity of ‘private eye’ television series such as 77 Sunset Strip at the time. It starred Robert Rockwell as Sam Logan, an insurance investigator from the Blackhawk […]
Roman Polanski For those who still feel Roman Polanski has been unfairly harassed and pursued for the last 44 years, it may be of interest for you to peruse the six felony counts handed down to him by the Grand Jury in 1977 following the man’s depraved photo-session in […]
PETER USTINOV (1921 – 2004) [Espousing the difference between acting and politics]: ‘Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics and they’ve done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other […]
SUNDAY TOO FAR AWAY (1975) Jack Thompson as Foley the ‘gun shearer’ I have watched a lot of Australian films in my life and this extraordinary picture about a shearing team in the Australian outback in 1955, on the eve of the great Shearers’ Strike of 1956, is, in […]
MOVIE QUIZ #6 Q1 IN CITY SLICKERS (1991), BILLY CRYSTAL’S CHARACTER, MITCH ROBBINS, BIRTHED A CALF. WHAT NAME DID HE GIVE IT? Q2 WHO PLAYED SABRINA FAIRCHILD IN THE 1954 ROMANCE SABRINA? Q3 WHICH 2013 FILM IS ABOUT A FREE BLACK MAN, SOLOMON NORTHUP, BEING KIDNAPPED AND […]
THEIR FAVOURITE PERFORMANCES? We often hear critics and movie ‘experts’ wax lyrical about the best performance by such and such an actor or actress, but I wonder what the stars themselves think is their best ever performance; which of their films rates as their personal favourite? At the risk […]
I am mildly surprised every so often to discover that such and such an actor or actress was not born where I had always assumed he or she had originated. With that in mind I did some checking and came up with quite a few surprises. Some of these […]
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