Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biography. Show all posts

Friday, April 28, 2023

THOSE GOLDEN DAYS OF YESTERYEAR!

What with Children's Day coming up this next Sunday 30th, I thought it would be somewhat relevant to review some of my old, old photos from way back when I was a little tyke, full of energy and mischief! 


THE COWBOY OUTFIT!
Yeah! Back in those days I loved anything pertaining to cowboys...like most any other
kid my age.

These are the same pair of boots I wore in the first picture above. Clearly, boots look much better when worn with long pants!   Here, I was walking around my old neighborhood when it was easy to find many vacant lots everywhere. Today, there are exactly zero.

My MOTHER AND ME.
 I seem to be just a few months old so I don't remember anything about this.

Me and my baby stroller. It may look rather archaic but it fulfilled its purpose which was to move me around and keep me from wandering about. (The wheel had already been invented, so it was a good thing!)

My mom, one of my sisters and I, posing in a park. Please bear in mind I didn't choose my outfit!

Every kid, from generation to generation, has had a big ball to play with and I was no exception.

THE BUNNY COSTUME
The less said about this image, the better.  Guess it must have been Easter.

I seem to be in some kind of prairie setting here, so this must be a Sunday picnic photo.

 
Playing Peter Pan with my sister Silvia. I didn't have a Captain Hook costume so I played in plain clothes.
(Sadly, Silvia passed on in 1998 due to a brain aneurysm two months before her 40th birthday.)

And that's all there is for now, so I'm closing this early chapter of my life.
Happy Children's Day!

Monday, March 14, 2022

GET MICHAEL CAINE!

 Michael Caine, one of my favorite actors is 89 years old today and in celebration of this famous British icon, I will review here some of my favorite Caine performances.  His filmography on IMDb lists 134 film credits, which is quite a large body of work so it is rather difficult to pick out just a few. However, these here are my most memorable Michael Caine appearances:

ZULU (1964) 

With Stanley Baker

THE IPCRESS FILE (1965) 

 
With Sue Lloyd

ALFIE (1966)With Shelley Winters

THE ITALIAN JOB (1969)



TOO LATE THE HERO (1970)

         With Cliff Robertson


GET CARTER (1971)
 


SLEUTH (1972)
With Sir Laurence Olivier


THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975)


With Sean Connery 

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED (1976)


DRESSED TO KILL (1980) 


With Angie Dickinson
                                                                                                                          
DEATHTRAP (1982)  
                                                           With Christopher Reeve

                   EDUCATING RITA (1983) 

With Julie Walters

BLAME IT ON RIO (1984)
 
With Michelle Johnson and Joseph Bologna

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1985)
 With Barbara Hershey

MONA LISA (1986)  With Bob Hoskins

THE FOURTH PROTOCOL (1987)

WITHOUT A CLUE (1988)
 With Ben Kingsley

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (1988)

A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM (1990)

NOISES OFF (1992)

THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (1999)
 With Toby McGuire

SHINER (2000)


THE QUIET AMERICAN (2002)


SECONDHAND LIONS (2003)

THE STATEMENT (2003)

BATMAN BEGINS (2004)
With director Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale


As Alfred Pennyworth

 
THE PRESTIGE (2006)

FLAWLESS (2007)
With Demi Moore


HARRY BROWN (2009)

GOING IN STYLE (2017)
With Alan Arkin and Morgan Freeman

KING OF THIEVES (2018) 


TWIST (2021)

BEST SELLERS (2021)