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…
Always one of my favorite actors, not everyone’s, but as he reminded us himself, he’s an actor, not an Icon of good behaviour. I went to see Russell Crow in NOAH. I really liked the film and him in it. And I feel people should see this film, it is a modern story for our…
Oscar will be awaiting your pleasure tomorrow night friends and frankly every film and every person involved in all the films should win this year…the standard is very high at least in the main categories. I have said this before but I will say it one more time, I was very disappointed that WADJDA…the Saudi…
