QUIZ ANSWERS FOR QUIZOF 28 DEC 2023

QUIZ ANSWERS FOR QUIZ OF 28 DEC 2023

December 31, 2023 Alan Royle 0

Q1     C     THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE Q2     E     GIANT Q3     A     SWEET HOME ALABAMA Q4     E     INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS Q5     C     MILLER’S CROSSING Q6     D     VERTIGO Q7     B     MARTY Q8     C  […]

MOVIE QUIZ

MOVIE QUIZ

December 28, 2023 Alan Royle 0

Here is a quite simple movie quiz for those interested in such things. Below are pictured fifty movie stars from all eras, under which are listed six movie titles. All you are required to do is nominate which ONE of those films did NOT feature the star pictured. So, here […]

SPEAKING OUT – PT93

SPEAKING OUT – PT93

December 25, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  EMILY BLUNT (1983 – )                [On why she avoids on-screen nudity] ‘I’m not so keen on doing nudity, because I’m not 22 anymore. It’s not so much a moral thing as I’ve done it before and do I really want to do it again? Does it serve the film […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

December 22, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Victor Mature Victor Mature was notorious in Hollywood for being frightened of his own shadow. When he was required to fight the lion bare-handed in Samson and Delilah (1949), he managed to convince director Cecil B. DeMille to use stunt double Kay Bell instead. ‘I had no love for […]

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES

December 19, 2023 Alan Royle 2

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (1995)                              . This delightful romantic comedy focuses on the relationship between the fictional US President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) and a lobbyist named Sydney Ellen Wade portrayed by Annette Bening and the impact their romance has on his chances of re-election. The movie is stolen by Miss […]

CLINT EASTWOOD – His Life and Loves

CLINT EASTWOOD – His Life and Loves

December 16, 2023 Alan Royle 1

CLINT EASTWOOD  (1930 – )                       The ninety-three year-old director/actor (as of May 2023), has impregnated at least nine women; the six who have confirmed having his babies, plus actress Sondra Locke, Anita Lhoest and Jane Cameron Agee, whose terminated pregnancies have been documented. Beginning in 1959, Clint was […]

SPEAKING OUT – PT92

SPEAKING OUT – PT92

December 10, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  A still from The Sound of Music (1965) MARNI NIXON (1930-2016)                       [Marni provided the singing voice for Deborah Kerr in both The King and I (1956), and in An Affair to Remember in (1957). She dubbed Natalie Wood’s singing, (as well as Rita Moreno’s rendition of ‘Tonight’) in West Side […]

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY

December 7, 2023 Alan Royle 0

THE ENIGMA THAT WAS AUDIE MURPHY             This writer was born in 1947 and makes no apologies for being an Audie Murphy fan since childhood, long before learning of his extraordinary combat record as a soldier in the US Army during World War Two. While other boys at my school idolized […]

MOVIE TRIVIA 227

MOVIE TRIVIA 227

December 4, 2023 Alan Royle 1

                            In the 1964 film Fail Safe, it is mentioned that the United States has never been to condition red (DEFCON 2), but that is not true. The US was at DEFCON 2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. At the time this movie […]