Patch Adams (1998)
Robin Williams (as Hunter Patch Adams): ‘And if we bury you ass up, I have got a place to park my bike.’
Month: February 2015
A Few Good Men (1992)
Jack Nicholson (as Colonel Nathan Jessep): ‘Walk softly and carry an armored tank division, I always say.’
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Charlton Heston (as George Taylor): ‘I can’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man – has to be.’
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Matthew Broderick (as Ferris Bueller): ‘Pardon my French, but Cameron is so tight that if you stuck a lump of coal up his ass, in two weeks you’d have a diamond.’
Get Shorty (1995)
Gene Hackman (as Harry Zimm): ‘I once asked this literary agent what kind of writing paid the best. He said ‘ransom notes.’
JULIE ANDREWS – The real Mary Poppins.
It is hard to believe that the star of The Sound of Music will be eighty in October. Why do I suddenly feel very old? Even as a 10 year old she possessed ‘an enormous, belting, freak voice with a range of four octaves and some fierce high notes’. […]
PARIS HILTON – A classic non-talent.
The abominable House of Wax (2005) was shot in Australia at Warner Bros Movie World on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Warners granted Paris permission to sell t-shirts that read: ‘On May 6th, watch Paris die’, (a mouth-watering thought if there ever was one). As most people […]
Marilyn Monroe – a gorgeous tramp?
Marilyn Monroe in the unfinished Something’s Got to Give ( 1962) Marilyn Monroe’s first appearance in a movie was in the 1948 picture Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! She uttered just two words, ‘Hi, Rad’, as she walked down some church steps behind eight year-old Natalie Wood. Two years earlier she […]
Gene Tierney – an unfortunate life?
Nineteen year-old Gene Tierney had made her screen debut in the 1940 western The Return of Frank James. Already a star on Broadway, she was nevertheless appalled by the high pitch of her voice when she first saw the rushes. Determined to lower the tone of her delivery, whatever […]
JOHNNY DEPP – A most engaging man?
Johnny Depp’s screen debut was in A Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984 when he played a guy that gets swallowed by his bed! Well, it happens. He only got the part because director Wes Craven’s teenage daughter and her friends were present for the readings and they all flipped over […]