The Seventieth anniversary of D-Day has just been held on in France in and around the beaches of Normandy attented by the US President, the Queen of England, the French President, Mr Putin and many other Heads of State and other luminories. War is horrendous and humanity has paid the price for it, but few…
At last our films are on New Chilling Tales are online at newchillingtales.com for you to view, for a small fee. We have to charge a little to make more…films that is. This is a slow organic growth..it would be nice to have a sudden huge influx of cash or investment, but so far that…
Just when I thought I had managed to get my sites down to one, I have had to create another one…this one is called: eshortflix.com and it will house my films plus some other good shorts too, I hope. It’s not quite ready to go ‘up’ yet, but soon, soon. You see friends much as…
This lady was definitely one of my kind of people. Katharine Hepburn was talented, forthright, courageous, clevershe outsmarted the big Hollywood studios and she was funny. For anyone seriously considering going into the acting business, you could do worse than read a biography of her life and work. Kate, because that’s what we all called…
We have become the Vampire Generation!!! It seems that if the blood of a young person…….. preferably a very young person, is transfused into the body of an old person, it will rejuvenate that old person and make them younger again. Now where have we heard this? In endless horror and vampire stories, I think. …
Some of the most interesting people you meet in life are often complete strangers. I have just come back to the US from a trip to London and had great conversations with people just sitting having lunch or on a bus. Everyone has a story! It’s easy to strike up a conversation with perfect strangers,…
Off to the Sun Valley Film Festival this week, I am looking forward to it. Our film THE DAMNED THING is an official entry and I hope to see old friend David Seidler (THE KING’S SPEECH) there, not to mention a couple of others. My favourite person this week is ME. I have been…
My news…THE DAMNED THING is an official entry into the Sun Valley Film Festival and my kind of people is the great team who made it! I am delighted to tell you that a New Chilling Tale, THE DAMNED THING is finished and has been accepted into the Sun Vally Film Festival as an Official…
Now this covers two people that I admire. The Queen and my Mother. As you might have guessed this is a fashion drawing of the Queen in her Coronation gown, 1953. My mother was the artist, she drew this sketch before rushing off to Scotland to marry her second husband. In the 1940’s and 1950’s…
Oscar nominations have been announced and include a few of my kind of people, mainly the women for now and mainly the older women.(Like me) I have to say quickly I love men and will talk about the later, but for now I want to focus on the women. Among the 10 nominations, 5 for…
