We continue to ‘Monkey’ around with another collection of songs. “Monkey Man” is a song by the Rolling Stones, featured as the eighth track on their 1969 album ‘Let it Bleed’. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote “Monkey Man” as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of […]
Animal Songs – Deer 2
A second visit to the world of the ‘Deer’ A collective noun for Deer is a ‘Bevy’ and so we bring you a Bevy of songs that celebrate this animal. “Deer” is the thirteenth single by the Bay Area collective Peach Tree Rascals released in June 2020 by Homemade Projects and 10K Projects. The song […]
Animal Songs – Elephant 2
Back to the world of the Pachyderm for another great collection of songs. This time our focus is on those who are children at heart. Nellie the Elephant” is a children’s song written in 1956 by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart about a fictional anthropomorphic elephant of that name. The original version, released in October […]
John C Worsley – Star Trek Christmas
Continuing on from Yesterday’s post about the latest offering from Captain James T. Kirk, I am delighted to bring you a number of cleverly constructed/edited videos featuring the stars from several of the Star Trek series apparently singing some Christmas songs. Al of these videos are the work of a gentlement by the name of […]
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Theatre of Blood is a 1973 British horror comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox, and starring Vincent Price as vengeful actor Edward Lionheart and Diana Rigg as his daughter Edwina. After being humiliated by members of the Theatre Critics Guild at an awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is seen committing suicide by […]
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‘All Is True‘ is a 2018 British fictional historical film directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Ben Elton. It stars Branagh as playwright William Shakespeare. The film takes its title from an alternative name for Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII. After the Globe Theatre burns down in 1613 during a performance of Shakespeare’s play Henry […]
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“The Shakespeare Code” is the second episode of the third series of the revived British television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC Oneon 7 April 2007. According to the BARB figures this episode was seen by 7.23 million viewers and was the fifth most popular broadcast on British television in that week. Originally titled […]
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existential, tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1966. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and the main setting is Denmark. The action of Stoppard’s play takes place mainly “in the […]
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In the Bleak Midwinter is a 1995 British romantic comedy film written and directed by Kenneth Branagh. Many of the roles in the film were written for specific actors. This was the first film directed by Branagh in which he did not appear. Joe Harper, a depressed and down-on-his-luck actor, asks his agent Margaretta D’Arcy […]
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The Lion King is a 1994 American musical animated film produced and released by Walt Disney. it is inspired by Hamlet with elements from the Biblical stories of Joseph and Moses and Disney’s 1942 film Bambi. The film was directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Don […]