MCLEOD’S DAUGHTERS (2001-09) This was one of Australia’s all-time favourite and successful television series, as evidenced by its eight seasons consisting of 224 episodes, each of 45 minutes duration. The story revolved around five women running a cattle station, ‘Drover’s Run’, in outback South Australia. Over its eight-season run […]
ANN SHERIDAN (1915-67) [Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was used as a body double (hands, legs & shoulders) by Paramount in her early days in the industry]: ‘I used to go to Grauman’s Chinese or Pantages and sit there waiting to see my faceless body on […]
THE OUTCASTS (1968-9) 26 EPISODES The major claim to fame for The Outcasts television series was that it boasted the first ever African-American to co-star in a western series. Otis Young played the black bounty hunter Jemal David and established screen star […]
PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009) I must confess that I have been putting off watching this movie for more than a decade, unusual for me because I have always been fascinated by the criminal element in the USA of the 1930s. The synopsis tells of the efforts of the fledgling FBI […]
MOVIE QUIZ #9 Q1 IN MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL (1975), IN PLACE OF A PORTRAIT OF GOD THERE IS ONE OF A FAMOUS 19TH CENTURY CRICKETER. WHO? Q2 RUPERT EVERETT IS LORD GORING IN THE 1999 FILM VERSION OF WHICH OSCAR WILDE PLAY? Q3 RODEO STAR […]
MICHAEL CAINE (1933 – ) [On his many years desperately trying to make it as an actor]: ‘In my worst moments I went on the dole (the last time, Sean Connery was two guys in front of me in the queue)…The other people hanging around with me waiting for […]
Sandra Bullock Without exception, all those who have enjoyed the privilege of working with Sandra Bullock describe her as a most pleasant, hard-working, and talented actress. She is also more than capable of both winning and losing with equal grace and humour. In 2010, she won a Best Actress […]
THE MONROES (1966-7) 26 EPISODES Ma and Pa Monroe die in an accident in the first episode, leaving their five orphaned children to survive as a […]
HIGH SOCIETY (1956) As most cinema-goers are probably aware, this movie is a musical adaptation of the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story, although it is set in Newport, Rhode Island (in order to take advantage of the famous jazz festival […]
MOVIE QUIZ #8 Q1 IN THE 1986 COMEDY FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF, FERRIS MIMED TWO SONGS DURING THE PARADE. WHAT WERE THEY? Q2 WHO SANG THE HIT THEME SONG IN THE 1959 MOVIE PILLOW TALK? Q3 PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR PHILIP MARLOWE IS PORTRAYED BY HUMPHREY BOGART IN […]
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