RANDOM QUOTES – PT66
GEORGE CLOONEY (1961 – ) [George was asked about the time when, as a sixteen year-old, he was asked to try out for the Cincinnati Reds baseball franchise]: ‘I’d been in a world where I was the best around, and then […]
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LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘FROM HELL’ 2001
FROM HELL (2001) This ‘Jack the Ripper’ Victorian England drama was filmed in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic, not in London’s prohibitively expensive East End. The Czech capital provided a convincing impression of 1880s London at a far cheaper cost. Great care […]
LET’S GO TO THE MOVIES – ‘PUBLIC ENEMIES’ (2009)
PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009) I must confess that I have been putting off watching this movie for more than a decade, unusual for me because I have always been fascinated by the criminal element in the USA of the 1930s. The synopsis tells of the efforts of the fledgling FBI […]
RANDOM QUOTES – PT40.
CHRISTOPHER REEVE: [On being visited in hospital by comedian Robin Williams, shortly after the horse-riding accident that left Reeve permanently paralyzed]: ‘There was this guy wearing a blue scrub hat and a yellow gown and with a Russian accident, being some insane Russian […]
PROFILES – Jennifer Grey, Melanie Griffith.
JENNIFER GREY (1960 – ) Jennifer is the daughter of Oscar-winning actor […]
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 […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT70.
Peter Finch as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney’s The Story of Robin Hood & His Merrie Men (1952) Rank Organization producer Earl St. John was greatly impressed by the young actor portraying the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney’s The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), so he asked […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT68
Anastasia (1956) has often been referred to as Ingrid Bergman’s ‘Hollywood comeback’ film, but that is misleading. She had been effectively blacklisted by Hollywood since 1949 over the affair with director Roberto Rossellini that produced a child out of wedlock prior to their marriage. Studios refused to cast […]
MOVIE TRIVIA – PT43
Fairbanks and his famous sail stunt in The Black Pirate The 1926 silent feature The Black Pirate starred Douglas Fairbanks in arguably his most famous role. It certainly contained his most memorable stunt, one that saw him slide down the mainsail using his rapier to slow his descent! In 1952 Errol […]
FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN-BORN ACTRESSES – PT2.
FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN-BORN ACTRESSES – PT2 My favourite top 10 Australian-born actresses: 10 TERESA PALMER (Adelaide, South Australia 1986) Teresa & Stuart Dew […]