cully

It was no later than the mid 70's, perhaps earlier.

Steve, I think the important point here is that they were speeding along in a car when sudden and unexpected overtures are inadvisable.... My friend said he'd had no idea PC was gay and was just plain surprised.I must say, I would have waited until the car had stopped....whether to grope a bloke or bird!

TimR

No eye to eye contact?

That sounds like the scene in The Thief of Baghdad where the princess arrives in her litter and everyone has to run away because no one is allowed to look upon her or they will be instantly killed.

A bit over the top.

batman

Perhaps Kilmer should do a film with this lady ....

I wish I had claws.

TimR

That would bring a quick end to the "keep your eyes on the ground, buddy" policy.

She looks like she would make short work of big Val and still have time to make mincemeat of little Tom before lunch.

Steve Crook

A conflation of two scenes Tim

Criterion just sent me their new DVD of it today although I've only watched some of the extras so far. There's a very good one with Ray Harryhausen and others talking about the special effects.

The scenes your mixing up is June Duprez as the Princess who nobody must look at. But she's on an elephant, in a howdah.

The one in the litter is Mary Morris as Halima, the henchwoman of Jaffar (Conrad Veidt playing a superb villain). Mary is also the multi-armed silver goddess automaton

Steve

TimR

Scratch the litter. Add one elephant.

It's still a litter, though....except that it's an elephant litter, not a human litter. Or words to that effect.

A goddess and an automaton and multi-armed. Triple threat.

She can bring coffee to Val and Tom and hit them with all those arms when they tell her to look away.

Steve Crook

Always deadlier than the male

Steve

1stas

Thanks all - for a good laugh

Marky B

I remember reading an interview with Warren Mitchell,and he said someone came up to him in a restaurant for an autograph and the fan said to him:"I am sorry to bother you," and Mitchell retorted with "Why are you then?".
Perhaps there is a time and place for giving autographsutside a theatre,at book launches,etc,but not in a restaurant where he is clearly wants a private meal with his family.
Ta Ta
Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

catflap

Mitchell spent a lot of time in Australia and was once appearing on stage. When doing publicity for the play he was interviewed over lunch at a restaurant and when the journalist brought up the topic of Alf Garnett, Mitchell picked up his plate and drink and simply moved to another table, refusing to continue the chat.

I heard he could be a cantankerous old git at times.

Harleybloke

When my lad was about 6, I took him to the Oval for a Benson & Hedges match, early season, we were there really early & about half the crowd at the time. Surrey were warming up. A ball was hit to where we were sitting. Graham Thorpe came to field it. My lad, eagley jumping up & down, asked GT for his autograph. A very curt, 'I'm far too busy' was all he got. One sad little boy. I mean not even all the Surrey players were warming up.

What a contrast with David Gower. Posed for photos with both my kids (Poor Chap) signed the bats, asked if anyone else wanted his signature and only when he was sure all was sorted did he wander off to the changing rooms. Top bloke your Gower!!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Bob M.

I saw Jimmy White the snooker player at Gatwick airport some years ago. He was pushing a baggage trolley loaded with bags. A young lad of about 12 years of age approached him with his autograph book at the ready. Jimbo waved his arm in the air at the lad and carried on walking. The kid was visibly very upset. Perhaps our James had just had a long miserable flight and was not himself.

Off the same flight came through a one hit wonder pop star whose name escapes me but his hit number was "I am the one and only". He was mobbed by teeny boppers and he loved it. He signed autographs and posed for photos. In fact I thought it was a put up job.

I also saw Bob Monkhouse at a motorway service station refuse to sign for a young woman. He told her he was not Bob Monkhouse. In the time it took to persuade the girl he was not him, he could have signed several times.

I met George Chisholm, the jazz musician and comedian on a railway platform just a few months before he passed away. I approached him and spoke to him and found him the complete gentleman. He was very pleasent and was genuinely pleased that I recognised him. I was suprised to find that he only lived down the road from me. He was on his way to Doncaster to do a gig.
The train came and he got on it. I never saw him again though he must have walked passed my house to get to his dozens of times. I did a bit of research on him and I was amazed at his life. He played music with the greatest names in the jazz world, both in the U.K and across the Pond in the U.S.A. but he had the grace to spend a few minutes in conversation with a complete stranger on a railway platform.
Respect, George.

"How about dat, a? How about dat?

charliekane

I suppose we all know the Michael Caine story do we ?
He was on his way out to dinner with his wife one night when someone asked for his autograph, which he obligingly gave as the man showered him with 'You're my favourite actor/ loved you in Zulu etc'.
As he handed the book back, the man asked 'Where are you going ?', so MC said he was going out to dinner with his wife.
'I'll come with you,' he said, so that MC had to gently point out that he was looking forward to a quiet evening with his wife, it was a family affair and so on. The man still insisted that he would come along, until MC firmly and finally told him 'no', at which point the man turned suddenly abusive, shouting 'You bloody people, I put you where you are today and this is how you act !' before storming off, tearing up the autograph as he went.
Doesn't do to be famous sometimes, does it ?

christoph404

Its possibly worth mentioning here that the celebrity/autograph hunter relationship changed dramatically after a crazed fan murdered John Lennon outside his home in New York. The murderer had been hanging around Lennons residence for days and Lennon had already chatted to him and signed an autograph. Of course not all autograph hunters are unhinged killers seeking their own 15 minutes of fame but if you are very famous and constantly being approached by strangers for a signature that thought must be at the back of your mind now and again.

funlover

Well the day I saw him PG must have been having an off day as he was thoroughly rude.