MY APOLOGIES

April 14, 2024 Alan Royle 6

I would like to apologize for the lack of posts in April. I have been ill and unable to meet my obligations in that regard. I have just completed what will be (I am sorry to say), my final post (dated April 01 2024). To all my readers, I wish […]

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

April 1, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  I admit that I have absolutely no idea how difficult it must be to attain even a modicum of success as an actor or actress, either in the theatre or on the silver screen, yet it seems to me that at least some of this success can be put […]

SPEAKING OUT

SPEAKING OUT

March 24, 2024 Alan Royle 2

  ELEANOR TOMLINSON (1992 – )                        [The stunning actress who portrays Demelza Poldark in the Poldark series comments on her determination regarding nudity]: ‘I don’t do nudity. I don’t feel the need to do it. In fact, it’s sexier […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

March 20, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  Howard Hughes & Jean Peters Following a thirty-three day marriage to a Texan oilman (Stuart Warren Cramer III) which ended in a whirlwind divorce, Jean Peters finally married Howard Hughes in a secret ceremony in 1957 and left public life for the next thirteen years. The couple had been […]

SPEAKING OUT

SPEAKING OUT

March 16, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  STERLING HAYDEN (1916-86)                            ‘I wonder whether there has ever before been a man who bought a schooner and joined the Communist Party all on the same day. After completing Johnny Guitar opposite Joan Crawford in 1954, […]

QUOTES FROM THE 1975 THRILLER ‘JAWS’

QUOTES FROM THE 1975 THRILLER ‘JAWS’

March 12, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  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 […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

March 4, 2024 Alan Royle 2

  HERBERT LOM Early in 1939, shortly before the Nazis over-ran what was left of Czechoslovakia, Czech-born actor Herbert Lom arrived in Britain with his Jewish girlfriend, Didi, seeking asylum. Tragically, she was sent back at Dover because she did not have the correct papers. Her subsequent death in a […]

SPEAKING OUT

SPEAKING OUT

February 29, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  HERBERT LOM (1917-2012)                                  ‘Peter Sellers was always a mixed-up guy, a childish fellow. But if you’re fond of children, you’re also fond of childish men. He was always very helpful to me. After […]