Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Leslie Howards death is another of those unsolved happenings that you wait to be eventually solved.....and feel slightly cheated when it isn't. However maybe there are no answers.Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
I do worry about RJ, I miss his silver tongue and his hilarious tales of his days in ladies underwear and haberdashery, his in-store announcements at sales time “Ladies drawers down, now is your chance!. Big things in men’s trousers!” they probably modelled Capt. Peacock on RJ.Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Whilst spitty is happily digging up the dormants it seems we are getting buried alive Jem...bit like that Premature Burial film which if you suffered from Taphephobia and didn't know it....you would by the time you had watched the film through. Ray Milland made sure of that.Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Taphephobia, yes like when a tap is dripping and you can’t stop it, drives one crazy.Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
OK;on a bit of a slant,whils't retaining the central crux...for me,one of the best actors ever to grace our screens,was Gregory Peck-especially when he was teamed alongside Mary Badham, [uncertain how her name is spelled,forgive] in the epic ''To kill a Mockingbird''. His characterisation of what was essentially a small,'backwood',and relatively unimportant person suddenly thrown into the glaring and public notoriety of defending not just a supposed criminal,but a BLACK criminal,at a time when to even CONSIDER doing so brought forth the very worst in people,resulting in everything from threats to his children,to becoming despised for having the temerity to do so,was,to me,one of the very best books I have ever had the MASSIVE pleasure of reading. Yes,I know the film was also a huge success,resulting in good times and great fame for it's participants [step forward Robert Duvall,Brock Peters,Dill Harris,Philip Peters,et al & take a bow]...but,to me and FOR me,it was the act of visualising those characters in my mind as I read the book [which,incidentally,I still to this day have in my library],prior to any film,that made that book one of the All Time Greats. Whatever one's outlook regarding race,colour,religion,so forth-you have to admit that book DID change this world-for the better. Harper Lee,we salute you. [ps-nothing to do with the above-but I still to this day fancy Hayley Mills....always have,always will...sigh]
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