Keith Richardson

Family man, enjoying the world of golf, whiskey, James Bond, and (retro) gaming 😉

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@michaelbuck1990 @DanielHussey2 Yeah it's disappointing. I couldn't make it unfortunately. But will be there for the final 💪

[007 First Light @007GameIOI]

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[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@real_dublindamo Lovely!

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@DA_WooGo Nope everyone loved it then! And we all agreed that it was a re-run of the original Star Wars.... And still loved it.

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@QuintsVessel Now that is a cool picture! 😎😎

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@ClassicSpyChic It's excellent! Enjoy...

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Hollywood studio once fired a young actor, reportedly for talking too slowly and for an Adam's apple that stuck out too far. He went on to become one of the biggest stars who ever lived. His name is Clint Eastwood, and he turns 96 today.

The way Burt Reynolds told it for years, the studio also complained about a chipped tooth Eastwood would not fix. Reynolds got cut the same year. When he asked why, they told him he could not act, so he turned to Eastwood and said you are the one in trouble, because I can learn to act, but you will never lose that Adam's apple.

Then the slow-talking kid with the bad tooth took off. First a TV western called Rawhide. Then three cheap westerns shot in Italy by an unknown director named Sergio Leone, and suddenly he was famous all over the world. Then Dirty Harry, the tough cop, turned him into a giant. He could have spent the rest of his life just being a movie star and collecting the checks.

He started directing instead, in 1971. While every other big name in Hollywood kept asking for more money and more time, Eastwood went the other way. He built one loyal crew and his own company, then made one film after another, quickly and well under budget, with almost no drama on set. He shoots most scenes in one take. He does not yell action, and he never yells cut. Matt Damon once said you have to beg him just to get a second take, because Eastwood moves on the moment he has what he wants. He shot Million Dollar Baby, which won Best Picture, in 37 days.

It worked. He won Best Director and Best Picture twice, for Unforgiven and for Million Dollar Baby, a club only a few directors have ever joined, like Billy Wilder and Steven Spielberg. He wrote some of the music for his own films. He even served a term as the elected mayor of his small California town. And he never stopped: his 40th film came at 94, a courtroom thriller, shot the same quiet way as all the rest.

When he won that second directing Oscar back in 2005, he was 74, the oldest person ever to win it. His mother was sitting in the audience. She was 96. He looked out at the whole room and thanked her, simply, for her genes.

Today, Clint Eastwood turns 96.

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@MrMiller007_ Just started it, and I think It's excellent, great dialogue too! Q lab a highlight!

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@KevBot_007 @JustSpringY84 I hope you have gotten to play it. It's great. The Q lab is Bond geek heaven!

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@Kriegler007 I have one of those. I've kept all the old tech, from walkman to discmsn and mini disc. They all work. Something to show the kids, and they make a nice display!

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@ILoveToTalkFilm Probably In the Line of Fire, Million Dollar Baby, or play misty for me. In terms of acting.

Presence, Dirty Harry or the Dollars trilogy.

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@padraig_h without a doubt. https://t.co/bWpULcHcqt

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Pierce Brosnan photographed by Brett Erickson for Cigar & Spirits Magazine, 2020.

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@SJTimes13 And damn, Brosnan is class!

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@gamesyouloved Oh Mummy on the Amstrad

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

Read @jconnollybooks latest Charlie Parker novel, A River Red with Blood. Chapter 43 is one of the saddest chapters I've read of any book I've read.

Excellent work. The book so far is very good. #reading

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@real_dublindamo 🤣

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@JosephThomas4 @javizayasq Was wondering that too! It looks excellent.

[Keith Richardson @Captainz1]

@JosephThomas4 @SimplyMehThe2nd @007Name Everything or nothing is superb! And decent ones are From Russia with Love and Bloodstone.