Scott Stewart

Actor. Classic TV & Film lover. Horror fan. News junkie. Talk radio listener. Honorary Scotsman ♏️ 🎭 💪🏼 🙂

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

A little #MondayMotivaton

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Ian Fleming initially wanted Alfred Hitchcock to direct the first James Bond movie. It didn't materialise. Cary Grant was also approached to play the character but it didn't work out as he committed to do only one movie.

The helicopter scene in "From Russia with Love" (1963) was Terrence Young's idea and is a homage to the scene in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" (1959).

During the filming of this scene, a camera operator's leg was hit by the blades of the helicopter that came in too low and he had to have his foot amputated. Sean Connery too came close to death when an inexperienced pilot flew a little too close, endangering his life.

(Sources:

1. "Revealed: The secret telegram that shows Ian Fleming wanted Alfred Hitchcock to direct the first Bond film", Graham Smith, Daily Mail, 2012.

2. "How Cary Grant nearly made Global James Bond Day an American affair", Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian, 2012.

3. "REVISITED: the ‘banned’ FRWL commentary", The Spy Command, 2014.

4. "Production Notes - From Russia With Love", MI6)

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

Interesting

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Stuart Sutcliffe collapsed in his art class in Hamburg, Germany, in February 1962. He had been complaining of headaches for months, and they were steadily getting worse. He couldn't see clearly anymore, and the light hurt his eyes.

When he fell to the floor, the class panicked. Stuart was only 21 years old—a young Scottish painter, engaged to a beautiful German photographer, and studying under one of the most famous artists in Europe.

He also had a secret life he had just left behind. He used to be in a band. That band was called the Beatles.

Six months later, they would have their first hit. Eighteen months later, they would change music forever. But Stuart wouldn't live to see any of it.

Here is how he got there.

Stuart was born on June 23, 1940, in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of a schoolteacher and a civil servant. The family moved to Liverpool when Stuart was three. His father went to sea, and his mother raised the children. Stuart was different from other kids—quiet, smart, sensitive, he drew constantly and painted obsessively.

In 1956, at age 16, he started at the Liverpool College of Art. That was where he met John Lennon.

John was loud and rough; Stuart was quiet and elegant. Despite their differences, they became best friends. John was already trying to start a rock band with his school friend Paul McCartney. They called themselves the Quarrymen, then the Silver Beetles, and went through a few other names.

The band desperately needed a bass player. Stuart didn't play any instrument and didn't really care about rock music, but he had just sold one of his paintings for £65—big money for a teenager back then. John talked him into spending that money on a Höfner bass guitar, and then taught him three basic chords.

Stuart officially joined the band in May 1960. He couldn't really play, so he would often stand on stage with his back to the crowd so people couldn't see his fingers. He couldn't sing well either, but he had something the rest of the band didn't have: he was incredibly beautiful.

Tall, with dark hair, sharp cheekbones, and wearing Ray-Ban sunglasses before anyone else, he looked like a movie star. Whenever Stuart sang Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender," girls in the audience screamed louder than they did for any of the other Beatles. It even made Paul McCartney a little jealous.

Stuart and John also invented something else: the band's name. Both were huge fans of Buddy Holly's band, the Crickets, and wanted a similar name with a double meaning based on a bug. They came up with "Beetles," and John tweaked the spelling to "Beatles"—like a musical beat.

In August 1960, the band got an offer to play in Hamburg, Germany. It meant playing eight hours a night, six nights a week—a few months of brutal, exhausting work. They took the gig.

Hamburg changed everything. The Beatles played in seedy clubs and lived in tiny, cramped rooms behind a movie theater. They slept on bunk beds, and through the grind, they grew tougher, faster, and much better.

It was also where Stuart met someone special in the audience: Astrid Kirchherr. A German photographer, she was 22, tall, blonde, and exceptionally cool, specializing in taking photos of art-school groups. She came to a Beatles show, and she and Stuart locked eyes. By November 1960, they were engaged, exchanging rings in the German tradition.

Astrid was the first person to take serious photographs of the Beatles. Her black-and-white shots later became legendary: the young Beatles in leather jackets, smoking, looking dangerous.

She did something else, too. Stuart asked her to cut his hair, and she gave him a French art-school cut, brushed forward and cut straight across the forehead. At first, the other Beatles laughed at him and called him a "mop top." A few months later, they all wanted the same look. It became the most famous haircut in music history, and Stuart wore it first.

© Reddit

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@spclsmthin 🥲

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@Tangytang123 @JimmyRTorres @JasonBassler1 I objected to doing it once myself. Even asked to speak to a supervisor. Was told I either take the pic or don’t fly. Not cool. The sign made no difference to them.

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

@WallStreetApes I’ve pretty much stopped going to Walmart for this very reason. Not worth the trouble.

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

“Everybody’s innocent until that documentary comes out”! 🤣

- unknown

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

@ThatOtherJJ Stay off the moors!

[TCM @tcm]

We say goodbye to our founder, the visionary Ted Turner. Ted’s love of classic films inspired him to create a channel dedicated to preserving them. He considered TCM one of his greatest accomplishments.

His passion continues to inspire us all as we work to fulfill his mission.

[Grok @grok]

Joseph Kahn (film/music video director) is venting about skyrocketing costs and headaches filming in LA.

Unions (SAG-AFTRA etc.) won't budge on high wages or rules. Locations/permits are rigid and expensive. Non-union jobs get forced into unions ("flipped"). SAG extras constantly angle to upgrade to OCP (on-camera principal performer) status for much higher pay—so he rewrites them out. Police overtime for traffic/security is mandatory and insane. He's eyeing cheaper/easier Thailand instead.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Cloris Leachman's final scene in "The Last Picture Show" (1971) was filmed without any rehearsal. She wanted to rehearse the scene but Peter Bogdanovich was against the idea as he thought that it would ruin the scene.

Bogdanovich was so happy with the first take, he said to her, "Cut, print, you just won the Oscar.’

Leachman replied, ‘I can do it better.’

Then Bogdanovich said, ‘No, you can’t.’

Bogdanovich felt that way since the scene was so fresh and she was shaking. He knew she couldn’t possibly do it better. She could hardly breathe after filming the scene.

He was proved right when she won the Oscar for her performance.

P.S: Remembering Cloris Leachman on her 100th birthday!

("Remembering Cloris Leachman, an Oscar- and Emmy-Winning Actor of Stunning Range", Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 2021 & IMDb)

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

@Adrian_Hilton It’s hideous.

[TheManWhoFellToEarth @ReturnofColin2]

The brilliant Dame Penelope Keith

86 candles today 🎂✨️

[ClassicMovieDigest @ClassicMovieDig]

Happy 86th Birthday to one of my favorite Brits, Penelope Keith!!
Some of you may not know this hilarious lady, but if you do, you definitely do! #BOTD

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

Happy Friday

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this...

Michael Caine on his defining philosophy for life:

Use the Difficulty

As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the scene.

The actor's response:

"Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it."

This idea became a defining mantra for his life.

"There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down."

I can't stop thinking about this...

How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction?

As with everything in life, control the controllable:

The difficulty is already there. You can't control it. But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it.

Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.

[Rodney Marshall @RodneyMarshall1]

A happy 95th birthday to William Shatner. An actor who started out in the era of 'live' television drama and who appeared in so many of my favourite US shows: The Twilight Zone, Naked City, Route 66, Columbo...

[Scott Stewart @actor_scott]

I'm okay with Dorothy! She doesn't put up with anyone's crap. We all have our limits. 😂

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[Tim Conway Jr Show @ConwayShow]

CBS News Radio to Cease Operations in May After Nearly 100 Years - Barrett Media https://t.co/rteQNIky9M

[Pritika @pritika_9]

The biggest skill you can develop is the ability to reset fast. Bad conversation? Move on. Bad day? Start fresh tomorrow. Missed workout? Hit it the next day. Poor decision? Learn and adjust. You can’t control what happens to you, but you control how long you let it affect you.