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Post by aubrey on Feb 16, 2017 8:39:40 GMT
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies.
After the publication and success of The Wasp Factory (1984), Banks began to write on a full-time basis. His first science fiction book, Consider Phlebas, was released in 1987, marking the start of the popular Culture series. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
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Post by marispiper on Feb 16, 2017 9:52:25 GMT
Agree with that.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 17, 2017 7:54:33 GMT
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 17, 2017 8:38:16 GMT
Yvonne Romain (born Yvonne Warren, 17 February 1938, London) is a British film and television actress of the late 1950s and 1960s. This raven-haired former photographic model was a graduate of the Italia Conti Academy and from the age of twelve appeared in children's shows and repertory. She started appearing in British films in her late teens. She married the film composer Leslie Bricusse, who provided the lyrics for the classic James Bond themes Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice, and she later turned down a seven-year contract with Federico Fellini because it meant working away from her Hollywood-based husband and young son.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 18, 2017 9:09:00 GMT
Merle Oberon (19 February 1911 - 23 November 1979) was an Indian-born British actress. She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933). After her success in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), she travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 19, 2017 8:51:26 GMT
Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was a noted English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years. Hardwicke's theatre work included notable performances in productions of the plays of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw, and his film work included leading roles in a number of adapted literary classics. Hardwicke was born in Lye, Worcestershire.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 20, 2017 8:01:23 GMT
 Anthony Stewart Head (born 20 February 1954) is an English actor and musician. He rose to fame in the UK following his role in the Gold Blend couple television advertisements for Nescafé Gold Blend, and is known for his roles as Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Uther Pendragon in Merlin, the Prime Minister in Little Britain, and as Herc Shipwright in BBC Radio 4's Cabin Pressure. |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 20, 2017 16:13:01 GMT
^^^
I always thought he was a bit useless...he looks right though.
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Post by marispiper on Feb 20, 2017 16:16:58 GMT
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. I love her titles written as Barbara Vine and have read them all. Great psychological thrillers rather than crime. If anyone has recommendations of similar, let me know! |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 20, 2017 18:09:24 GMT
^^^ I always thought he was a bit useless...he looks right though. He was good in Buffy. Books like Rendell/Vine - I suppose you know Highsmith? She's the nearest I know (not the Ripley ones - good as they are, but I think they're different). I am reading Grasshopper at the moment. I've been reading it for weeks, but keep putting it off. Not that it isn't good - it's really good - but I know bad things are about to happen (some already have) and even though I've read it before I can't remember what they are and it all worries me. I was reading the end of A Fatal Inversion on the bus and when I got off I had to sit on a wall or something to read the last few pages because I couldn't wait - and a kicker in the last bloody line! Perfect. |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 21, 2017 8:27:36 GMT
Stanley James Carroll Beck (21 February 1929 – 6 August 1973) was a British actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army. The cast was mainly composed of older actors, but Beck was one of the younger members. Beck was born in Islington, North London and attended Popham Road Primary School. %202.1.jpg) |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 21, 2017 17:52:08 GMT
^^^ I always thought he was a bit useless...he looks right though. He was good in Buffy. Books like Rendell/Vine - I suppose you know Highsmith? She's the nearest I know (not the Ripley ones - good as they are, but I think they're different). I am reading Grasshopper at the moment. I've been reading it for weeks, but keep putting it off. Not that it isn't good - it's really good - but I know bad things are about to happen (some already have) and even though I've read it before I can't remember what they are and it all worries me. I was reading the end of A Fatal Inversion on the bus and when I got off I had to sit on a wall or something to read the last few pages because I couldn't wait - and a kicker in the last bloody line! Perfect. Of course...Highsmith just as good. I don't think they make em like it anymore, do they? But Vine - Grasshopper OK... A Dark Adapted Eye very good if you've not read it, as is Gallowglass. Actually, I just had a look on Goodreads (are you on that?) and there are a couple I haven't read! Good! |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 21, 2017 18:26:14 GMT
I joined Goodreads but never did anything on it, and was put off by it being done by Amazon.* I didn't like Gallowglass, I think mostly because the first time I listened to it (at work - I used to listen to a lot of books at work) and I didn't like the voice of the reader, though it did fit the character. I like Grasshopper because I was working in Ladbroke Grove when I read it and used to come home along some of the roads where they climbed - not Warwick Avenue, but not far off. Asta's Book and The Brimstone Wedding are both really good - I reread them last year and I still liked them (there is one image in The Brimstone Wedding - one involving a plough - that gets me every time: I can see it now, as I type).
She has a realistic view of murder and death as well, the way it affects everyone involved.
*Like Imdb, which I think must be why it doesn't link back to Wikipedia, chiz
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Post by ARENA on Feb 22, 2017 8:25:29 GMT
Remembering the late Actor, John Mills, who was born on this date in 1908.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 23, 2017 8:28:29 GMT
Kathleen Harrison (23 February 1892 – 7 December 1995) was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs Huggett (opposite Jack Warner and Petula Clark) in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working-class family's misadventures.One of my all-time favourite actresses. She lived to be well over 100. .jpg) |
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