BOYHOOD SCREEN CRUSHES

December 23, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  There were five of us who hung around together in East Fremantle in the fifties. We weren’t a gang or anything like that. We just kicked a footy together in the park across the road, played cricket in Fremantle, bashed golf balls wherever we could, went to the movies […]

TATUM O’NEAL – Victim & survivor.

December 15, 2017 Alan Royle 7

Tatum O’Neal (1963 – ) After reading Tatum O’Neal’s 2004 autobiography titled A Paper Life, a curious thought came to me. If it had been, say, Darwin Porter who wrote her story, how much of it would be believed and how much would be attributed to his vivid imagination and […]

RYAN O’NEAL – Father of the Year material?

October 26, 2015 admin 6

  Every once and a while the movies (or television) unearth a phenomenon, someone who strikes a chord with audiences around the world. One such performer in the sixties was Ryan O’Neal, and all because of a staggeringly successful TV soap called Peyton Place that ran from 1964 until 1969. […]