World War II spy photos made public for first time
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
THESE astonishing spy photos of bombing, ruined cities and Nazi prison camps from World War Two can now be seen by the public for the first time.
Dirk Bogarde
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Top Ten #32
...an endless banquet (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
1. Bright Star , dir. Jane Campion 2. Hans Fallada, Every Man Dies Alone 3. red beans + rice 4. red flannel hash fig. a: On Dangerous Ground 5. On Dangerous Ground , dir. Nicholas Ray fig. b: Border Incident 6. Border Incident , dir. Anthony Mann 7. Dirk Bogarde, A Particular Friendship 8. King of Hearts Drink Book (1955) + Esquire Party Book (1965) 9. The Best of Everything , dir. Jean Negulesco fig....
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Stoke-on-Trent: Britain's first green city
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It's an employment blackspot, its industrial might a thing of the past. So who'd have thought Stoke-on-Trent would be the first city to sign up to the 10:10 environmental campaign? Opposite the old town hall in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, down the road from the Red Lion (aka "the pub where Robbie Williams was born"), round the corner from the Methodist Mission and next to a now sadly shuttered...
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Internet access You take it for granted...
Mike's musings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Internet access You take it for granted, don't you? But I've spent the day on a customer's LAN with a pretty draconian proxy and blacklisting policy (no User Friendly (humour), no Facebook (social networking), no IM, no IMAP, no SMTP..., and the hotel I'm in just has crap access. Slow, when it works at all. I've complained, natch, but don't expect much to happen about it soon. Realised last night,...
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Movie stars I loved as a kid - Honor Blackman
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Honor Blackman (born 22 August 1925) : An English actress, who is perhaps best known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and as Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger . Blackman was the first and one of the very few " Bond girls " older than the actor playing James Bond. ... Blackman's films include Quartet and So Long at the Fair with Dirk Bogarde , the 1958 story of the Titanic's...
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Plumpton's army raceday raises more than £100,000 for Afghanistan victims
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Plumpton racecourse has raised more than £100,000 for the military and civilian victims of the Afghanistan conflict. Serving personnel get into the event free.
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“He likes cats, but not from kindness”
Nothing Tra La La? (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
For what might one day be a work thing, I asked m'colleague M to recommend Dirk Bogarde films from the early 60s. Am woefully ill-read in the man's work, so blimey: three compelling, peculiar movies. In The Singer Not The Song (1961), Bogarde is an oddly well-spoken Mexican bandit. Anacleto preys on a small town until Irish priest John Mills walks in. Mills is determined to win Bogarde over to the...
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Bang Envy - Monica Vitti
P&C (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I don't usually dedicate my posts, but Randall Todd, this one's for you... The Italian actress Monica Vitti is best known for her starring roles in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura series. Her quirky face features cat-like eyes, a broad mouth and a sprinkling of freckles, while her amazing mane of hair is always just-so-sexily-toussled. Her hair is also the thing that makes her a chameleon onscreen...
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Square Eyes, November 9-12
The Stage | TV Today (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Miranda BBC2, Monday 8.30pm Miranda Hart’s Radio 4 sitcom, Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop, makes a transfer to television — it shares a central character called Miranda who runs a joke shop. And the central character, and premise, is pretty much based around Hart’s comedy persona...
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Army And Afghan Raceday
South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Army and Afghan Appeal Raceday at Plumpton Racecourse on Monday 16th November is unique, helping both the military and civilian victims of the conflict in Afghanistan. The event raises funds for The Army Benevolent Fund and Sandy Gall’s Afghanistan Appeal. Plumpton’s Chief Executive Claire Sheppard said, “The Raceday has already raised more than £100,000 for the Army And Afghan...
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Lionel Davidson
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Born: 31 March, 1922, in Hull, Yorkshire. Died: 21 October, 2009, in London, aged 87.Lionel Davidson was a noted thriller writer whose novels brought to life far-flung settings such as Prague, Tibet, Israel and Siberia.Davidson wrote eight novels for adults, among them Night of Wenceslas (1960) and Kolymsky Heights (1994), as well as several novels for young people. All eight of his adult novels are...
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Lionel Davidson
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Born: 31 March, 1922, in Hull, Yorkshire. Died: 21 October, 2009, in London, aged 87.Lionel Davidson was a noted thriller writer whose novels brought to life far-flung settings such as Prague, Tibet, Israel and Siberia.Davidson wrote eight novels for adults, among them Night of Wenceslas (1960) and Kolymsky Heights (1994), as well as several novels for young people. All eight of his adult novels are...
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Appointment In London - 12:30am
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Appointment In London12:30am Monday, 02 Nov 2009 Repeat CC G The officer of a British bomber squadron in World War Two is excluded from the team for a mission. When a member of his crew is injured prior to take off, he steps in as a gunner. CAST: Dirk Bogarde DIR: Philip Leacock (1952)
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The Wind Cannot Read
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Did I say I was running out of material with 'The Mind Benders' ? Scratch that. 'The Mind Benders' is freakin' 'Rashomon' compared to 'The Wind Cannot Read' . Directed by - it's that man again! - Ralph Thomas from a novel by Richard Mason, 'The Wind Cannot Read' is the kind of they-don't-make-'em-like-that-anymore melodrama that perfectly demonstrates why they don't make 'em like that anymore. The...
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The Mind Benders
The Agitation of the Mind (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
It is Dirk Bogarde's collaborations with Joseph Losey (five films) and Luchino Visconti (two films) that are made the most of by the critics. But what of his four-film association with Basil Dearden? It was under Dearden's direction that the world got its first glimpse of the dark side of Dirk - as Tom Riley in 'The Blue Lamp' . They did their finest work together with 'Victim' - an incredibly brave,...