| Author | Message | ||
     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
It's my birthday today and I have been properly spoilt by Lady P, who has bought me a silver headed cane (so if I end up strolling the Welsh moors I can bash in the head of any werewolf that comes my way, saving him from having to appear in increasingly rubbish sequels where he has to share screen time with other Universdal monsters) and the special edition of a movie that has special romantic meaning for us - Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead. It's been a lovely day & I feel a very, very lucky chap and that's probably quite enough from me about all of that. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Happy birthday, sir. Sounds like a sterling day. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.194.128 |
Happy birthday, me old lad. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.181.107 |
Happy Birthday Lord P.! | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
Hooray! Now please stop waving that cane about, else you'll put someone's eye out. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Happy birthday, Sir Probert. That Kate's a sensation. You two are very lucky people. Sounds like a great day. All the best, John. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Happy birthday, old bean! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Aw, happy birthday, John. Hope you and Kate have had a wonderful day!  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Happy Birthday, Sir! | ||
| Skip (Wolfnoma) Username: Wolfnoma Registered: 07-2010 Posted From: 72.218.208.106 |
Happy Birthday!! | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.166.157 |
Happy birthday, John! Whatever lovely associations City of the Living Dead has for you, I hope they compensate for the film being ten thousand fathoms below Fulci's usual standard. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Happy birthday John! Hope you've had a great time, sir. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.49.118 |
Happy birthday, Lord P! Does the silver headed cane have a hollow centre concealing a silver-tipped sword?  | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
Or a vial of restorative brandy? You do realize that the anniversary of Vincent Price's passing is the 25th of October, don't you? How considerate of him to cling to life for a few hours so that the two of you can have your own days without over-shadowing the other. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Belated happy birthday, my friend! | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.2.67.184 |
Have a great if grim day. | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 81.152.74.159 |
It was a day of anthology films. Vault of Horror in the morning, then lunch at our favourite restaurant in Bristol (with a side jaunt to Forbidden Planet, where we got the Art of Hammer book), then back home for Tales from the Crypt (the Peter Cushing segment made me cry) and finally Torture Garden. Very great and very grim! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.178.82.216 |
Kate - I first saw TALES FROM THE CRYPT at the cinema when I was a lad and found the Peter Cushing segment upsetting - he was such a convincing kindly old gent. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Thanks everyone - I feel even luckier for all the good wishes! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Belated happy birthday, John! My one complaint with the Peter Cushing TALES FROM THE CRYPT segment: I'd heard he won some award for best make-up in that role at the time... and yet you see so very and maddeningly little of him in the film as undead, from what I remember..... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.204.111.238 |
Hope you had a good day, John. Sounds like it was perfect. |