The ravishing (and ravenous) Yvonne de Carlo was at the height of her beauty when Robert Wagner spotted her in her car alongside his at a drive-in restaurant called ‘Jack’s at the Beach’. She nodded for him to come on over, which he duly did, and she invited him […]
#30 Jeff Bridges Better looking than his dad or his brother #29 Stewart Granger In his best role as Scaramouche #28 Pierce Brosnan In his very first film – The Long Good Friday #27 Tom Berenger He was really strong in Platoon #26 Patrick Dempsey ‘McDreamy’ […]
William Boyd made Hopalong Cassidy famous by depicting him in 66 movies throughout the 30s and 40s, and then for five years on television between 1949 and 1954. A smart businessman, Boyd purchased the rights to the movies, then pruned them into half-hour and full-hour television episodes. When these […]
Whenever any discussion takes place about former cowboy star Buck Jones, sooner or later it will include the ‘fact’ that he sacrificed his life saving others back in 1942 when the Cocoanut Grove Night Club in Boston burnt down killing 492 patrons. For decades it was generally accepted that […]
Part 3 of ‘Stolen Oscars?’ looks at some of the individual Academy Award winners who, for want of a better word, purloined their statuettes. I shall start with the Best Actor category. 1930/1 Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul I haven’t actually seen any of the other nominated performances […]
Oscar-nominated actor Frank Langella published his most entertaining biography titled, Dropped Names: Famous Men & Women as I Knew Them, in 2013. It is a scathing one that pulls few, if any, punches. Here are a few snippets from it, some of his observations down the decades, along with […]
Every so often a movie comes along that has the Hollywood crowd and the critics tripping over one other in their eagerness to shower it with honours. William Wyler’s 1959 epic Ben-Hur is one such picture. It was nominated for twelve Oscars and won an unprecedented eleven. Only Karl […]
Charlton Heston (as George Taylor): ‘I can’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man – has to be.’
Clooney’s first marriage was to actress Talia Balsam, the daughter of brilliant character actor Martin Balsam and actress Joyce Van Patten, the sister of Dick Van Patten, star of the 80’s comedy- drama series; Eight is Enough. The union lasted almost four years. His famous aunt, Rosemary Clooney, was a […]
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