| Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine that burns heavy oil. In 1913 he disappeared on a channel crossing......... his body has never been found. Gilbert, the other half of Gilbert and Sullivan, was a brusque and irritable man. He loved sitting in his garden overlooking a lake. On 29 May 1911, Gilbert .... age 75.....was giving a swimming lesson to two local girls, Winifred Emery and 17-year-old Ruby Preece in the lake of his home, Grim's Dyke, when Ruby lost her footing and called for help. Gilbert dived in to save her, but suffered a heart attack in the middle of the lake and died. In 1828 the artist John Constable's wife... Maria .... died , leaving him to bring up their 7 children. John met Maria when he was 24 and she was 12. A visit to Chateau Chaumont revealed pentograms, skulls, animal parts... the remains of animal sacrifice.... Queen Catherine de Medici made no attempt to hide her occult practices. There is an aura of evil around this Italian woman who became a French Queen, her mother died giving birth to her and her father died 2 weeks later. She is also blamed for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacres in which 1000s of French Protestants were treacherously murdered. Sue Upton was really Benny Hill's favourite angel, he socialized with her more than any of the other dancers. HRH goes for tall, blonde men.... Prince Phillip fit the bill in her teenage years and in later life she was quite taken with the Tory polititian .... Micheal Hesseltine.... who was just her type. It was the spring of 1964 when Radio Caroline first hit the airwaves.... 1964 proved to be a fabulous summer in the UK. Filming ... The Yellow Rolls Royce... Moira Lister was shocked at Rex Harrisons abrupt and rude manner. She was even more shocked when he sat down with the film script and crossed out a dozen of her lines. To her surprise Terry Rattigan the screenwriter , did n't bat an eyelid and agreed to Rex's ammendment of the script. Rex was a big international star and Terry was n't going to run the risk of upsetting him. Alan Lerner persuaded Rex to do the movie... Dr Dolittle. Lerner and Andre Previn were working on the score of the movie musical. Fox were eager to develope big screen musicals at the time and , despite past problems with Rex, they were persuaded that he was the ideal man for the part. After 15 frustrating months, Lerner and Previn withdrew from the project. Leslie Bricuse was brought in to replace them. Leslie describes the next 9 months as sheer misery dealing with Rex Harrison. In June 1966 filming started at Castle Combe... a Wiltshire Olde Worlde village. TV ariels were removed from the cottages to give period authenticity. Soon there was a peasants revolt as the villagers got sick of the film crew and Fox's takeover of their quaint village. As if in divine retribution Fox spent $28 million on Dr Dolittle and got a meagre $6million back at the box office. Tim Rice still has the first 15 years of the Eagle Comics....in pristine condition lovingly kept from his boyhood. " The Eagle was a massive influence on me ...." said Tim " the creation of a genius.. the Rev Marcus Morris. " I still derive enormous pleasure from rereading the adventures of Dan Dare, PC49 and Harris Tweed. " " I also loved the " Girl from St Clares " stories by Enid Blyton, I could nt get enough ! " In later life Tim often met up with the American lyricist... Alan J Lerner... towards the end of his life. Alan was then married to Liz Robertson and based in England. Marian Ryan became very popular at Londons "Talk of the Town " club. She also made a movie ........... " Its all Happening " ........ with Tommy Steele....Shane Fenton.... and Russ Conway. The "Ad Lib " was a top club in the swinging 60s ( off Leicester Square ) Pop stars, top photographers, Mary Quant and her top models, would all end their evenings at the club. Roman Polanski was always on his best behaviour when Jill St John came over to London Jill later married Jack Jones, then remarried Robert Wagner. Polanski wrote.... "Dance of the Vampires".... and wanted Jill to star in it..... but in the end Sharon Tate got the part. Frank Sinatra often came to "Tramps " when he was over in London... often accompanied by Marian Ryan and her husband. Frank became a big buddy of Roger Moore. Chrissie Lloyd's marriage broke up and she began an affair with Adam Faith. Jack Nicolson used to hang around the London Clubs but was hardly noticed. However that all changed when he played the Devil in "Witches of Eastwick"... then overnight he became a much sought after sex symbol. The Mme Claude Girls from Paris were so very high class, you could take them anywhere. However one Mme Claude girl went to Saudi Arabia to earn some really big bucks. It was a big mistake as she was arrested, tried and stoned to death. The Beatles pop single... "I Want to Hold Your Hand"... sold 10 million around the world. Sept 1964 The Sun newspaper was launched. Alan Lake was 10 years younger than Di Dors.... he beat her up in drunken rages and even fired a pistol at her on one occasion, but he was so drunk he missed and the bullet hit the sofa cushion. John Trevor.... an actor of the old school, adapted Shakespeare so it could be played by just 7 actors and thus the team could travel easily to remote locations around the world. He founded ..." The Young Elizabethan Players..." in 1958. Jan Leeming once toured the Australian outback with the company .... in her younger years. The Windmill show started at 9 am and continued till midnight.... the girls were famous for the naked tableau....they were nude... but not permitted to move on stage. The comics ... including ......Tony Hancock, Dick Emery , Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers were only there to entertain the audience while stage hands changed the set behind the curtain. Dick Emery later became famous in the UK via television shows, his life settled into a pattern Sea-side shows in the summer.... Pantos in the winter and TV shows in between. |
__._,_.___
MARKETPLACE
.
__,_._,___
No comments:
Post a Comment