*contains spoilers Ronald Wycherley aka Billy Fury only starred in a couple of movies and didn’t have the chart success of Elvis Presley, but strangely enough the pair of them died at the relatively young age of 42. Billy was born in Liverpool in 1940. A landlady’s dog bit him on the face when he…
*contains spoilers Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009 anal cancer) or Farrah Fawcett-Majors, as she was known for a spell, was one of Charlie’s Angels (tv series 1976, 78-80) who hoped to kick-start a film career in the late 1970s and early 80s. She failed but the results are far from disgraceful. Married to the Six Million Dollar…
*contains spoilers I love red wine and have loved it for the better part of my life. I can hardly imagine a day without a glass of the stuff. I do have periods of my life without alcohol but the red has always been a constant and I prefer it to beer and spirits. So…
*contains spoilers The movie Who? (1974) begins with a duel between two cars and one of them crashes beside a barbed wire fence. It’s an East/West thing in Europe when the borders were divided between Communist Russia and capitalist Europe. Cut to a car crossing the border from the – always seen as evil –…
*contains spoilers Yes, The Slime People is every bit as awful as its title suggests. But I love it just the same! It has grown on me like slime on a rock or stuck to the bottom of my shoes like the putrid slush of cadaverous remains!! It stars one of my favourite actors Robert…
*contains spoilers There are a trio of “Body Snatcher” type sci-fi movies which all seem to have snatched source material from all over the place making them not quite original, but their melting pot of ideas have produced something aficionados of the genre may cherish. It Came from Outer Space (1953) is the first movie…
*contains spoilers After his success with American Graffiti (1973), producer and director George Lucas (1944-) had a script in mind based on murders in a radio station during a big opening launch based on the Bud Abbott (1897-1979 throat cancer) and Lou Costello (1906-59 heart attack) movie Who Done It? (1942). It went through almost…
