Agatha Christie Collection featuring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot (Dead Man's Folly / Murder in Three Acts / Thirteen at Dinner)
MTV Movies Blog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Indira Gandhi, India's first and only female Prime Minister, is getting a much-deserved biopic, and big name actors are being wooed for star-studded cameos. According to The Daily Telegraph, Helen Mirren is in talks to return to the role of Queen Elizabeth II, who she won an Oscar for playing in 2006's "The Queen." Emily [...]
Ernie (Not Bert) (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
One of my mostest favoritest spoken-word Christmas records of all time is this one right here. I first shared this with you last year , and if you didn't get it then, don't miss it now. Please run out immediately and download Ogden Nash- Christmas With Ogden Nash (Caedmon TC 1323, Stereo, 1970). For the sake of comparison, you should give a listen to Peter Ustinov reading this version of Nutcracker...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Once again this is our first Christmas movie. We watched it this afternoon. We love this movie, and it continues to be one of our favorites. We're No Angels stars Humphrey Bogart , Peter Ustinov , Aldo Ray and Adolph (the deadly snake) as the titular angels. Basil Rathbone plays a wealthy businessman concerned only with profit against Leo G. Carroll who plays his bumbling, well-meaning cousin. Joan...
POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by Julia Buckley Mystery lovers could waste an awful lot of time wandering through clips on You Tube. Just as film can forever preserve the images suggested by our favorite detective novels, so can You Tube forever preserve some of those wonderful movies and shows. For example, look at this classic clip with Humphrey Bogart in a film version of Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP. Bogie is charming as ever as...
Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
via telegraph.co.uk When Jonathan Lynn and I started writing Yes, Minister back at the end of the 1970s, we had no idea whether the television audience would find it funny. We did, however, think they might be interested in a series that took them behind the scenes of government – there had never been a TV comedy series set in Whitehall. So from the very first episode we tried to make sure that...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
BBC television presenter and sports commentator Max Robertson in his island home aged 94.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The greatest holiday film ever made was not Jimmy Stewart's It's A Wonderful Life, from 1946, but the 1955 black comedy We're No Angels. Its three stars--Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray--play escaped convicts from Devil's Island who hide out in the home of a naive family running a local haberdashery. The trio set out to rob the family, but end up defending them against their evil and wealthy...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Born: 4 January, 1926, in Halifax. Died: 13 November, 2009, in Kirkhill, Inverness-shire, aged 83.
High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Max Ophüls' classic film will be released on the Blu-ray format by Criterion in February. The Criterion Collection has announced 'Lola Montès' starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov is slated for Blu-ray...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Came across this series of you tube videos recently. It's 'An Audience With Kenneth Williams' and its a delight. Richly told anecdotes, long and short, on his life and career. Not long in to it all I quickly realised I was watching an art rapidly being lost; the art of being able to sit in front of a large audience and gently tell a rivetting story, be it comedic, dramatic or tragic. When I was younger...
From Sand To Glass (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"As the Earth explodes, the last audible sound will be that of an expert proudly proclaiming that it can't be done." (Peter Ustinov) When someone tells you that getting published is an impossible dream, just tell them that.
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
ITV 3 repeated a documentary from 2005 the other day, which took us ‘behind the scenes’ with a year of Poirot stories for the small screen. I found it interesting, and a reminder of what a fine actor David Suchet is, and of how completely he has made the role of the Belgiam supersleuth his own. There were clips from four episodes. One ( The Mystery of the Blue Train ) was based on a mediocre...
Parkbench (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I am planing to exhibit 'Eric the lost god of Crete' in the spring in the small but perfect gallery 'The Space' in Stroud and propose having several readings of the book. This has prompted me to wonder if there is any mileage in say performance - dance theatre, even video. I have a memory of Peter Ustinov's reading of Peter and the wolf and found the latest animation from Poland that won the animated...
The Moviezzz Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
LOGAN'S RUN is now over thirty years old. Released in 1976, the film was recently forced to enter the "Carousel", to experience a rebirth. That rebirth is now the LOGAN'S RUN Blu-Ray. Set in 2274, Michael York plays Logan 5, whose job it is to terminate those that try to flee from society upon nearing their 30th birthday. But when he finds out he is about to turn thirty, he must flee himself,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
It was a moment in time; it shook India and stunned the world. As prime minister Indira Gandhi walked briskly up to the picket gate dividing her home from her office that fateful Wednesday morning 25 years ago, a hail of gunfire from two of her Sikh bodyguards sent her crumpling to the ground in a blood-soaked heap.
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