IT WAS PITIFUL TO SEE # 3

It was pitiful to see the calibre

Of the new fast-tracked inspector

I would say he was about as much use

As rubber lips on a woodpecker

BEST BEFORE 1980 # 6

Old people can safely ignore

Organic foods with no regret

Simply because they need

All the preservatives they can get 

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE CHANGELING (1980)

 

“The Changeling” is a horror drama, Screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox from a story by Russell Hunter and Directed by Peter Medak.

 

When music professor and composer John Russell (George C. Scott) and his family are enjoying a perfect family vacation, a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter.

Consumed by grief, he is urged to rent a huge nineteenth century house, and the house seems to possess all the room John needs to reflect and hopefully write music.

However it isn’t long before he realizes he is not alone in the house as he shares it with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's grief and despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit.

With the help of Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere), who helped John secure the house, they set out to find the answers and the powerful and devious man who guards them.

This is not a violent or “Kensington Gore” type of horror, it scares with great story telling, eerie sounds and dark corners and it uses pathos with great effect.

The film also benefit from accomplished direction and the acting excellence of its stars and a great supporting cast including Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos and Barry Morse.

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 426

 

Simple Simon met a pie man,

Going to the fair,

The pie man worked at Greggs

And his name was Kerr

IT WAS PITIFUL TO SEE # 2

 

It was pitiful to see

He was in a total muddle

He would have been

Out of his depth in a puddle

MIDDLE AGE IS THE TIME

 

Middle age is the time

When it takes you all night

To do once, what once,

You used to do all night

THE LATE GREAT GEORGE BURNS

 

“I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day”

George Burns said when he was still a thing

Approaching his hundredth birthday

“At my age I have to hold on to something”

 

January 20^th,1896 - March 9^th, 1996