MEMORABLE MOVIE QUOTES- PT1

MEMORABLE MOVIE QUOTES- PT1

June 7, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  I often watch movies more than once, and it is almost always because they contain memorable dialogue moments that I enjoy re-living. Of course, it is important that those lines are delivered well, but it is primarily the writing that impresses me most. Below is the first in a […]

TV Sitcoms PT8

TV Sitcoms PT8

June 4, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW (1955-9) 166 EPISODES                                  Cummings portrays Bob Collins, a bachelor/photographer devoted to the pursuit of beautiful young models in Hollywood, California. The surprising aspect of this un-memorable show lies in its longevity (166 episodes over five years), given the complete lack of charisma of its star, […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT80

RANDOM QUOTES – PT80

June 1, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  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 […]

September 11, 2001 revisited

September 11, 2001 revisited

May 29, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Lara Lundstrom Clarke – Gwyneth Paltrow As the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001 in New York City approached, an accountant manager at Baseline Financial Services, a company situated on the 77th floor of Tower 2 of the World Trade Centre that day, gave an interview to Access Hollywood […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT217

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT217

May 26, 2023 Alan Royle 0

      Agnes Moorehead as Endora in Bewitched A founder and charter member of Orson Welles’ famous Mercury Theatre Players, Agnes Moorehead succumbed to uterine cancer at seventy-three in 1974, eighteen years after making The Conquerors in 1956. It is strongly believed by many people that her death, along with […]

ACTORS WHO HAVE LIVED INTO THEIR 90s

ACTORS WHO HAVE LIVED INTO THEIR 90s

May 23, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  ACTORS WHO HAVE LIVED INTO THEIR NINETIES    99        STILL LIVING LARRY STORCH   (1923 – ) Born: New York City, New York, USA Was Corporal Randolph Agarn in F Troop TV series (1965-7)   97        STILL LIVING LESLIE PHILLIPS (1924 – ) Born: Tottenham, London, England Out […]

ACTRESSES IN THEIR NINETIES

ACTRESSES IN THEIR NINETIES

May 20, 2023 Alan Royle 1

ACTRESSES WHO HAVE LIVED INTO THEIR NINETIES 99 DECEASED ZSA ZSA GABOR    (1917 – 2016)              Born: Budapest, Austria-Hungary Moulin Rouge (1952), Lili (1953) Married 9 times (Including to actor George Sanders) BETTY WHITE       (1922 – 2021)              Born: Oak Park, Illinois, USA She was Rose Nylund in The Golden Girls TV […]

TV SITCOMS – PT7

TV SITCOMS – PT7

May 17, 2023 Alan Royle 3

  HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR (1954-60)       57 EPISODES                       Hancock’s Half Hour began life as a BBC radio show, broadcast between 1954 and 1961, with the TV series alternating from 1954 until 1959. When its star, Tony Hancock, became disillusioned with the public’s perception of the TV show as a comedy double […]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) & (2005)

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) & (2005)

May 14, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940)              According to one of the cast, Anne Rutherford, this delightful version of Jane Austen’s romantic novel about Regency England (late 18th to early 19th century), was intended to be shot in colour, but David O Selznick had used every available reel of Technicolour film in […]

JENNIFER LOPEZ

JENNIFER LOPEZ

May 11, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  JENNIFER LOPEZ (1969 – )                       She is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents who came to continental USA in their childhood. They met in New York City and Jennifer entered this world via The Bronx in 1969. She loved […]