`` Liar and a Dreamer''

  Yes this is still unsettling after decades. The original murder scene with the body of the victim just going limp and then nothing.  I think John Dall's Brandon bears a  resemblance to Ben Affleck I think  this actually added to the unease I felt.  Rope felt more contemporary than Rear Window The  actor ( Cedric Hardwicke)  who plays the father of the young man who is killed. Also caught my eye - he speaks against Brandon's rant about unworthy life. Stewart as the ex prep  master who joked about killing Hotel clerks and finally realizes the horror of what has happened There is no reward for the murder except a sense of pride. Not sex, or money  I note two bachelors can afford a maid, and also the maid wears her apron tied in a bow. Which would draw attention to her rear- The two bachelors were also expected to neck chickens   We see something of the military man in Stewart- you don't miss from that far.

  https://www.gq.com/story/cheers-oral-history-extended Article from 2012. Shawn Ryan from Angel and the Shield talk about the sitcom 

  October 17, 1948 - May 20, 2025 Father, Economics Student Actor Norm This stings a bit https://www.gq.com/story/cheers-oral-history-extended

The first trophy I have ever seen lifted at Loftus Road Last night I went to a football match at my local stadium. The team I favour is called Queens Park Rangers. They play in blue and white horizontal stripes.  There stadium is Loftus Road stadium in Shepherds Bush . It is actually just behind the BBC studios and offices at Television centre. So even though you may not have heard of the team you perhaps have seen the stadium being used by the BBC to film a drama or such. Or if you know the video to Bittersweet symphony by the verve, it is a little up the road from there  . The football season is drawing to a close.  So the two teams I watched were under 21 teams. They were my team Queens Park Rangers and Brentford FC. Brentford are probably more famous now as they play in the Premier League- The top competition of English football along with Chelsea and Manchester Utd . When I was a lad, the opposite was true QPR were in the top group and Brentford below them . This was...

 

I saw this years ago on ITV on a Saturday... I was surprised to see John Savident in a guest role- and Iain McShane. McShane is a bit working class here As compared to Eddie Fox, and Trevor Howard Oh the German Peace feelers in Switzerland are depicted here- We see France fall, and then those few desperate days The beginning of the Blitz. The incorporation of the Free Poles, and Free Czech. We see Easgle day, Hitler and Goering appear on the screen Again- like in Von Ryan's Express there is a lot of German language here. Dowding is played as I belive he was a somewhat dour professional- worrying about his young men. Matter of factually telling the press that if the Germans are not in London by Sunday than he has won Then there is the wealth destroyed- human and physical. The RAF base which is destroyed. The aircraft- a glasshouse in an suburban garden. The young men who have had less then a days training in a Spitfire And they are young men. There is some for the time-...

QPR finished the 15th in the Championship beating Sunderland in their last game. There will probably be a new manager My Niece has her birthday= My nephew was christened Celtic won the Scotish Treble I have been invited to a wedding in Miami- by my friend Robyn who has had her birthday lately

The Vicar of Christ Robert Prevost- Former Bishop of Chiclayo Peru

Did Dad have the book of this?   I saw the ending of this years ago.. I had tried to watch it and someone else had changed the channel So I knew how the film ends- Indeed I once had an extended dream of Frank Skinner playing Ryan, and suffering the same fate. Spoiler it's a gut punch  I have more and more time for Frank Sinatra as an actor. Desmond Mulhane- is great as the parson  Oh quite a lot of this film is in German or Italian. We are treated to the beauties of the Italian peninsula. The final scenes in the Alps are a verdant wonder- I have since learned it is actually Spain Like with Sink the Bismarck, you get a sense of just how destructive World War Two was- a footbridge blown up over the Alps. A visual display wall which would allow you to follow rail traffic into Milan-destroyed.   It is messy world we enter.... A gestapo officer trying to trade nylons and cigarettes to obtain a watch.  A girl who lost her virginity before she was c...

The past really is a different country - The lead character is introduced and asks that a WRN is not to be addressed by her christian name. Anyway the RN campaign to intercept and sink the Bismark. I have been interested by this story since I saw the Extra History video about it This is very dated no mention of Bletchley Park- Enigma. No mention of the Polish destroyer, or the American Catalina You get a sense of the sheer wealth lost and destroyed in WW2. There are scenes of the battleships Prince of Wales, and King George loading their guns. In Bletchley there is a computer. Its a nice Easter egg for James Bond fans-to realise that's M Its frailer world. The torpedo bombers look so flimsy- The Bridge staffed by men in duffelcoats. The flight crew who must have been near dead of thirst The poor doomed civilian workers on the Hood. Working on Turbines in suits, and triblys Oh and 20000 men in a convey left defenceless to booster the home fleet. A football stadium of pe...