You guys are so lucky to not have Cliff Richard:
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Actually, I believe the Ile de France was borrowed, sunk, and then re-floated (then scrapped) specifically for THE LAST VOYAGE, so I don't think that counts.

I fell in love with Murakami's stuff after buying a second-hand copy of Wild Sheep Chase.  I then tracked down Hard Boiled Wonderland and absolutely loved that, as well.  Since then, however…well, it's been difficult.  He does have a juvenile fascination with sex that crops up regularly between (or astride) parallel…

House of the Devil - blah.  As someone else mentioned, shocks do not equal scares, and this was a classic "spring-loaded cat" moment that existed solely to make the audience jump.  It was about the only thing in this film that did make me feel…well, less bored, so I guess it had its virtues.

I loved Banyon when it was running — for all of its one season.  I loved the 30s look and feel of it, an Forster's world-weary persona.  I've never been a Tarantino fan, but I'll always have respect for giving actors like Forster their due.  And, to this day, I've never seen either Alligator or Jackie Brown.  So what…

Used to love the Girls, but they've been treading water for a while now.  When they should have been all fired up (Bush years, the Iraq war, Katrina) they were sittin' on their back porch writing bucolic love songs and striking occasional empty poses.  Poseidon definitely was their best in a while, particularly the…

Oh, and Roy Wood.  Founder and songwriting genius behind both the Move and the original Electric Light Orchestra (not to mention Wizzard) he's wandered off a bit in the last 20 years, but in his time his unearthly fusion of rock, big-band swing and Beach Boys type harmonies (with classical instruments lending a hand)…

How about Slade?  They were mammoth for a few years here in England in the 70s.  When I left the UK in 1970, they were nobodies; by the time I came back for a visit in 1974 they ruled the charts.  By the time I came back in 1977, I couldn't even find their albums in a record shop. Fickle though Brit taste was, they…

A bit late to the table here, so I haven't read all the comments, but I always go with Peter Hammill.  A darker, more twisted and more difficult Peter Gabriel, the two were label mates but Hammill is very much his own man (ie, difficult) and continues to plough his own furrow.  He and his on again-off again band, Van…

Think how lucky us Brits were to get it as a TV series.  My, my, all this AND socialised medicine…..

He's ripped that cover off from Phil Ochs' live album "Gunfight at Carnegie Hall".  I wonder if that's all he's ripped off from Phil….?

Love that film, but haven't seen it since I was a kid and it played on, I think, WNEW or WPIX in New York.  Running, I should say, at 90 mins, which means 25 bleedin' minutes of adverts!  I must have been far more tolerant of that when I was a kid.  Yes, incredible set design and Karloff, certainly, at his most…

I saw Godspell when it came out and loved it, but it's weird that a lot of the people from the film - Jeff Mylett, Merrell Jackson, Lynne Thigpen, David Haskell — have died before their time, which is both sad and weird.  I saw Victor do "Knight of the Burning Pestle" at Long Wharf in the mid-70s, and he still had…

Gotta say, I've never seen Stop Making Sense but DID see Talking Heads live in about 1979. They were touring "Life During War Time" and playing the Woolman Skating rink as part of the Dr Pepper Summer Music Festival that went on for a while. I didn't really know their music that well, apart from a few songs I'd…

Wendell Corey
It would be good to see a Corey performance where he isn't sozzled.

I've seen bits of W & W on YouTube, and they're okay, but seem to be trying too hard to be funny. I read somewhere that one of the reasons that they didn't achieve any sort of lasting fame was because their films, unlike the Marxes or the 3 Stooges or even the Little Rascals, didn't get picked up for syndication in…

Mind you, the new Van der Graaf Generator album is utterly, utterly brilliant.

I loathed Topographic Oceans for about 30 years, considered it prog suicide with its pretentious lyrics, liner notes and nobody but Anderson and Howe doing much. A couple of years ago, though, I had to take a series of long coach rides between London and Bristol, and had the chance to listen to the whole thing, all…

If I remember, he made quite a latter-day career playing Franklin, showing up as him in airline ads of the time.

Copper Blue was a fantastic album, but I'll admit F.U.E.L. was really poor (and I still can't figure out what he's saying about it in the interview) and live they sacrificed nuance for noise, steamrollering through each song without any sense of dynamic or subtlety. I saw them and it was astonishingly dull.