Jan
15
CHURCHILL'S PERFUME
I don't often write about perfume (in fact I never have) but a recent introduction to a certain
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Jan
14
HOW WOULD LUBITSCH DO IT?
In Billy Wilder's office in Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles once hung the beautifully calligraphed sign inscribed with the
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Jan
13
MOON & BIRDBOOT
We had the two loudest voices in the school. No doubt we'd have made the worst spies, blowing
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Jan
12
PAINTING BOX
My dear dad would have been 82 years old today. Thinking about him this morning on his birthday, I'
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Jan
07
A SHOT OF JACK
For years I was certain I knew what the single greatest scene in the entire work of actor Jack Nicholson&
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Jan
04
SEND OUT THE CLOWNS
My first introduction to a suffragette as a young boy was watching Glynis Johns as Mrs Banks in Walt Disney&
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Jan
01
COLDFINGER
Bond had avoided seeing anyone over Christmas and was enjoying his solitude at Inverlair Lodge which had once housed enemy
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Jan
01
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
"Everything in the world is a jest. Man is born a jester. In his mind, his reason Is wavering
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Dec
31
GODZILLAHEIMER
Might as well go out of this year of 2023 with a bang and what better way than to talk
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Dec
30
THE CHRISTMAS BARDO
Bardo - (in Tibetan Buddhism) the state of the soul between its death and its rebirth
Coughing and spluttering, I&
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