General Chat

Hi all,

I liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service and thought George Lazenby had the potential to be one of the best Bond's on screen.

However, did you know that he quit the role after 1 film because it was released the same year as Easy Rider. Dennis Hopper's film about the two bikers trounced OHMSS at the box office and Lazenby (or maybe his agent) thought the Bond genre had had its day so he quit the role.

Daniel Craig impresses me as Bond though. He really looks the part and of all the actors who have played Bond he really convinces me as a secret agent and killer. I think he has brought the Bond films back up to the same popularity as when Sean Connery played the part.

Ed

Dear All

Hello

Hope you are keeping well and doing okay, despite the weather.

Hello, Eyebrows Ed.......haven't seen you on here for a while.
Yes, I agree. Daniel Craig is good as James Bond. Ruthless but can show a tender side. Oh yes, and the scene with him coming out of the sea was enjoyed by us ladies!

DIverting a bit, I got the boxset of the series "We'll meet again" shown on LWT in 1982.

Its about an English village coping with WWII and adjusting to life when the American GI's come over. Starring Susannah York,
Michael J Shannon, Patrick O'Connell, June Barrie and Ray Smith.

A superior drama series which are not made anymore.

Take care all
Very best wishes
x

Hi all, hello Ed nice to see you back.

Elizabeth I loved the series We'll Meet Again and remembering watching it in the early eighties, it was great wasn't it. I also have the series on DVD, got it off e bay last year. ( The actor Ray Smith played Dempsy and Makepiece's boss, sadly he died a little while later.) I always think of him as 'Albert' the bloke who ran the shop and who's daughter 'Lettie' got pregnant by 'Harvey' one of the good looking G.I's off the base. He got injured and died, oh the memories...

The chap who played 'Sid' in We'll Meet Again, (Lettie's Uncle) was Stuart Wilson, who was in a few Hollywood films, Die Hard 3, Zorro to name just two. His first film was Dulcima with Carol White and John Mills and it was made in 1971, a lovely film...got that on DVD too, also off e bay!!



Pam. ☺

Ed, George Lazenby was my hubby's favourite as James Bond, I never liked Sean Connery...must be the only woman who couldn't take to him!!

I must be going theough my Mickey Rourke phase, I bought The Pope of Greenwich Village off e bay last week. I enjoyed it, Eric Roberts also stars along with Daryl Hannah. He has a swagger of Bobby Darin in it.

Speak soon,

Keep warm...

Pam. ☺

Oooohhhh Ed.......agreeing with us ladies on whos the best James Bond ......... not for the same reason as us { the walking out of the sea bit that Elizabeth pointed out,} but also like you i feel he gives Bond an edge...very convincing , a bit dark and mysterious, ......... liked by both sexes, men want to go for a pint with him, women want to sleep with him.......

Nice to see you back Ed....hope you had a good Xmas and New Year and that the job is still going ok.

BTW Elizabeth, he is also very fetching in Quantam of Solace...... tearing round the back streets on a motorbike wearing white jeans....... {A touch of Steve Mcqueen The Great Escape springs to mind when you watch it}

Getting right of the subject is anyone watching Celeb Big Brother this time round.?.....havn`t watched it for years, but this lot are quite an intresting mix, so think i will stick with it...Vinnie jones will probably win if he dos`nt walk out before the end....


Nicky

Hi Nicky, no I don't watch Big Brother, can't stand that Davina woman!!

Evening all,

Really want to go and see Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, about the late, great Ian Dury.

Andy Serkis, the guy who plays Dury, played Gollum in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I understand he is a bit of a method actor and he spent time perfecting Dury's walk.

I met Ian Dury several times, the OH and MIL used to be teaching assistants at the primary school his son went to. He was a really nice guy and a great character actor as well as one of your original rockers. I also saw him in concert several times with the Blockheads (but was a bit too young to see him in Kilburn and the High Roads).

Think it's a bit of reliving my youth!

Hi Ed, yes it sounds a good one.

Fancy your other half and MIL meeting Ian Drury, i always liked him. He didn't seem have any swank as my dad would have said. Really liked his music.

Hope the job's still going well and nice to see you back on the thread.

Take care,

Pam. ☺

Yes Ed and Pam, Agree Sex and drugs and rock and Roll looks like a must.........funny how you say what a nice bloke he seemed Ed........ I watched an interveiw with the actress who plays his wife in it { name escapes me but she usually does Period Dramas} she said how they`d tried to keep it as real as possible and that he wsn`t a very nice person at all........!!

Another goodie out this week 44 inch Chest starring the wonderful Ray Winstone....written by the same guy who did Sexy Beast....not for the squeamish I think, pretty violent, Ray plays an ageing east End villian, whos wife has an affair with a waiter, so what does he do? the obvious thing of course..he and his cronnies kidnap the waiter................. also starring John Hurt Tom Wilkinson and Ian Mc shane to name but a few......one i definetly want to see...just love Ray Winston.



Nicky

Hi Nicky, I've always liked Ray Winstone, he's not classicly good looking but I think there's just something about him. Watched bits of Sexy Beast, but found it a bit grim in places. Can't watch Scum, but we've mentioned that one before.

Speak soon, take care and keep warm folks.

Pam. ☺

Bought a DVD this afternoon.
Richard Burton and Lee Rimick in THE MEDUSUA TOUCH.
It was about the last film for both of them.

Hi David, ah yes i know I've seen this film but I'm bu**ered if I can remember to much about it. think Lee Remmick was a doctor in it.

She was very beautiful and died of cancer i believe.

Pam.

Dear Pam and David

Hello

Wasn't that film about Richard Burton having supernatural powers?
Lino Ventura, the very fine Italian actor, played the Police Officer in it.

Lee Remick was a lovely lady. She lived in North London for over 10 years with her director husband.

Her TV work included "Jennie, Lady Churchill and the mini-series "Eike".

Very sadly, she passed away in July 1991.

Michael Landon who starred in "Little House on the Priarie" also passed away too. I remember the news headlines and the coverage in the Hello magazine.

Take care all
Very best wishes
xx

Doesn't time fly Elizabeth, both very young and both lost I believe to cancer.

Very sad.

Pam.

The death of Michael Jackson totally eclipsed the the death of Farah Fawcett Majors. She was a beautiful woman who starred in more than Charlie's Angels

Hello all

Farrah Fawcett was quite a good actress and my OH used to scorn her - Playboy centrefold and all that - and then he saw "The Burning Bed" and changed his mind she was brilliant.
Then she starred with Ryan O'Neal in "Small Sacrifices" - I had read the book by Ann Rule and was absolutely amazed at the audacity of this woman and how badly she treated her children and how she told lie after lie after lie - and the adaptation they did of it was very good.

I am quite fond of the movies that were made for television like Paris Texas and Running on Empty (Judd Hirsch and River Phoenix) and Dave (Kevin Kline & Sigourney Weaver - where he is a dead ringer for the President)

Perse

Does any one recall Burt Lancaster in a film called
TWIGHLIGHTS LAST GLEAMING ?
Its an excellent story and film
The actor who played Lt Samuels from Cagney & Lacey played the US president, who proved expedient.

Hello all, no not seen that one David. Sounds good though.

Perse, yes have seen The Burning Bed a couple of times and agree with you, Farrah Fawcett was exellent in it.

Regards to all,

Pam. ☺

Must agree Farrah was excellents in the Burning Bed....but she was also in another true life film, about a woman who tried to kill her children as her lover {who i think was played by Ryan o Neal} wanted her ,but not her kids...one of them survived and was adopted by one of the Police Officers investigating the case....Do any of you remember it.

Its no good I`ll have to have a google to find out the name of it.

EDIT.... It was called Small Sacrifices, made in 1989 and was nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Sorry Perse...... Just seen that you mentioned it in your thread.......yes she was a terrible mother, just thought she could dispose of her children ,so she could do what she wanted with her life....

Nicky