I am always drawn to incongruity, even if that incongruity is a construct in my own mind.
Bloopers and outtakes seem like they only started in the 1980s. At least, that’s when they started to show them to us. So seeing these bloopers from classic Warner’s film is somewhat surreal. Watching Edward G Robinson flub a line is … remarkable.
Likewise Bette Davis.
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For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…
Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…
