And I think the BBC are going to run a short series of his best films.... Which to choose! My top five are Boston Strangler Lepke The Great Race Some Like it Hot The Defiant Ones
I think another of the main problems with the video (sorry to haul youback to topic with all your infighting) is that it is so terribly middleclass and black-white in its argument. Even the Gillian Anderson speech at the end is not very detailed. The poor can't afford to make changes, or downsize from what little they have in the first place.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I am a massive Tony Curtis fan and started the thread about him earlier this year. I have just come home and even before turniong the telly on am reading the news I have been dreading ON ThIS FORUM. I am devastated. He was fabulous. I am going to spend the weekend watching my Persuaders DVD of ALL the shows back to back. They're showing Monte Carlo or Bust next week on telly. OH I am so sad. ANd YES jsut to get OFF thread for a moment I get sad when people die in wars. But give us a break will you!
Would not that have made you feel more uncomfortable? As if - if you can not afford to donate then you may feel guilty for accepting the appt. Nahhhh - this lot have made up their minds, jollybaby!
I love him. He is important to the continuation of the freedom of speech. He just cracks me up and having met him briefly I was to discover just what a gentleman he could be.
More people are going back to Ell Pees, too. And film photography. Mr PR who occasionally runs 'black and white film development and printing in the darkroom' courses at The Camera Club in Kennington, says more and more people are wanting to learn this skill. And I'll never stop loving real books!
Let's look at the pope's visit as an opportunity to... (and it would be remiss of me to mention this) think about what the British Humanist Association - on behalf of conscientious atheists everywhere - are saying and doing.
I think ignoring him would be the worst thing we can do. Just as we should not ignore any group / cult / religion / whose remit is to order other people around and make them do things that are dangerous / immoral / illegal / unfair / discriminatory / etc etc. I think it is a scandal that it is a state visit, ie. your taxes are paying for his visit. (I earned so little last year I don't get to pay taxes this year, so its your taxes!)
"the kind of people it attracts" You Effing SNOB! Are you related to louisa?! Wetherspoon pubs are in all sorts of areas in the country; even in London. They are a microcosm of society - lawyers go to the Penderells Oak in Holborn (ok point made) and city workers are often to be seen at the Tower Bridge one and the Goodmans Field one. I wonder what sort of pub attracs YOUR sort of people. Please tell me, I'll stay away. I think you passed by the one at Peckham and stupidly decided all the people you saw in the doorway (some working class people? Or what SORT did you mean?) represent all the people who go to any sort of Wetherspoon pub? Fool. As for the really ignorant comment that you think it's only 50%, well you are living a nice comfortable sheltered life and you don't get out much, do you.