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Boulter Street Boy
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Avid music listener, book reader, film watcher and politics observer.
Oxford, England Katılım Haziran 2020
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@RodneyMarshall1 A bold decision. First two series are very strong. The third suffers from budget cuts, amongst other things. Watching this as a child in the 70s, the sense of loyalty, doing the decent thing, and the humour were what stood out for me. Hope it works for you.
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@RodneyMarshall1 @ScottMcCreaWest But FRWL remains among the best of the Cold War films.
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@RodneyMarshall1 @ScottMcCreaWest Yes,I've always felt that it runs out of steam a little in the final third.
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From Russia With Love remains the only great James Bond movie. (I love 'em all, or, almost all, but by objective standards, FRWL is a great movie). Excellent as Vladek Sheybal is, I'm sorry that wasn't Peter Lorre...he's one of the few actors mentioned in Fleming's works.
Cinema Tweets@CinemaTweets1
From Russia With Love is some of the best filmmaking to ever come out of the Bond Franchise. Sean Connery is excellent as 007 per usual, but Robert Shaw is an outstanding & worthy adversary. I love how this story embraces the Cold War & espionage because it shows us a more thoughtful, creative side of Bond. This is in the conversation for best Bond film ever made.
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@BelinaLiz @SewellGActor Lovely photo! I grew up watching your dad in so many tv shows, not least UFO, Special Branch, and Tinker Tailor. But I was particularly glad to catch him live in the musical "Billy" at Drury Lane in the mid-70s. He was never less than excellent.
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Happy Father’s Day.
Here with my Father @SewellGActor at the publicity shoot for Special Branch spring 1973.

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@XMartinsMusicX I must admit, I've never rated this album as highly as so many others have done. But... Isn't It a Pity is a wonderful song.
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@ianpayn @thisisnothappen @hughlaurie @jan_murray Hey, let it go, Ian. The response was rather witty and not at all offensive. Just chill, man.
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@thisisnothappen @hughlaurie @jan_murray I don’t think that the OP was causing offence. It was what she thought about a long-defunct TV series. If I said I thought The Untouchables (ask your granny) was unconvincing that wouldn’t be offensive (you might not agree with it, but it’s not offensive).
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Late to the party, but I've started watching Season 1 of House. Same narrative every episode:
Patient has mysterious illness.
Hugh Laurie (House) gets diagnosis wrong.
Patient nearly dies.
Hugh Laurie gets diagnosis wrong again.
Gets threatened with being fired.
Patient nearly dies again.
Hugh Laurie has last minute leftfield idea.
Gets diagnosis right.
Doesn't get fired.
Eight seasons of this?
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@hughlaurie @jan_murray Yeah, it really used to piss me off when Peter Falk (Columbo) used to get the murderer every episode.
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Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
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@MrHarryCole Powerful intervention, he says. What a joke you are, Harry Cole.
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@XMartinsMusicX On the Beach could be the best album Neil Young has done.
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