What's Happening? - Part 1 (June 2009).

I know, I know - I said that this page was not going to be updated anymore. But hey, its been two years since the last update so I hope you don't think I break my word too easily. Lets face it we all get a bit more spare time sometime in the year so why not spend some of it doing something you enjoy? The first thing you'll notice is that this is one long article rather than the a themed article of previous entries. This blogged approach gives me the opportunity to wander off at tangents more than I normally do. So here goes..

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Has this guy not done anything apart from work I hear you ask? Well not much. My only noticable contribution was an article I did for a Asian Films website. I've always admired Brian's (the author's) encyclopedic knowledge of Asian cinema and in one of my wilder moments asked him if I could write a GWG article related to the Indian Sub Continent. Although a bit rushed the result wasn't totally dismal and I'm sure you'll find lots of other good stuff to read if you visit "View from Brooklyn Bridge" or more specifically the page I added. Possibly the only downside to a truely excellent web site is that the images are a bit small. So, just to compensate for this here are a few thumbnails which expand in to nice big JPEGs and they are all taken from or related to the original web page.

If truth be told I often find the Hollywood GWG genre a bit formulaic these days. Possibly I'm becoming a bit jaded in my old age but film from other countries often seems a bit more vital and exciting.  My article on Brian's page was covered only a proportion of the films and actresses I wanted to cover plus numerous others which I just forgot to add. Here are some more deadly damsels from the Indian Sub Continent who didn't make it to the article and who I'd have liked to have included or mentioned in more detail. The more astute of you may recognise Ashwari Rai amongst the others.

One of the articles never to have made it to the page was a "Wigs and Disguises" article. Here is a sample of some of material I would have included within the missed article.  Sorry it's so brief. I would much prefer to give more detail but time prevents this.

Other articles may have included updates to "Machine Gun Madams", "Saree Assassins", "Bank Robbers", "Watching the Detectives" (I know these are cheesy titles) plus new articles entitled "Snipers", "Erotic Thrillers", "Wild Wild West", "Serving Servalan" (Blakes 7) and "Bond Girls". In fact the James Bond spy films have featured very little which is a little odd given the quota of beauties which Bond has encountered in over 35 years of films featuring the character. There are hundreds of other web pages to cover Bond films (this page likes to be a little unique in film selection) and to be fair most of the girls are mere eye candy and some of his female adversaries have been real damp squibs or, worse, transformed from bad girl to good girl once subjected to Bond's natural charms. My own favourite bad girls have been Miranda Frost (Rosalind Pike) in 'Die Another Day', May Day's cohorts (Grace Jones looked really ugly so honourable mentions go to Alison Doody and Papillon Soo instead)in 'View to a Kill' , Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) in 'Thunderball', Xenia Onatopp (Famke Jansenn) in 'Goldeneye' and The Cigar Girl (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) in 'The World is Not Enough'.   'Never Say Never Again', the unofficial remake of 'Thunderball' is included starring the gorgeous Barbara Carrerra (as Fatima Blush) despite the fact the film is not a recognised franchised Bond film. Lack of space doesn't allow me to give much detail for each film so I've just gathered together a few publicity stills and posed pictures. Amongst them are Caroline Munro and Fiona Richardson who like most Bond girls were criminally underused in these films.

Another strong candidate for an article would have been "Posters and Publicity" which speaks pretty much for itself. Though these medium often have little relevance to the content of a film they do act as a visual incentive to hire or buy - particularly in the expliotation/erotic thriller genre. Here are a few of the images which would probably have appeared.  The article would have covered the worldwide history of the poster/publicity still hence the multinational selection here from lots of eras.

At this point I have made to make an editorial decision. There are in fact several more pages to follow on from this point. At my current rate of progress though they won't be finished until the end of 2009 - I actually started all this back in January. So, what I'm going to do is split the page here and get the remainder of the page uploaded later.