Two of the best movies on tonight.

The Hunt for Red October

and

In the Heat of the Night.

mantra wrote on Apr 15^th, 2014 at 6:45am:


I'm surprised you haven't seen it after all these years. It's one of my all-time favourites. Lots of different elements to it.

I've said it before somewhere here: When Sidney Poitier first became a 'name' in Hollywood the acting community had still not taken to him because he was black. 

There was still a lot of prejudice and race snobbery around. But Poitier later said that the one white household that threw open its doors to him unreservedly was that of Richard Widmark and his wife. They embraced him fully, which helped to ease him into the acting fraternity as a respected peer.   

mantra wrote on Apr 15^th, 2014 at 6:45am:


It was only yesterday that I was talking to my neighbour about this very same thing. I've long since totally given up even trying to understand the words being sung to many of the songs of today.

Even with Jimmy Barnes screaming and shouting into the microphone while his sweat sprays across the first three rows of the audience ~ I don't understand a word he's saying. It's probably just as well I don't.