Genius

Star of the fabulous Thunder In Paradise, guest star on Knot's Landing some years ago (he played a psycho stalker who wanted to blow up one of the stars with an exploding mobile phone ), superbly talented pianist, and son of Jack Lemmon.

Apart from being the son of Jack, he hasn't done anything that makes himself stand out. Thunder in what? Never heard of it, so it must be rubbish

Chris is primarily a pianist. He just acts occasionally. Thunder In Paradise was a comedy action series from the mid nineties. It was a joke on all those old American action shows from the eighties, but everybody but me apparently failed to see the joke! It was inspiringly daft. Hulk Hogan was the co-star, and admittedly that didn't help, as he's pretty bad. Chris had some great lines though.

Sounds absolutely terrible. Good job he sticks to piano playing. You've got to have something to fall back on.

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Sounds absolutely terrible.

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You clearly side with the rest of the world! And it was quite bad, bless it. It just had such charm... And Chris has great comic timing.

I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse that you see the good in movies like these, I'm hedging towards the latter .

It was a TV series, not a movie (although several of the two parters were released on video as movies! ). It was fun! It just probably needed not to be made by the Baywatch people. Or to have had Hulk Hogan in the cast.

OK

Chris Lemmon was mentioned in, like, two sentences.

And there was a picture!

Honestly, you're just not getting into the enthusiasm of it, are you! He's Chris Lemmon!

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Originally posted by nat66:
I looked for that Fup book but couldn't find it.

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Yes, that's one of the problems with this stupid country... lack of 'Fup'!

You do need to search it out, Nat, (I bought my copy in the States, but I bought a copy for someone else in the UK, so it is available here, I'm not sending you on a wild goose chase, or should that be wild duck chase... that joke'll make sense when you've read the book) but it's really, really worth it. I love it. Everyone gets something different out of 'Fup'.

Maybe try the American Amazon site. They'd probably have it. I got my copy in a university campus bookshop, so maybe that's worth a shot. Probably wouldn't find it in many second hand books in this country, it being primarily an American book.

It is a good book, though. Short. But good.

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Originally posted by *Katerina*:

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Originally posted by absolom:
I was on the computer today and a movement out of the window caught my eye. I looked up and there was a lovely doe in the bracken, nibbling away and generally looking lovely. Was gazing at her, feeling bloody lucky that I live in a place where this kind of thing happens and then her fawn jumped out of the undergrowth and they just both stood there. Was so amazing.

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Oh, that sounds wonderful

I spent part of the afternoon cracking up at the crazy squirrels in my garden racing each other around one of the trees, I think it must be mating season, lol

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That sounds great! Almost as good as the time that I was sitting in the office (I'm doing a PhD so obviously the postgrads get the good offices!) and heard a scrabbling noise. Looked up to see a squirrel gnawing his way through the (asbestos filled - I kid you not!) roof and looking at me! Since then, the roof has leaked like mad whenever it rains!

Well at least it leaks for a nice reason!

I thought Asbestos had to be got rid of? Ah well, I'm sure the squirrel will be dead before the 30 years it takes to develop lung cancer.

What PhD you doing?

So, I'm wandering around Borders on Charing Cross Road late last night (after a couple of glasses of wine so needless to say I came away with more books than was strictly necessary) and I stumble into the history and archaeology section, which I tend to stumble across every time I visit a book shop. But, this time I'm specifically looking for a book about the Etruscans, right, (which is impossible to find, by the way!) so I'm looking quite carefully instead of just browsing and I see a book, in the archaeology section, by a gentleman named Michael Shanks! Called 'Experiencing the Past' or 'Reliving the Past' or something, looked like a text book, I only flicked through it briefly.

Stargate fans? Pretty spooky, huh? Or does everybody know that there's an archaeologist floating about who shares his name with the actor who plays our favourite archaeologist and I'm just catching up?!

What a coincidence! Maybe someone on the show read it and liked it enough to name a character after him.

Ha ha! That's exactly what I said at first! Then realised that Michael Shanks is the actor's name, not the character's! It's just one of those spooky coincidences, I should think. It seems unlikely that Shanks has written a book on archaeology in his spare time.

Very doubtfull, athough I think that Geff Goldblum is a Doctor of Philosophy, so it's not outside the realms of possibility.

Just started Bill Bryson's A Short History Of Nearly Everything. Bit too early to pass judgement yet, though. Anybody else read it?

Considered it but read one of his books ages ago and although it was OK it didn't inspire me to go and get all his other books. Will wait to see what you say .

I enjoyed a couple of his books, not greatly enamoured. But this one cost three quid in Tesco, so I thought I'd give it a go!

Just handed in my MSc dissertation. Wooooooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

Well done!

Now you can go and watch Evil Dead!

I was HIGHLY into Bill Bryson for quite a while, a number of years back. I got all his books, read them over and over. Then they sat on my bookshelves for a few years, gathering dust. I recently re-read the England one ('Notes From a Small Island') and the European one ('I Can't Remember the Title'!). And I was less than impressed. Didn't remind me why I liked him in the first place. Which is weird. The same sort of thing happened recently with the Douglas Adams books (not counting 'Last Chance To See', which will always be super cool). Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood for Bryson or Adams on those particular weeks... Seems weird though. Bryson and Adams were my favourite authors for a long time. Bryson was certainly my favourite travel writer.