@El Loro posted:Tammy Beaumont in England's cricket test match against Australia has just set a new record for the highest score by an English woman in test cricket, She's currently 195 not out at the tea interval.
The previous English record was set back in February 1935 by Betty Snowball (yes, really)
Would never have guessed that in a million years El
I thought women's cricket was a relatively new sport 
@slimfern posted:Would never have guessed that in a million years El
I thought women's cricket was a relatively new sport
According to the Wiki article on women's cricket, the first recorded match was reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745, a match contested "between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white."
night EL slim moonsieee
Slim, the two standout films on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week are:
Tomorrow at 15.00 "Of Human Bondage" (1933), the film I already mentioned, and
Thursday at 17.45 "Gilda" (1945), one of those films which has been shown on various channels over the years but I don't seem to have mentioned it to you before. Classic film noir and the film which propelled Rita Hayworth from a star to a superstar. Leading man would have been Humphrey Bogart but he turned down that part as he realised that people would be looking at Rita Hayworth rather than him, so Glenn Ford took the part.
@El Loro posted:Slim, the two standout films on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week are:
Tomorrow at 15.00 "Of Human Bondage" (1933), the film I already mentioned, andThursday at 17.45 "Gilda" (1945), one of those films which has been shown on various channels over the years but I don't seem to have mentioned it to you before. Classic film noir and the film which propelled Rita Hayworth from a star to a superstar. Leading man would have been Humphrey Bogart but he turned down that part as he realised that people would be looking at Rita Hayworth rather than him, so Glenn Ford took the part.
Thank you El
@El Loro posted:Slim, the two standout films on the Talking Pictures tv channel during the coming week are:
Tomorrow at 15.00 "Of Human Bondage" (1933), the film I already mentioned, andThursday at 17.45 "Gilda" (1945), one of those films which has been shown on various channels over the years but I don't seem to have mentioned it to you before. Classic film noir and the film which propelled Rita Hayworth from a star to a superstar. Leading man would have been Humphrey Bogart but he turned down that part as he realised that people would be looking at Rita Hayworth rather than him, so Glenn Ford took the part.
Never knew Bogart was a bit of a diva
Rita Hayworth was gorgeous to look at though wasn't she 
@slimfern posted:Never knew Bogart was a bit of a diva
Rita Hayworth was gorgeous to look at though wasn't she
It's not an exaggeration to say that Rita Hayworth's appearance in Gilda was stunning, more than Lauren Bacall's iconic scenes with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Bacall would have got married shortly before "Gilda" was made. It's not impossible that was behind his decision to turn down the role
@El Loro posted:It's not an exaggeration to say that Rita Hayworth's appearance in Gilda was stunning, more than Lauren Bacall's iconic scenes with Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Bacall would have got married shortly before "Gilda" was made. It's not impossible that was behind his decision to turn down the role
Would that be down to his mistrust of himself or his new wife's
night EL moonsieee slim
The 1982 film "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" was a comedy film with Steve Martin which used many clips from noir films of the 1940s including 3 of Humphrey Bogart's films. The idea was clever but I don't rate the film as worth watching.
The best part of the film was the music score bu Miklos Rozsa, his last.
Here is a 4 minute clip of the music played over the end credits - it's audio only and the actual credits aren't seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZFb_WiM9c
@El Loro posted:The 1982 film "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" was a comedy film with Steve Martin which used many clips from noir films of the 1940s including 3 of Humphrey Bogart's films. The idea was clever but I don't rate the film as worth watching.
The best part of the film was the music score bu Miklos Rozsa, his last.
Here is a 4 minute clip of the music played over the end credits - it's audio only and the actual credits aren't seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZFb_WiM9c
I have watched that film El and I though it was quite funny, although Iâm not a Steve Martin fan
BBC have at long last realised that during Wimbledon, it's a good idea for live coverage on BBC Two to switch over to BBC One at 7 pm and continue there to 9 pm (the One Show, Eastenders etc moving to BBC Two. Then at 9pm Today at Wimbledon is on BBC Two with BBC One having other programmes.
It's a long overdue change and may help to reduce the constant shifting or changing of programmes which has been so annoying in previous years.
@El Loro posted:BBC have at long last realised that during Wimbledon, it's a good idea for live coverage on BBC Two to switch over to BBC One at 7 pm and continue there to 9 pm (the One Show, Eastenders etc moving to BBC Two. Then at 9pm Today at Wimbledon is on BBC Two with BBC One having other programmes.
It's a long overdue change and may help to reduce the constant shifting or changing of programmes which has been so annoying in previous years.
Totally agree El âĶmuch more sensible scheduling .
night EL slim moonsieee bazzy
A trailer for a new children's animated film called "Mavka: The Forest Song" being released on 18th July:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMt1pgPIjwk
One might think this is an American film or a Studio Ghibli film. It's not, it's Ukrainian, 7 years in the making.
@El Loro posted:A trailer for a new children's animated film called "Mavka: The Forest Song" being released on 18th July:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMt1pgPIjwk
One might think this is an American film or a Studio Ghibli film. It's not, it's Ukrainian, 7 years in the making.
It does look very similar El
