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Usenet Posted 17 years ago
Screenwriting
That'll Be The Stardust
I've been under the weather today so I'm vegging in front of TV. Couple of interesting movies, "That'll Be The Day" and its sequel, "Stardust" (not the recent Stardust). I haven't seen either for ages.
British, about pop music in the late 50s and 60s. Lots of interesting acing cameos by people like Ringo Starr (not playing a drummer) and Keith Moon, who is playing a drummer, plus a bunch of Brit faces and names who wouldn't probably mean anything to you.
Stars David Essex, who is perfect as a Paul McCartney/Marc Bolan type and Adam Faith, who was a pop singer, but a much better actor - and eventually a financial expert, who wrote a business column - and then went broke...
Worth looking out for. Written by Ray Connolly and the second one was directed by Michael Apted.
"Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee."
- P.J. Proby
British, about pop music in the late 50s and 60s. Lots of interesting acing cameos by people like Ringo Starr (not playing a drummer) and Keith Moon, who is playing a drummer, plus a bunch of Brit faces and names who wouldn't probably mean anything to you.
Stars David Essex, who is perfect as a Paul McCartney/Marc Bolan type and Adam Faith, who was a pop singer, but a much better actor - and eventually a financial expert, who wrote a business column - and then went broke...
Worth looking out for. Written by Ray Connolly and the second one was directed by Michael Apted.
"Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee."
- P.J. Proby
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It's a long time since I last saw Stardust, but as it happens I rewatched That'll Be The Day only last week, enjoying it enormously: an uncompromising look at an England now almost completely vanished, beautifully shot and acted. The director was Claude Whatham who had a huge and varied career in TV drama but ventured only rarely onto the big screen. Bert
- It's a long time since I last saw Stardust, but as it happens I rewatched That'll Be The Day only last week, enjoying it enormously: an uncompromising look at an England now almost completely vanished, beautifully shot and acted.
- The director was Claude Whatham who had a huge and varied career in TV drama but ventured only rarely onto the big screen.
- Bert
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It's a long time since I last saw Stardust, but as it happens I rewatched That'll Be The Day only last week, enjoying it enormously: an uncompromising look at an England now almost completely vanished, beautifully shot and acted. The director was Claude Whatham who had a huge and varied career in TV drama but ventured only rarely onto the big screen.
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[nq:1]It's a long time since I last saw Stardust, but as it happens I rewatched That'll Be The Day only ... Whatham who had a huge and varied career in TV drama but ventured only rarely onto the big screen. Bert[/nq]
I loved seeing all those characters - Billy Fury doing a pretty raw rock and roll was a particular treat, and I thought Ringo Starr was perfect. Makes you wish he'd done a bit mor
I loved seeing all those characters - Billy Fury doing a pretty raw rock and roll was a particular treat, and I thought Ringo Starr was perfect. Makes you wish he'd done a bit mor
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One additional pleasure in That'll Be The Day is the presence in the cast of Daphne Oxenford. She was a versatile and excellent actress, but was best known to at least two generations of children as the infinitely reassuring voice of the storyteller on a seminal radio programme of the fifties and sixties, Listen With Mother. "Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin..."
Ringo Starr was app
Ringo Starr was app
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[nq:1]Received opinion at the time of its release was that Stardust wasn't as good as its predecessor, but I remember liking it. I'll try to catch it again.[/nq]
Apparently they're both available on a single DVD, or packaged together...
"Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee."
- P.J. Proby
Apparently they're both available on a single DVD, or packaged together...
"Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee."
- P.J. Proby
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