THE ‘L’ WORD.

THE ‘L’ WORD.

August 22, 2022 Alan Royle 4

  THE ‘L’ WORD (2004-9)                  A couple of weeks ago I was skimming through ‘STAN’, looking for something light to watch, when I came across this series. I hurriedly assumed the ‘L’ stood for ‘love’ and, since it starred Jennifer Beals (an actress I have always admired), I decided to […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT160.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT160.

September 9, 2020 Alan Royle 4

  Susan Oliver Beautiful green-eyed actress Susan Oliver was a passenger aboard the Clipper Washington, a Boeing 707, on a trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to New York when it dropped from 35,000 feet to 6,000 feet before the pilot managed to recover the aircraft. It was February 3, 1959, the […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT134.

July 22, 2019 Alan Royle 0

  Ingrid Bergman & Alfred Hitchcock Ingrid Bergman told her first husband, Peter Lindstrom, that she could never work effectively without being in love with either her director or her leading man – hence her affairs with Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Omar Sharif and Bing Crosby, to name […]

The making of ‘TOP GUN’ (1986)

March 4, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  This was the highest grossing movie of 1986, raking in over $350 million worldwide. For the record, Crocodile Dundee ran second and Platoon third. In North America alone it sold nearly 50 million tickets in its first theatrical release. It was such a popular picture with young people that […]

A dozen interesting ladies.

January 5, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  Courteney Cox                                       The ‘Dancing in the Dark’ video clip that started it all for Courteney in 1984. Hailing from an affluent family background in Birmingham, Alabama, Courteney Cox was first nationally […]