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Toodle Pip.

Clifton Jones RIP.

A naive young college student, who is reading chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a would-be drug dealer to make LSD for them, and she winds up getting caught up in the "acid" lifestyle. 1968.

“Mayflower child met a 25th century quaker She's a-pickin' poppies Bringin them into her hue…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

So…Whose House of the Holy is this?

This.

A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life. 1972.

“Chasing shadows slipping in the magic lantern's light creatures of the candle on the night's light's rite…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

RIP.

A reverse 4½ somersault in the pike position…A very difficult dive to achieve on top of a Police Land Rover but somehow this racist scummer managed it…

This.

Perfect technique in Ballymena. Extra marks for poise,left handed shoulder bag stability and maintaining a lit fag while executing launch. A practitioner at the top of her game.

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.1964

“I could've been wild, and I could've been free But nature played this trick on me…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Which Piper at the Gates of Dawn lived here at number 29?

Bored of her affluent and privileged lifestyle, heiress Polly Dean decides to start living and working in the working-class London district of Battersea. 1968.

“And all the while Graham slept on, Dreaming of a world where he could do just what he wanted to…”

Morning Scamps.

RIP Sly. There’s most definitely A Riot Goin’ On in LA.

Toodle Pip.

Which famous (and scandalous) Irish author lived at 10 Carlyle Square? Sean Connery, Judy Garland, Robert Mitchum, Brando…In fact The Glitterati and Literati of the 60s and 70s all attended parties there. Clue. ALL her books were banned in Holy Ireland!

How the world might have been different if Nick Drake was a dog owner rather than a dope smoker.

Uhtred, the son of a nobleman, is captured and raised by Danes. Once he grows up, he has to choose whom he will protect, the land where he grew up or the people who raised him as their own. 2015-2022.

“I know you I care too I see through All of the pictures that you keep on the wall All of the people that will come to the ball…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Sacco & Vanzetti (Italian: Sacco e Vanzetti) is a 1971 historical legal drama film, based on the trial of Italian-American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, whose guilty verdict and execution was considered a politically-motivated miscarriage of justice.

“Well, I sleep on the floor Of a room, I just can't afford For a job that I just don't want 'Cause I was born with a fork, not a spoon And things fall through Life is too expensive Ah, don't get defensive Or what do you want, blood..?”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

When at school, The Deputy Head Teacher advised to read this book and gave me the copy that was on the Housecraft Department bookshelf. It was a real eye opener...and had a real influence on my world view. Thank you Miss Ellis.

Rocky Balboa (Stallone) faces stiff competition from Clubber Lang (Mr. T), a powerful new contender, and turns to his old adversary Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to help him train.1982.

“Beneath the old iron bridges, across the Victorian parks And all the frightened people running home before dark Past the Saturday morning cinema that lies crumbling to the ground And the piss-stinking shopping centre in the new side of town…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

Students at New York's famous High School for the Performing Arts pour their hearts and souls into their training to become stars in their chosen field in this TV series adaptation of a 1980 motion picture of the same title. 1982.

“Blown in the winds of mischance He would stay but that's not his way What escape for her, she swims in the dark In too deep but still waves…”

Morning Scamps.

Toodle Pip.

The other 14 Countries all voted in favour.