Maybe so
I must concede that point, not knowing enough about the history of the show to argue it, but I still thought it a lightweight show, and the series episodes did show a post-RLA influence, as I recall.
Some are
Well I wasn't as widely known as Roger, whose work I admire, but I did work as a professional film critic on several magazines for most of the 80's, have had experience as a scriptwriter, been an actor, and studied film noir at University as part of a degree in Digital Communication I...
No Thanks
Ahem, I remember this as utter rubbish, a 2-bob lost ark knockoff, or more accurately Magnum meets Indiana Jones on the set of South Pacific....
watch it
I don't have many but I use the analogy of cars: my 60's GP is like an old European car, looks nice and finely made, but you wouldn't take it cross-country with a load of old boxes in the back...for daily knockabout stuff I use a Singapore-made Seiko, great reliable robust watch, like...
Colonial desert wars
This is also a fascinating but little-known conflict (apart from some hollywood nonsense roughly based on it) around the same time and area, I'd never heard of this battle until very recently,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_of_Annual
interesting
Strange article isn't it, my first reaction was ..yuck, how 80's.. due to the general cut, but when you look a bit closer, it has a certain charm after all, no doubt it would be considered quite hip by the younger crowd at the moment...was it expensive?
one that got away
I always liked the secret island where all the lions and tigers had been fed on fish their whole lives and never tasted meat, so they were all tame and cuddly, has this ever been tried in real life I wonder...any wildlife park wallahs out there?
not too distressed
Can I just say that I've been wearing and collecting vintage leather jackets for 40+ years, and I've NEVER NEVER EVER seen any type shape or form of faked or pre-distressed jacket that looked remotely 'right' and I've seen such things going new for thousands at times, so I...
the look
Having started this, I should weigh in again, it looks to me like
A: Bruce has got an original old jacket,
B: this other guy probably whipped up a few copies that would pass muster on stand-ins and stuntmen but not in CLOSE UP, so he can claim to have made 'the surrogate jacket' as...
Found a copy of "The Immigrant Builder" 1872 edition, cover's a bit duff but all pages are fine and illustrations excellent, I believe this was a very popular book in the American West...swaps considered!
thank bruce
After going through some replies here about vintage vs repro, I decided to check one of my old beasts to try and imagine how to fake that look, and just as well, it's been really wet and stormy here for about a week and there was plenty of MOULD about!!!! So out into the open air...
colour bar
And I must admit that in the sunshine, it definitely ain't black, I blame that movie lighting, all that running around in the dark :eusa_doh:
application
Still, I often wonder why there was more, shall we say 'unorthodox' military thinking on the allied side so how's this for an argument: the scientific advances of the Germans could be put down to rigorous application of disciplinary thinking while the often unsuccessful but still...
the right thinking
That's always interested me as well, I suppose the 'eccentricity' that the British pride themselves on meant that was a greater pool of non-conformist thinkers tolerated by the British 'establishment' than could ever exist in the tightly hierarchical society that had...
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