THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – THE PRINCESS DIARIES

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN – THE PRINCESS DIARIES

September 17, 2023 Alan Royle 1

  THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (1980)                       This intriguing ‘what if’ movie examines what might have taken place if the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz had traveled back in time (from 1980) to December 6th, 1941, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and had the opportunity to alter history by interceding in the Japanese attack on […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT168.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT168.

March 9, 2021 Alan Royle 2

  Rosamund Pike Director Joe Wright and actress Rosamund Pike became intimately involved on the set of his 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice after he cast her as Jane Bennett in the picture. He later admitted being most reluctant to cast Simon Woods as her love interest, Mr. Bingley, […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT39.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT39.

January 25, 2021 Alan Royle 2

  KEANU REEVES:              ‘I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.’ [On Patrick Swayze when the two co-starred in Point Break (1991)] ‘He was a beautiful person, an artist! There were some sky-diving sequences in this film we did […]

‘SHENANDOAH’ (1965) -Hollywood hokum.

August 15, 2019 Alan Royle 2

    When I first saw this film, I was about eighteen years old and gave it the thumbs up. I thought it was exciting, moving, dramatic and even heart-warming. Being naïve beyond my years, I also thought it was a story well-told and well-acted. The acting still stands up […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT104.

January 27, 2019 Alan Royle 4

Anna Nicole Smith & J. Howard Marshall Anna Nicole Smith (23) met 86 year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall at the strip club she worked at in Houston. It was 1991. Things happened for her pretty quickly after that. Hugh Heffner put her on the cover of his March ’92 […]

IN THE BEGINNING…PT 5

January 6, 2018 Alan Royle 0

SAM ELLIOTT (1944 – ) Sam made his (official) movie debut in the 1969 runaway success Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. His future wife, Katharine Ross, also appeared in that film, but they never met on the set because their scenes were shot on different days. It would be […]

DUSTIN HOFFMAN – An acquired taste.

September 16, 2017 Alan Royle 0

DUSTIN HOFFMAN                                                Maybe he has mellowed as he has aged, but I doubt it. Dustin Hoffman’s contemporaries, actors, directors and producers alike, have always found him a […]

Actors marrying other actors PT 3.

July 29, 2016 Alan Royle 5

  BACALL, Lauren                 –           BOGART, Humphrey          1945 to 1957 (his death)                                                                 ROBARDS, Jason                 1961 to 1969 (div.)   […]