Michael Warburton

87 Candles 🎂 today for comedy great JOHN CLEESE.

3 of 3 A fantastic mini-Documentary looking at the last big pre-JAWS action blockbuster by ‘The Master of Disaster’ Irwin Allen THE MAKING OF THE TOWERING INFERNO #SteveMcQueen #PaulNewman #FayeDunaway #WilliamHolden #FredAstaire

2 of 3 A fantastic mini-Documentary looking at the last big pre-JAWS action blockbuster by ‘The Master of Disaster’ Irwin Allen THE MAKING OF THE TOWERING INFERNO #SteveMcQueen #PaulNewman #FayeDunaway #WilliamHolden #FredAstaire

1 of 3 A fantastic mini-Documentary looking at the last big pre-JAWS action blockbuster by ‘The Master of Disaster’ Irwin Allen THE MAKING OF THE TOWERING INFERNO #SteveMcQueen #PaulNewman #FayeDunaway #WilliamHolden #FredAstaire

A fantastic Trailer for what passed pre-JAWS as a Summer blockbuster. THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) Off a $14m budget it grossed $203m & had an epic fight between Hollywood Agents representing McQueen & Newman over top billing. #PaulNewman #SteveMcQueen

MORGAN FREEMAN recites Nelson Mandela’s favourite poem — ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley — in 2010.

“Just follow the money.” ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976) As true today as it’s always been. #RobertRedford #HalHolbrook #film #movie #cinema

Redford, Warden, Hoffman & Robards ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN (1976)

“I don't believe this story. Doesn't make sense.” ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (1976) For my money the greatest Political-Thriller ever made and one of my favourite movies of all time. #JohnMcMartin #JasonRobards #JackWarden #AlanJPakula

Audrey Hepburn during shooting of ‘How To Steal A Million’ — Paris, 1965 📷 by Terry O’Neill

“Get your brains together, get educated and get a trade.” The Greatest —MUHAMMAD ALI — tells Dick Cavett in 1974 that he & Joe Frazier were special, rare, but the way to really ‘win’ is to get learning and get a career.

Remembering iconic pop artist - ROY LICHTENSTEIN — born 103yrs ago today.

DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today — converted the garage of his house in Carmarthenshire into his writing shed, and it’s been kept the way it was when he worked in there.

Michael Sheen with DYLAN THOMAS' — born 112yrs ago today — “Do not go gentle into that good night”.

One of our finest purveyors of the spoken word - Michael Sheen - performing the poetry of fellow countryman DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today — in UNDER MILK WOOD (1954)

Remembering DYLAN THOMAS — born 112yrs ago today in Swansea, Wales

“The legend is that if you're given to lying, you put your hand in there it'll be bitten off.” ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) This iconic moment was sprung on Audrey, so her shocked reaction was totally for real.

‘BEYOND THE FRINGE’ — starring PETER COOK, DUDLEY MOORE, ALAN BENNETT & JONATHAN MILLER — opened on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre 64yrs ago today.

Remembering the Poet, Novelist & Short Story Writer — SYLVIA PLATH — born 94yrs ago today.

MARTIN SCORSESE’s wonderful documentary on his great friend FRAN LEBOWITZ — 76 Candles 🎂 today. PUBLIC SPEAKING (2010)

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.” 76 Candles 🎂 today for one of my favourite humans — FRAN LEBOWITZ

One of my favourite publicity stills of all time. THE COMEDY OF TERRORS (1963) 🎃 Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, and Basil Rathbone

This was a MASSIVE hit, raking in over $173m — that’s nearly $2.4billion in today’s money — off just a $2.2m budget, making it one of the highest-grossing Movies of all time (when adjusted for inflation). LOVE STORY (1970) It was also nominated for 7 Oscars.

This was a MASSIVE hit, raking in over $173m — that’s nearly $2.4billion in today’s money — off just a $2.2m budget, making it one of the highest-grossing Movies of all time (when adjusted for inflation). LOVE STORY (1970) It was also nominated for 7 Oscars.

HARRISON FORD had a deleted cameo in Steven Spielberg’s E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982) playing Elliott’s school principal. Ford’s face was obscured and Spielberg cut the scene concerned Ford’s fame would distract from the childlike perspective.

Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was released on VHS and LaserDisc in the U.S. 38yrs ago today, 6yrs after its 1982 theatrical debut. It sold over 14 million units, becoming one of the best-selling home video releases of the era.

Walt Disney’s first TV show debuted on ABC 72yrs ago today. DISNEYLAND (1954-61)

Raquel Welch — ‘Hannie Caulder’ (1971)

“What's it all about?” ALFIE (1966) The movie that really put Caine on the Hollywood map garnered 5 Oscar nom's including one for Caine for Best Actor.

Joan “Mrs. Pepsi” Crawford advertising Royal Crown Cola in 1944.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Joan Crawford in 1930 📷 by Nickolas Muray

Still the best definition of Comedy I’ve ever come across.

If you love Comedy & Comedians then you’ll love this documentary about the comedy world’s “inside” joke — as told by so many of the greatest stand-up comics of all time it’s crazy. THE ARISTOCRATS (2005) (God knows how many times I’ve watched this)

‘The Jonad Files’ VEEP (2012-2019) Jonah Ryan’s nicknames are read out at a Congressional Hearing …

The late great SIDNEY LUMET on why he’s so angry with FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA and The Godfather’s I & II

THE PROFESSIONALS (1977-83)

12yr old Audrey Hepburn in 1941

12 ANGRY MEN (1957) Henry Fonda Lee J. Cobb Ed Begley E.G. Marshall Jack Warden Martin Balsam John Fiedler Edward Binns Jack Klugman Joseph Sweeney George Voskovec Robert Webber

“It cost six dollars.” 12 ANGRY MEN (1957) #HenryFonda #SidneyLumet

ANTON WOLBROOK’s brilliant monologue from Powell & Pressburger’s epic THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943)

BRIAN DE PALMA on modern filmmaking and why movies look so much worse than they used to.

The late great director Miloš Forman tells the extraordinary tale of how F. Murray Abraham landed the coveted and subsequently life-changing part of ‘Salieri’ in AMADEUS (1984).

The late great ROBERT FORSTER with the fantastic story of how QUENTIN TARANTINO, the Silver Spoon Diner and “Jackie Brown” (1997) saved his career and changed his life forever.

“This is what we always do we go in with our ideals and we ‘change the world’ and then we leave. We always leave. But that ball though, it keeps on bouncin’.” CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (2007) #TomHanks #MikeNichols

LOU REED in 1983 trashing The Beatles (and British music in general). But Reed was well known for being a contrarian, anti-establishment, bipolar & changed his mind on The Fab Four and their solo work (especially John’s) regularly, so for me this is more hilarious than anything.

The late great Tom Wilkinson’s brilliant monologue opens a real favourite of mine. MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) #GeorgeClooney #TonyGilroy

If you love HOLLYWOOD, if you love HOLLYWOOD history, if you love the dark underbelly of HOLLYWOOD - then you’ll love SUNSET STRIP (2012) A terrific documentary on that very special 1.5 miles of Sunset Blvd. Even better, it’s free on YouTube.

The great LILY TOMLIN talks about working with RICHARD PRYOR on the iconic “Juke and Opal” piece for her TV special ‘The Lily Tomlin Show’ in 1973. Pryor once said of Tomlin — “We are soul mates.”

Alan Shore — brilliantly played by one of my favourite Actors, JAMES SPADER — takes apart Scientology in BOSTON LEGAL (2008)