DID YOU KNOW? PT 1.

DID YOU KNOW? PT 1.

October 25, 2022 Alan Royle 2

  Michael Douglas as President Shepherd in The American President (1995) One of the highlights of President Andrew Shepherd’s defence of his girlfriend (Sydney Ellen Wade) in his address to the press corps towards the end of The American President (1995), is the following challenge he makes to Presidential candidate Bob Rumson: […]

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT30.

WORLD WAR TWO – The stars & their stories – PT30.

August 31, 2020 Alan Royle 0

VIVIEN LEIGH (1913 – 67)                                                                        The beautiful actress who will forever be Scarlett O’Hara in 1939’s Gone with the Wind, entered this world via Darjeeling, (in what was then British India), to a British broker and his wife. Vivien and British star Laurence Olivier, having obtained divorces from their […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT155.

May 18, 2020 Alan Royle 0

Dudley Moore Dudley & wife Tuesday Weld British comedian/musician Dudley Moore was only 5’2” tall (1.57m) and a most unlikely movie heartthrob when some wag nicknamed him ‘The Sex Thimble’. And for quite some time that description seemed apt. Women adored him. He married (and divorced) four of them in […]

WHAT HAPPENED TO ‘DAD’S ARMY’? (1968-77)

January 8, 2018 Alan Royle 7

‘DAD’S ARMY’ (1968-77) The BBC hit series Dad’s Army ran for nine seasons, from 1968 until 1977. It started rather lamely and it must have been a touch and go decision to continue with it after the first season. The acting was so-so, the screenplays generally quite poor, and the […]