Grimsby Wargaming (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Time to put you out of your misery. 1. Sam Elliot is talking about General Custer who he calls a pussy in comparison to Lt. Col Hal Moore. 2. Platoon 3. Apocalypse Now & it's spoken by Colonel Kilgore played by Robert Duval 4. You'd find the Crimson Pirate aka Burt Lancaster in the film "Go Tell The Spartans" where he plays Major Asa Barker. 5. It's Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley 6. He...
Cogito Ergo Geek (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Police Say Vermont Man Stole Bus, Posts Joy Ride on YouTube Jake Rehm stole a half-million dollar bus from his former employer and took his girlfriend on a multi-state joy-ride. Apparently, he just wanted to share the grandeur of the fall colors with his GF and his birds. * "It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 38, said outside court Tuesday. "I felt inspired." The vehicle's owner, Lamoille...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A village made famous by hit movie Local Hero was closed yesterday amid fears of a landslip after a crack appeared in a cliff.
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
This splashy Hollywood spectacular was a radical departure for a director who had specialized in socially conscious thrillers. Set against a circus backdrop, it stars Burt Lancaster as Mike Ribble, a crippled former acrobat. Tino Orsino (Tony Curtis), a young aerialist, seeks out the older man, hoping to learn the triple somersault, an extremely dangerous routine that had maimed Ribble. When Lola...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The notorious film director on cheating death, the awfulness of restaurants – and how he can't stand boring people It is with a mixture of fear and exhilaration that I approach Michael Winner's large house – he likes to describe it as a mansion – in London's fashionable Holland Park. God knows how much it's worth – £25m maybe. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin lives next door,...
outsider ins and... (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
if youre only as good as your last what? then what are you doing and how? who are you for and why? and what burt lancaster in a jamaican accent knock knock... so maybe your car is faster than mine what is that sculpture about and why take it so for, granted, it might not be a sculpture it could be a genuine accident, which would make it remarkable and you wonder why and where... but its shite all i...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, George Arliss and Lionel Barrymore. Wallace Beery and Fredric March simultaneously. Charles Laughton, Clark Gable and Victor McLaglen. Paul Muni and Spencer Tracy ² . Robert Donat, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. Paul Lukas, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland and Fredric March, who was worth returning to. Ronald Colman, Laurence Olivier, Broderick Crawford, José...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
In his 11.12 "Notes on a Season" column, Pete Hammond reports that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is premiering a digital restoration of From Here to Eternity (1953) on 11.18 at 7:30 pm in the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre. Which means not just a new DVD but a Bluray will be issued before long. I'm profoundly and eternally queer for any and all Blurays of monochrome classics. (Unless...
The Galloping Beaver (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
Moved to Vancouver (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
The Guardian UK today reveals: Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher * Alison Flood | * guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 November 2009 It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over...
Jabberwock (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Watched my DVD of Jules Dassin’s prison film Brute Force last week (and before you ask, I had no idea then that Madhur Bhandarkar’s latest exercise in social awareness, Jail , was about to be released). This is a very gripping movie, right up there with I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang and Cool Hand Luke in its genre. It’s widely seen as a commentary on the brutality of prison life...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I've tried for nearly an hour to find an online PDF of Wendell Mayes' script for Go Tell The Spartans, or a transcript of the film's dialogue -- same difference. I'm in love with a soliloquy spoken by Burt Lancaster, playing Major Asa Barber, as he tells a young soldier (played, I think, by Craig Wasson) why he'd been demoted from the rank of Colonel a few years back. Lancaster/Barber was stationed...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Although Soupy Sales, who has died aged 83, will inevitably be remembered with a pie in his face, as befits a comedian who took an estimated 20,000 of them during his career, his slapstick brilliance should not overshadow his influence on a whole generation of Americans, including many notable comics who, as adolescents, teenagers, or even young adults in the late 1950s and early 1960s, were enthralled...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In the 1968 film “The Swimmer”, starring Burt Lancaster, the hero hits on the idea of getting home by swimming the length of various pools owned by his rich friends in a leafy north-eastern US state.
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Soupy Sales, the comic whose 1950s-60s ostensible children's show developed a cult following among people of all ages, has died at age 83. As the star of "The Soupy Sales Show," he performed live on television for 13 years in Detroit, Los Angeles and New York before the program went into syndication in the United States and abroad. Ostensibly for children, the show had broad appeal among...
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