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Robert Crewdson
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posted June 30, 2013 06:50 AM

The first time I remember seeing Bob Hoskins was in a TV series called Flickers, in which he played the owner of a film studio during the silent era. The name of the company was Miracle Pictures, and their slogan was 'If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle'.
At the time when the UK only had 3 or 4 TV channels, and licence payers were complaining about the number of repeats and old films, the following joke came out. 'I saw a film on TV last night, it was so old Gabby Hayes got the girl'.
Samuel Goldwyn was quite a character, among the lines he came out with were 'Our comedies are not to be laughed at', and 'A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on'.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
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posted June 30, 2013 09:37 AM

Hi Robert,the first time I recall seing Bob Hoskins was in the BBC
"Pennies From Heaven",which was rather risque at the time.
As for Goldwynism's, what about,"Gentlemen,kindly include me out"," A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on"
and "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined". That sounds like a man with a terrific sense of humour.

[ June 30, 2013, 11:19 AM: Message edited by: Hugh Thompson Scott ]

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Robert Crewdson
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posted June 30, 2013 12:26 PM

That's great Hugh, loved them. I never saw Pennies from Heaven, if I remember rightly wasn't it a BBC series. I had to go on to IMDB to find out the name of the other Hoskins show, as I couldn't remember the title. imdb.com is a great source of info, there is also allmovie.com. I can't think of any other cine related funnies.

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