Archive for October, 2010
Happy Halloween – British style! from Tellyspotting
In late September of 1975, English writer/actor, Richard O’Brien, gave the world the greatest cult film of all time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Starring fellow Brit, Tim Curry, along with the great Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon and Dallas-born, Meat Loaf, I remember seeing this while working at a rock radio station in Austin [...]
Mr. Bean Halloween Horror
With Halloween fast approaching, there are many different kinds of scary when it comes to movies. From Jaws-scary to Psycho-scary to Texas Chainsaw Massacre-scary, tastes vary and levels of fright vary. As you begin to make your Halloween horror movie selections for this weekend, you might want to think about staying home to watch the likes of The [...]
Timing is everything for Robert Llewellyn
No matter what walk of life you find yourself in, everyone has heard the old adage of “…it’s not what you know, but who you know”. Whether you heard it during your Benjamin Braddock (The Graduate) years trying to find a job right out of college or later in life during that life-changing career move [...]
Fall reading by some British comedy favorites
A few additions to your Fall reading list have just hit the shelves the last couple of weeks from two long-time favorite British comedy stars.
Dawn French
Following the release of her memorable autobiography titled Dear Fatty, Dawn French talked of a very difficult, painful life that led her to a life of comedy. Now, following her [...]
Baseball / Cricket as explained to a foreign visitor
The Day the Earth Stood Still – almost
Definitely not the magnitude of the World Cup where time seems to stop for matches at all hours of the day and night depending on where and/or who you might be watching, but, it somehow seems appropriate to turn our attention (along with much of North America) on the [...]
