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Sunday Times bestselling author and book doctor interested in the art of writing and the spark of creativity. Repped by @CBGBooks and Wonder Street.

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My latest project ‘THE BODY NEXT DOOR’ will be broadcast on Sky Documentaries on August 25. A 3 part true crime series, it tells the incredible story of a shocking murder in a small Welsh town, which unveils a dark family secret on the other side of the globe.
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An incredible moment in music history as in 1970 ELTON JOHN takes out a crumpled piece of paper and plays TINY DANCER for the first time in front of his lyricist BERNIE TAUPIN, along with his wife MAXINE, who he wrote the song for.
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DAVID LETTERMAN celebrates his 76th birthday today 🥳🎂 Here he is in 1994 with ZSA ZSA GABOR, going on a fast food joy ride through Los Angeles 😂😂😂
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54 years ago today THE BEATLES hit the top of the charts with GET BACK. This is the incredible moment in the recording studio when PAUL MCCARTNEY almost conjured the song out of thin air.
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GAME OF THRONES premiered on HBO 12 years ago today and would go on to win 59 Emmys. Here’s the cast audition reel.
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60 years ago today DR NO premiered in the USA, kicking off the Bond franchise in style and reshaping pop culture for decades to come. Here’s the original teaser trailer which would have been the first time audiences saw SEAN CONNERY as Bond and heard the iconic theme.
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN was born 134 years ago today. In 1952 he was denied entry into the USA and wrongly accused of being a communist. This is the emotional moment in 1972 when he returns for the first time to accept an honorary Academy Award.
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@THR Maybe writers are sick of spending months/years writing original treatments for no money and then spending a huge amount of money on pitch presentations and sizzle reels to only be discarded for a constant stream of crap.
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@Variety Dreadful! Sadly the sign of things to come unless this insanity and laziness stops.
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JAMES GARNER was born 95 years ago today. Here’s his blooper reel from THE ROCKFORD FILES. 😂😂😂
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VAL KILMER reveals his inspiration for his portrayal of DOC HOLLIDAY in TOMBSTONE (1993)
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At The Royal Albert Hall in 2022 SHIRLEY BASSEY sings GOLDFINGER. Imagine being 85 years old and still looking and sounding like this 🤯
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The opening credits to THE ROCKFORD FILES (1974-80) JAMES GARNER was born 95 years ago today.
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‘Who in the hell ever said I gotta like you?’ At the 1987 Tony Awards JAMES EARL JONES performs a scene from the award winning play FENCES. This is as good as it gets. A master at the height of his craft.
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GEORGE LUCAS poses with his STAR WARS props in 1983.
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QUENTIN TARANTINO reveals his ‘Mexican standoff’ with director TONY SCOTT over the ending of… …TRUE ROMANCE (1993)
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ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY was born 90 years ago today ❤️
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‘I’m a witch!’ BEWITCHED (1964-72) ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY was born 90 years ago today.
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CRISPIN GLOVER celebrates his 59th birthday today 🥳🎂 Here is his bonkers interview with DAVID LETTERMAN in 1987. This is an all time Dave moment!
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MICHAEL J FOX and CHRISTOPHER LLOYD reunite in 1999 in this scene from… …SPIN CITY… …and there’s plenty of BACK TO THE FUTURE references. 😂😂😂
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Watch as famed artist DREW STRUZAN paints the poster artwork for STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
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In 1985, after a famous classical pianist dropped out of appearing on THE TONIGHT SHOW at the last minute JOHNNY CARSON invited a member of the audience to take their place. Up stepped an unknown DAVID TOLLEY…🤯
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Three time Oscar winner JACK NICHOLSON celebrates his 86th birthday today 🥳🎂 One of the great actors and movie stars of all time, strap yourself in for a thread of some of his most iconic moments…
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@HackedOffHugh This breaks my heart. Any chance of a rescue act and a New Beverly style cinema like Tarantino has done in LA?
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JOHN CANDY with his wife ROSEMARY in 1977 ❤️
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Behind the scenes footage of CHRISTOPHER REEVE getting himself in shape to play… …SUPERMAN (1978)
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JAMES EARL JONES in 1961 😎
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK premiered 43 years ago today. Here’s some wonderful behind the scenes footage as HARRISON FORD and STEVEN SPIELBERG celebrate the end of the shoot.
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@RachelReevesMP He helped ‘steer’ Wales into the gutter. NHS, education and living standards are on the floor. I hope your administration don’t aim to follow his example.
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MICHAEL J FOX celebrates his 63rd birthday today 🎂🎂🎂🥳🥳🎁🎁 Here he is rocking out to JOHNNY B GOODE with COLDPLAY
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@Keir_Starmer He has achieved nothing of note and has taken Wales backwards. NHS, education and living standards for many are on the floor. If these are the key policies of any Labour leader then he has failed miserably.
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@nut_history Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Moneyball
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Two time Oscar winner RUSSELL CROWE celebrates his 59th birthday today 🎂🥳 Here is some behind the scenes footage of him preparing to shoot a scene with a real tiger in… …GLADIATOR (2000)
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93 years ago today the BBC announced during its scheduled news bulletin that there was no news to report so it would instead play some music. Pretty sure most of us would welcome this! Cr: Leigh Spence (YT)
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SHERYL LEE celebrates her 56th birthday today 🎂🥳 Here is some behind the scenes footage of her giving the most chilling scream in TWIN PEAKS (2017)… …and getting a handshake from DAVID LYNCH.
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK premiered 43 years ago today. It’s hard to imagine HARRISON FORD not as the lead but here’s TOM SELLECK’s screen test which saw him originally get the part.
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DAVID LETTERMAN celebrates his 76th birthday today 🎂🥳 Here is a fantastic sketch as PAUL SHAFFER looks for him on some of the most iconic sitcom sets of the 90s… …only to find him on SEINFELD.
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@Variety Why? Just like HBO this makes no sense!
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Sadly my old account is no more so I will now be tweeting full time from here. Thank you for continuing to follow me for more blasts from the past and legends from the silver screen.
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CRISPIN GLOVER celebrates his 59th birthday today 🎂🥳 Here is his screen test to play GEORGE MCFLY in… …BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
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I ❤️ this! After being stuck at LaGuardia Airport for six hours the Broadway casts of THE LION KING and ALADDIN have a sing off.
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@henrywinter Bin it. The experiment has failed. You can’t have these constant breaks and delays in the game. It’s becoming unwatchable.
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One of the greatest actors of all time, AL PACINO celebrates his 83rd birthday today🎂🥳 Strap yourself in for a thread of his most iconic (and funniest) moments. Cherish him while we have him, we won’t see his like again.
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The time TOM HANKS slapped MICHAEL J FOX in… …FAMILY TIES (1982-89)
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BLUE PETER visits the set of PORRIDGE and chats to RONNIE BARKER and RICHARD BECKINSALE.
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LORRAINE BRACCO on the set of GOODFELLAS (1990)
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EMINEM’s RAP GOD… …in sign language. 🤯🤯🤯
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‘Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.’ THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN (74-78) LEE MAJORS celebrates his 84th birthday today 🎂🥳
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‘The world is yours.’ SCARFACE (1983)
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CATHERINE SCORSESE was born 111 years ago today. Here she is on the set of CASINO (1995) telling off her son MARTIN for cursing. 😂😂😂
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@Nigelrefowens Can we bring back balls going in straight and hooking.
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JIM HENSON and KERMIT THE FROG sit down with JOHNNY CARSON. This is brilliant 😂😂😂
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THE BASKETBALL DIARIES was released 28 years ago today 🍿🎬 Here’s the original trailer.
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THE BEE GEES perform a stunning acoustic version of STAYIN’ ALIVE.
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‘We just don’t realise the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. I thought there would be other days. I didn’t realise that was the only day.’ FIELD OF DREAMS was released 34 years ago today. The older I get the more I understand just how true this is.
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The brilliant DON RICKLES was born 97 years ago today. While renowned as the king of the celebrity roast he also provided the voice to MR POTATO HEAD in TOY STORY (1995). Here’s some behind the scenes footage of him recording his lines.
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@GNev2 Very clever media management. Turn their eyes onto another issue and not the lack of discipline that cost Spurs the game. Straight from the SAF playbook.
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JOHN C REILLY and WILL FERRELL taking on BING CROSBY and DAVID BOWIE gets me every Christmas 🎄🎅
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@CultureCrave @TheGNShow Great film. Great performance, although I’d personally say his best is in True Detective.
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@FootballInT80s One of the best ad campaigns ever as well!
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In 1965 THE RAT PACK perform BIRTH OF THE BLUES… …and are joined by new member JOHNNY CARSON!
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@ichy_vagenda IMDB was created in Cardiff! It’s now the world’s most used movie and tv database.
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DAVID LETTERMAN celebrates his 76th birthday today 🎂🥳 Here he is in 1982 reacting to his screen test for AIRPLANE! (1980) 😂😂😂
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The freeze frame to end PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES (1987) is one of the most astonishing pieces of acting in film. To pull the whole film together, JOHN CANDY has a split second to convey looking happy, sad and hopeful in a single look. He nails it.
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BILL MURRAY and DAN AKROYD’S promo pitch to distributors for… …GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
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@Catheri41212936 I love watching her face. She’s so happy!
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JAWS….in LEGO!
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RIP HARRY BELAFONTE (1927-1923) 💔 Here he is at the recording session for WE ARE THE WORLD (1985), as his fellow superstars sing his iconic BANANA BOAT SONG to him.
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@mavericksmovies What’s even crazier than this, it’s not released in the UK until January 19!!
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Behind the scenes footage of MARK HAMILL being bitten by a snake on the set of… …THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) 😱😱😱
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While in the recording studio in 1969 THE BEATLES try to crack the lyrics to… …SOMETHING.
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@JoyceCarolOates It’s great she writes her own stuff and she seems a good person and role model, but her level of fame staggers me.
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@DannyDrinksWine Kubrick called this ‘non submersible units.’ He thought a film should be made of 6-8 bold visuals. When you think of a Kubrick film they’re almost like dreams. The first thing that usually comes to mind is something visual rather than plot or dialogue.
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Amazing footage of a very young BEE GEES in 1963 performing a cover of PLEASE PLEASE ME.
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ADAM SANDLER trying out for Indiana Hoosiers in 1988.
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THE FIFTH ELEMENT was released 26 years ago today… …and gave us CHRIS TUCKER’S unforgettable performance as Ruby Rhod! At the time of release this seemed an outlandish character from the future…
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The great SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY celebrates his 82nd birthday today 🥳🥳🥳 Here he is in 1997 at The Royal Albert Hall performing GOLDEN SLUMBERS, joined by PHIL COLLINS, MARK KNOPFLER and ERIC CLAPTON.
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‘Nobody puts baby in the corner.’ DIRTY DANCING (1987)
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SEAN CONNERY and HARRISON FORD in a promo shot for INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)
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@stusfootyflash Butch….
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Oscar winning composer BILL CONTI celebrates his 81st birthday today 🎂🥳 Here he reveals how he wrote the incredible score to ROCKY (1976)
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CHRISTIAN BALE reveals his reservations in working with HEATH LEDGER on… …THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
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The King of the celebrity roast, DON RICKLES was born 97 years ago today. In his last ever television appearance in 2017 he had dinner with MARTIN SCORSESE and ROBERT DE NIRO… …and things got emotional.
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‘The name’s Bond. James Bond.’ DR NO premiered in the USA 60 years ago today 🍿🎬 An entire franchise was launched just from this iconic scene alone.
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‘Noodles…I slipped.’ ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)
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@RichardERoeper Very very sad. I hope he realised how loved he was by so many.
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The brand new trailer for STILL: A MICHAEL J FOX MOVIE… …which tells of his journey to become one of the most loved movie stars of his generation… …and then his courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. Out May 12 on Apple TV +
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‘Baseball…reminds us of all that once was good, and might be again.’ FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
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ROBERT DE NIRO and SHARON STONE while shooting CASINO (1995)
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‘The little things are the things I miss the most.’ GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997) ROBIN WILLIAMS improvised most of his lines in this scene. When MATT DAMON laughs it’s a genuine reaction. You can ever see the camera shake as the camera man can’t help laughing as well.
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‘The world needs bad men.’ A tribute to RUST COHLE in… …TRUE DETECTIVE (2014)
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The moment PAUL MCCARTNEY plays LET IT BE to the rest of THE BEATLES for one of the first times.
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‘You want the truth!? You can’t handle the truth!’ A FEW GOOD MEN (1992)
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‘I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass…’ THEY LIVE (1988) RODDY PIPER was born 69 years ago today.
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@stusfootyflash Still hurts this one. I’m sure it must haunt Bodin. That was a cracking Welsh team that had a great chance of doing well at the World Cup. It took us years to recover.
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MEL BROOKS is a waiter at the last supper in… …HISTORY OF THE WORLD (1981) 😂😂😂
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Comedy legend SPIKE MILLIGAN was born 105 years ago today. Here is his incredible 1994 acceptance speech at the British Comedy Awards, where no one is safe… …not even the future King. 😂😂😂
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