RANDOM QUOTES – PT10.
SHARON STONE: ‘Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.’ ‘I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the […]
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RANDOM QUOTES – PT4.
JULIE ADAMS Julie in Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) ‘No matter what you do, you can act your heart out, but people will always say, ‘Oh, Julie Adams – Creature from the Black Lagoon’. CLAUDIA CARDINALE ‘I wasn’t speaking a word of Italian until I was […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT76.
Higgins as Benji (1974) The dog that played the title role in the 1974 family film Benji was a mongrel named Higgins, a mix of cocker spaniel, poodle and schnauzer. Animal trainer and breeder Frank Inn adopted him in 1960 from the Burbank Animal Shelter in Burbank, California. For seven seasons Higgins […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT75.
River Phoenix By 1993, River Phoenix had become an icon for a generation. The height of political correctness, a representative of ‘Generation X’, he advocated a pro-life, pro-animals, vegetarian lifestyle, speaking out on issues that concerned many of his fans. More than anything else, he preached an anti-drugs […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT74.
Johnny Depp in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Johnny Depp’s maternal grandfather was a full-blood Cherokee, which probably helps to account for Johnny’s sharp cheekbones and sculptured visage. As a youngster Johnny was smoking at 12, lost his virginity at 13 and had done every kind of drug there was by […]
THE ‘GOOD GAL’ ACTRESSES.
Selecting the 20 actresses that I felt might be really likeable, decent people to get to know, proved to be far more difficult than choosing the men. Why? Because I had to differentiate between likeability and desirability, a problem that never reared its head with the men. Each time […]
THE ‘GOOD GUY’ ACTORS
Down the decades there have always been actors and actresses that have come across on the screen as genuinely nice people, the kind of men and women one would assume must be a really fine people to get to know away from the screen. Of course, looks can be […]
ITALIAN/AMERICAN SINGER/ACTORS – PT2
Fabian Forte with Capucine in North to Alaska Fabian Forte (stage name Fabian), believe it or not, hails from the same city, Philadelphia, as did […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT42.
Katz’s today Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally… […]
FAMOUS UNSCRIPTED LINES AND SCENES
The Jazz Singer (1927) Al Jolson (Jakie Rabinowitz): ‘Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!’ (Almost as if it was an omen for the future, the first words spoken by Jolson in the first ever ‘talkie’ were completely ad-libbed.) Casablanca (1942) Humphrey […]