NASTASSJA KINSKI – HEDY LAMARR

NASTASSJA KINSKI – HEDY LAMARR

January 17, 2023 Alan Royle 0

  NASTASSJA KINSKI (1961 – )                                          The daughter of disturbed actor Klaus Kinski entered this world via Berlin, Germany in 1961. Klaus ditched her mother for another woman and young Nastassja soon found herself supporting both her parents at thirteen, partly through her appearing topless at that age in […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT206

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT206

November 9, 2022 Alan Royle 0

  Howard Carter & Lord Carnarvon The 2016 mini- series Tutankhamun has come under considerable criticism from Egyptologists and archaeological experts who claim it is not historically or factually accurate. Certainly, the depicted romantic relationship between Lord Carnarvon’s daughter Evelyn and Howard Carter never actually happened, but this is a […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT193.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT193.

April 12, 2022 Alan Royle 4

  Roman Polanski For those who still feel Roman Polanski has been unfairly harassed and pursued for the last 44 years, it may be of interest for you to peruse the six felony counts handed down to him by the Grand Jury in 1977 following the man’s depraved photo-session in […]

RANDOM QUOTES – PT34.

RANDOM QUOTES – PT34.

November 8, 2020 Alan Royle 2

BRAD PITT:                                                 ‘You shouldn’t speak until you know what you’re talking about. That’s why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I’m a fucking actor! They hand me a script, I act. I’m […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT162.

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT162.

October 6, 2020 Alan Royle 0

Pola Negri Polish-born silent-screen star Pola Negri wrote in her autobiography that the legendary Rudolph Valentino was once ‘the love of her life’. She even claimed to have been engaged to him at the time of his death. Another silent star Ben Lyon temporarily added credence to her claims when […]

MOVIE TRIVIA – PT101.

January 15, 2019 Alan Royle 2

Pola Negri & Rudolph Valentino There has never been a shortage of prima donnas among movie stars, especially in Hollywood. Back in the Roaring Twenties it was the outrageously publicity addict Pola Negri who made sure reporters and cameramen were present when she swooned with crying fits at the casket […]

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MOVIE TRIVIA – PT56.

September 15, 2018 Alan Royle 4

In my movie collection is the 1992 Sean Connery-Lorraine Bracco film Medicine Man, one of those pictures that critics in their unchallenged wisdom chose to lambast from the moment it was released. As director John McTiernan said, ‘If the press hadn’t defined it as an action movie, it probably wouldn’t […]

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STEVE MCQUEEN – Not a nice guy.

August 17, 2017 Alan Royle 71

  Steve McQueen’s mother was a prostitute, his father a circus stuntman and neither cared a fig about their boy. He lost his virginity at 13 to an obese teenaged hooker who accepted candy for sex. At 16 he was a towel boy in a brothel and encouraged to sample […]

More on Harrison Ford.

March 2, 2017 Alan Royle 0

  It remains debatable whether or not Carrie Fisher introduced Harrison Ford to marijuana or if he was already into it before they made Star Wars together in 1977, but there is no doubt that by the 1980s he was more or less an authority on the stuff. During a […]

Past Oscar-winners – some observations – Pt 3.

October 9, 2016 Alan Royle 0

    1949               All the King’s Men – Best Picture                         Broderick Crawford – Best Actor for All the King’s Men   Broderick Crawford Greg Peck as General Savage in Twelve O’Clock High Having seen all five nominated films for 1949, I am surprised that All the King’s Men came out on […]