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Post by marispiper on Feb 23, 2017 21:54:26 GMT
^^^
Can I do yer now, sir?
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Post by marispiper on Feb 23, 2017 21:58:46 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 I rarely reread any book, but your comments have made me think that I really ought to revisit these. Funny, I always thought you didn't like fiction... Chiz...😁 |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 24, 2017 5:52:48 GMT
I usually prefer rereading to reading - I'm not so much interested in what happens (which I forget as often as not anyway) as how - seeing all those little hints and clues that were hidden in the wordage the first time.
Also, if I know that I like a book it's not such a risk.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 24, 2017 7:41:02 GMT
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction, and biography. A 1938 Guggenheim Fellow, Derleth considered his most serious work to be the ambitious Sac Prairie Saga, a series of fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and non-fiction naturalist works designed to memorialise life in the Wisconsin he knew. Derleth can also be considered a pioneering naturalist and conservationist in his writing. I used to have this cover framed over my desk. Lost now (I never had the rest of the book):  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 24, 2017 8:28:44 GMT
^^^ Can I do yer now, sir? That was Mrs Mopp in, 'It's That Man Again'....... She was played by Dorothy Summers. |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 24, 2017 8:32:12 GMT
Betty Marsden (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. She was born in Liverpool, but spent her early childhood living in near poverty in Somerset. Her music teacher recognised Marsden's talent at the age of six, and became her guardian. Originally from Liverpool, she attended the Italia Conti Stage School and ENSA. In the radio series Beyond Our Ken.  My all-time favourite radio show. |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 24, 2017 16:21:03 GMT
^^^
I know.
I know you know.
I know you know I know😁
What was Kathleen Harrison's phrase then? I got that wrong then...I can hear hear voice too...
Was she also in Oliver Twist?
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Post by ARENA on Feb 25, 2017 9:09:13 GMT
Richard Wattis He is best known for his appearances in British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, typically as the "Man from the Ministry" or similar character, with his trademark thick-rimmed round spectacles. Such appearances included the St Trinian's films (The Belles of St Trinian's, Blue Murder at St Trinian's, and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery) as Manton Bassett, a civil servant who was the Deputy Director of Schools in the Ministry of Education, where he was often seen frowning and expressing indignation at the outrageous behaviour of other characters. To American audiences, Wattis is probably best known for his performance as the British civil servant Northbrook in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). Wattis's other films included Hobson's Choice, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Carry On Spying, The Colditz Story, Dentist on the Job, Very Important Person, The Happiest Days of Your Life, and The Longest Day. He also appeared on television, including a long-running role in Sykes, and appearances in Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Goodies, Hancock's Half Hour, and Father, Dear Father. From 1957 to 1958, he appeared as Peter Jamison in three episodes of the American sitcom Dick and the Duchess.  |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 25, 2017 20:05:46 GMT
^^^
There is a film called something like Fanny Hill versus Lady Chatterley (featuring Joanna Lumley and Jeremy Lloyd, and Young Mr Grace in one of his first roles), in which Richard Wattis plays a client of a brothel. He turns out to be a bit of a perve (only a bit: the punch line is when you learn what the perve is, and it isn't really a perve at all: though I think in the context of the film it is). (It's an English sexy comedy: which means a lot of innuendo and about 30 secs of toplessness - that's from from Joanna Lumly though, so there's always that.)
Anyway, it was quite shocking, to see him in a role like that.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 26, 2017 8:36:50 GMT
Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honour of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 26, 2017 9:09:40 GMT
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey (26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer who worked with her common-law husband Johnnie Cradock. Daughter of a failed gambler, Cradock began working in restaurants and became a cookery journalist. All her first three marriages were over quickly, with two sons who were alienated from her.  She was to cookery, what Boris Johnson is to diplomacy. |
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Post by clioseward on Feb 26, 2017 15:49:07 GMT
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey (26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer who worked with her common-law husband Johnnie Cradock. Daughter of a failed gambler, Cradock began working in restaurants and became a cookery journalist. All her first three marriages were over quickly, with two sons who were alienated from her. She was to cookery, what Boris Johnson is to diplomacy. How much does she charge to haunt a house.  Save |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 27, 2017 8:24:16 GMT
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-born American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. As one of the world's most famous film stars, Taylor was recognized for her acting ability and for her glamorous lifestyle, beauty and distinctive violet eyes.  One of Mrs A's first jobs was as her stand-in and double in 'The VIPS' |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 27, 2017 9:03:07 GMT
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Gosh - she was stunningly beautiful, no question!
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Post by ARENA on Feb 27, 2017 10:09:30 GMT
^^^ Gosh - she was stunningly beautiful, no question!  Mrs A |
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