Thinking Things

Well, we are two months into the new year. So far nothing big has happened. Last weekend was the Oscars and I didn't watch it live. When I saw it on tape, I thought the show was horrible. Then of course they go to the montage of all the people that died the past year. They showed Michelangelo Antonionni and his movie Blow-Up. I must admit (as I told this to my Mom) that was the movie that changed my life because it was the movie that delivered the message: "Life is Fragile". And that is the sad part about the movies today: They don't make them with that phrase tacked on ("No Country For Old Men"? I don't think so).
Staying with the subject, I don't know if anyone's familar with 60's British actress Judy Geeson.



Anyway, I saw this wonderful photo of Geeson and her young sister Sally taken outside their parents home in England from 1967 in which the two are sitting on top of the family car (which just happened to be a Mini!) and wearing different kinds of clothing. To the point, the picture was so good that I wondered why actresses today aren't like this in which they have their heads straight. Also to point out, Geeson appeared in movies like To Sir With Love, Hammerhead, and of course Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush;



in which it has never been released on video on DVD mainly since it was racy and climaxed by the scene near the end in which Geeson and Barry Evers' characters get naked and go into a lake.



I also encountered a strange fact from Wikipedia regarding another sweet British blonde actress from that period-Susan George. Can you believe she's been married to fellow British actor Simon MacCorkindale since 1984 and they have NO children? I was flabbergasted because will all that devotion they have, I thought they would have at least three children.
How many people are familar with the magazine CinemaRetro? In which they write about the movies of the 60's and 70's.



Can you believe they publish only three issues a year? Fear not: They have an on-line blog (just like this) in which they write information every day for those who can't wait in-between issues. CinemaRetro writer Lee Pfieffer made an interested fact in the audio commentary to the movie Our Man Flint in which his magazine is the only publication in which the movies of director Sam Peckinpah and Don Knotts are featured back to back. Well, that is all I need to say. I wil try to write some more.