SPEAKING OUT – PT92

SPEAKING OUT – PT92

December 10, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  A still from The Sound of Music (1965) MARNI NIXON (1930-2016)                       [Marni provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in both The King and I (1956), and in An Affair to Remember in (1957). She dubbed Natalie Wood’s singing, (as well as Rita Moreno’s rendition of ‘Tonight’) in West Side […]

MOVIE TRIVIA 227

MOVIE TRIVIA 227

December 4, 2023 Alan Royle 1

                            In the 1964 film Fail Safe, it is mentioned that the United States has never been to condition red (DEFCON 2), but that is not true. The US was at DEFCON 2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. At the time this movie […]

DAVY CROCKETT – The Myth & the Reality

DAVY CROCKETT – The Myth & the Reality

November 25, 2023 Alan Royle 4

    David Crockett was born August 17, 1786, in North Carolina, in what today is Greene County, Tennessee. His grand-parents had been killed back in 1777 by Creeks and Chickamauga Cherokees led by chief Dragging Canoe. At thirteen David was sent to school but played ‘hookey’ following an altercation […]

‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’

‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’

November 19, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963)                       Of all the featured players in this movie, the one that launched Sean Connery as a superstar a year after he played James Bond in Dr. No, only Italian actress Daniela Bianchi (who played […]

RANDOM QUOTES

RANDOM QUOTES – PT88

October 5, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  AVA GARDNER (1922 – 90)                       [On her time at MGM]: ‘I thought I was making fifty dollars a week, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT88

RANDOM QUOTES – PT88

September 23, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  ROBERT DUVALL (1931 – )                      [Robert Duvall says the work he is most proud of (by far) is his role as the former Texas Ranger Augustus McCrae in the outstanding 1989 mini-series Lonesome Dove]:  ‘Everybody likes to win’. One of the biggest disappointments was when I didn’t get an […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT87

RANDOM QUOTES – PT87

September 11, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  YUL BRYNNER (1920 – 85)         ‘I had a rule when I was doing ‘The King and I’, that I never allowed anybody backstage, except after the show, because all this work went into creating an illusion and would be destroyed by a visit backstage… And one […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT86

RANDOM QUOTES – PT86

August 27, 2023 Alan Royle 0

               CHARLTON HESTON (1923 – 2008)       [From 1998 until 2003, Heston was voted President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) for an unprecedented five consecutive years. Once, when asked if he would ever surrender his gun, he replied]:’You can take my rifle…when you pry […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT85

RANDOM QUOTES – PT85

August 9, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  CHER (1946 – )                                                          ‘I was a shy ugly kid who led a big fantasy life. I thought I was an angel sent from heaven to cure polio. When Doctor Salk did that I was really pissed off.’ ‘In this business you have to be tough, and if someone […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT82

RANDOM QUOTES – PT82

July 4, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  ELLE FANNING (1998 – )                                      [Actress Elle Fanning is the younger sister of Dakota Fanning and speaks of her role as the star of the TV series The Great (2020 – ), in which she portrays Empress Catherine the Great]: ‘The real Catherine the Great was very free sexually […]