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Sunday, November 19, 2006
PreBook Santa - Apparently you can. And here's the sign to prove it:
As seen in Lakeside Shopping Centre, Essex this weekend. So, if you want to get Santa early this year - before the last time Christmas rush - I suggest you get dialling that number! :)
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
A Letter From SantaYup - it's true, you can get A Custom Letter From Santa
And you can also get a Wow! A Phone Call Fom Santa
So, if you want of of these:
Then get clicking and get those forms filled in now!
Ho Ho Ho - Merry Christmas!
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Pete - Big Brother Winner 2006Pete Bennett the Big Brother 2006 winner was at Lakeside Shopping Centre signing his new book - "Pete - My Story". And so were we:
And what a very nice guy he his! Naturally, we had to queue for an hour or so - with lots of screaming girlies as well! ;o)
I better read the book now! :O)
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Friday, November 10, 2006
Jack Palance DiesJack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in "Shane,""Sudden Fear" and other films who turned successfully to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in "City Slickers," died Friday.
Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 85, according to Associated Press records, but his family gave his age as 87.
When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess.
"That's nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not."
That year's Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance's accomplishments throughout the show.
It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor's 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles.
"Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too.
"Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said.
Movie audiences, though, were electrified by the actor's chiseled face, hulking presence and the calm, low voice that made his screen presence all the more intimidating.
His film debut came in 1950, playing a murderer named Blackie in "Panic in the Streets."
After a war picture, "Halls of Montezuma," he portrayed the ardent lover who stalks the terrified Joan Crawford in 1952's "Sudden Fear." The role earned him his first Academy Award nomination for supporting actor.
The following year brought his second nomination when he portrayed Jack Wilson, the swaggering gunslinger who bullies peace-loving Alan Ladd into a barroom duel in the Western classic "Shane."
That role cemented Palance's reputation as Hollywood's favorite menace, and he went on to appear in such films as "Arrowhead" (as a renegade Apache), "Man in the Attic" (as Jack the Ripper), "Sign of the Pagan" (as Attila the Hun) and "The Silver Chalice" (as a fictional challenger to Jesus).
Other prominent films included "Kiss of Fire,""The Big Knife,""I Died a Thousand Deaths,""Attack!""The Lonely Man" and "House of Numbers."
Forty-one years after his auspicious film debut, Palance played against type to a degree. His "City Slickers" character Curly was still a menacing figure to dude ranch visitors Crystal, Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby, but with a comic twist and Palance delivered his one-liners with surgeon-like precision.
Through most of his career, Palance maintained his distance from the Hollywood scene. In the late 1960s he bought a sprawling cattle and horse ranch north of Los Angeles. He also owned a bean farm near his home town of Lattimer, Pa.
Although most of his film portrayals were as primitives, Palance was well-spoken and college-educated. His favorite pastimes away from the movie world were painting and writing poetry and fiction.
A strapping 6-feet-4 and 210 pounds, Palance excelled at sports and won a football scholarship to the University of North Carolina. He left after two years, disgusted by commercialization of the sport.
He decided to use his size and strength as a prizefighter, but after two hapless years that resulted in little more than a broken nose that would serve him well as a screen villain, he joined the Army Air Corps in 1942.
A year later he was discharged after his B-24 lost power on takeoff and he was knocked unconscious.
The G.I. Bill of Rights provided Palance's tuition at Stanford University, where he studied journalism. But the drama club lured him, and he appeared in 10 comedies. Just before graduation he left school to try acting professionally in New York.
"I had always wanted to express myself through words," he said in a 1957 interview. "But I always thought I was too big to be an actor. I could see myself knocking over tables. I thought acting was for little ... guys."
He made his Broadway debut in a comedy, "The Big Two," in which he had but one line, spoken in Russian, a language his parents spoke at home.
The play lasted only a few weeks, and he supported himself as a short-order cook, waiter, lifeguard and hot dog seller between other small roles in the theater.
His career breakthrough came when he was chosen as Anthony Quinn's understudy in the road company of "A Streetcar Named Desire," then replaced Marlon Brando in the Stanley Kowalski role on Broadway. The show's director, Elia Kazan, chose him in 1950 to play a murderer in "Panic in the Streets," which starred Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas.
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I really liked Jack Palance. What a great actor. One of the best movies I ever saw was called Attack - with Jack Palance as a soldier in WWII Belgium. A great piece of acting.
Sorry to see him go......
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Thursday, November 02, 2006
Me and ElvisSo there I was minding my own business in Liverpool Steet Station, London yesterday, when - WHOOSH!! - in dropped ELVIS...
I have to say he was looking rather fit and well. In fact for a bloke who's been dead since 1977 he was probably in a better condition than I was! :O)
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