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#1 2010-08-12 06:42:42
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"Swinging London"
Did it really exist? Fucked if I know. I'm just using the term as a convenient bit of shorthand for these tedious postings. A bloke called Jim Morrison (no, another one) once told my wife there wasn't much of a sexual revolution going on in Dagenham.
#2 2010-08-12 06:49:17
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Re: "Swinging London"
Terrible films BTW, almost all of them, not a patch on the stuff that came out pre-Bond, like 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. Some of the European offerings of the same period are bad, but very few home-grown films came up to the standards of 'The Four Hundred Blows' or 'Shoot The Pianist', let alone early De Sica. It's difficult to believe that any British film-maker could have matched 'A Bout De Souffle'. But Finney and Roberts come close to perfection - especially when you consider odd stuff like 'Charlie Bubbles' later. It had its moments, though - mostly courtesy of the fabulous Billie Whitelaw.
#3 2010-08-12 06:50:13
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Re: "Swinging London"
Oh yes, I see... Wasn't the term invented to sell some copies of Time magazine?
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#4 2010-08-12 06:52:59
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Re: "Swinging London"
Would'nt be at all surprised. 'London Fog' level.
#5 2010-08-12 10:04:44
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Re: "Swinging London"
Burroughs use to say, that the time to be in London was in the '50's: unregulated Soho, greasy spoons and dirt cheap. By the Sixties it was too 'effing expensive.
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#6 2010-08-12 10:05:40
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Re: "Swinging London"
I think you'll find Chris H said it first...