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Hi Elizabeth and Norma......

Knocking down walls eh Elizabeth! great isn`t it, i`ve just got back a generation further on one of my lines and made another contact {distant cousin}...we`re busy pooling our information and thoughts at the moment....so addictive this hobby.......

You know I havn`t seen the Richard Gere film you mention, which is suprising as I thought I`d seen just about all of them......oooohhhh Officer and a Gentleman, Richard Gere at his best, {swoons} unfortunatly i don`t feel he improved with age like most of our Hollywood hearthrobs, and actually find him quite unattractive nowadays......think it might be his hair, he tends to keep it longer now...the crewcut definetly suited him best.....

I also have quite a lot of Kent ancestors Norma, but am stuck at the moment and have been waiting for Parish records from Tudeley cum Capel from my local LDS centre for nearly 2 months now....I keep ringing them weekly, but get told they`ve still not arrived ......at least when they do get here ,I can keep them for 3 months now.......... Hoping 3x gr grandmother was baptised in Capels as well as married there so can get back at least another generation......

I`m afraid i must agree with the Holly Hunter accent......it really grates dosn`t it.

George Clooney first came to my attention in ER {the show that made him famous} he`s very good in The Perfect Storm with Mark Whalberg {another one whos pleasing on the eye} and also Oceans 11, hes also in quite a good one with Nicole Kidman ,but the name escapes me at the moment.


Nicky

Hello Elizabeth who is knocking down brick walls.

Shall we Dance is quite a pleasant film, was on the TV here a few months ago and we both watched it.

Jennifer Lopez pops up in all the local mags (which I don't buy) see her face on them when I am at the supermarket. That is the first movie I had seen her in and thought she carried it off well.
Have always been a Susan Sarandon fan since Thelma and Louise
and Richard Gere - well he is an Officer and a Gentleman after all and easy on the eye.

Norma

Hi Nicky
I have only every been to London on the way back from the States - stayed there for about a week unlike my daughter who did her OE over there for just over two years and my OH did his OE in the UK when he was young.

I plan on coming over sometime as I have an awful lot of ancestors from Kent.

I did not fancy George Clooney at first and then I saw him in a movie (one of those feel good ones) with Michelle Pfeiffer and I thought hmmm.

He was exceptionally good in "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" it was such a funny film and he hammed it up beautifully. It also starred Holly Hunter and I am not a fan of hers but she was okay in it.... her accent drives me to distraction. It was done by the Cohen brothers and since then Clooney was in their movie "Burn after Reading"with his mate Brad Pitt.

Norma

Dear All

Hello

I have made knocked down a fewbrick walls in my family tree.
Keeping me very busy!

Two films that are easy on the eye to watch:

"Blame it on the bellboy", 1992

"Shall we dance?", Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon.
Richard wants to learn to dance but his wife thinks he is having an affair!

Back to work!

Take care all

Very best wishes
x

Hi Norma,

No sorry "Downsouth" in my case is the south coast of England...I live in Sussex between Brighton and Portsmouth............though how i`d love to live in Australia............

Never seen wall-E myself ,but have heard its good......off to take younger daughter to see the Fantastic Mr. Fox tommorow, though may not actually go in myself as we may be meeting friends there, so all the young people will go in together......

almost hoping no one turns up, so as i can go in with her...... the main charecter is voiced by George Clooney......... {sighs...} I think he has a lovely voice..

Nicky

Hi Niky
When I saw your board name I thought you must come from down in my neck of the woods or just to the west of me in that large continent called Australia.

My son-in-law loved Lord of the Rings, I think he only does fantasy, sci-fi and surfie movies. I know my daughter often takes herself off in Wellington and goes to a far more "cultural movie" on her own.

I did tell him I took two of my grandchildren to see Wall-E - and that I thought it was very good. It is about this ecological little robot and he is cleaning up earh which is just skyscrapers of rubbish and he finds a living plant. This space girl arrives from nowhere and she is having problems in returning to her planet - he tinkers around in his box of tricks and helps her and he also gives her the plant and they fall in love. The planet has all these large people who never walk and they just glide around on deck chairs and collect their Big Macs and cokes etc as they slide by. It is actually quite good for children as it is a lesson in Ecology and obesity - only about an hour long - I thought I would be bored but was quite impressed.

Oh and my son-in-law had seen it and it was his favourite film at the time.
I have to wonder how old he is sometimes? He is very bright though is doing his PHD - studying earthquakes of which we have quite a few from time to time.
LOL

Norma

Hi Norma,......and welcome to the thread

We get quiet days on here sometimes, I`ve personally been away to the Isle of Wight for the weekend to a friends party, only got back at lunchtime...so havn`t been online since Thursday.

Pam does work some nights so sleeps in the day, Ed we havn`t heard from for a while...Where are you Ed???, and as for the others i`m not quite sure.......but Sunday is a rest day, and big football matches from the Premiership today and the Grand Prix might account for the absence of some......

Anyway back to your films

Rear window, as you say classic Hitchcock, and very cleverly done...

I have heard of Cinema Paradiso, but must admit have never seen it...i`m afraid i`m not familiar with the others......

With you on the Lord of the Rings not being "your thing"....OH has the Trilogy and absolutely loves them, but i`m afraid they leave me cold....though must admit the New Zealand scenery/landscape looks breathtaking...


nicky

Well that was a quiet day from all of you... I have been to bed had a good sleep and no sign of anyone. Do you all have Sunday's off?

I guess I can chat to myself then:
So I will list a "few of my favourite films" - and speaking of favourites I see that Julie Andrews is going for another operation that hopefully will restore her vocal chords.

In no particular order:

Rear Window - the best of Alfred Hitchcock's little gems to my mind and all filmed at the one spot in the studio.

Laura - a classic whodunit.

Cinema Paradiso - It won best foreign film in 1989 (I think) aboslutely delightful.

As it is in Heaven - I don't think there was a dry eye in the theatre when it finished. It played in the theatre here for over a year.

and if you like a surprise ending

What's Cooking? - four families celebrating Thanksgiving each in their different ways - one black family, one Spanish, one Chinese and one white American. The ending is very surprising.

Norma

Hi all

Roy asked me quite awhile ago to come on here and I said I would read all the threads first, well I did get upto about page 40 - and then was away from computer for a couple of weeks. My memory is not what it used to be on what I have been doing currently so gave that away.

The one thing I did notice is that this thread is not that easy to find as keeps disappearing so I bookmarked it and now I would like to try and keep it on the front or next page.

Do any of you ever get to watch New Zealand films - apart from Lord of the Rings which is really not my thing?

I used to be a bit of a film buff - and through the nineties would go to the Festival Films (all very arty etc) and one year in the space of two weeks saw 18 films.
One of those films is in my list of favourites and is called:

"Lovers of the Artic Circle" It has sub titles is absolutely magical from a Spanish Director. It charts a journey of the heart and is teasingly elusive in the way it weaves the lives of the two main characters. The ending is.... well you would have to see it. Made in 1998 and is compelling viewing.

"Run Lola Run" was also in that years line up and I have yet to see it but my daughter thought it was fantastic so I picked up the DVD at a secondhand store in Melbourne last year and it is on my list of things to watch. (slow at getting around to it but I get there in the end LOL)

Perse

Pam , re your other thread. About a week or so ago I was sitting here at this spot on this site on the PC. I got a distinct smell of tobaco from my left.
I stopped smoking almost 15 years ago and my OH doesn't smoke. Being watched ?

A film I enjoyed was The Manchurian Candidate

It starred Frank Sinatre and Laurence Harvey, about a mind conditioned sniper with a twist.

NUDGE

Hi Elizabeth, thanks for the correct spelling (unlike mine!) of Mr Buchholz...mine looked like a swear word!!

Speak soon..........

Pam.

Dear All

Hello

Yes, sadly Robert Vaughn is the only actor stil living from
"The Magnificent Seven", made in 1960.

Steve McQueen as Vin, died in 1980
Yul Brynner as Chris Adams, died in 1985

Brad Dexter as Harry Luck, died in 2002
James Coburn as Britt, died in 2002

Horst Buchholz as Chico, died in 2003
Charles Bronson as Bernardo O'Reilly, died in 2003

Robert Vaughn as Lee.

Take care of yourselves

Very best wishes
xx

Evening folks, David I think you are right about Richard Vaughn being the last survivor of the Magnificent Seven...I always fancied Horst Bllshotch...can't spell his name but you'll all know who i mean!

Yes Sky West and Crooked, I know the film well Roy and yes Ian Mcshane was the gypsey lad who she fell in love with. I have to say I did look like her at the same age. As my dad used to say...it was the hair and vacant look!

Pam.

Is Robert Vaughn the last surviving member of The Magnificent Seven ?

The late James Coburn (one of the Magnificent Seven) suffered from arthritis in his later lafe, very evident in his hands.

Away from the cameras the same man practised Karate to a high degree

Most of the older generation movies stars could hold their own.

Must agree David....loved JFK......probably Kevin Costners best role in my opinion, though many rated Dances With Wolves..........i`m afraid it went on too long for me, and i don`t think iv`e actually seen it all the way through.

Also loved Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, but not for Kevin Costner but the brilliant Alan Rickman as the dastardly Sherriff who steals every scene and showed what a great actor he really is, thought he was also brilliant in Die Hard...

Nicky

Roy....Can`t blame you for not watching much mainstream tv, theres an awful lot of rubbish on half the time, especially all those Sky channels that we never watch......like you i follow a couple of the soaps, Corrie and Eastenders, OH is a huge sports fan,especially football, had the 2 premiership games on already today and now we`ve moved on to the Gran Prix!!

Kevin Costener played a strong leading role as an attourney in JFK

Hi folks, with regard to Peter Mcenery Roy, he was in a series on the telly in the eighties called "The Collector", it was about HM Customs & Excise, and the only reason why we watched it was my late dad was employed for many years with Customs & Excise. It wasn't very good and I believe they only did one series of it. I haven't seen him in anything for years though...he was married to the blonde actress Julie Peasgood for a while and i believe they had a daughter. Also The Hunchback of Notre Dame made me cry too. Victim, an exellent film and very ground breaking for it's time. Eli Wallach didn't seem right in a film with a young Hayley Mills...no Clint Eastwood! As a youngster i looked a bit like Hayley Mills, think it was my colouring, my teachers all said it.
Carol White had a sad end to her life, died penniless in the USA and and had a drink and drugs problem, so sad. So many do don't they.

Glad your okay Nicky, I know what it's like, the darker evenings and it's better on the telly.

Am working a night shift tonight...back tomorrow or Tuesday.

Take care everyone,

Pam.