Literary Agents

Because I'm (slowly) writing a NOVEL, I dug out these Youtubes... I hope they interest some of you too:

NOW HERE'S A BLAST FROM THE PAST
Irving "Swifty" Lazar, legendary Hollywood films and books agent who represented Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noel Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams. interviewed here at Spago's Restaurant, Beverly Hills on Oscars night... It is said that if only he hadn't died in the early 1990s, Random House would never have had the cheek to sue Joan Collins in 1996 over badly written novels. He always said "if you pay a star to write a book, don't expect a professional author" ~~ yes, exactly.

Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict

Watch this film about drug addiction from the UK: 5 parts ~
Thanks to Noah from the USA who flagged this up on his
Junkie ~ heroinitis blog http://nodnodnodout.blogspot.com

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KEITH FLOYD ~ A TRIBUTE

KEITH FLOYD was one of the most classic TV cooks of all time. Here from his best series Floyd On France, is his attempt at a mushroom omelette ~ with "angry dragon lady" "simmering" behind ...



And here's the most classic clip of all. This wasn't a set-up ~ the French-Basque lady was for real! "FLOYD CAN'T COOK!"

Cyst 4: The Final Explosion

The title alone is classic.

I don't know what is most shocking: the pus-volcano on this guy's spotty back ~ or the utter lack of hygeine care in its bursting.

Ooo ~ watch that pus ooze!!

Beautiful Abscess Pus Surgery

Wondrous footage of an abscess being lanced under medical supervision. Man I would love to have a job doing this!

UK Government's Anti-Drug-Driving Commercial ...

DRUG DRIVING IS (QUITE RANDOMLY, IT SEEMS TO ME) THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW OBSESSION ...


"Don't drive home from that rave!"

IT'S ALL IN THE EYES!



I love these "how it was done" films ...

Threads ~ Full Movie

(1984) About nuclear annihilation. Set in Sheffield, UK

If it's not all posted here, see the other segments here:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=joyandian&view=videos

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The Day After

1981 American TV movie about nuclear attack:



Attack segment:

Threads

NUCLEAR CHIC!

This British TV movie from 1984 documents the events and aftermath of a nuclear strike against the northern town of Sheffield:



Dropping the bomb:

Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

"Wir, Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" by "Christiane F", memoir of a teenage heroin addict and prostitute, was a massive bestseller in Europe and is now a set text in German schools.

Bahnhof Zoo was, until recently, Berlin's central railway station. A kind of equivalent (in more ways than one) to London's King's Cross...

Of course my local library doesn't have it. So I'm going to have to order it through a bookshop and plough through the text in German. I asked my druggieworker Maple Syrup, who is Italiana how she learned English and she said reading books is the best way.

For some reason every section except Part 1 is ENGLISH SUBTITLED ~ wahey!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2fvE4aJmQ&feature=PlayList&p=E081BB3E116C56C0&index=0&playnext=1

Some kindly German has posted up all 13 parts of the movie ...

TRAILER:



Überblick of the film, with music: Mad World





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Part 12B Tut mir leid, aber keine Untertitel from here on. Watch this from the end, it makes up the gap between 12 and 13 as posted here
The overlap comes in at about 9 and a half minutes, just before the end, when she's whipping Stotter Max with the flyswatter:



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Deutscher Fernsehbericht ueber der echter Christiane F
German TV report on the life of Christiane F

Esperanto!

I came across Esperanto "many years ago" in the 1980s and even learned a bit. Here's a documentary on the scattered numbers around the world who speak Esperanto fluently:



This "Esperanto TV" broadcast comes from Poland, homeland of Esperanto's creator. The language sounds a lot more natural in this East European accent:



Esperanto is supposed to be spoken with an "Italian accent"; that is, the 5 vowels have the same values as in Italian and word stress is on the penultimate syllable in polysyllabic words or the first syllable in two-syllable words.
This lady really does speak it naturalistically and fluently. This class is about "how to talk on the telephone in Esperanto"

Stephen Fry: Secret Life of a Manic Depressive

MANIC DEPRESSION! Or "bipolar disorder" as it's presently known. It's everywhere nowadays. Everyone seems to have it.

Here's the British actor Stephen Fry's fascinating documentary, featuring Carrie Fisher et al:

SORRY ONLY THE 1ST 2 PLAY NOW. THE OLD LOT OF VIDEOS ON THIS POST GOT TAKEN DOWN...

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Piri Piri!

(Also spelled peri peri.) DOMINO'S PIZZA AD:

Here's where my piri piri obsession was ignited. I eat pizza just like that too...



And here's how to barbecue "piri piri chicken under a brick" from South Africa...

Shutuppa Your Face

Here's the 1980 original by Joe Dolce:



And here performed as movie script by Samuel L Jackson:

Waterloo Bridge

Starring Robert Turner and Vivienne Leigh, here's the full film:

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Brief Encounter

This is one film I'm sure I've not seen but would really like to:



And here's the Victoria Wood parody on the BBC:

Home Levitation

How to levitate!
Easy: the foot furthest away's going on tiptoes. Arms whooeah-hooeah!!~ing enhances floaty effects...


Levitating Magic Trick (Its A Doddle!!) - Watch the best video clips here

Talk to FRANK, UK National Drugs Helpline TV ads:

The National Drugsline is on 0800 776600

THERE'S A DARKER SIDE TO COKE:

HERE'S PABLO, "drugs dog" in the UK national drugsline's "talk to Frank" campaign...



WHY I LOATHE CANNABIS: THE MOST BORING BORE'S DRUG OUT

American 1960s Antidrug Propoganda

THIS IS CLASSIC! Purloined here from't Australian Heroin Diaries blog...

Ultralight Trike Flight

THE BRITS and Kiwis call this "microlight" but because everyone else understands it as "ultralight" I defer to the common comprehension...

... isn't this a fantastic video. The view!!

Wicked Witch of the West telephones ad

I LOVE THIS advert for extras by the Orange mobile phone network...

Miracles in Birds

THIS documentary is absolutely fascinating... well worth a watch:

There seem to be TWO distinct documentaries with the same voice-over artist, so I've put up both...

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THE TWONK WHO POSTED THESE UP WENT AND DISABLED EMBEDDING ONLY ON PART 1 OF THE 4 SO TO SEE IT CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wGAErF4C4U ...

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Microlight and Geese

I've seen pictures of gooseflight from the goose-tamer's perspective (isn't it hilarious the way they honk-honk as they go?) But this is a first from the microlightist's point of view...

Microlight Flight

THIS is something I've ALWAYS wanted to do so bad... In fact it's one of my life's ambitions. If I go to my deathbed without at least having done this once, if not many times and owned the gear (a far better type of gear to own than the one I'm used to...) then I shall have failed...

Talk to FRANK: Nasty Cannabis/Spliff/Puff/Weed...

THIS IS WHY I LOATHE CANNABIS: THE MOST BORING BORE'S DRUG OUT THERE:...

Sleep Disorders

Here's a half-hour film (from America) about sleep disorders... which I haven't seen all of (I nodded off..!)

Norma Stupid on The Price is Right

WOW: I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS: I've actually found the original game show presented by the original Alan Partridge..! (Lesley Crowther.)

This is one programme I vividly remember right down to the first episode (and what chav-tastic 80s hairdos on the women!!)

Norma Stupid was such a legend in her own lunchtime that her name "Norma Stupid" has been a catchphrase in my family ever since...

Opening Bit of First Price is Right 1984

Even the chime from Central TV brought back memories... of Findus Crispy Pancakes... and a time when ITV still meant Independent Television ~ about 14 companies independent and interdependent upon one another, pouring home-made programmes into a common pot, of which Central was just one... How of course ITV has 4 channels (and dropped their news channel, even though they still, by government mandate HAVE to make newsprogrammes every day... worst of both worlds if you ask me. In it's heyday ITN News At Ten with Alistair Burnett and Pamela Armstrong was THEE evening news. They always did longer features on Princess Diana and showed more interesting stuff... now the BBC rules and ITV are trailing miles behind even Rupert Murdoch's Sky.l..



Norma Stupid shows what she's made of

Hum Di Chuke Sanam ~ Nimboda

संगीत सोमवार

From the film Hum Di Chuke Sanam, which means "Straight From the Heart"

The song's called "Nimbooda" and is about "sour lime"... "sour lemons"... some sort of intellectual subcontinental metaphorical allusion...(!!)

This Indian "Bollywood" style music purloined from TutTut's blog

Efterklang Caravan

Not as visually funky and nowhere near as good in tune as Mirador, this also purloined from Let Nature Be...

Efterklang Mirador

Visually very much more funkier and musically a bit better: what oddness! From Let Nature Be blog...

The Price of Heroin

UK documentary clip

There's a Darker Side to Coke

HERE'S PABLO, "drugs dog" in the UK national drugsline's "talk to Frank" campaign...

Carlos and Dadinha

First 10 mins of documentary on a couple dragged down by heroin addiction in Mozambique, East Africa and their progress in kicking the habit... You don't need to see the rest on DVD as they suggest, you'll get the gist of the story from this...

Heroin Addicts Speak

"China" white in the American Midwest, Afghan "brown" in Oslo, Norway... the drug changes colour country to country, town to town: but wherever you go, junkie lives are the same drab grey .......

Austen Powers Goldmember English English

Starring Mike Myers, Michael Caine...

This came on telly the other day; I understood nearly all this scene without glimpsing subtitles ~ oo matron!

Heroin Addicts Speak

Addicts from across the world...

Carlos and Dadinha

35min documentary on a couple dragged down by heroin addiction in Mozambique, East Africa and their progress in kicking the habit...

A Rajastani Jagrata

... whatever the hell a "jagrata" is!!

This purloined from Catvibe's blog...

The Price of Heroin

Why on earth this girl weighs so very little I'm not sure. Heroin alone doesn't do that... crack can, anorexia can, so can HIV so I'm pretty sure something else is going on they're not reporting here...

UK documentary clip

Heroin: American Antidrugs Campaign

THIS IS NOT what heroin does to brain and body. How can I say that? Because millions of people have been given heroin ("diamorphine") in British hospitals~ and survived without their shells broken. It's the most effective painkiller there is.

The rest of this commercial, in my opinion, is pretty much bang-on.

"There's a darker side to coke"

HERE's the TV ad featuring Pablo the "drugs dog"... made for Talk To FRANK ~ the UK National Drugs Helpline

California: High Speed Trains Coming to America At Last¬!

I found this totally at random while searching for an Escaped Horse Trots Through Cinema (while there was a film on!)... Youtube is a bizarre place to be!

Being British I can hardly opine about how countries "should" infrastruct highspeed rail rather than more and more new roads... after all OUR one and only highspeed link's the one running to FRANCE! How embarrassing is that..?!? Anyway THIS is America's one and own fast rail (bullet-train-style) project. God speed the California Express!!