Rennie

Michael Rennie aka Klaatu, one of Britain's most underated actors. Rumoured to be turning in his ashes at the moment at the very thought of the remake of TDTESS, reported to be definitely due for release by MGM in the Spring of 2008, with Keanu Reeves due to resurrect the role of the alien.

Any suggestions for the role of Gort?

Carmel

You cheeky so and so

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

Cypher

So Steve and the others were right to duck for cover, but I thought that Steve was being very nice and complimentary. Perhaps he has discovered that you're a physiotherapist? That's really a reason to duck for cover; and I know because I've been married to one for 38 years!

Chris W

"Fetch me another anger therapist!"

Dame Starry

Thanks, Bats - I couldn't seem to find a picture of Peck that 'matched' very well.

Yes, definite resemblence, I think.

YDSL x.

Carmel

He was being complimentary until he mentioned oldand if your wife has been a physio for 38 years you should know how hard we work and the abuse we have to put up with from patients. so i'll have to have a word with her about ungrateful men.

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

Dave Rattigan

Actually, it was your avatar that made me start this thread. I saw the picture and figured it looked most like Nicol Williamson, but thought, Hmm, what sort of person has Nicol Williamson as an avatar? (Not that I've anything against him - just not an obvious choice.) So I thought I'd let everyone explain their avatars for themselves.

Harbottle

I pondered what glamorous British film star I could use as my Britmovie persona, Moore Marriott's Harbottle character was an obvious choice

Sid

Crikey...I thought that was a picture of Jessica Alba....d'oh!

Welease....Bwian!

sippog

Hope I've satisfied your curiosity . . .

I'm glad to see nobody is doing animated movie clip avatars these days. When I still had a dial-up web connection (I'm now a broadband user . . . phew,was that difficult to arrange) I had to have avatars turned off because the pages took too long to load

Carmel

I wish if i looked like her i wouldn't be working in a hospital i'd be living a high life.

Live each day to the full because one day it will be your last.

Daz W

As I was brought up in Barnsley, South Yorkshire Kes has a special place in my heart!

So it had to be Billy Casper!

Darren Whitfield.

image45

Well in the good old days of TV programmes been broadcast at the BBC the programmes needed a clock at the start so the VT operators, control desk supervisor and staff in presentation new when it was going to start so it could be brought into transmission or ‘TX’ at the correct moment. In today’s world these clocks are electronically generated however in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s it was common place to use a Blackboard style one with a mechanical clock attached that would be recorded from the studio floor during the studio day. The production assistant assigned to the programme’s director for that day would most often fill out the production details of the show like department making the programme, channel of broadcast like BBC1 or BBC2 as well as if it was shown in colour, when it was financially budgeted and what format it was recorded on like say 2” Quad videotape in 625 PAL as well as what it was called of course. All this would be accompanied by a countdown from 10 to 3 by the PA before the jump to black at -3 second for the jump to TX so the people at home only see the programme from the correct point on the videotape. Some of the Blackboard VT countdown clocks have banter from the various staff and actors involved in the production that you would never get in today’s world as well as so many also been lost by their respective shows been junked or wiped by the corporation in the days when videotape was re-used. Well I know you are asking where all this detail is, to put it simply you need to know how to read the project numbers and T/R No on the clocks to know all this so to most people they are just an outdated load of numbers before you see a programme. To me they are a source of valuable information that lets me know if an early edit was used for the broadcast version or has this been edited three times by VT since the original edit was put together. Anyway I will stop there as I feel this is becoming an essay rather than what’s my avatar piece

"Seya next time!"

Geronimo

My avatar is Gareth Hughes, the first Welsh Film Star. Sadly, he didn't make any movies in the UK, only in the USA. I am currently writing his biography. You'll find a glimpse at his life at Gareth Hughes - the first Welsh Silent Film Star and missionary

I asked him to look at the body. That's who he is.

Jackdaw

I tend to support outsiders, underdogs ....................... corvines!

silverwhistle

That is excessively cute! I am very fond of corvids!

Since 2000, I have lived in attic flats. When I lived in Cupar, my dining room window and adjacent lamp-post were frequently visited by jackdaws and crows. Some of them would sit there for hours, surveying the street below, and it was possible to have 2-way conversations with them in squawks and chuckles through the window. Jackies are especially endearing, with their inquisitive blue eyes. They are all very clever and amusing. The crows in Church Square, St Andrews, have a habit of 'dancing' around you if you are eating a sandwich on the benches there. They demand to be fed. Far from being "dull and black", as some people think, they are very lovely when the sun catches them: their feathers have all sorts of iridescent shades of blue and purple in them.

Here in Glasgow, my friendly neighbourhood corvids are magpies, who visit the balcony and the roof, and always sound as if they are chuckling to themselves: very handsome birds, with their creamy white, black, and iridescent blue-green feathers.

"Trust me, I'm a doctor...!"