Buff- Royalty fees in post - again!!

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Have just been informed on good authority that `The Longest Day` is being shown (again) on Channel 4 today. For those amongst our crew who already know please feel free to scroll down for more hopefully interesting tit-bits , The first story (repeat) is for the benifit of our most recent members and with my friends in the Far North has developed into a annual parlour game entitled "Spot the Buff",

You are correct, I made my acting debut in Zanucks film of the above , it was over four years later that I achieved status to have drinky poos with Big John Wayne on Wild Goose 111 in Nassau , speed it up Parky, the punters are becoming restless, okay folks forget the beach landings, just follow the exploits of Lord Lovatt (Pete Crawford being piped ashore with his commandos, a silly French geezer with a fireman` helmet clutching a bottle of wino enters scene left, we file past him, one of our guys Taff Burton gives a Ann Robinson to the camera, Buff is just behind him , in character. All I will reccolect is, we got wet , sick of the whole thing, Kenneth More is /was ace.

On Friday night about 40 of us went to see Ken Hill`s version of Phantom of the Opera. Ken sadly departed in 95 used to be i/c of The Tyne Theatre from 82-87, prior to booking we were unaware that the musical play we were about to see was totally different from Phantom. The local critic wrote a mix of `Carry on Phantom and Scooby Doo`, From the first act when Jammes the ballerina slipped and came out with the expletive "Oh Shit" till much later on where we were encouraged to look behind us in the chandelier sequence and they used the Del Boy gag of the one on the set of dropping , The cast were no second raters either , had tread the boards for a while, the guy who took the part of Ricard the owner was none other than Mark Wynter(58) of Venus in Blue Jeans and others fame. Its different. Saturday was our football club presentation night , probably its the same feeling when you know that you are getting a good post in I wrote my speech on the Thursday and not being bigsy it went down a bomb , the hotel give us a supper (80) of Lamb Rogan and Chicken from the Karzy (free), whos says we are not civilised and mince/tatties are the norm !! Between June and myself we won a bottle of Glen Grant bottle of Glenfiddich and three bottled of wine in the raffle , not a bad nights work. Just building up to next Sunday and a outing to Letham Grange, (The augusta of scotland), anyone played there ?,for anyone over 12 handicap its reckoned to be unforgiving, water/rough. BTW Ken its not football but I cannot be done with this Sunderland Newcastle stuff that`s going on, it always appears obscene in the printed form, I live in a real world, you want in your face hatred , try Celtic/Rangers , few Keyboard causals , Supa Kev and his other two handles does nothing for me, Anyone who has ever travelled or worked on construction , petro-chemical sites will tell you that put a work- force of Geordies and Teesiders together, nae problem , introduce the `tak the bred and butta out of our moofs ` brigade you then have a enclave, that`s experience, when the problem was occurring on Teeside with small children I at times on this board felt disgusted at the sick jokes that were posted. Its this leaning to tar everyone with the same brush that gets me riled , but do not be naive and get conned by keyboard causals who attempt to stir it up on here and then scuttle/slink back to their own board to celebrate their idea of a success with their co-horts, Its a Border Reiver mentality played out with words, boring statistics ,instead of violence.

Elders of the Kirk will meet in the vestry later for all things NNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSTTTTLLLEE

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001

Answers

Buff, were you misinformed?

I can't find it listed. Shame 'cos I'm waiting for it to come back on so I can tape it.

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001


ITV sorry, Grampian, Borders, Scottish, Tyne-Tees, others ?

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001

Thanks for tipping us the wink Buff, handy excuse to get the Missus to indulge me as I sit through yet another war film.

SWMBO, “You’ve seen this before!”

YT, “I know, but one of my cybermates is in it, I’ll turn it off once I’ve seen him…”

Still doesn’t ease my problems tonight, though. With typical sadism the TV schedulers are screening two of my favourites head to head. I really want to tape both of them but since the sodding machine is up the Swanney I’ll have to make do with just watching one of them instead.

BBC2 are screening the classic b&w thriller “Hell Drivers” which ceefax have amusingly billed as a Sean Connery film. I say amusingly since Big Tam makes his debut in the film in a very minor role as one of the drivers. He’s unfeasibly young, fresh-faced and self-conscious (believe it or not) in it. The real star was (if I remember correctly) Stanley Baker with Patrick MacGoohan as the bad guy’s evil henchman. It’s basically a Western set in the English countryside where drivers of ballast lorries are being forced to break the speed limits and falsify driver-logs in order to meet quotas (no special effects in those days, they just decrease the frame rate with comic effect!). It’s a departure from cattle drives and railroads but the story is the same. Patrick MacGoohan is the boss’s Number 1, “Red”, who has even been given a gold, engraved cigarette lighter to show who’s the blue eyed boy. He obviously keeps the rest on their toes and roughs them up in the bunk-house if need be. Equally inevitably the boss has a stunning daughter who has somehow failed to notice that her Dad is a crook. Red considers her to be “his girl” but will the new guy toe the line…. It’s just as predictable as it sounds, but that’s half the pleasure of Westerns, isn’t it? Actually pretty gritty stuff and highly recommended.

Channel 4 are showing “Something Wild”. Just brilliant as far as script and plot are concerned. Jeff Daniels hooks up with Melanie Griffiths in a stunning road-trip complete with Griffiths’ psychotic ex-boyfriend played by a frighteningly convincing Ray Liotta (he got the lead in Scorcese’s “Goodfellas” on the strength of it). I won’t give anything away, but this film has some terrific twists in it and a pretty smart soundtrack which has a whole selection of people doing covers of The Troggs’ classic “Wild Thing”….ocarinas out, gentlemen.

Ho hum. Midnight and quarter past for start times….guess it’ll be bleary eyed at work tomorrow whatever.

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001


Something wild is simply perfect

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001

"Hell Drivers". Wow - this one always brings back a fond memory.

Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, when real men hewed coal far beneath the ground instead of doing poncy things like sitting in front of computers all day, and Seghill had it's own cinema(!), a monoplex, me mam would walk us doon the Pit Lonnen to "the pickchas". Many is the classic I can't remember seeing - "Old Mother Reilly", an early Elvis movie ("Who is Elvis Presley?" said the young Jonno), "Old Yeller" with Gregory Peck (after which in an excited state back home I leapt up to recall a piece in the movie to me mam and knocked the kettle out of her hand which she had just lifted off the fire - serious chest scalds ensued and I hung between life and death for a week - some kids will do anything to avoid school).

Anyway, Eve, a next door neighbour (in Northcott Gardens) worked as an usherette at the aforementioned pickchas. (She also sold the Sunday newspapers from her home - remarkably, no shops were open at all - not even the newsagent on the Sabbath). So me mam wants to take us to see a pickcha and sends me next door to ask Eve what's on tonight. Eve looks at her program and is about to read out the title of the movie when she stops, stutters and then hands me the program saying "Show this to your mam". Me mam was puzzled that the prgram had been sent round until she read the title of tonight's pickcha "Hell Drivers". Eve had evidently not wanted to say the word "Hell" to me, much less have me repeat it in front of me mam!

Wonderful days of innocence. You have to remember that this was at a time when the death penalty was still in force for using the word "bliddy", so Eve's quick thinking avoided a serious incident.

:-)

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001


"The Seghill Monoplex" - priceless Jonno!
Those days of innocence.

-- Anonymous, June 03, 2001

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