Friday 21 May 2021

TOM SHARPE RIP

 

He wrote Vintage Stuff

Of Riotous Assembly

And Indecent Exposure

He liked his Porterhouse Blue

In the Great Pursuit

And was no Blott on the landscape

Nor was he The Throwback

With Ancestral Vices

And in the end, he didn’t die

It was just a simple case of Wilt

I REMEMBER LIKE YESTERDAY

 

I remember like yesterday

That cold and crispy morn

And just how proud I felt

On the day my son was born

THEY’RE PUTTING ON ACTIVITIES

They’re putting on activities

For those whose lives need enhancing

Well, I’m hard of hearing

And of the activities they are advancing

Budgie jumping, parrot shooting

And hen gliding 

Might be worth chancing

But no way am I going to have a go

At the Lion dancing

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – THE JACKAL (1997)


“The Jackal” is a crime drama, screenplay by Kenneth Ross loosely based on the novel by Frederick Forsyth and Directed by Michael Caton-Jones.

The action starts in Moscow, where the FBI and their Russian counterparts, the MVD, are working on a joint mission to apprehend Russian mobster Ghazzi Murad (Ravil Isyanov) for murder, but he is killed in the process.

In retaliation Ghazzi's brother, Terek (David Hayman) hires an assassin by the code name Jackal (Bruce Willis) to carry out a hit on a high profile American target.

Initial intelligence points to that target being Donald Brown (John Cunningham), the Director of the FBI.

The Jackal is known only by name and reputation, no one in authority knows who he is or what he looks like, some are not sure he even exists, FBI Deputy Director Preston (Sidney Poitier) learns of only one person alive who they know has had ties to the Jackal: former Basque separatist Isabella Zanconia (Mathilda May) , but her whereabouts are unknown, so Preston, MVD officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) turn to the only person who might lead them to her, former IRA gunman Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere), but first they need to get him out of Federal Prison.

 

It’s a great intelligent thriller rather than an all action thrill fest, Willis portrays the perfect cold-blooded assassin, if I have one criticism it would be Richard Gere’s dodgy Irish accent, but it’s still a great thriller.

WHATS IN A NAME (38)

 

Would anyone know was Rip Torn?

Did anyone else see Oliver Bourne?

Does anyone know is George Nigh?

You should have seen Kevin Tighe?

21st CENTURY NURSERY RHYMES # 299

 

Taffy was a Welshman

He came from Porthcawl

I think if he were from Cardiff

He’d hardly be Welsh at all

 


“Taffy was a Welshman was an actual nursery rhyme

Popularised in the 18th Century, so don’t blame me”

ARE YOU WEARING A PETTICOAT?

 

Are you wearing a petticoat?

Are they even still in vogue?

That’s delightful apparel

For a lascivious old rogue