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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  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, […]

  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 […]

  FATHER GOOSE (1964)                              This was the penultimate film of Cary Grant’s long career, and it was the last time he played a romantic lead.  In the following year he refused the romantic lead in his […]

  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 […]

  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 […]

  CROCODILE DUNDEE (1986)                              To the surprise of most of the movie world, this film proved to be the second highest grossing picture of 1986 throughout the world, behind the Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun. In […]