Posts by AdrianTurner

I'm not the greatest John Wayne fan, though coincidentally he is in a few of my favorite movies - The Searchers, Rio Bravo, Hatari, for instance. He did appear in some absolute stinkers but so did virtually every major star of the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Robert Harris Since your tome is currently trading on the open market for $150 - 500, how about a re-issue for the 50th? RAH I wish that were possible. Unfortunately all the publisher's materials and...

I'm a big fan of the 2004 film and seem to recall that it was originally to have been directed by Ron Howard who 'walked' after the studio vetoed the levels of violence he intended to show. In a way, it's similar to the 1984 movie The...

Quote:Originally Posted by Robert Harris No. stick-to-itiveness RAH That's an extra extraordinary word! I'm greatly looking forward to seeing this, needless-to-sayness, your restoritudeness.

"extra extra-ordinary" may or may not have been a line in Lawrence (but I don't think so) but it is a line from Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, spoken I think by the great Clive Revill. apropos the case of the ballerina.

From my souvenir brochure with ticket stub:

I totally agree with that. Lawrence was quite a different movie. Sort of sui generis. To me, Lawrence wasn't an historical epic with a big set-piece action scene, nor was it a war movie like The Guns of Navarone, for example, nor was...

That's great to see . . . I always remember in the TV show Lonesome Dove Robert Duvall rides past this set and doesn't even give it a second glance. Nice touch that, I thought.

In 1997 I was doing some research for a book in Austin, Texas, and then had to drive across to Gila Bend in Arizona for some more research. My drive took me past Bracketville, Texas, where I took this shot of The Alamo. I'm told there...