From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #180 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, September 3 2011 Volume 15 : Number 180 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger [kwil ] Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger [helen@triffidbait.ca] Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger [taxi2hb ] Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger [kwil ] Re: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V15 #178 [Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Labyrinth is great! The Aspel show had a great ident as i recall: Schwarzenegger Stallone Willis and Ferry (with an accompanying still of the three tough guys and Ferry squeezed to the edge of frame). J - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner To: Avalon Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:02 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Ferry was cast in Cliffhanger on the premise that every US movie at that time had to have a British villain (think Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, et al). Stallone reputedly got cold feet about him as he had been warned that rock stars in movies were 'bad mogambo' (and if you've seen Hearts of Fire, Freejack or Labyrinth it's hard to argue otherwise). Ferry was canned and Christopher Walken was given the Eric Qualen role but quit at the start of filming to be replaced by John Lithgow. Actually the movie isn't bad but maybe it's better that we didn't see BF chummying up with 'that bloke out of Eastenders' or falling to his death in a helicopter crash or worst of all being called Eric... There's an interesting codicil to the story. Two months before Cliffhanger was released in 1993, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis were promoting the opening of their Planet Hollywood restaurant in London and appeared on Aspel and Company, an ITV chat show hosted by Michael Aspel. Bryan Ferry was booked as the musical act, performing a really rather good, if mimed, version of 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow'. An ironic choice in the circumstances. Presumably there was a certain chill in the Green Room that night. Anyway the Hollywood big shots, clad in PH merchandise, practically took over the programme (Aspel started reading the restaurant menu, I have it on tape somewhere) and the show was later reprimanded by the TV regulators for the shameless plugging of their product. Aspel was so disenchanted by it all he quit as a chat show host. Chris ________________________________ From: Andrew Shearer To: avalon avalon Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 21:42 Subject: RE: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I think he was auditioned for Cliffhangar but Stallone felt he couldn't act. Also seem to remember him talking about Bond in Arena about '88 time and he said it was too camp and that life was too short. (All from memory so I could be wrong) Andrew _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:00:22 +0000 From: helen@triffidbait.ca Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I agree - Labyrinth is a great little movie! Not exactly high art, but fun. I think I'll watch it again this weekend. "I think I'll call him Jareth. He's got my eyes". Great line from Bowie! And as for being called "Eric"; whilst I see Chris' point that BF doesn't really look like an Eric, being called Eric hasn't done Eric Idle (one of the greatest Geordies of all time) any harm. Better than being called "Sly"! Back to lurking... "Sent from my highly addictive gizmo" - -----Original Message----- From: kwil Sender: owner-avalon@smoe.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:35:55 To: Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Labyrinth is great! The Aspel show had a great ident as i recall: Schwarzenegger Stallone Willis and Ferry (with an accompanying still of the three tough guys and Ferry squeezed to the edge of frame). J - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner To: Avalon Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:02 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Ferry was cast in Cliffhanger on the premise that every US movie at that time had to have a British villain (think Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, et al). Stallone reputedly got cold feet about him as he had been warned that rock stars in movies were 'bad mogambo' (and if you've seen Hearts of Fire, Freejack or Labyrinth it's hard to argue otherwise). Ferry was canned and Christopher Walken was given the Eric Qualen role but quit at the start of filming to be replaced by John Lithgow. Actually the movie isn't bad but maybe it's better that we didn't see BF chummying up with 'that bloke out of Eastenders' or falling to his death in a helicopter crash or worst of all being called Eric... There's an interesting codicil to the story. Two months before Cliffhanger was released in 1993, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis were promoting the opening of their Planet Hollywood restaurant in London and appeared on Aspel and Company, an ITV chat show hosted by Michael Aspel. Bryan Ferry was booked as the musical act, performing a really rather good, if mimed, version of 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow'. An ironic choice in the circumstances. Presumably there was a certain chill in the Green Room that night. Anyway the Hollywood big shots, clad in PH merchandise, practically took over the programme (Aspel started reading the restaurant menu, I have it on tape somewhere) and the show was later reprimanded by the TV regulators for the shameless plugging of their product. Aspel was so disenchanted by it all he quit as a chat show host. Chris ________________________________ From: Andrew Shearer To: avalon avalon Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 21:42 Subject: RE: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I think he was auditioned for Cliffhangar but Stallone felt he couldn't act. Also seem to remember him talking about Bond in Arena about '88 time and he said it was too camp and that life was too short. (All from memory so I could be wrong) Andrew _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:43:03 -0700 (PDT) From: taxi2hb Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Here's another one that agree I like the movies Bowie played in They are interesting enough, worth to watch at I think Bowie is a better actor than Ferry He (Bowie) has a good mimicry Frank ________________________________ From: "helen@triffidbait.ca" To: Avalon List Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I agree - Labyrinth is a great little movie! Not exactly high art, but fun. I think I'll watch it again this weekend. "I think I'll call him Jareth. He's got my eyes". Great line from Bowie! And as for being called "Eric"; whilst I see Chris' point that BF doesn't really look like an Eric, being called Eric hasn't done Eric Idle (one of the greatest Geordies of all time) any harm. Better than being called "Sly"! Back to lurking... "Sent from my highly addictive gizmo" - -----Original Message----- From: kwil Sender: owner-avalon@smoe.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:35:55 To: Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Labyrinth is great! The Aspel show had a great ident as i recall: Schwarzenegger Stallone Willis and Ferry (with an accompanying still of the three tough guys and Ferry squeezed to the edge of frame). J - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner To: Avalon Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:02 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Ferry was cast in Cliffhanger on the premise that every US movie at that time had to have a British villain (think Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, et al). Stallone reputedly got cold feet about him as he had been warned that rock stars in movies were 'bad mogambo' (and if you've seen Hearts of Fire, Freejack or Labyrinth it's hard to argue otherwise). Ferry was canned and Christopher Walken was given the Eric Qualen role but quit at the start of filming to be replaced by John Lithgow. Actually the movie isn't bad but maybe it's better that we didn't see BF chummying up with 'that bloke out of Eastenders' or falling to his death in a helicopter crash or worst of all being called Eric... There's an interesting codicil to the story. Two months before Cliffhanger was released in 1993, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis were promoting the opening of their Planet Hollywood restaurant in London and appeared on Aspel and Company, an ITV chat show hosted by Michael Aspel. Bryan Ferry was booked as the musical act, performing a really rather good, if mimed, version of 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow'. An ironic choice in the circumstances. Presumably there was a certain chill in the Green Room that night. Anyway the Hollywood big shots, clad in PH merchandise, practically took over the programme (Aspel started reading the restaurant menu, I have it on tape somewhere) and the show was later reprimanded by the TV regulators for the shameless plugging of their product. Aspel was so disenchanted by it all he quit as a chat show host. Chris ________________________________ From: Andrew Shearer To: avalon avalon Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 21:42 Subject: RE: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I think he was auditioned for Cliffhangar but Stallone felt he couldn't act. Also seem to remember him talking about Bond in Arena about '88 time and he said it was too camp and that life was too short. (All from memory so I could be wrong) Andrew _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:29:29 -0400 (EDT) From: kwil Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Ferry was great in Breakfast on Pluto. Not sure if he was acting in it though... J I think Bowie is a better actor than Ferry - -----Original Message----- From: taxi2hb To: helen ; Avalon List Sent: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 15:47 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Here's another one that agree I like the movies Bowie played in They are interesting enough, worth to watch at I think Bowie is a better actor than Ferry He (Bowie) has a good mimicry Frank ________________________________ From: "helen@triffidbait.ca" To: Avalon List Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I agree - Labyrinth is a great little movie! Not exactly high art, but fun. I think I'll watch it again this weekend. "I think I'll call him Jareth. He's got my eyes". Great line from Bowie! And as for being called "Eric"; whilst I see Chris' point that BF doesn't really look like an Eric, being called Eric hasn't done Eric Idle (one of the greatest Geordies of all time) any harm. Better than being called "Sly"! Back to lurking... "Sent from my highly addictive gizmo" - -----Original Message----- From: kwil Sender: owner-avalon@smoe.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 04:35:55 To: Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Labyrinth is great! The Aspel show had a great ident as i recall: Schwarzenegger Stallone Willis and Ferry (with an accompanying still of the three tough guys and Ferry squeezed to the edge of frame). J - -----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner To: Avalon Sent: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 23:02 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Cliffhanger Ferry was cast in Cliffhanger on the premise that every US movie at that time had to have a British villain (think Alan Rickman, Jeremy Irons, Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, et al). Stallone reputedly got cold feet about him as he had been warned that rock stars in movies were 'bad mogambo' (and if you've seen Hearts of Fire, Freejack or Labyrinth it's hard to argue otherwise). Ferry was canned and Christopher Walken was given the Eric Qualen role but quit at the start of filming to be replaced by John Lithgow. Actually the movie isn't bad but maybe it's better that we didn't see BF chummying up with 'that bloke out of Eastenders' or falling to his death in a helicopter crash or worst of all being called Eric... There's an interesting codicil to the story. Two months before Cliffhanger was released in 1993, Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis were promoting the opening of their Planet Hollywood restaurant in London and appeared on Aspel and Company, an ITV chat show hosted by Michael Aspel. Bryan Ferry was booked as the musical act, performing a really rather good, if mimed, version of 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow'. An ironic choice in the circumstances. Presumably there was a certain chill in the Green Room that night. Anyway the Hollywood big shots, clad in PH merchandise, practically took over the programme (Aspel started reading the restaurant menu, I have it on tape somewhere) and the show was later reprimanded by the TV regulators for the shameless plugging of their product. Aspel was so disenchanted by it all he quit as a chat show host. Chris ________________________________ From: Andrew Shearer To: avalon avalon Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 21:42 Subject: RE: [AVALON] Cliffhanger I think he was auditioned for Cliffhangar but Stallone felt he couldn't act. Also seem to remember him talking about Bond in Arena about '88 time and he said it was too camp and that life was too short. (All from memory so I could be wrong) Andrew _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon _________________________________________________________________________ __ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 18:59:29 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V15 #178 BF is nine months older than Stallone, but looks in far better shape. Sly is increasingly looking like his character did at the end of Rocky. http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/stallone02.jpg Chris ________________________________ From: Judy Kaufman To: avalon avalon Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2011, 22:06 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V15 #178 I think the true testament to Stallone's acting and singing abilites can be found in the film Rhinestone. If you decide to watch, make sure you have a sick-up bag near to hand. Judy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Shearer" To: "avalon avalon" Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:54 AM Subject: RE: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V15 #178 > lol Maybe Stallone didn't want to be upstaged in the "acting" stakes. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #180 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest