Petrol prices. screen legends and Kathryn Jenkins
Captains Blog • Published 1 Oct 2010 09:19
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SO - petrol goes up by one pence a litre today.
Pretty soon we'll need a credit reference just drive on to a forecourt.
And of course, it'll go up again in January when VAT increases.
These rises affect everything, as we all know. As petrol goes up, so does food, heating, blood pressure etc etc.
And I know no-one whose wages have been rising in the past couple of years, apart from top bank officials and politicians.
We've been warned, right enough, of the austerity to come.
But it does rankle that we're all paying the price for a greedy financial sector and the politicos who ignored the warnings.
TONY Curtis died this week, which was sad. I have fond memories of watching 'The Black Shield of Falworth' when I was but a slip of a lad - the lad in question being my father and the slip being me (Thank you to sixties radio show 'Round the Horne' for that line). According to legend, the film had New York-born Tony in medieval gear spouting the line: 'Yonda lies de castle of my fadda.'
But Tony was an accomplished actor, as anyone who saw him in 'The Sweet Smell of Success' and 'The Boston Strangler' can testify.
Let's not forget, he was also part of that seminal moment in cinema - the 'I am Spartacus' scene in 'Spartacus.'
However, I was disturbed to learn from some youngsters that they didn't know who he was. Disturbed? I was stunned!
On further probing they hadn't heard of Errol Flynn or James Cagney either. Seriously - what's the world coming to? No-talent, loud-mouthed and obnoxious individuals can become household names through so-called reality TV while screen legends are forgotten.
Okay, maybe it's an age thing. These guys were before my time, too - don't smirk, they were - but I was brought up on a diet of Saturday and Sunday afternoon matinees on TV.
'The Adventures of Robin Hood', 'The Sea Hawk', 'Angels With Dirty Faces', 'White Heat' - My Stars, the list goes on and on.
Yet these poor, deprived, under privileged kids have never seen them.
I think it's time we sent missionaries into schools to educate them.
Cast aside those X Boxes and Play Stations, brother and sisters, for they are the work of the Devil. Come to me, my brethren, and we shall hear the Words of the Screen Legends.
And the Words are:
'Welcome to Sherwood, My Lady...'
'Made it, Ma, top of the world...'
'Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...'
'What do ya hear, what do ya say?'
Ah, they don't write 'em like that anymore.
I hear Tiger Woods was caught on camera admiring Kathryn Jenkins in a tight red dress.
And who can blame him?
Okay, the man's had his troubles but he's only human!
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