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Fascinating documentary about Anita Pallenberg on Sky Arts last night. After she died her son with Keith Richard’s found an autobiography that she’d written and the film is based around it. I’ve long been fascinated by that era of the Stones, albeit not being a great fan of their music. It started with me reading Keith Richard’s excellent autobiography many years ago.My knowledge of her started and ended with that book and it’s good to know that she got herself clean and reinvented herself, gained an degree and ending up with having a good relationship with her rather neglected children. Reminds me of the sort of strong woman that we often see in the background of big stars careers ( eg Angle Bowie). Unfortunately it doesn’t look as if it’s going to be repeated in the near future but worth looking out for when it is.
 
On the subject of the Rolling Stones I’ve just listened to a brilliant Rest is History two part podcast about them; both incredibly funny and informative. They filmed Beggars Banquet just down the road from where I live. I stopped listening to The Rest is History after discovering the BBC’s History Extra but when TRIH does a good one it’s really good and quite often about a subject matter that I didn’t think would be interesting eg 60’s fashion. They delve very much into the social significance of events. Also said that Bill Wymans autobiography is very good. I might give that a go, too.
 
Watching The Day of the Jackal for the umpteenth time - the Zinneman version. Brilliant stuff and very true to the novel.

Read the biography of the special effects guy - John Richardson - a few years back. Apparently he travelled round Europe while filming with the (working) gun in his luggage!
 
simmo said:
Watching The Day of the Jackal for the umpteenth time - the Zinneman version. Brilliant stuff and very true to the novel.

Read the biography of the special effects guy - John Richardson - a few years back. Apparently he travelled round Europe while filming with the (working) gun in his luggage!
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I read the novel then I saw the film. Loved them both, especially in the film where he bought the watermelon. It was just as I'd pictured it.
 
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1886 was my favourite of the trilogy.
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I’m just about to watch the last episode. I didn’t really think much if it at first; compared it too much to American Primeval which I loved. But it’s grown on me. I wish now that I’d watched it before 1923, which I might now have to rewatch.Not sure how I feel about watching a series that basically tells you what’s going to happen at the end at the very beginning. It certainly is very beautifully filmed and epic. Could really do with not watching something that is making me feel incredibly sad at the moment, though ( although I do usually like watching things that make me wallow in misery). Oh and, having just listened to a History Extra podcast about Calamity Jane I think I’ll watch my box set of Deadwood which I started watching years ago whilst waiting for a new series of Game of Thrones but didn’t really get into. Methinks my current need to escape reality has gone from children’s fantasy literature to the Wild West.
 
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Just realised that most people watching 1883 would have watched Yellowstone so would have known what was going to happen to the main characters anyway.
 
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Alan Whicker explores Middleham in 1968. I was surprised to find this film yesterday as I would usually associate him with Pacific islands, the Mediterranean and California.
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Thanks! One of my favourite places in the world. Used to stay in a B&B overlooking the castle and loved waking up to the sound of the horses hooves on the cobblestones on their way to the gallops.
 
I met Ozzy about 42 years ago when I was 16. I was staying (I think my first holiday abroad without my family) in the South of France in a hotel in Juan Les Pins. I'd gone with a friend and we'd met up with some local French teenagers. I wasn't well for a couple of days so he went across the road to the pub (yes weird even though it was France) and came back saying there was this crazy cool British guy who he thought may be a singer. Anyway when I felt a bit better, I joined him and we met Ozzy who was hanging out there for a few days. He was lovely but mad as a hatter and probably pretty out of it by what he was on at the time. I had no idea who he was so it's pretty surreal looking back at the time as we all sat in the pub, chatting with him while he sang a bit, rambled a bit and drank quite a lot.
 
The Narrow Road to the Deep North. BBC. A series about Japanese prisoners of war. I’m Game of Thrones hardened and was fine with American Primeval. But this is the most brutal, graphic thing I’ve ever seen and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. As usual it was very dark and everyone mumbles so I struggled with working out what was going on ( for some reason couldn’t get subtitles to work for some episodes). People that have read it say it’s adapted from a very good book and I think it’s probably been adapted quite well. Unfortunately I will have to rewatch some of it when I can access subtitles as I need to work out who the characters are ( they are all so emaciated; the actors must have lost so much weight to be in it).
 


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