STRONG POSITIVE ATTITUDE......... A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal Who says you need legs to keep you moving. This is my badass friend Wheelchair Bob. He doesn't let being in a wheelchair stop him. He has done the Ohlone wilderness trail, many trails on Diablo he did a 48 mile day on the Iron horse trail and even has done White Mountain peak....
Warner Bros. Film Archive announced the release of 29 new titles on DVD today, and I thought I would share a few that caught my eye: Haywire , a wonderful 1980 TV movie starring the lovely Lee Remick (as troubled actress Margaret Sullavan), Jason Robards, Deborah Raffin and Hart Bochner. I highly recommend this! Love Among Thieves , a 1987 TV movie with Audrey Hepburn in her last leading role. Man...
What are expectations anyway? We've heard quotes like this one from Stevie Wonder: “You can't base your life on other people's expectations.” Or this one, from Brian Tracy: “Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” But the one that comes closest to the "expectation theme" that I'm thinking of today is from actress...
By Edward Copeland When Budd Schulberg died last month, I felt bad that I didn't have time to write an appreciation. Then again, what would I have written? I've never read What Makes Sammy Run? and it had been quite some time since I'd seen A Face in the Crowd . Did I want to write solely about On the Waterfront ? However, Elia Kazan's centennial was approaching, so I was planning to revisit A Face...
Tessa Dahl: 'I'm so glad Sophie's marrying Jamie Cullum... At least it will stop my old boyfriends asking her out'By Last updated at 2:31 AM on 03rd September 2009Tessa Dahl - who captivated London society with her knuckleduster cheekbones, luminous skin and dirty laugh - shares the ground floor of her new home with five dogs. One, a black hairless Chinese Crested, has been named Chewy Barka in mischievous...
By David Lambert - With the release of Season 3, Volume 1 happening just two weeks from tomorrow, CBS DVD and Paramount Home Entertainment have announced today that it will be a short wait until fans... (more)
Movies are a visual medium, we repeat in unison, yet when old-movie buffs get together to discuss the objects of their affection what they do, as often as not, is quote dialogue. When the Siren sees a recent movie, what she often misses is the verve and crackle of glorious midcentury American speech. When it came to using that speech for film, Budd Schulberg, who died this week age 95, was one of the...
The ending of Budd Schulberg’s extraordinary life at age 95 last night was just a little strange for me personally. By a very odd coincidence, just the night before I finished watching the 1959 TV production of “What Makes Sammy Run',” Schulberg’s great and possibly never-to-be-filmed 1941 novel about Hollywood careerist dehumanization (yes, it goes [...]
Novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront, Budd Schulberg died today at the age of 95. Besides Waterfront, he also wrote the screenplay for another Kazan film: 1957’s A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau. In addition to his noted screenplays, Schulberg also [...]
My word, isn’t it amazing what you can do, in an hour or so, if you’ve got visitors!! Well, it is! Saturday night is — as you’ve probably worked out by now — a semi-regular Movie night, as and when me and Adrian get the chance. And today, we had company! Bless, we were joined tonight, by Gwen — an old online friend of mine— and her partner, Stefan. Good meeting...
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