General Chat

Dear Eyebrows Ed

Hello,

Thank you for telling me about your course a few posts earlier.

A computer wizard!
I would like to go back to quill and ink!

Now you mentioned "The Towering Inferno".

I told Pam this when I first posted on this site.
This film is one of my all-time favourites.

It was billed as the film to watch over Christmas 1980 on BBC1.
There were only 3 TV channels.

The special effects for the time were superb.
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman - what can I say about them!
The roles suited each actor perfectly.

Sadly, only a short time earlier in 1980, Steve McQueen
had passed away far too young.

Another excellent fim: "The day the earth stood still"
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and the peerless Sam Jaffe.

A timeless sci-fi movie. Simple idea but powerful about a friendly alien coming to earth and the way people react to him.

Best wishes to all.
x

Oh yeah and in Airport 75 there was Helen Reddy as the singing nun!

Hi Nicky,

Job hunting is a bit stagnant right now. My CV is off with a couple of firms at the moment and I'm awaiting feedback, hopefully get an interview or two this week.

Still studying like a nutter in the evenings - should be ready for another exam in a couple of weeks.

Been decorating my youngest's bedroom this week; most of the prep has been done now - will be ready to start the pretty bits soon!

Watching the latest remake of King Kong on ITV2 at the moment - can't wait for the climax with the biplanes and the Empire State Building!

Saturday morning pictures David - I don't recall ever going (I think they stopped it when I was old enough to go) - but I do remember going to the local 'flea pit' in the afternoons to see lots of films; Skyjacked with Charlton Heston and James Brolin, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Young Winston, Airport 75 (Charlton Heston again - dropping into the cockpit of a 747 from a helicopter fer gossake!)

Whatever happened to the "disaster movie" as a genre?

Ed

Glad you had a lovely holiday Pam, and that the weather was good, bit of a bu***r having to work on your 1st night back.........thats the trouble with holidays ...they put you in holiday "Mode" and its hard to get back on track...


Blimey David, the pictures for a sixpence!!, that 2 and half p in todays money, don`t even think penny chews are a penny any more....more like 2p..

Hows the job hunting going Ed?

Nicky

Hi all, I'm back again...job has just rung and asked would I work a night shift as one of the girls is off sick...thought I'd do it as the last time I worked was 6th June!! Oh I'm getting a lazy old wotsit.

Speak soon,

Pam.

Morning folks,


Thank's for the nudge Ed, we stayed a bit longer than planned as the weather was so good. hope you're all keeping ok.

Pam.

We (brothers & I ) used to go to the ABC Minors Matinee on a Saturday morning.

For sixpence we saw a cartoon a trailer a serial and a short film.

Kept us all out of mischief and provided revenue for the Olympia cinema.

Nudge

Au revoir......

Have a good one Pam.


Nicky

Safe journey Pam, hope you have a good time and that the weather holds!

Speak when you get back.

Ed

Dear Pam

Have a safe journey.

Very best wishes.
xx

One more film before I go...Romeo & Juliette...but the best one... Franco Zefferellis...ahh Leonard Whiting my love at 12 years of age!!

Pam. ☺

Hello all, nice to see a few new names to the thread.

Off tomorrow for a few days over in France, so back end of the week...didn't want you to think I'd gone AWOL!

Pam.

Yes Inn of the sixth happiness.......what a lovely film, what a corageous woman Gladys Aylward was dragging all those children across those mountains { Ibelieve it was a true story???}

Ed.....I havn`t seen the Milla Jolavich advert for a while..I think they might have taken it off.

Bruce Springsteen at Wembley, bet that was great show....... off to the New Wembley myself in a few weeks to see Take That..... its meant to be amazing, and love them or hate them you have to admire the comeback they`ve made...... I can`t wait, they showed clips on Jonathan Ross on Friday night and it looks fantastic.

OH was also watching Total Recall the other night !!


Cunningham from Happy Days, think we spoke about him earlier in the thread.......... now a great film director.


Nicky

Richard Wydmark was an excellent actor

Memorable for Jim Bowie in The Alamo

Just watched John Wayne's last lim The Shootist on TV

He was dying of lung cancer during the making of this film

His land ladie's son used to play the role of Cunningham in Happy Days

Hi Shemp!

Yes one of my favourites too, Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Love Ingrid Bergman, and of course her gorgeous daughter, Isabella Rossellini.

Thanks Elizabeth. Those 4 sons in that film from the eldest (Johm) to to youngest (Bud) looked about 40 years and there was little resemblence

But this detail apart it was one of Waynes better westerns

Dear David

Hello

Hope you enjoyed your birthday.

The youngest of the four brothers in "The Sons of Kate Elder" was called
Bud Elder, played by Michael Anderson, Jnr. He was born in 1943.

Best wishes.

Katie Elder had a fourth son, can't think of the actor's name

George Kennedy alwaya plays a heavy bully