TOMBSTONE (1993) Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday discuss gunfighter/killer Johnny Ringo: Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell): ‘What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?’ Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer): ‘A man like Ringo has got […]
THE POWER OF THE DOG (2021) I have watched an awful lot of movies in my life. Some were quite brilliant; others less so, but they generally held my interest for much of their screen-time because there was usually the expectation that something would happen sooner or later. Not […]
Heath Ledger There was a great deal of conjecture over the cause of death after Heath Ledger’s body was discovered on January 22, 2008 in his apartment in the Manhattan neighbourhood of SoHo. His housekeeper and a massage therapist found him face down and unconscious in his bed with […]
VIVIEN LEIGH (1913 – 67) Laurence Olivier was Vivien Leigh’s second husband and admitted his marriage to her was ‘unusual’. ‘We were like brother and sister, just like she always wanted. But fortunately, occasional incest was allowed. Apart from her looks, which were magical, she possessed beautiful poise. She […]
DIANE LADD (1935 – ) [Diane on actress Jean Seberg during the making of Macho Callahan (1970)]: ‘She was terribly sensitive, almost like a little girl. We shot in a village outside Mexico City one day, […]
OUR MISS BROOKS (1952-6) 130 EPISODES Connie Brooks (played by Eve Arden) teaches English at Madison High School. She gets a ride to school each day from student Walter Denton, portrayed by a very young Richard Crenna, long before he became […]
ROAD TO PERDITION (2002) This superb movie looks at organized crime from a different perspective. Tom Hanks portrays the ‘hero’, Mike Sullivan, a man with a heavy reputation who works as an enforcer for mob boss John Rooney (played by Paul Newman). Rooney has raised him since Mike […]
DIANE KEATON (1946 – ) [After landing her first major stage role in the Broadway musical ‘Hair’, as understudy to the lead, and gained attention by not removing her clothing, she wrote to her family about the show]: ‘After the show tonight, Richard Avedon is photographing the whole cast […]
HOPE LANGE (1933 – 2003) Hope was one of four children of an actress mother. Her father died in 1942 when Hope was just nine. She worked as a waitress in the family’s Greenwich Village restaurant (‘Minette’s […]
THE REAL MCCOYS (1957-63) 225 EPISODES Walter Brennan as Amos McCoy A little along the lines of the later series The Beverly Hillbillies, The Real McCoys saw Amos McCoy move his family from West Virginia to an inherited farm in California. Week after […]
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