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Lauri Peters

Gene Hackman at an event for The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
How Jon Voight Landed His Big Break in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Guest Blog)
Gene Hackman at an event for The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2003)
Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones. The road was too hard and it was strewn with failure. “No one starts at the top in the theater,” Gene Hackman once said, “and the bottom is a very ugly place.”

Jon Voight was an exception. He was driven, compulsive and uneasy. But he also loved his work and his fellow actors, and he was confident that if he pushed himself hard enough and got a break or two along the way, he would succeed. The break he was waiting for was “Midnight Cowboy.”

More than 50 years later, Voight’s extraordinary talents as an actor have been overshadowed by his extreme right-wing politics — he’s called Donald Trump “our greatest president since Abraham Lincoln...
See full article at The Wrap
  • 3/15/2021
  • by Glenn Frankel
  • The Wrap
Win Summer Holiday on Blu-ray
Summer Holiday, the hit-filled, toe-tapping, feel-good 60s musical starring Cliff Richard is released for the first time on Blu-ray from 26th August 2019. To celebrate we have 3 copies of the movie to give away on Blu-ray, featuring a brand-new restoration of the film, and new interviews included among the Special Features,

Cliff Richard stars as Don, a London Bus mechanic who, along with his friends, strikes up a deal with London Transport to convert a double-decker bus into a hotel on wheels. The gang heads off to Europe for fun in the sun and adventures along the way.

A wonderfully entertaining slice of 60s nostalgia, directed by Peter Yates, and also starring Una Stubbs and Lauri Peters, Summer Holiday features a host of Cliff Richard hits performed by Cliff and The Shadows including ‘Bachelor Boy’, ‘Foot Tapper’, ‘The Next Time’ and the title track ‘Summer Holiday’.

Please note: This competition is...
See full article at HeyUGuys.co.uk
  • 8/28/2019
  • by Competitions
  • HeyUGuys.co.uk
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