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Cilla Black No 1 at Christmas?
The Brits are this week re-releasing the hit single of Cilla Black singing “You’re My World” in the fervent hope it will be the Christmas No 1 Song this year which has always a traditional highlight for the music business in the UK. Cilla, a discovery of her fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles, recorded this…
December 14, 2015
Happy Birthday Alain Delon
French movie star ALAIN DELON celebrates his 80th Birthday today. Delon was one of most prominent actors and screen “heart throbs” in the 1960s. He achieved critical acclaim for roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Purple Noon (the original Talented Mr Ripley in 1960), L’Eclisse (1962), The Leopard (1963), Lost Command…
November 8, 2015
Jeffrey Schwarz talks Tab Hunter
Amongst Emmy Award winning director Jeffrey Schwarz’s prolific output are four excellent documentaries on iconic gay figures : first it was activist & cinephile Vito Russo, then celebrated porn actor Jack Wrangler, followed by the definitive profile on John Water’s favorite actress Divine. I get to talk to him now about his latest movie on…
September 17, 2015
Why I Will So Miss Cilla Black
The news of some celebrity’s deaths hit you hard personally, especially when they are somewhat unexpected. Cilla Black’s was one such case. I mean, it’s tough when you lose someone you grew up with like I did with her. Not literally of course as I was brought up in a nice squeamishly clean middle-class Methodist Orphanage in the England’s leafy green…
August 3, 2015