General Chat

By the way Nicky...I can't find that picture of him in a loin cloth and I've only been on here five hours !

Nicky, going back to Ted Wass, there used to be an American sit com on in the late seventies titled SOAP. now I don't usually find the american sit coms funny ie. Friends etc. But this one was a goody. It was only on for about 25 minutes and very late on a Sunday evening. It was about two sisters Mary Tate and Jessica Campbell (that was the commentary at the beginning) any way my georgous Ted Wass played 'Danny'. His brother was payed by Billy Crystal who was gay in this. Very funny I thought. It had another son who was a ventriliquest and always spoke through his dummy...Chuck and Bob.There was also Bert and (Chester the cheating husband) Ring any bells? You may remember it.

Well remebered Ed......Richard Chamberlin and Faye Dunnaway....... well thats my lot for the night, would have been in bed a lot earlier but dozed off during the Pompey /Spurs game earlier {sure you can understand that Ed!} so that 10 minutes shut eye revived me.

night all

nicky

The Towering Inferno - yes a classic. It also had Richard Chamberlain in it who I think was responsible for the sub-standard components that led to the building catching fire.

My OH thinks Richard Chamberlain is lush, shame really ...

I seem to remember Faye Dunaway was in it too ...

I've not seen Dead Calm, but I'l keep my eye out for it.

The film with the bombs was called Juggernaut - I think David Hemmings was in that one; he cut the wrong wire if my memory serves me right. The leader of the bomb disposal crew was Richard Harris I think, and I seem to remember Roy Kinnear was the enterntainments officer ..

Another good "at sea" film........Dead Calm starring Nicole Kidman, and Billy Zane as the madman who terrorises them......gripping stuff.....its supposed to be the film Tom Cruise first saw her in ,and then wanted to her in a film with him..... they then made Home and Away and Days of Thunder together , and the rest is history as they say.......

Your Last voyage sounds very like The Posieden Ed....... but then I suppose theres not many different scripts you can centre around a cruise liner sinking in the middle of an ocean!!!

Of course none of us have mentioned The Towering Inferno... one of the original disaster movies....... with Paul Newman as the Architect and Steve Mc queen as the Fire chief, it really was must see for us ladies.

Theres another good at sea one, when they have to cut a certain coloured wire to disarm a bomb, and the baddie tells them one colour ,but the person concerned ignores him and cuts the other., and saves all on board.....what was that called?
Nicky

Found the film: I googled Woody Strode and found his filmography (is that a word?)

It was called The Last Voyage and the actress who played the trapped woman was Dorothy Malone. Her husband was played by Robert Stack.

I wouldn't mind seeing that one again ...

Isn`t that the Posieden Adventure? with a very blousy Shelley Winters being the lady in question?

Your probably right about softly being a spin off from Z cars, I knew it was a spin off from one of them....

Pam have checked out your Ted, and must admit I don`t recognise him....... though theres a very fetching photo of him in a loincloth!!!


Nicky

Hi Nicky

I just checked Dixon of Dock Green - it ran from 1955-1976; maybe it just seemed to go on for a lot longer ...

I thought Softly Softly was a spin off from Z Cars, but I may be getting my police dramas mixed up there ...

I really can't believe that the Bill has been going for over 20 years now.

There's a film that's bugging me that I've seen twice as a kid; I can't remember the actors in it though (I was quite young both times around). It's about a passenger ship that is sinking and there's a woman trapped under a piece of wreckage, and the main plot is the fight to save her. They need to get an acetalyne torch from a vessel that's come to the rescue to cut her out and its touch-and-go as to whether they'll get her out in time.

EDIT: Just had a thought - I think Woody Strode was in it

TED WASS.... off to google him now Pam......yup your right ,never heard of him..... will take a google and tell you what i think.....31 years, don`t you think its time this man new how you feel about him!!!......lol


Nicky

Wasn't she in The Land Army Girls film (Rachel Weizz)

Tell you who is my heart throb,and I bet neither of you know the actor I mean...TED WASS...I've been in love with him since 1977! He's got better with age. ☺

Well if we`re talking about films that make us cry, it has to be Titanic for me......The Kate Winslet /Leonardo deCaprio version not the original...... its the bit at the end when Rose... now an elderly lady tells her grand daughter about the night the ship sank, and says " he saved me in every way a person could be saved" or words to that effect, as he`d {Jack} let Rose lay on the floating door and he`d perished in the freezing waters. ...... gets me every time....... and while we`re talking daughters I have 3....must be them that bring out my emotional side.........

Dixon of Dock Green ...longest running police drama? how many years was that on for then? as The Bill is way over 20 years now..... and wasn`t Softly Softly Task force also a spin off from dock green? John Watt, Harry Hawkins? played by Norman Bowler, and Stratford John as the Chief superintendant, if my memory serves me correctly. A brilliant series in its day.

You and your Rachel Weizz Ed!!! didn`t realise she`d made so many films!!

The Wild Geese, have seen that, but a long time ago.....

Talking of Richard Burton, whats the name of the film where they all get stuck at the airport, also stars Liz taylor........ was it The V.I.P.s? also thought he was good with Clint Eastwood in Where Eagles Dare...

Nicky

Gawd Ed you're so clever!! This is going to sound pathetic...but I'm going to be honest...a lovely little book called Dust to Dust by Mavis Budd. It's about the author's childhood in the country living near to her grandparents and with her mum, dad and sisters.

I'm currently reading Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield (again). It's about the battle of Thermopylae - I saw on the web a while back that George Clooney's film company bought the rights to it several years ago and I'm waiting patiently for them to make the film! Apparently, Bruce Willis really wanted a role in it.

Thermopylae has to be one of the greatest, yet most tragic, tales of ancient history and has been reproduced on celluloid twice to my knowledge - the 1963 film "300 Spartans" with Richard Egan and Ralph Richardson, and more recently, "300" with Gerard Butler, which was based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller.

I have both films on DVD (and the graphic novel too).

To broaden the thread a bit - are there any books you've read that you'd really like to be made into a film?

One more before we turn in..."Alfie" with Michael Caine. Another film I could watch any time.

Oh Edd, yes I know what you mean!

The one that gets me in the throat is the last scene from The Alamo, where the little girl (who is the epitome of sweetness) is being taken out of the mission at the end of the battle, and she turns around to her mum and says "Mummy, where's Daddy?"

And ten minutes earlier you saw "Daddy" killed by the cannon he was manning.

Probably gets me because I have two daughters ...

Another good one...Flight of The Pheonix, you're willing that aircraft off the ground aren't you!!! Especially good when he says they are not toy planes they are models!!

Been reading A postillion Struck By lightning by Dirk Bogarde...he mentions being in The Blue Lamp...

Tiger Bay was on the other week, that starred John Mills and daughter Hayley. One of my teachers at primary school used to call me Hayley, she said I looked like her, think it was the colouring.

It always makes me cry at the end of the Railway Children when Jenny Agutter waits for her father to come off the train...she says "My Daddy, my Daddy". It gets me everytime. Makes me think of the times I'd wait for my dad at the bustop in Kenley, he'd come home on the 197 usually.

Enemy at the Gates has just started ... oh dear I envisage another long one; I forgot it had Rachel Weisz in it!! (She's just got off the train with lank hair in a ponytail and a tatty grey coat but still looks GORGEOUS!)