Frank Wills - the man who changed history Few scandals have provided as vivid a cast of characters as Watergate. Yet the story often overlooks the one man without whom it would simply never have

Sixtieth anniversary of All The President's Men's premiere? Meet Frank Wills, the diligent man without whom Watergate might have been a storm in a teacup... #allthepresidentsmen #watergate www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...

And for more about controversial Being There author Jerzy Kosiński and his strained relationship with Peter Sellers, read on... thenewworld.co.uk/richard-luck...

Being There When his employer dies, simple-minded gardener Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

In case you missed it yesterday, Being There's now available on the BBC iPlayer... #beingthere #petersellers #halashby www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Have You Read... How I Made A Hundred Movies In Hollywood And Never Lost A Dime by Roger Corman (Random House)? The ultimate budget-buster spills his secrets.

Roger Corman was born on this day 100 years ago. If you haven't read his memoir, hopefully this FREE Substack post will convince you to do so... richardluck.substack.com/p/have-you-r...

You stay classy, Easter Sunday!

Remembering 'Mr Impeccable' Bob Peck who died #onthisday in 1999.

It was #onthis#day in 1968 that 2001 premiered in Washington DC.

To commemorate the anniversary here's Stanley Kubrick auditioning for the role of Danny The Dealer in Withnail & I: "It's horrible really but they like that, the little girls. So we're gonna make one that shits itself as well..."

Today I'm taking it for granted that 99% of everything on the internet is bullshit. So, pretty much like every other day then.

The Mist When a deadly mist descends after a storm, a man and his son are trapped in a supermarket. There they face not only monsters in the mist but the wrath of the other survivors. Horror

Great to find The Mist available on the BBC iPlayer... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

It was on this day in 1296 that Edward I sacked Berwick-Upon-Tweed.

Roy Hodgson was then brought in as caretaker manager until the end of the season.

Tonight on @TalkingPicsTV at 9.40pm, Abigail's Party!

Tonight on @TalkingPicsTV at 9.40pm, Abigail's Party!

The Ipcress File Spy thriller about an investigation into a brain drain among scientists. A secret agent finds himself in a world where nobody can be trusted.

Now available on the BBC iPlayer... bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Fifty years of The Night Porter Liliana Cavani's pitch-black tale of a Nazi and a camp survivor bound together enraged almost everybody on its original release. Half a century on, has the tide turned?

Remembering Dirk Bogarde who was born #onthisday in 1921. www.thenewworld.co.uk/richard-luck...

Alan A'Dale YouTube video by p0rtaccio

Remembering Dudley Moore who died #onthisday in 2002. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDmv...

I could be a lawyer with stratagems and ruses/
I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises/
I could be a writer with a growing reputation/
I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station

- Ian Dury (12 May 1942 – 27 March 2000)

Jungle Fever - Aguirre, The Wrath Of God At 50 When Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski set off down the Amazon, choppy water was the least of their worries..

With Aguirre, Wrath Of God debuting on 4K today courtesy of the BFI, here's a Premium Substack piece I wrote celebrating the 50th anniversary of Werner Herzog's masterpiece... richardluck.substack.com/p/jungle-fev...

I don't understand all this talk of a huel crisis - there's tons of the crap in Holland & Barrett.

Scandal - When Christine Keeler Met Harvey Weinstein The making of Michael Caton-Jones's incendiary drama.

With Scandal on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 9.20pm, the time seems right to give this FREE Substack post another airing... richardluck.substack.com/p/when-chris...

Rob Pilatus, the new Elvis who signed a deal with the devil He was one half of Milli Vanilli. So was he a failure, a fraud – or an extraordinary success?

Can't quite believe a year has passed since I wrote about the downfall of Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus... www.thenewworld.co.uk/richard-luck...

Garry Shandling wins 1998 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series YouTube video by awardscrazy

Garry Shandling died #onthisday in 2016.

Accurately described by @jamesjamesbrown.bsky.social
as 'the Paolo Maldini of comedy', he's someone I still miss. Why? This speech provides some explanation, not least the fact he gives his co-writer time to deliver a superb line.

youtu.be/3dGxMxYNNuQ

Farewell, Valerie Perrine - my, how there was so much more to her Superman, marvellous though her Ms Teschmacher was.

So many wonderful Tom Georgeson performances, not least his turn as coach Eddie Johnson in The Manageress opposite Cherie Lunghi. #tomgeorgeson

Worst ever cover of 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'.

Capucine, the French cover girl turned Hollywood star It was while the 22-year-old Germaine Lefebvre was walking down a Parisian street that her life was forever changed

Remembering Capucine who died #onthisday in 1990. www.thenewworld.co.uk/richard-luck...

The Truth about Len Deighton Profile of best-selling author Len Deighton, whose output ranges from the Harry Palmer espionage thrillers to books on military history and cookery. First shown in 2006.

Chin chin, Len Deighton. #lendeighton www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Vic & Bob - 75 Pints 1 Song for Comic Relief YouTube video by purplehairedcomedy

A reminder of what happened in 1995 when Comic Relief coincided with St Patrick's Day. Take it away, Messrs Reeves and Mortimer! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKUu...

Farewell, Matt Clark - terrific in everything from Buckaroo Banzai and Brubaker to The Culpepper Cattle Co. and The Terminal Man, but particularly good as the doomed JW Bell in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.

Farewell, Matt Clark - terrific in everything from Buckaroo Banzai and Brubaker to The Culpepper Cattle Co. and The Terminal Man, but particularly good as the doomed JW Bell in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid.

I was told they were sent to a cinema up state.