Orson Welles...A 20th Century Icon

Television chat shows these days are not what they used to be. They seem to be bereft of

intellectual characters or even political heavyweights. Oh sure those people still exist out

there but program planners would prefer to feed us with Pop Stars, Athletes and especially

Movie stars that are never short of a comical smutty behind the scene story that always

gets a good laugh.

Perhaps if the intelligentsia were invited on to these shows, programmers might worry

that the shows were being used as a political platform and say things that shouldn't be

said now that we live in different times.

So I couldn't resist re-posting up this youtube video of the great Orson Welles who dropped

in on The Dick Cavett Show back in 1970. And in the interview he recalls how unimpressed

he was at a gathering upon first meeting Hitler.

He also mentions two comical meetings with Britain's War time leader Sir Winston Churchill.

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Just a Touch of Heavy Metal

   

I suppose that I do have an eclectic taste in music. For me, one genre simply isn't enough.

Yet oddly enough I never found the American Rock bands of the 1980's very appealing.

Bands like Bon Jovi, Van Halen or Guns and Roses. My allegiance was to the true masters

of Rock like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Hawkwind.

And so emerging a bit later was a British band called Judas Priest who didn't taste their first

real success until 1982 with their best selling album 'Screaming for Vengeance.' 

The album also brought about their top selling hit 'You've Got Another Thing Coming' as

featured in the video above.

Lead frontman Rob Halford actually left the band in 1992 but rejoined 11 years later in 2003

which many said was inevitable. After all Judas Priest without Halford was like Queen

without Freddie Mercury or Deep Purple without Ian Gillan.

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Below is Hawkwind with 'Master of The Universe' taken from their album Space Ritual.

It's one of my favourite all time headbanging classics.

Prepare to blast off. It's a real gem.

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Mikey

This past week we had some sensational almost early Summer weather here in North

London. So I headed over to Hampstead Heath with friend Mikey who wanted some

photos taken.

Mikey was born in Rome Italy and raised in Cairo Egypt then eventually moved here to

the United Kingdom. He certainly is a ball of fun and I enjoy his energy, always keeping

himself busy. And on top of his job he occasionally does volunteer work at the local Teaching

Hospital.

We did originally head towards the nearby Pergola area where lots of fashion shoots take

place but everything was blocked off  with security guards everywhere. There was some

major film production going on there. So we took our bag of props and moved to the nearby

field on the West Heath. And so these are just a few of the pictures we managed to create on

that perfect sunny day.

On Friday I was in the Hospital for my Kidney and Bladder operation and I was able

to go home on the same day.

So yesterday Saturday evening Mikey (below) called in and kindly went out to get me

some shopping which was a great help.

Battling Bill v Gorgeous Gilbert....Not On Your Nellie

More fun from those classic 1970's tv comedies. And this one was called 'Not On Your Nellie.'

It starred Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, owner of The Brown Cow Pub.

And in this classic scene a wrestling match takes place between professional wrestler Battling Billy

played by Brian Glover, against Gorgeous Gilbert played by Dancer Roger Howlett.

The Wrestling match was brought about to stop Battling Billy from causing disturbances at

The Brown Cow Pub.

The series ran for just over a year between March 1974 to August 1975.

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