General Chat

Hello Pam,

The earliest things I remember George Sewell in are UFO (Gerry Anderson's sci-fi series with real people) and Special Branch - which I think we've mentioned somewhere before.

Going off the wall here, I'm watching 4Music on TV at the moment and they've got an evening dedicated to Green Day, one of the more recent rock bands I like. It's great - good music in the background not disturbing my PC activities.

Aaah heaven ...

Hi all,

I'm afraid it's a bit like that with the little pubs around this area Ed, you feel like you've come from another planet, so we mostly go to pubs that are frequinted by holiday makers to the broads (they accept you there and you don't get the long silence as you enter)...and then they wonder why the 'village pub' has to close!

Hubby remembers that film Ed, says he saw it years ago, when he saw it think he was in his late teens, it was quite graphic he reckons but a good film none the less. David Hemmings and Tom Bell, both good actors, don't know much about the others. Tom Bell was very good in the TV series 'Out' in the late seventies early eighties. They don't seem to make stuff like that any more do they...I know that's a real cliche but they don't.

I remember watching a spy series on TV with Stuart Wilson and George Sewell, can't remember the name...it's driving me mad...it was set in Iceland I think in parts of it.....oh what was it's blo*dy name!!

Just Googled it...'Running Blind.' Anyone else remember that one?

Hello Pam,

Never walked into a pub to a fanfare before - that's something I would have loved to have seen!

I have walked into a strange pub before and everyone's stopped talking - oooh I hate that.

Still jobhunting - got 10 days to go at my place but not found anything suitable yet. Never mind, still got my chin up and the OH has a list of things to do around the house/garden as long as my arm!

I've been trying to think of films we haven't mentioned but I am struggling for something new - how about The Long Day's Dying?

It only had four actors in it - David Hemmings, Tom Bell and Tony Beckley as the three British paratroopers in the lookout position - and another actor as the German paratrooper they capture (I can't remember his name).

There is very little dialogue between the cast, most of the story is told as voiced over thoughts of the characters. It is a very powerful anti-war film which subtly portrays the thoughts and fears of men put in extraordinary circumstances, and although there is very little violence, what does occur in the film is exceedingly graphic, especially the portrayal of what booby-traps can do to a person.

I thoroughly enjoyed the film when I saw it but I believe it has been heavily criticised in the past.

There you go - one for discussion - The Long Day's Dying; anyone remember it?

Ed

nudge

Hello all,no don't like that Mel Gibson atall. Yet he speaks very highly of me!

I can remember a really embarassing moment years ago...well it wouldn't bother me now as I'm a lot older! Myself and a friend walked into the bar of a pub and literally as we did so the intro to Harlem Shuffle,by Bob and Earle started on the juke box...DAA DA DA DAAAAAA and lot's of blokes clapped...I was about 17 and wanted the ground to open...ah they were the days!

Pam.

EDIT: Just like to say I'm not that old!! That was an old record even then!! LOL

Hi Nicky,

Yes loved the soundtrack to We Were Soldiers as well - especially "Hold me, thrill me, kiss me" - originally by Mel Carter and "Hold on, I'm coming" by Sam and Dave.

Apart from being a rocker I love older music too, especially the ones that get the ladies quivering.

Yes Ed , Gangsters by the Specials was great, also loved Ghost town by them as well........

I`ve seen We Were Soldiers, OH got in on DVD for a birthday a couple of years ago, we both thoroughly enjoyed it, and personally I thought Mel Gibson was very good in it, quite graphic and not for the squeamish, I`m suprised none of us has mentioned it before...


Nicky

Yeah I loved two-tone as well. I think my fave was "Gangsters" by the Specials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqRF8lUOpcY&NR=1

Gangsters by the Specials was the first release on the 2-Tone label, and it's about an incident that happened whilst the band was on tour in France. Here's the lyrics:

Bernie Rhodes knows, don't argue

Why must you record my phone calls?
Are you planning a bootleg L.P?
Said you've been threatened by gangsters
Now it's you that's threatening me.

Can't fight corruption with con tricks
They use the law to commit crime
I dread, dread to think what the future will bring
When we're living in gangster times.

"Don't call me Scarface!"

Can't interrupt while I'm talking
Or they'll confiscate all your guitars.
And Catch 22 says if I sing the truth
They won't make me an overnight star.

Don't offer us legal protection
They use the law to commit crime.
I dread to think what the future will bring
When we're living in real gangster times.
"Bernie Rhodes knows, don't argue."

(Bernie Rhodes was the Specials' former manager)

Just finished watching "We Were Soldiers", about the battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War. I guess you wouldn't watch it Pam - Lt Colonel Hal Moore is played by Mel Gibson - but if you can get over him being in it then it's a really good film. (Also has Madeleine Stowe in it)

Well done Nicky, I can still kind of remember the lead singer...he was blonde with light eyes, and i quite fancied him! See they don't all have to have brown eyes! LOL

Night, night, (hope you're daughter got Carol's pic on the phone)

Pam.xxx

Yes Pam remember Mirror in the Bathroom...it was a great era for music, love the SKA sound


Mirror in the bathroom please don`t ?
The door is locked just you and me
Gonna take you to a resteraunt with glass top tables
You can watch yourself while you are eating............only the 80s could produce lyrics like that, must google for the rest of it........


Nicky

Heres the lyrics... can`t believe i`ve seen singing the wrong words all these years.....

Mirror in the bathroom
please talk free
The door is locked
just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
that's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
while you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
I just can't stop it,
Every Saturday you see me
window shopping.
Find no interest in the
racks and shelves
Just a thousand reflections
of my own sweet self, self, self...
Mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom
You're my mirror in the bathroom...
Mirror in the bathroom
recompense
For all my crimes
of self defense.
Cures you whisper
make no sense
Drift gently into
mental illness.
Mirror in the bathroom
please talk free
The door is locked
just you and me.
Can I take you to a restaurant
that's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
while you are eating.
Mirror in the bathroom
Mirror in the bathroom...

Hi Nicky, yes I'm going to buy that CD, brings back memories! Great for driving to! Remember Fun Boy Three? or as hubby refered to them as Bum boy Three! Really like Ska. Mirror in the Bathroom, can you remember who did that? ☺

Just come to me...The Beat.

Hi Ed and all...


Yes I have seen both King Solomons Mines and She......many years ago though.....

I see Ben Stilller is on Jonathan Ross next week, that must mean Night at the Museum 2 is coming out soon......looking forward to it.

On another note. just seen an advert for "Return of the Rudeboy" the best of SKA ......a new CD available at Tesc** it took me back to my late teens /early twenties....what a brillliant style of music that was........just love Suggs from Madness.........

This is the heavy heavy monster sound.........One Step beyond................. ... ......


Nicky

I'll take your word on that David!

I remember "**" Barbara Hale, Perry's secretary.

She co starred as the mother in Stripper, all bump and grind. Taught her daugher to dance to Let me entertain you, she entertained me.

Hi Elizabeth,

Yes I remember "The Last Voyage" - I mentioned it about 200 posts back! The one character I remember is the crew member who helps Robert Stack free his wife and was played by Woody Strode. I think his most famous role was as Draba, the retiarius gladiator who fights Kirk Douglas in Spartacus.

EDIT: Just been on the net regarding gladiators and have found a big boo-boo regarding Draba the retiarius gladiator. This type of gladiator, who fights with the net and trident, is not recorded in Roman literature or artwork before the middle of the 1st century AD. The slave revolt, led by Spartacus, took place in 73 BC - at least 120 years before the first retiarius is recorded!

Oh well, trust me to ruin the plot of a good film ...

Good Evening all

Yes, I adored "Cagney and Lacey". The first time a prime time TV showed
women detectives and their home life.


A good film I remember watching was Robert Stack in the "The Last Voyage". Its where he and his family are on a ship that is sinking and his wife, played by Dorothy Malone is trapped.

It is only a short film but maintains such tension.
All ends well.

Glenn Ford was a tour de force actor.
3-10 to Yuma
Ransom.

Any silent films with Rudolph Valentino.
I cry all the way through "Blood and Sand".

My first screen crush was for an actor called Michael Pare
in "Streets of Fire", directed by Walter Hill. Ah dear!

Best wishes

Oooh I loved Ironside when I was a kid.

Just finishd watching "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" with Sean Connery et al. I really enjoyed it and with Connery as the lead character "Allan Quatermain" it got me starting to think about film adaptations of H. Rider Haggard's novels, notably "King Solomon's Mines" with the excellent Stewart Grainger (a great actor who we haven't mentioned before - and whose real name was James Stewart) and "She" with Ursula Andress. Anybody remember them?

Ah, Perry Mason, that brings back some memories, David. I agree with you about the theme tune too. For some reason I never really got into Ironside.

John

Your'e right Nicky, and Raymond Burr was equally talented an actor in Perry Mason. You can still hear its excellent opening theme tune on You Tube

never watched Cagney and Lacey myself david, but my mother has always been a big fan, and I think it had a huge following in general.

Ironside......now that was a great series from the 70s, Raymond Burr was excellent as the grumpy detective confined to a wheelchair......


Nicky