VALE – 2021

VALE – 2021

August 12, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  Seventeen popular actors and actresses passed away during 2021. In case you did not hear of all of their passing, here is the list of those better known performers who departed this mortal coil that year: TANYA ROBERTS (1949 – January 4, 2021) – Tanya died aged seventy-one from […]

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RANDOM QUOTES – PT84

July 28, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  JULIA ORMOND (1965 – )                                      [On Sabrina (1995) and her mid-1990s stardom]: ‘It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn’t Audrey Hepburn [she starred in […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT218

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT218

June 13, 2023 Alan Royle 2

  MARLEE MATLIN Deaf actress Marlee Matlin found out about her Oscar nomination for Children of a Lesser God (1986) from her interpreter Jack Jason while she was in rehab at the Betty Ford Clinic for twenty-six days. She was seeking help because of her drug problems and did not […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT80

RANDOM QUOTES – PT80

June 1, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  ANN SOTHERN (1909-2001)                                   [On her life-long friend Lucille Ball]: ‘Lucy used to complain that she got all the parts I turned down. Now I produce the show [The Ann Sothern Show], and she […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT72.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT72.

January 23, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  ANGIE DICKINSON (1931 – )  ‘When I started shooting Police Woman (1974), someone asked me if I had ever played a sleuth before. I said, ‘Yes, many times.’ I thought they were asking me if I had ever played a slut. I didn’t know what a sleuth was.’ ‘My […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT67.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT67.

October 22, 2022 Alan Royle 2

    HENRY FONDA (1905 – 82)                      [The father of actors Jane and Peter Fonda had this to say about them in 1976]: ‘I didn’t help or discourage them or lead them by the hand. I’m not trying to set myself up as a good father, because I wasn’t a […]

‘MOVIE QUIZ’ #3

‘MOVIE QUIZ’ #3

February 8, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  QUIZ # 3            Q1       IN WHICH 1952 MARTIN & LEWIS COMEDY DID THE UNKNOWN JAMES DEAN APPEAR IN A SCENE?   Q2       IN WHICH 1990 ROMANTIC COMEDY WOULD YOU FIND CHARACTERS NAMED VIVIAN WARD, STUCKEY & KIT DE LUCA?   Q3       WHO DIRECTED VERTIGO […]

MOVIE QUIZ # 1

MOVIE QUIZ # 1

December 1, 2021 Alan Royle 2

  MOVIE QUIZ # 1                                For something a little different I have compiled the first movie quiz of fifty questions. Whether or not there will be more of these depends entirely on how energetic I […]

‘RANDOM QUOTES’ – PT49.

‘RANDOM QUOTES’ – PT49.

October 2, 2021 Alan Royle 0

  SOPHIA LOREN: (1934 – )                          [On why she, although being a nominee, could not attend the 1961 Academy Awards]: ‘I decided that I could not bear the ordeal of sitting in plain view of millions of viewers […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT46

RANDOM QUOTES – PT46

August 18, 2021 Alan Royle 3

  RUSSELL CROWE: (1964 – )                     ‘One of the most painful things of the L. A. Confidential (1997) character I played was that the author [James Ellroy], kept telling me that Bud White wasn’t a drinker. I said, ‘Come on, this is 1953. He’s a blue-collar bloke, a cop. You’re […]