Aware of Elvis Presley’s infatuation with actress Debra Paget on the set of the 1956 film Love Me Tender, fourteen year old Priscilla Beaulieu, the future Priscilla Presley, copied Debra’s hairstyle in the hope of meeting Presley when he came to West Germany with the US Army in 1959. Elvis […]

JAWS (1975) This movie was chock-full of many memorable lines of dialogue, none of which were more riveting than the monologue delivered by Robert Shaw (as Quint) when he described in detail the sinking of the USS Indianapolis by a Japanese submarine during World War Two. The horrific and tragic […]

  Elvis Presley It appears to be decidedly unclear with regard to the love life of Elvis Presley. Evidence has come to light that he was reluctant to become intimately involved with female acquaintances for a number of reasons. His devotion to his mother, Gladys, may lay at the heart […]

  The scene in which Arthur (Dudley Moore) and his ‘hooker’ date, Gloria, are dining in the 1981 film Arthur, was filmed at the famous Oak Room inside the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This was the same restaurant where Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, was abducted in the […]

  BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)                    It was a pleasant experience back in 1969 to watch a western that was devoid of the slaughter of Indians by twits like George Armstrong Custer who, somehow, managed to achieve, whilst doing so, hero status along the way. It was also […]

PERRY COMO (1912-2001) ‘I’ve done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I’ve been a singer. That’s it. For the amount of talent I had – I couldn’t dance, act or tell a joke – yet I enjoyed a tremendous career.’ KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (1936 – […]

  BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)                            For those unfamiliar with this movie’s premise – Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna take their teenage daughters, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore to Rio de Janeiro for a vacation. Caine’s marriage is […]

  LISA KUDROW (1963 – )                             [Speaking of her Friends co-star, the late Matthew Perry]: Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached and tears poured down my face […]

  Eric Idle In 1963, as a collegiate, Eric Idle was admitted into the Cambridge Footlights comedy club. He became president of the club the following year, and one of his first acts was to open the membership to include women. Feminist/writer Germaine Greer was one of the first women […]

  ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)                              Hugh Marlowe in All about Eve One of Bette Davis’s former directors, Edmund Goulding, phoned Joseph L. Mankiewicz on learning of the casting of Bette Davis in the lead for this picture, […]