RANDOM QUOTES – PT80
ANN SOTHERN (1909-2001) [On her life-long friend Lucille Ball]: ‘Lucy used to complain that she got all the parts I turned down. Now I produce the show [The Ann Sothern Show], and she […]
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THE CENTURIONS – PT1.
As far as I can determine there have been fifteen actors and actresses who have lived to the ripe old age of 100 or more, and another two who are precariously perched on 99 as of March 31, 2019. If all goes well, Nehemiah Persoff and Marge Champion will […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT51.
Bruce Willis Alan Rickman Alexander Godunov In the 1988 thriller Die Hard, the action takes place in the fictional building known as Nakatomi Plaza. Produced by […]
Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers’ – 1967 & 2005.
I have seen the original 1967 version of The Producers a number of times because I enjoy many of scenes and the script is very funny indeed. When you consider that I simply cannot abide Gene Wilder in anything, it is no small compliment to the rest […]
My Top 10 Movies of 1968.
#10 WHERE EAGLES DARE Ingrid Pitt as Heidi Schloss Werfen in the background Alistair MacLean wrote this screenplay in six weeks – and then he wrote the […]
Heroes & Villains – the HUAC blacklistings 1947-58.
When 79 individuals were subpoenaed in September 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and charged with subversive actions and/or injecting Communist propaganda into their movies, the repercussions career-wise for many of them were long and destructive. The charges were never substantiated, but their accusers were not concerned […]