LGTTM – The Bandwagon & Back to the Future 3

LGTTM – The Bandwagon & Back to the Future 3

February 11, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  THE BAND WAGON (1953)                                       One of the most delightful musicals ever to reach the screen, The Band Wagon concerns a pretentiously artistic director hired to make a new Broadway musical and […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

February 8, 2024 Alan Royle 0

  The scene in which Arthur (Dudley Moore) and his ‘hooker’ date, Gloria, are dining in the 1981 film Arthur, was filmed at the famous Oak Room inside the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This was the same restaurant where Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, was abducted in the […]

LGTTM: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)

LGTTM: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)

February 2, 2024 Alan Royle 3

  BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (1969)                    It was a pleasant experience back in 1969 to watch a western that was devoid of the slaughter of Indians by twits like George Armstrong Custer who, somehow, managed to achieve, whilst doing so, hero status along the way. It was also […]

SPEAKING OUT

SPEAKING OUT

February 1, 2024 Alan Royle 1

PERRY COMO (1912-2001) ‘I’ve done nothing that I can call exciting. I was a barber. Since then I’ve been a singer. That’s it. For the amount of talent I had – I couldn’t dance, act or tell a joke – yet I enjoyed a tremendous career.’ KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (1936 – […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

January 30, 2024 Alan Royle 3

  The scene in which Arthur (Dudley Moore) and his ‘hooker’ date, Gloria, are dining in the 1981 film Arthur, was filmed at the famous Oak Room inside the Plaza Hotel in New York City. This was the same restaurant where Cary Grant’s character, Roger Thornhill, was abducted in the […]

LGTTM: Blame it on Rio – Cape Fear

LGTTM: Blame it on Rio – Cape Fear

January 27, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)                            For those unfamiliar with this movie’s premise – Michael Caine and Joseph Bologna take their teenage daughters, Michelle Johnson and Demi Moore to Rio de Janeiro for a vacation. Caine’s marriage is […]

SPEAKING OUT

SPEAKING OUT

January 24, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  LISA KUDROW (1963 – )                             [Speaking of her Friends co-star, the late Matthew Perry]: Thank you for making me laugh so hard at something you said, that my muscles ached and tears poured down my face […]

DID YOU KNOW?

DID YOU KNOW?

January 21, 2024 Alan Royle 2

  Eric Idle In 1963, as a collegiate, Eric Idle was admitted into the Cambridge Footlights comedy club. He became president of the club the following year, and one of his first acts was to open the membership to include women. Feminist/writer Germaine Greer was one of the first women […]

LGTTM – All About Eve (1950)

LGTTM – All About Eve (1950)

January 18, 2024 Alan Royle 1

  ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)                              Hugh Marlowe in All about Eve One of Bette Davis’s former directors, Edmund Goulding, phoned Joseph L. Mankiewicz on learning of the casting of Bette Davis in the lead for this picture, […]