#Jackie Charlton

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Sir Bobby Charlton, who has died aged 86, was one of the greatest footballers England has ever produced. He was certainly the most successful, the only English player to win all of football’s major honours – the FA Cup, Football League and European Cup with Manchester United, and the World Cup with England, accumulating a record number of international caps and goals.

As captain of United in 1968, when they were the first English team to win the European Cup, and a key player in the 1966 World Cup-winning team, he was the embodiment of a golden age of English football. But he was also involved in one of the game’s darkest moments, the 1958 Munich air disaster, in which eight of his team-mates, three United staff and a further 12 passengers were killed.

Charlton was renowned for his raking passes and explosive long-range shots, with either foot, and was blessed with speed, athleticism and perfect balance.

Some commentators say he was a scorer of great goals rather than a great goal scorer, but the statistics undermine that claim. For England, he scored 49 in 106 appearances, and he was United’s highest all-time scorer, with 249 in 758 games, until 2017, when his record was beaten by Wayne Rooney.

But it was his modesty and gentlemanly demeanour, as much as his outstanding ability, that won him admiration far beyond Manchester and England. At the height of his fame in the mid to late 60s, when London and the counterculture were in full swing, one of the world’s most famous Englishmen was an old-fashioned sporting hero. Across the world, the first or only two words of English many people could speak were “Bobby Charlton”.

He was born in the Northumberland mining village of Ashington, the second of four sons of Robert Charlton, a miner, and his wife, Elizabeth, known as Cissie, who came from the famous Milburn football family. Four of her brothers were professional footballers and her cousin was the Newcastle United and England centre-forward Jackie Milburn. Bobby’s elder brother, Jack, also became a footballer, and, although not as gifted as his younger brother, he enjoyed a distinguished career as a centre-half for Leeds United, and later as a successful manager. Jack and Bobby were England team-mates in 1966.

Most Ashington boys went down the pit on leaving school (as Jack did briefly before joining Leeds), but from a young age it was apparent that Bobby would become a footballer. He passed the 11-plus but attending the local grammar was unthinkable because it was a rugby-playing school. However, he was such a prodigy that his headteacher – with encouragement from Cissie – arranged a place at another nearby school, the football-playing Bedlington grammar.

In his last year at school, he played four times for England schoolboys, scoring five goals, and football scouts from across Britain were soon knocking at the family’s door. He received offers from 18 clubs in all, but was charmed by Manchester United’s chief scout, Joe Armstrong, and signed for them in 1953.

Apart from a brief swansong with Preston North End and then Waterford, in Ireland, it was to be his only club, and an inspired choice. Not only were United a club on the rise, but their inspirational manager, Matt Busby, was prepared to give youth its head, assembling a precociously talented young team that played with swagger and flair, capturing the nation’s imagination and earning them the nickname the Busby Babes. They swept all before them to win the First Division (the equivalent of today’s Premier League) in 1955-56, and retained the title the following season, in which Charlton scored twice on his debut, against Charlton Athletic, on 6 October 1956.

As champions, United entered the European Cup, the first English side to do so, and reached the semi-finals in 1957. A year later they beat Red Star Belgrade in the quarter-finals, with Charlton, now an established first-teamer, scoring three goals over the two legs. On the flight back from Belgrade the following day, the team’s plane stopped to refuel in Munich. In freezing conditions, it crashed and burst into flames while attempting to take off from the snowy runway.

Charlton was catapulted 40 yards from the plane, still strapped into his seat, and clear of the burning wreck. He woke minutes later, suffering only from shock and minor cuts. He later described his escape as a miracle, but it would haunt him for the rest of his life. The grief of witnessing friends perish left its mark, turning an already shy young man into an introspective one. Many close to him, including Busby and his brother Jack, said that Bobby changed for ever after Munich. “He never got over Munich,” said Busby. “He felt responsible. Those were his kids that died that day.”

Characteristically, Jack was more blunt. In his 1996 autobiography, he wrote: “I saw a big change in our kid from that day on. He stopped smiling, a trait which continues to this day.” The book lifted the lid on the brothers’ strained relationship – they barely spoke for many years, partly due to the cooling of relations between Norma (nee Ball), Bobby’s wife, whom he married in 1961, and his wider family, in particular Cissie, to whom he did not pay a visit in the final four years of her life. Fortunately Bobby and Jack were reconciled before Jack’s death in 2020.

Despite all the success and veneration that would come Charlton’s way, he always carried a slight air of melancholy. He was not withdrawn, however, on the football field, where he exuded the freedom, desire and commanding presence characteristic of great athletes.

Just 23 days after Munich, Charlton was back playing for United, and for the remainder of that traumatic season, and indeed the next decade, he was the foundation stone on which Manchester United were rebuilt. Showing remarkable spirit, United reached the FA Cup final within three months of the disaster, with a patched-up team of youth players, stop-gap signings and four players who had survived the crash. There was a tide of public sympathy behind them, but they lost the game 2-0 to Bolton Wanderers.

On 19 April, shortly before the Cup final, Charlton made his England debut, scoring in a 4-0 win against Scotland at Hampden Park. He scored twice more in his second game, against Portugal at Wembley, and this earned him a place in the squad for the World Cup in Sweden that summer. It was the first of his four World Cup squads (another record for an Englishman), though he did not get off the bench in Sweden. By the 1962 World Cup in Chile, he was a first-choice player and scored against Argentina as England reached the quarter-finals before losing to the eventual champions, Brazil.

As hosts of the 1966 World Cup, England made a disappointing start, with a 0-0 draw against Uruguay. It was in the second game, against Mexico, that Charlton lit up England’s hopes with a magnificent goal, running from his own half with the ball before unleashing a trademark thunderbolt shot. In the semi-final against Portugal, he had the international game of his life, scoring both goals in the 2-1 win that put England into the final.

He had a relatively quiet game in the 4-2 final victory against West Germany, given the task by the England manager, Alf Ramsey, of marking the brilliant young Franz Beckenbauer, who had been told to mark Charlton, so that they largely cancelled each other out. But the battle between the two best players on the pitch was pivotal to the game’s outcome, as Beckenbauer acknowledged years later: “England beat us in 1966 because Bobby Charlton was just a bit better than me.” Ramsey declared that Charlton was “very much the linchpin of the 1966 team”, and he was voted player of the tournament. He ended the season not only as a world champion but as Footballer of the Year and European Footballer of the Year, too.

There was to be one last World Cup hurrah, in Mexico in 1970. He was 32 by then and, although he was still perhaps England’s best player, in the quarter-final, again against West Germany, with England winning 2-1, Ramsey controversially substituted Charlton to conserve his energy for what seemed like a certain semi-final. But the Germans came back to win 3-2 and England were out. It was Charlton’s record 106th cap – the game in which he passed Billy Wright’s tally, and a record that stood until passed by Rooney in 2015 – and his last, an unsatisfactory end to a glittering international career.

His halcyon days with England coincided with Manchester United’s post-Munich renaissance. By the mid-1960s Busby had built his second great team, Charlton now at the heart of it, playing as an attacking midfielder. The line-up included the Northern Irishman George Best and the Scot Denis Law, who together with Charlton formed a dazzling forward line that reignited the legend of the Busby Babes. They were brilliant individuals (in the space of five years, all three were named European Player of the Year) and together helped United win the FA Cup in 1963 and the league title in 1964-65 and 1966-67.

Ten years after the Munich disaster, United finally realised Busby’s dream of playing in a European Cup final, against the Portuguese club Benfica. United won 4-1 at Wembley, with Charlton scoring twice and lifting the cup as captain. For him and Bill Foulkes, the only two crash survivors in the team, and for Busby, it was an overwhelming evening. After the match, while the rest of the team celebrated, Charlton was so exhausted that he could not get off his hotel bed to go downstairs and join the party. Busby retired as manager a year later, and United went into slow decline, though Charlton played on until 1973.

With his playing career over, he felt uncertain about what to do next, and simply waited for the phone to ring. It was three weeks before it did, and he accepted the first offer that came his way, to manage Second Division Preston North End. The club were relegated in his first season in charge, and he resigned the next. It was a chastening experience after so many illustrious years as a player, and he never returned to full-time management.

He had more success in the media, working as a BBC football pundit, and in 1978 he also set up the innovative Bobby Charlton Soccer Schools, which provided top-level coaching to young players. In 1984 he returned to Manchester United as a director. He developed a close bond with the United manager Alex Ferguson, and his diplomacy and peerless standing in the game made him the perfect ambassador for the club as it developed into a global sporting brand in the 90s. Such qualities were not lost on other sporting bodies, and Charlton, who was knighted in 1994, was an automatic choice for the teams bidding to win the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games and the 2002 Commonwealth Games for Manchester, the 2006 and 2018 World Cups for England, and London’s successful pitch for the 2012 Olympic Games.

He is survived by Norma and their daughters, Suzanne, a former BBC weather presenter, and Andrea.

🔔 Robert Charlton, footballer, born 11 October 1937; died 21 October 2023

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hollywood's happiest couple

the films of billy wilder (writer&director) and charles brackett (writer&producer)

Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938). Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Claudette Colbert. Gary Cooper. Edward Everett Horton. David Niven. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From the play by Alfred Savoir; English-language adaptation by Charlton Andrews.

That Certain Age (1938). Director: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Deanna Durbin. Melvyn Douglas. Jackie Cooper. Nancy Carroll. Irene Rich. Screenplay: Bruce Manning. From an original story by F. Hugh Herbert. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder received no screen credit for their work on That Certain Age.

Ninotchka (1939). Director: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Greta Garbo. Melvyn Douglas. Ina Claire. Bela Lugosi. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Walter Reisch. From an original story by Melchior Lengyel.

Midnight (1939). Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Claudette Colbert. Don Ameche. John Barrymore. Mary Astor. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From a story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schulz.

What a Life (1939). Director: Theodore Reed. Cast: Jackie Cooper. Betty Field. John Howard. Janice Logan. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From the play by Clifford Goldsmith.

Arise, My Love (1940). Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Claudette Colbert. Ray Milland. Dennis O’Keefe. Walter Abel. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. Adaptation by Jacques Théry, itself from an original story by Hans Székely and Benjamin Glazer.

French Without Tears (1940). Director: Anthony Asquith. Cast: Ray Milland. Ellen Drew. Janine Darcey. David Tree. Roland Culver. Screenplay: Ian Dalrymple, Terence Rattigan, and Anatole de Grunwald. Brackett and Wilder worked on the story treatment.

Ball of Fire (1941). Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper. Barbara Stanwyck. Oskar Homolka. Henry Travers. S.Z. Sakall. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From an original story by Wilder and Thomas Monroe.

Hold Back the Dawn (1941). Director: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Charles Boyer. Olivia de Havilland. Paulette Goddard. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From Ketti Frings’ story “Memo to a Movie Producer.”

The Major and the Minor (1942). Director: Billy Wilder. Cast: Ginger Rogers. Ray Milland. Rita Johnson. Robert Benchley. Diana Lynn. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From the play by Edward Childs Carpenter, itself based on a story by Fanny Kilbourne.

Five Graves to Cairo (1943). Director: Billy Wilder. Associate Prod.: Charles Brackett. Cast: Franchot Tone. Anne Baxter. Akim Tamiroff. Erich von Stroheim. Peter van Eyck. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From the play by Lajos Biró.

The Lost Weekend (1945). Director: Billy Wilder. Prod.: Charles Brackett. Cast: Ray Milland. Jane Wyman. Phillip Terry. Howard Da Silva. Doris Dowling. Frank Faylen. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. From the novel by Charles R. Jackson.

The Bishop’s Wife (1947). Director: Henry Koster. Cast: Cary Grant. Loretta Young. David Niven. Gladys Cooper. Monty Woolley. James Gleason. Elsa Lanchester. Screenplay: Robert E. Sherwood and Leonardo Bercovici. From the novel by Robert Nathan. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder received no screen credit for their work on The Bishop’s Wife.

A Foreign Affair (1948). Director: Billy Wilder. Prod.: Charles Brackett. Cast: Jean Arthur. Marlene Dietrich. John Lund. Millard Mitchell. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Richard L. Breen. Adaptation by Robert Harari. From an original story by David Shaw.

The Emperor Waltz (1948). Director: Billy Wilder. Prod.: Charles Brackett. Cast: Bing Crosby. Joan Fontaine. Roland Culver. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder.

Sunset Blvd. (1950). Director: Billy Wilder. Prod.: Charles Brackett. Cast: William Holden. Gloria Swanson. Erich von Stroheim. Nancy Olson. Fred Clark. Cameos: Hedda Hopper. Cecil B. DeMille. Anna Q. Nilsson. Buster Keaton. H.B. Warner. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr.

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England FIFA World Cup: England's Journey in the World Cup Foretells a Promising Era of Continued Success

England FIFA World Cup: The England national football team did not participate in the first three FIFA World Cup tournaments but entered all 19 subsequent ones, starting in 1950. They failed to qualify for the finals on three occasions: 1974 (West Germany), 1978 (Argentina), and 1994 (United States). They also did not advance from the group stage thrice: 1950, 1958, and 2014.

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Their best performance was winning the cup as the host nation in 1966. They also finished in fourth place in 1990 (Italy) and 2018 (Russia). Besides these, the team has reached the quarter-finals on seven other occasions, the latest being in 2022 (Qatar).

England's first qualifying campaign for the FIFA World Cup doubled as the 1950 British Home Championship. The series began for England on 15 October 1949 at Ninian Park, Cardiff, against Wales. Stan Mortensen gave England the lead after 22 minutes, and seven minutes later, Jackie Milburn doubled the lead.

This was the first goal of Milburn's hat-trick, which left England 4–0 up with 20 minutes to play. Mal Griffiths scored a consolation goal for Wales ten minutes from time, but England held on for a comfortable victory.

England's qualifying group for the 1954 edition also constituted the 1953–54 British Home Championship. They played Wales at Ninian Park for their first match once again. The 4–1 result was the same as four years earlier. Ivor All church gave the home side a half-time lead.

England's World Cup Journey: From Early Challenges to Triumph and Future Hopes

But England scored four within eight minutes of the restart, with two each for Dennis Wilshaw and Nat Lofthouse. At Goodison Park against Northern Ireland, Harold Hassall scored for England after ten minutes. Although Eddie McMorran equalized just before the hour mark, additional goals from Hassall and Lofthouse secured a comfortable 3–1 win for England.

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For the first time, England had to play against countries other than the Home Nations to reach the Finals in Sweden. They were drawn against the Republic of Ireland and Denmark. In the qualifying round, England won three out of the four games and drew the other. Four months before the World Cup, Manchester United players Roger Byrne, David Pegg, Duncan Edwards, and Tommy Taylor all died as a result of the Munich air disaster.

The third World Cup, held in South America, saw England qualify from the group, which included Portugal and Luxembourg, beating Luxembourg both times, beating Portugal at home, and drawing in Lisbon. At the finals, England was drawn in a group with Hungary, Argentina, and Bulgaria. England beat Argentina 3–1, thanks to goals from Ron Flowers, Bobby Charlton, and Jimmy Greaves.

After playing out a goalless draw with Bulgaria and a 2–1 defeat to Hungary, England took advantage of their home field in the 1966 World Cup Finals and, under Ramsey, won their first, and only, World Cup title. England played all their games at Wembley Stadium in London, marking the last time the hosts were granted this privilege.

Historic Matches, Qualification Struggles, and Future Ambitions

England did not concede a goal in any of their first four matches at the tournament, starting with a 0–0 draw in the opening game against former winners Uruguay. This was followed by 2–0 wins over France and Mexico to see them qualify top of their group and advance to the quarter-finals.

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In 1970, North America's first World Cup finals saw England automatically qualify for the tournament by winning the 1966 FIFA World Cup. England was drawn in a group with Romania, former world champions Brazil, and Czechoslovakia. Each match only saw one goal, with England beating Romania and Czechoslovakia.

England equalized six minutes later, with a penalty converted by Allan Clarke. England failed to score any more goals, with goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski keeping them at bay. Brian Clough had previously called Tomaszewski a clown.

England also did not qualify for the fourth World Cup held in South America. This time, Italy denied England, who had scored three more goals than England after both teams finished on the same points. Goals scored decided the qualifier after the head-to-head record between the two sides ended the same, following a 2–0 home win for each team.

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England's World Cup Qualification Campaigns and Memorable Matches

England won 2–0 away to Albania, 2–1 at home to Poland, 4–0 to Hungary, and 4–0 to Andorra. They were held to a 1–1 draw in the return match against Poland at the Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw. Substitute Damian Szymański scored a 92nd-minute equalizer after Harry Kane had given England the lead midway through the second half.

They returned to winning ways in October 2021 with a 5–0 away win over Andorra. Before another draw at home to Hungary a few days later. Nevertheless, a 5–0 win at home to Albania in November 2021 meant. England needed just a point in their final World Cup qualifier away to San Marino.

Then the bottom-ranked side in the world rankings wins the group and secures automatic qualification. England beat San Marino 10–0, their record victory in a competitive match, to finish top of the group, six points clear of Poland.

The final draw for the World Cup took place on 1 April 2022 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. They were the seeded team in Group B, into which they were drawn with Iran.

England beat Iran 6–2 in their first group match on 21 November 2022. England's goalscorers were Jude Bellingham who scored in the 35th minute of the game. And Bukayo Saka scored two goals in the 43rd minute and 62nd minute of the game.

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Birthdays 10.4

Beer Birthdays

Jacob Gimlich (1845)

Maureen Ogle (1953)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Rachel Leigh Cook; actor (1979)

Brendan Gill; writer (1914)

Jean-Francois Millet; artist (1814)

Liev Schreiber; actor (1967)

Alicia Silverstone; actor (1976)

Famous Birthdays

Louis Arbogast; French mathematician (1759)

Armand Assante; actor (1949)

Roy Blount Jr.; writer (1941)

Jackie Collins; writer (1941)

Terence Conran; English designer (1931)

Luis Cranach "the Younger" (1515)

Jim Fielder; rock bassist (1947)

Vitaly Ginzburg; Russian physicist (1916)

Rutherford B. Hayes; 19th U.S. President (1822)

Charlton Heston; actor (1924)

Sam Huff; New York Giants MLB (1934)

Buster Keaton; comedian, actor (1895)

Jan Murray; comedian, television host (1917)

Giovanni Piranesi; Italian artist (1720)

Frederic Remington; artist (1861)

Anne Rice; writer (1941)

Damon Runyan; writer (1884)

Susan Sarandon; actor (1946)

Lori Saunders; actor (1941)

Alvin Toffler; writer (1928)

Dick Tracy; comic strip character (1931)

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World Cups, Boxing Matches and Fairgrounds

Any England fan (football) will tell you of the years of hurt, failed dreams and fantasies of world cups that have come to naught. We seem to get so close, then lose on penalties. To be honest if I was the England manager, I would have my team training consisting of nothing but taking penalties for eight hours a day. We had one, brief, beautiful bright spot in 1966. Hosting the tournament at home, we started a bit slow, but then hit our stride and as any fan will tell you, beat Germany in the final, which made it all the more satisfying. What many fans won't know is the part the fairground played in our victory. The Charlton Boys The linchpins of the England team were a couple of Northern lads called Charlton. Bobby and Jackie to be precise. Hailing from the mining town of Ashington, they hailed from a family with deep connection to footballing fame. Their mother Cissie, was from the Milburn family. A number of her cousins played professionally, including the legendary wor Jackie. Jackie Milburn a legend of Newcastle United and England fame. What has any of this got to do with the fairground industry you might ask? Well, in 1934 a certain young man named Bob Charlton wanted to marry his sweetheart. Unfortunately with times being hard in the North East he didn't have the money for a ring. Fortunately for him he wasn't much of a footballer, but he was a handy boxer. At that time the travelling funfairs had boxing booths, where members of the public could enter, and if they lasted three rounds would win a cash prize. Bob managed the three rounds, won the money to buy a wedding ring, and proposed to Cissie Milburn. Bob and Cissie went on to have four boys, including Jack and Bobby, who ended up in the England team in 66, and, well the rest is world cup history. Cisse with Jackie and Bobby Read the full article

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Décembre MMXXII

Films

Détective privé (Harper) (1966) de Jack Smight avec Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Julie Harris, Shelley Winters et Pamela Tiffin

Le Grand Sommeil (The Big Sleep) (1946) de Howard Hawks avec Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone et Peggy Knudsen

Rebecca (1940) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce et Reginald Denny

Le Baron de l'écluse (1960) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Micheline Presle, Jacques Castelot, Aimée Mortimer, Jean Constantin, Blanchette Brunoy et Jean Desailly

La Femme d'à côté (1981) de François Truffaut avec Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Henri Garcin, Michèle Baumgartner : Arlette Coudray et Véronique Silver

De la part des copains (Cold Sweat) (1970) de Terence Young avec Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason, Jill Ireland, Jean Topart et Michel Constantin

Un Américain à Paris (An American in Paris) (1951) de Vincente Minnelli avec Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary et Nina Foch

L'Odyssée de l'African Queen (The African Queen) (1951) de John Huston avec Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull et Theodore Bikel

L'Arnaqueur (The Hustler) (1961) de Robert Rossen avec Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason et George C. Scott et Myron McCormick

L'Express du colonel Von Ryan (Von Ryan's Express) (1965) de Mark Robson avec Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni et Edward Mulhare

L'Adorable Voisine (Bell, Book and Candle) (1958) de Richard Quine avec James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold et Elsa Lanchester

Hannibal (Annibale) (1959) de Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia et Edgar G. Ulmer avec Victor Mature, Rita Gam, Mario Girotti et Carlo Pedersoli, Gabriele Ferzetti et Milly Vitale

Cléopâtre (Cleopatra) (1963) de Joseph L. Mankiewicz avec Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Pamela Brown, George Cole et Martin Landau

Astérix et Cléopâtre (1968) de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo avec Roger Carel, Jacques Morel, Micheline Dax, Lucien Raimbourg, Pierre Tornade et Bernard Lavalette

Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1973) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Frank Finlay, Christopher Lee, Geraldine Chaplin, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Faye Dunaway et Charlton Heston

On l'appelait Milady (The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge) (1974) de Richard Lester avec Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York, Raquel Welch, Christopher Lee et Faye Dunaway

Salomon et la Reine de Saba (Solomon and Sheba) (1959) de King Vidor avec Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, George Sanders, Marisa Pavan, Finlay Currie et David Farrar

Avatar : La Voie de l'eau (Avatar: The Way of Water) (2022) de James Cameron avec Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Britain Dalton, Chloe Coleman et Stephen Lang

Fantômas (1964) d'André Hunebelle avec Jean Marais, Raymond Pellegrin, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam, Robert Dalban et Marie-Hélène Arnaud

Fantômas se déchaîne (1965) d'André Hunebelle avec Louis de Funès, Jean Marais, Mylène Demongeot, Jacques Dynam et Robert Dalban

Derrick contre Superman (Eine grosse Fünf) (1992) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Patrick Burgel et Évelyne Grandjean

La Classe américaine : Le Grand Détournement (1993) de Michel Hazanavicius et Dominique Mézerette avec Christine Delaroche, Evelyne Grandjean, Marc Cassot, Patrick Guillemin, Raymond Loyer et Jean-Claude Montalban

Séries

Inspecteur Barnaby Saison 7, 21, 22, 20, 10

Les Femmes de paille - Le monstre du lac - Epouvantables épouvantails - Les Lions de Causton - La Randonnée de la mort - La monnaie de leur pièce - Le couperet de la justice - Les Sorcières d'Angel's Rise

Friends Saison 1, 2, 3

Celui qui déménage - Celui qui est perdu - Celui qui a un rôle - Celui avec George - Celui qui lave plus blanc - Celui qui est verni - Celui qui a du jus - Celui qui hallucine - Celui qui parle au ventre de sa femme - Celui qui singeait - Celui qui était comme les autres - Celui qui aimait les lasagnes - Celui qui fait des descentes dans les douches - Celui qui avait un cœur d'artichaut - Celui qui pète les plombs - Celui qui devient papa : 1re partie - Celui qui devient papa : 2e partie - Celui qui gagnait au poker - Celui qui a perdu son singe - Celui qui a un dentiste carié - Celui qui avait un singe - Celui qui rêve par procuration - Celui qui a failli rater l'accouchement - Celui qui fait craquer Rachel - Celui qui a une nouvelle fiancée - Celui qui détestait le lait maternel - Celui qui est mort dans l'appart du dessous - Celui qui avait viré de bord - Celui qui se faisait passer pour Bob - Celui qui a oublié un bébé dans le bus - Celui qui tombe des nues - Celui qui a été très maladroit - Celui qui cassait les radiateurs - Celui qui se dédouble - Celui qui n'apprécie pas certains mariages - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 1re partie - Celui qui retrouve son singe : 2e partie - Celui qui a failli aller au bal de promo - Celui qui a fait on ne sait quoi avec Rachel - Celui qui vit sa vie - Celui qui remplace celui qui part - Celui qui disparaît de la série - Celui qui ne voulait pas partir - Celui qui se met à parler - Celui qui affronte les voyous - Celui qui faisait le lien - Celui qui attrape la varicelle - Celui qui embrassait mal - Celui qui rêvait de la princesse Leia - Celui qui a du mal à se préparer - Celui qui avait la technique du câlin - Celui qui ne supportait pas les poupées - Celui qui bricolait - Celui qui se souvient - Celui qui était prof et élève - Celui qui avait pris un coup sur la tête - Celui pour qui le foot c'est pas le pied - Celui qui fait démissionner Rachel - Celui qui ne s'y retrouvait plus - Celui qui était très jaloux - Celui qui persiste et signe - Celui que les prothèses ne gênaient pas - Celui qui vivait mal la rupture - Celui qui a survécu au lendemain

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#92 : Kane tombe dans un traquenard ! - #93 : The Brothers of Destruction à la ECW ! - #94 : Edge, Kofi, Shelton : Catch Attack représent !" - #95 : Tac Tac c'est l'anniversaire d'Ichtou ! (feat. David Jouan)

The Rookie Saison 4

Dénouement - Toc toc toc - Les trois quêtes - Tir à vue - Témoins à abattre - Un meurtre pour de vrai - Négociation - Traîtres - Simone - Enervo

The Crown Saison 5

Comme un déjà vu - Le système - Mou Mou - Annus horribilis - Des précautions salutaires - La Maison Ipatiev - No woman's land - Une vraie poudrière - Couple numéro 31 - Déclassement

Columbo Saison 4, 3

Inculpé de meurtre - Play Back - Candidat au crime

Affaires Sensibles

Leonarda, l'adolescente qui a défié le président

Meurtres au paradis

Le fantôme de Noël

Spectacles

Bénabar : tournée des indociles (2022) au Cirque d'Amiens

Alain Souchon au Dôme de Paris (2022)

The Glenn Miller Orchestra Live at the Avalon Theatre (2021)

L'orchestre fait son cinéma au Zénith de Pau (2013)

Livres

La vengeance du Chat de Phillipe Geluck

Nota Bene, Tome 5 : La Mythologie Grecque de Benjamin Brillaud, Mathieu Mariolle, Phil Castaza et Joël Odone

Détective Conan, Tome 3 de Gôshô Aoyama

Mémoires d'un gros mytho de François Rollin et Stéphane Trapier

OSS 117 : Gâchis à Karachi de Jean Bruce

Tatiana K. Tome 3 : Le stygmate de Longinus de François Corteggiani et Emanuele Barison

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne

Kaamelott Tome 9 : Les renforts maléfiques de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

The Clash en BD de Jean-Philippe Gonot et Gaëts

Le Voyage du Père Noël des Editions Korrigan

Astérix Tome24 : Astérix chez les Belges de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

Lucky Luke Tome 56 : Le ranch maudit de Morris, Claude Guylouis et Michel Janvier

[yuniesaanja]

$1.36 Only! ~ Signed Jackie Jack Charlton Leeds United FC Football Autograph Book Page 1960s, Professional Soccer Jersey for Sale, C001, Authentic Soccer Jerseys, Signed Soccer Merchandise, Signed Soccer Jerseys, Official Soccer Jersey BUY HERE!

[markwatkinsreviews]

BOOK REVIEW: SUMMER OF ‘63 by Gary Edwards (2022)

Don Revie’s biggest successes came in the 1970s, certainly at club level, but not so much for country (managing England). At Leeds United, firm foundations were laid in the sixties, particularly in the Summer Of ‘63, the title of Gary Edwards’s new book, with a Foreword by actor, Ralph Ineson.

Revie was a man with a plan and turned a damned united from a struggling Second Division team into a smart, First Division outfit. A unique playing style combining magic moves with dirty tackles.

Middlesbrough-born, “The Don” , was a born-winner, being a top player  - winning Footballer Of The Year in 1954 - and building a new team at Elland Road in his spitting image thanks to the loyal likes of talents such as Billy Bremmer, Jackie Charlton, Terry Cooper, Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter and “hotshot” Peter Lorimer.

Revie retired from the beautiful game in 1984; passing away in 1989, aged 61. Leicester City, Hull City, Manchester City, Sunderland and Leeds United his striking clubs.

Gary Edwards utilises his private access to various archive material (telegrams, photos, scrapbooks) and makes them public in a very readable dossier of his own, covering league and cup runs. Released on PITCH on 31 October, 2022.

Rating: 8.5/10

https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/summer-63

Mark Watkins, Dare radio, 3 December, 2022.

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Jackie Charlton RIP [8th May 1935 – 10th July 2020] 

[bookloversofbath]

The Day a Team Died :: Frank Taylor

The Day a Team Died :: Frank Taylor

The Day a Team Died :: Frank Taylor soon to be presented for sale on the excellent BookLovers of Bath web site! London: The Soccer Book Club, 1960, Hardback in dust wrapper. Includes: Black & white photographs; Appendices (4); From the cover: February 6th, 1958, was the saddest day in British Sport the day when death came at the end of a runway at Munich Reim Airport to eight Manchester United…

[hunblarity]

Aktuális állás és linkek a többi szavazásra itten

[gerec]

First, what-if and ending (any project of yours of your choice)

FIRST — the first two sentences of my current project

This is from a prompt I got from @ikeracity months ago that I’m still working on...sorry for the delay but I’m on it and you’ll see it soon lol!!! 

Prompt: Charles and Erik were childhood friends before one of them got famous for whatever reason and they drifted apart. A chance encounter brings them back together!

They’re just sitting down to dinner when the doorbell rings, surprising Erik as he’s about to make a giant dent in his mother’s kugel. Everyone he knows is already here – to celebrate his birthday, Edie’s orders – and he can’t imagine who else could possibly be at the door.

“I’ll get it,” Ruth shouts, bolting out of the dining room like her feet are on fire, which is – not that surprising, since she’s been buzzing with anticipation all night. Erik would think she had some sort of surprise planned for him, if it wasn’t widely known that he hates surprises, almost as much as he hates getting presents for his birthday. 

WHAT IF — i will pick an important choice or event in my current project and write three sentences (or more?) about if it’d gone done differently

This is from Chapter 7 of The Master of Charlton Park where Erik interrupts Charles and Steve’s wedding :D

“Those whom God hath joined together,” Father Michael intoned, “let no man put asunder.”

“No!”

They turned as one towards the front of the church, an audible gasp running through the pews as Erik half stumbled to the end of the aisle, still trying to catch his breath. Stunned by his sudden appearance, and with the air squeezed from his lungs, Charles could only stare as his lover made his way ever closer, uncaring of the loud whispers that erupted from the assembled guests.

“Please, Charles,” Erik said, eyes desperate and pleading for - perhaps understanding, or forgiveness - he didn’t rightly know. “Please you can’t. I have something to tell you. I’m so sorry but it’s of the utmost importance and it can not wait.”

In his mind, Charles had imagined this very moment; that Erik could come to stop the wedding, and profess his love in such a grand gesture, without any thought to consequences or propriety. But the elation he expected had instead been replaced with dread, for how could this be anything but mortifying for Steve, and uncomfortable for their friends and family, most of whom had no idea of his relationship with the Earl beyond that of a simple surrogacy arrangement?

“Charles.”

Steve’s face was ashen, though he only clutched Charles’ lightly on the arm to draw his attention as he said, “Perhaps you and the Earl should speak in private.”

“I don’t--”

“Go,” Steve urged again, smile soft and sad as he kissed the back of Charles’ hand. “Go, and I’ll be waiting here for your return.”

THE END — i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it

The only ending I’ve got written is for Gods or Mortals Part 2 if you can believe it lol, and there’s no way I can post any part of it without giving everything away! So, if there’s a particular fic anyone wants to know the ending of than please feel free to shoot me an ask and I’ll either write a few sentences or tell you overall what happens...

no excuses writing meme, askbox version

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 10.4

Beer Birthdays

Jacob Gimlich (1845)

Maureen Ogle (1953)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Rachel Leigh Cook; actor (1979)

Brendan Gill; writer (1914)

Jean-Francois Millet; artist (1814)

Liev Schreiber; actor (1967)

Alicia Silverstone; actor (1976)

Famous Birthdays

Louis Arbogast; French mathematician (1759)

Armand Assante; actor (1949)

Roy Blount Jr.; writer (1941)

Jackie Collins; writer (1941)

Terence Conran; English designer (1931)

Luis Cranach "the Younger" (1515)

Jim Fielder; rock bassist (1947)

Vitaly Ginzburg; Russian physicist (1916)

Rutherford B. Hayes; 19th U.S. President (1822)

Charlton Heston; actor (1924)

Sam Huff; New York Giants MLB (1934)

Buster Keaton; comedian, actor (1895)

Jan Murray; comedian, television host (1917)

Giovanni Piranesi; Italian artist (1720)

Frederic Remington; artist (1861)

Anne Rice; writer (1941)

Damon Runyan; writer (1884)

Susan Sarandon; actor (1946)

Lori Saunders; actor (1941)

Alvin Toffler; writer (1928)

Dick Tracy; comic strip character (1931)

[newmanspaul]

OLD HOLLYWOOD STARS & THEIR ZODIAC SIGNS

Aries: Gregory Peck, Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, William Holden, Doris Day, Anthony Perkins, Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller, Billie Holiday, Karl Malden, Warren Beatty, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Lon Chaney, Steve McQueen, Ed Begley, Melvyn Douglas, Alec Guinness, Leslie Howard, Jayne Mansfield

Taurus: Jimmy Stewart, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Don Rickles, Orson Welles, Tyrone Power, Rudolph Valentino, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Shirley Temple, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Ella Fitzgerald, Lionel Barrymore, Phil Silvers, Jack Klugman, Harold Lloyd, Mary Astor, Simone Simon, Margaret Sullavan, Eve Arden

Gemini: Judy Garland, Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Tony Curtis, Rosemary Clooney, Douglas Fairbanks, Burl Ives, Al Jolson, Stan Laurel, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, Rosalind Russell, Hattie McDaniel, Priscilla Lane, Josephine Baker, Jeanette MacDonald, Peggy Lee

Cancer: Ginger Rogers, Eva Marie Saint, Natalie Wood, Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Lena Horne, Jimmy Cagney, Milton Berle, Yul Brynner, Peter Lorre, Red Skelton, Jane Russell, Gina Lollobrigida, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger

Leo: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Mae West, Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, Esther Williams, Walter Brennan, Robert Mitchum, Louis Armstrong, Peter O’Toole, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Alfred Hitchcock, Maureen O’Hara, Lucille Ball, Shelley Winters, Dolores del Rio

Virgo: Lauren Bacall, Gene Kelly, Sophia Loren, Claudette Colbert, Greta Garbo, Donald O’Connor, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lawford, Fredric March, James Coburn, Fred MacMurray, Peter Sellers, Raquel Welch, George Chakiris, Vera Miles

Libra: Jean Arthur, Carole Lombard, Montgomery Clift, Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Charlton Heston, Mickey Rooney, Lillian Gish, Groucho Marx, Buster Keaton, Bela Lugosi, George C. Scott, Lenny Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson, Joan Fontaine, Brigitte Bardot, June Allyson, Julie London

Scorpio: Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Vivien Leigh, Burt Lancaster, Gene Tierney, Grace Kelly, Claude Rains, Joel McCrea, Johnny Carson, Burgess Meredith, Hedy Lamarr, Eleanor Powell, Veronica Lake

Sagittarius: Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr, Edward G. Robinson, Rita Moreno, Lee Remick, Boris Karloff, Lee J. Cobb, Ricardo Montalban, Irene Dunne, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Grahame, Betty Grable, Julie Harris

Capricorn: Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, Ethel Merman, Eartha Kitt, Janet Leigh, Lew Ayres, Ray Bolger, Sal Mineo, Danny Kaye, Oliver Hardy, Oscar Levant, Ray Milland, Elvis Presley, Jane Wyman, Kay Francis, Barbara Rush

Aquarius: Kathryn Grayson, James Dean, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Lana Turner, Kim Novak, Ronald Colman, Ernest Borgnine, Randolph Scott, Vera-Ellen, Donna Reed, Jack Lemmon, John Barrymore, George Burns, Arthur Kennedy, Cesar Romero, Jean Simmons, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Pisces: Jerry Lewis, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Harlow, Nat King Cole, Sidney Poitier, Cyd Charisse, Lee Marvin, Jackie Gleason, Edward Everett Horton, David Niven

[missmaxine2001]

Watchmen (2009) Review

This movie is the best movie ever... if you never touched the comic. in the off chance you have, then this movie is an impressive opening montage with a god awful rest of the movie that sticks so slavishly to the panels of Moore and Gibbons original comic, that any minute change feels out of left field. Take for example how the book portrays violence versus this film. The book's uses violence sparingly, so when it is violent it is shocking. While in Snyder's film the violence is incredibly prevalent, so when it gets to those scenes from the comics, there's no weight to them.

I think the biggest reason as to why this movie fails is simply this, Zack Snyder does not understand Watchmen. Now I don't mean that in the condescending way to imply Snyder isn't intelligent, You can miss the point of something and still be incredibly intelligent. The biggest area in which I feel this is exemplified is in the way Snyder portrays the character of Rorschach.

To explain this line of thinking, I must provide some background on the history of the characters. In 1983, DC Comics acquired a line of characters previously owned by the defunct Charlton Comics. Some of these characters namely Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Nightshade, The Question (alongside Thunderbolt and Peacemaker) were created by Steve Ditko, the co-creator of Spider-Man (Thunderbolt and Peacemaker were not created by Ditko). Initially, Moore wanted to make a miniseries featuring the characters but DC wanted to integrate them into the mainline continuity, So Moore instead created characters that were inspired by the Charlton characters. Namely the character of the Question, a hardnosed investigative journalist that told people the truth even when they didn't want to (allowing Ditko to have a soapbox for his right leaning version of libertarianism called Objectivism), became Rorschach a diminutive, sexual stunted, mentally unstable, bigoted lunatic who entrusts his life story to the Watchmen equivalent of Breitbart News. Moore intended Watchmen as a hypothetical answer to the question of "what if super heroes were real?" to which Moore answered, they would all be assholes. Moore wrote Rorschach as the one you should not be "like", you're not supposed to "like" any of them, but especially not him (you can still like Rorschach, just not idolize or look up to him). And what did Snyder, a Libertarian in his own right, do with Rorschach? He made him homeless Batman in a sense, toning down his Journal rants, as well as the right leanings of the paper Rorschach enjoys. That isn't to say Jackie Earle Haley isn't good as Rorschach, hell he's one of the saving graces of the film, but he can't save the characterization of Rorschach.

So to close out, do I like Watchmen? No. Is it because they changed the ending? No, the ending is fine in this film(the giant squid wouldn't quite make sense in the world Snyder created, especially without all the Black freighter subplot which is in the Ultimate Cut.), the deaths have no weight to them, but its fine. The movie is bad because solely one thing, a general misunderstanding of the story.

2/10, That Terry Gilliam Watchmen would have been amazing.