Richard Osman There’s a new pinnacle in the career of television presenter, producer, and novelist  Richard Osman this week, with the premiere of an all star film based on his first book in the series “The Thursday Murder Club”.  With the book series numbering four, soon to be five, this could be the beginning of […]

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Terence Stamp (1938 – 2025) “Master of the brooding silence” ~ The Guardian Heart throb actor Terence Stamp die this week, aged 87.  He was part of a trend towards cockney actors in the 1960s, and was seen in the Swinging Sixties fashionably coupled to actress Julie Christie, and then to model Jean Shrimpton – […]

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Jean Marsh (1934 – 2025) Actress and writer Jean Marsh passed away last Sunday at the age of 90.  She was in a way a pioneer of the dramatic genre concerning those upstairs and those downstairs, the haves and the have nots.  And the works she created with her co-writer Eileen Atkins had mileage, they […]

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Richard Chamberlain (1934 – 2025) “His mini-series were luxury liners and time machines, whisking audiences to other lands and ages in a way that workaday series couldn’t.” ~ James Poniewozik, The New York Times It was announced last week that actor Richard Chamberlain, romantic lead par excellence, who embodied that role in a bygone age, […]

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“A Complete Unknown” Biographical Film of Bob Dylan “And how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind” […]

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Norman Jewison (1926- 2024) “I want people to recognise themselves in the movies I make. I don’t enjoy no-brainer action movies.” ~ Norman Jewison Film Director Norman Jewison made some wonderful films.  He passed over a week ago, at the time of the Sun/Pluto conjunction, and just before Pluto entered Aquarius, marking the end of […]

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“Napoleon” – the film by Ridley Scott also featuring my own Napoleonic journey Last night, we went to see the new film by Ridley Scott.  The subject, Napoleon, has strangely erupted in my life from time to time, as you will see.  I needed to revisit my connection with this historical era, and was glad […]

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Oppenheimer “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one”. ~ Bhagavad Gita (XI,12), quoted by Robert Oppenheimer The film “Oppenheimer” premiered on Friday (21st July), is being bizarrely pitted against the film “Barbie”, reflective of the aspect which […]

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Chaim Topol (1935 – 2023) “If I were a rich man, yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum/All day long I’d biddy biddy bum/If I were a wealthy man…” ~ Tevya, Fiddler on the Roof Chaim Topol (whose name means Tree of Life in Hebrew), passed away this week at the age of 87.  […]

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Will Smith and Chris Rock The course of Will Smith’s life was altered at the 94th Academy Awards, an occasion which represented both the zenith and the nadir of his life and achievements, the consequences of which are yet to unravel.  For Chris Rock, the host whom he slapped in response to a joke about […]

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