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The Girls on Chalk Hill (Detective Lexi Bennett #1) [Audiobook]
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They lie on the hillside, wearing matching white dresses, tiaras in their blonde hair. Each of them...
The Italian Job (1969)
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A British crook (Michael Caine) robs gold ingots in Italy by having a computer expert (Benny Hill)...
Awix (3310 KP) created a video about Stars in Their Eyes in TV
May 31, 2020 (Updated Jun 1, 2020)
Awix (3310 KP) rated Stars in Their Eyes in TV
May 31, 2020 (Updated May 31, 2020)
Panto karaoke gameshow. Contestants are made up to resemble their favourite singers, whom they then impersonate. I always found that most of the entertainment value came from some of the so-called look-a-likes actually looking-nothing-a-like whoever they were supposed to be. Moments branded into my brain include an Xmas special featuring a group performance by 'George Formby', 'Benny Hill', and 'Rolf Harris', and an early show where someone performed as Janet Jackson in blackface. The horror, the horror.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
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While truant from school, young siblings Jeremy and Jemima meet the beautiful Truly Scrumptious...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Sleeper (1973) in Movies
Mar 11, 2018 (Updated Mar 11, 2018)
One of the best of Woody Allen's early pure comedies. Allen (basically playing the same character as always) wakes up in 2173 and is recruited by rebels seeking to bring down an oppressive totalitarian regime.
Simply a very funny film; a much more visual comedy than you would expect from Allen - I have seen suggestions that the whole thing is intended as a homage to Benny Hill - but there are the usual one-liners (also a few slightly dodgy stereotype-based jokes). Very much a spoof of late 60s/early 70s SF movies like THX-1138 and 2001; the SF content is surprisingly solid courtesy of uncredited script consultancy from Isaac Asimov (this may well be the first SF movie to deal with the concept of cloning). Worth watching just for the sequence with the banana and the chicken.
Simply a very funny film; a much more visual comedy than you would expect from Allen - I have seen suggestions that the whole thing is intended as a homage to Benny Hill - but there are the usual one-liners (also a few slightly dodgy stereotype-based jokes). Very much a spoof of late 60s/early 70s SF movies like THX-1138 and 2001; the SF content is surprisingly solid courtesy of uncredited script consultancy from Isaac Asimov (this may well be the first SF movie to deal with the concept of cloning). Worth watching just for the sequence with the banana and the chicken.
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In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been...