The other evening watched a rather disappointing film A BIGGER SPLASH, with the attractive actor Matthias Schoenaerts, elegant Tilda Swinton and a surprisingly overbearing Ralph Fiennes, who though really irritating to begin with, turned into the most interesting character. It was like a beautiful model shoot in a lovely location, many changes of dress by…
Haven’t had much time to visit the theatre while in London this time. But I did get to see wonderful Simon Russell Beale ( one of my favourite English actors) in the excellent play MR FOOTES OTHER LEG about Georgian London Show Biz and how Samuel Foote gained the Theatre Royal Haymarket, its Royal Charter, losing…
I love Paris, the City of Light, it is beautiful and I have treasured memories of numerous visits there. It is unbearably sad that such a joyful place, should suffer the terrible tragedy of two days ago. I am deeply sorry and I feel sure we are all thinking of the French people, our friends…
Hello friends, back here in London and having a good time. I am seriously indulging myself looking back, seeing old friends and remembering past escapades. Yesterday I went to a screening of THE DANISH GIRL, interesting film, but it did not really get to me.. I loved SUFFRAGETTE, seen the other evening. It really knocked the…
A couple of years ago two lovely ladies came and interviewed me in London. Jackie and Nicky Smith were starting a film festival in Wolverhampton. Zzub Film Festival is a fun, daring saucy event dedicated to pulp, trash, sci- fi, horror and all that sort of stuff. This year it will be entirely online. They…
So Halloween is here. A big night for Kids and Adults…everyone gets dressed up and play it seems, though I think it’s only the kids that ask for candy on the walk about around the neighbourhood. Hmmm…maybe not. We didn’t have Halloween in England, when I was growing up…couldn’t afford it and for a while…
I am currently watching reruns of the old comedy show HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER. Don’t know quite why I like it so much, but the characters are unfailingly sweet, without being saccharine and they make me laugh. I just watched one of the actors Jason Segel in an outstanding film THE END OF THE…
Had a great day, a week ago shooting a new short film COUGAR, which I wrote and put together. The actual shoot went incredibly well, considering that it was more complicated than desirable, for a one day scheduled shoot with quite a few extras, a large restaurant location and a few location changes, but…
Hello everyone….I am just getting ready to shoot another short film on Monday. This one is contemporary, written by yours truly and a fun story… I hope. It is called COUGAR, which will give you some idea of what it is about. It is “mit out sound’ as Otto Preminger used to say: ie: silent,…
Well it seems you were not too interested in my adventures in the life of Commerce in the UK and running the Family Business, so I will revert to more familiar territory and write more about good old Show Biz. When you’re on set and doing the job…ie: acting, you generally have to stay mentally…
