Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Maureen Colgan circa 1974 when I was into copying John Constable's famous landscape paintings. The one behind Maureen was done in a day. Fortunately for me it's in the dark. It measured four foot by Three foot approx.
The frame was given to me by a construction worker friend who said he found it dumped outside a shop in Manchester, when he was passing in his ford truck early one morning.
The picture was sold decades ago, so it was not that bad an effort. An oil sketch really.
Maurice_Colgan@yahoo.com
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Dolores Hart to Appear at the Oscars. 2012.
Dolores Hart at the Oscars already seen on TV screens in the USA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H39k9jfKMw
Updated News February 26th 2012. when the BBC's Hollywood correspondent Barbra Paskin was looking to interview Dolores Hart, she contacted me by email for assistance. I called the Abbey where Dolores lives and left a message for her about the BBC wanting to contact her about a documentary celebrating Elvis Presley's birthday, some years ago.
Dolores Hart Ex-movie star herself called me back and we spoke for about ten minutes, as I slowly sank to the floor!
Dolores Hart and Elvis at the winding up of the film "King Creole".
Dolores Hart seen her with Elvis Presley 1958 is in the news again.
This time as Mother Dolores Hart, Prioress,osb of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem Connecticut.
She is presently engaged in raising funds for the Abbey and will be at the Oscar ceremonies where a short movie about her is being voted on.
Dolores and I have been exchanging snail mail messages since 1998!
She kindly sent me the photo of herself with actress Patricia Neale (R.I.P.) and another she had kindly signed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H39k9jfKMw
Updated News February 26th 2012. when the BBC's Hollywood correspondent Barbra Paskin was looking to interview Dolores Hart, she contacted me by email for assistance. I called the Abbey where Dolores lives and left a message for her about the BBC wanting to contact her about a documentary celebrating Elvis Presley's birthday, some years ago.
Dolores Hart Ex-movie star herself called me back and we spoke for about ten minutes, as I slowly sank to the floor!
Dolores Hart and Elvis at the winding up of the film "King Creole".
Dolores Hart seen her with Elvis Presley 1958 is in the news again.
This time as Mother Dolores Hart, Prioress,osb of the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem Connecticut.
She is presently engaged in raising funds for the Abbey and will be at the Oscar ceremonies where a short movie about her is being voted on.
Dolores and I have been exchanging snail mail messages since 1998!
She kindly sent me the photo of herself with actress Patricia Neale (R.I.P.) and another she had kindly signed.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
The Truth.
Authors like Charles Dicken's, Alexander Dumas, Dostoevsky, Emile Zola, G B Shaw, Aldous Huxley,George Orwell, John Steinbeck and a great many more, stood up for the common man and sought out injustice.
I enjoyed their stories, campaigns and like to think I learnt a lot from them
A great many people on Internet Forums are hounded and bullied unfairly by cowardly types hiding behind made up names. Perhaps it is time we shut them down!