A SPLENDID FILM.
I watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves again at the weekend.
Director Kevin Reynolds. Year of release, 1991.
Doesn't seem possible..
Everyone except me is sixteen years older now.
It was, still is, a splendid film..
What a cast.
Kevin Costner and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio could not have had better fellow actors.
Dear ol' Brian Blessed shouted his way to an early demise. Only way to go, Brian.
Alan Rickman (even better than Basil Rathbone) again called off Christmas before smilingly making a dear departed of his incompetent fellow villain, Guy of Gisbourne, played by Michael Wincott.
Will Scarlett (Christian Slater) was the good - bad - good half-brother of Robin of Locksley.
Robin's friend, Azeem, was the redoubtable Morgan Freeman, upstaged by nobody.
Michael McShane made a massively impressive Friar Tuck and Nick Brimble a hugely likeable Little John.
There was Walter Sparrow, blindly blundering, Harold Innocent, sanctimoniously sneaking and a marvellously mad Mortianna in the barely recognizable form of Geraldine McEwan.
Then, finally, when Friar Tuck performed the Robin/Marian wedding ceremony at the end:
"If any man knows of any...(reason why these two should not be married)... let him speak now," he was answered by the only Scottish Richard The Lionheart in Christendom: "I have shomething to shay." And King Richard (Sean Connery) entered Stage R. on horseback.
I had almost forgotten how much I enjoyed it the first time around.
NYPD BLUE (More4).
A while back some bright programme planners (huh!) decided that NYPD Blue was no longer suitable entertainment for current audiences.
Obviously cheap reality television and crap game shows were in.
So this once vaunted cop show was shoved further and further into the dark hours until you needed to be a night watchman or an insomniac to keep abreast of it.
Now it languishes on More4.
It has reached 17/20 Series 12.
Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) has been made a uniformed Sergeant and is clearly not too happy.
Greg Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) has found a romantic interest and is seriously considering leaving the force.
Reckon Sipowicz back to Detective before the series ends?
Ah-h-h-h-h! Why should we care? Obviously the so-called programmers/schedulers - whatever - don't.
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