Yep we discussed this a few pages back. What a film! I wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as it was.
I enjoyed Looper. I don't want to be a spoiler, but I think my favourite part was that there wasn't a Hollywood ending.
That kind of ending is fast becoming the norm, but yes, it was fitting nonetheless. And is that the best performance from a child actor? I think so.
Depends what you consider a 'child'. There was a young girl who was in the recent film 'Brothers' who was outstanding, and Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine is also mighty impressive but for me Linda Blair in The Exorcist was haunting.
To me there's two kinds of Bond films: the ones where Bond is a menacing, violent physical presence (Daulton, Connery and Craig) and the movies where Bond is a charming secret agent (Moore and Brosnan). I prefer the first group because the villains seemed more dangerous and Bond seemed more human. Golden Eye was good, but Brosnan was just too polished and smart to be a menacing. There's nothing threatening about meeting Pierce Brosnan as 007 in a dark alley - (unless he sings, of course). But Daniel Craig is a different matter, but he's also the best actor since Connery (imo). I'm looking forward to Looper.
On the subject of Bond, my grandfather, Lionel Couch, was the art director on Casino Royale. Not the Daniel Craig one, sadly, but the spoof 60s one with David Niven, Woody Allen et al. He also made a dozen or so Carry On films and got two Oscar nominations (though not for his Carry On films!).
I played Nick Nack in "the Man with the Golden Gun." Actually, while working my way through college I worked for a year as the gardener and caretaker for Holywood sound engineer and Oscar winner Loren Ryder, who won the Academy Award for "The Ten Commandments", but was nominated 8 other times. His credits include Hitchcock's "Rear Window", which is one of my favourites. The Oscar trophy weighed about 10 pounds. His favourite tale was not meeting Cary Grant or any of the other actors. Rather, during WWII he was contacted by Gen George S Patton. Pattons said, in effect, "You're the leading sound engineer in the world. How do we make these tanks quieter? My crews are getting slaughtered." In typical make-shift Holywood fashion, Ryder had a crew put a tank up on blocks, then he took rolls of electrical tape and, as the tank tracks cranked, he applied the rubber tape to the metal tracks. When they lowered the tank onto the pavement, it rolled almost noiselessly. After that, the US tanks were equipped with rubberized treads.
Joke of the Week Man Utd announced that they will unveil a statue to honour Alex Ferguson at the home game against QPR. Mark Hughes revealed it was a great honour to choose that fixture, as he will play 11 statues from his squad as a sign of respect.
'Herbert' set off childhood memories, I remember people using it pejoratively. According to urban dictionary it covers a wider spread http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=herbert - one entry has "can be defined as to be successful or a bright person" - the other " used to describe moronic sub-humans who loiter around outside tacky fast food resteraunts and off licences" He seems to be big on self-promotion (he has an OBE in case you didn't know!)- his website makes for an interesting read http://www.peterherbert.net/index.html- lists a mobile number and has a fairly open contact form. May just be a format issue- but under careers (where he lists 5 different avenues) there is space for a 6th- soon to be updated? Independent has an interesting article on him http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...opportunist-who-saw-an-open-goal-8301481.html
George Best died seven years ago today. This extract from his obituary in the Belfast Telegraph sums him up perfectly : The video clip of him and Rodney Marsh in the match against Hereford has been posted before, so here is an alternative which illustrates the cheeeky brilliance of the man - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D8IW_3_6D8 RIP
Sadly Dave Sexton has also passed away. He wasn't with Fulham for long but it was his coaching of youngsters like Steve Earl and Les Barrett which earned us one of the "Greatest Escapes" in 1965/66. The highlight of the incredible final run was a 4-2 away win against fellow struggglers Northampton, after being 2-0 down. Steve Earl got a second half hat trick. Dave Sexton was one of those coaches who could get players to raise their game. If he hadn't beeen poached by Arsenal the following year, who knows, even Vic Buckingham might have been a success. RIP
Sad news in deed. I never appreciated he had spent some time at Fulham as it was just before my time. However my memories of him were as Chelsea manager and their fantastic side of the early 70's. My dad was a Chelsea supporter, so I saw that side a lot. They had fantastic attacking players - Osgood, Charlie Cooke - worth the admission money on his own - , Bobby Tambling etc - as well as a solid defence - Dempsey, Ron "Chopper" Harris, Marvin Hinton - who would have played loads for England if he hadn't been about at the same time as Bobby Moore - and David Webb. They were a delight to watch and Sexton was the man who pulled it all together. I feel he never got the recognition he deserved as he was about at the same time as more show biz managers like Tommy Doc or Revie or elder statesmen like Busby and Nicholson. It may be the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia, but football seemed simpler, more honest and just more fun somehow.
You beat me to it, Cottager. I was going to post something about Dave Sexton's Fulham connection. I suppose there won't be a minute's silence/applause on Wednesday as Chelsea have already honoured him at their home game yesterday. Shame, it would have been nice for Fulham fans to get the chance to pay their respects too.
I couldn't resist posting this - Joey Barton (the original 'Idiot Abroad') holding an interview a la francais (he says they wouldn't understand if he spoke 'scouser') : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Z3U-r8T31Ns
I've always had mixed feelings about Barton. On one hand, he's a thug and an idiot, but he's probably one of the few honest people in football. He's been outspoken on the right side of many things hopelessly wrong with football. In other news, Harry taking over QPR probably means they'll stay up. He's the master of getting the most out of people - his players adore him. It's the owners who can't stand him. So while Hughes' is gone, now to ply his trade on the commentary circuit I suspect, we'll probably have to deal with the likes of Northholt and the rest of the QPR WUMs until Harry gets bored and moves on again.
Honest? Saying he's too intelligent to be a footballer? The guy is a thug and a moron. Not only does he not deserve to be earning £50K p/w as a footballer, but he doesn't even deserve to be selling The Big Issue. The guy has had around 100 chances too many. If I stubbed out a cigar in a workmate's eye, savagely beat up some guys in the street, together with the on field fanatics, I wouldn't only not be able to continue in my own job, but would seriously struggle to find a job elsewhere until the day I died. The fact that he is a millionaire means that if reincarnation is real, he's destined to come back as Andy Fordham's toilet brush.
