LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘FROM HELL’ 2001

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘FROM HELL’ 2001

September 25, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  FROM HELL (2001)              This ‘Jack the Ripper’ Victorian England drama was filmed in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, not in London’s prohibitively expensive East End. The Czech capital provided a convincing impression of 1880s London at a far cheaper cost. Great care […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT24.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT24.

May 9, 2020 Alan Royle 0

DENNIS HOPPER:                                                              [A quote from 2001] ‘I’ve been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was really an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used to do cocaine so I could sober up and drink more. My last five years of drinking were a […]

HEATHER GRAHAM

HEATHER GRAHAM

April 24, 2020 Alan Royle 0

HEATHER GRAHAM (1970 – ) Heather & James Woods Heather hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the daughter of strict Roman Catholic parents. Her mother taught school and her father was an FBI agent who moved around a lot. Although her mother drove Heather to auditions in the early days in California, […]

HARVEY WEINSTEIN – Some of his accusors.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN – Some of his accusors.

March 16, 2020 Alan Royle 0

Movie producer Harvey Weinstein Since The New York Times and The New Yorker published reports in 2017 of decades of alleged sexual harassment and assault by producer Harvey Weinstein, scores of women have come forward with similar claims against the movie mogul. And the list continues to grow. More than […]

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THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN ACCUSATIONS

September 11, 2018 Alan Royle 2

      Harvey Weinstein     According to Time Magazine in 2017, Harvey Weinstein’s net worth was estimated at between $240 and $300 million. In 2012 the magazine listed him as one of ‘The 100 Most Influential People in the World’. He was the recipient of an honorary CBE in […]

A dozen interesting ladies.

January 5, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  Courteney Cox                                       The ‘Dancing in the Dark’ video clip that started it all for Courteney in 1984. Hailing from an affluent family background in Birmingham, Alabama, Courteney Cox was first nationally […]

Happy 100th birthday, Kirk… I think.

October 17, 2016 Alan Royle 8

  Kirk Douglas was born Issur Demsky in New York City to Jewish-Russian parents on 9 December 1916. Like Olivia de Havilland (in July) he will turn 100 in 2016. Back in 1958 his good friend Mike Todd asked him to fly to New York with him to celebrate Mike’s […]

Heath Ledger – a tragedy.

March 31, 2015 admin 2

    I have been wondering how many actors and actresses from my hometown of Perth, Western Australia have become nationally or internationally known. Upon doing a little research I have unearthed quite a few, the most famous of them being, of course, the late and wonderfully talented Heath Ledger. […]