Saturday, September 26, 2020

Monster Crap Inductee: Spice World (1997)

Monster Crap Inductee: Spice World
Damn You, Great Britain
 

1997
 
Short quick story so I can get on with things.
 

In the mid-90s, before the boy band craze and attractive teenage girl craze hit us like a brick in the late 90s, there was this big British act that hit the scene screaming “Girl Power” known as the Spice Girls, comprised of Baby Spice, Ginger Spice, Posh Spice, Scary Spice, and Sporty Spice. And of course, they were a huge smash for their time with several hit songs so of course with many musical acts that hit it so big that you can’t escape them even if you wanted to, you get a movie made about you.
 
Okay, I’m going to be honest here. At the beginning of the Spice Girls reign of fame, I did not hate them. I mean, I didn’t love them. But I tolerated them, especially since it was an easy way to get annoy my brother as he had that phase where he wanted to hear Hanson’s “MmmBop” all the damn time. Yeah, Spice Girls were my freaking payback as he couldn’t stand them. Also, I had a bit of an attraction for Ginger Spice.
 
I Think I’ve Told You I Had An Attraction To Red-Heads And That Attraction Was Around When I Was Younger Too.
 
However, even they got to a point to where I could not stand them anymore and by the time this Spice World movie came out, I was long past that period. Also, every freaking trailer of this movie sent huge red flags that said to me “You really don’t want to see this film.”
 
And because they were a big deal in the UK (as well as the US, but UK was their home), they could basically get almost anyone around there to be in their little film if they wanted them so of course, you got names like Roger Moore, Elvis Costello, Bob Geldoff, Stephen Fry, Elton John, Richard O’Brien, Alan Cumming, George Wendt, Hugh Laurie, among many other big celebrities that were in the UK at the time.
 
And with a film like this, you are going to have several people who were in previous Monster Crap inductions like…
 
Meat Loaf (Who Was In "Bloodrayne")
 
Jason Flemying (Who Was In That Terrible "Clash Of The Titans" Remake)
 
Bob Hoskins from "Super Mario Bros".
 
Barry Humphries From Howling III: The Marsupials (Who For Some Dumb Reason, I Called Him Mark Humphries In That Induction)
 
And others like David Fahm (who was in Wing Commander) and Dominic West (who was in Star War – Episode 1: The Phantom Menace).
 
Let’s get to the review.
 
We begin this film with a music video.
 
That Gives Us Our Title.
 
And then the opening of a music video which leads to them singing the same song in front of a crowd of cheering fans for some TV show.


 After that, the girls are heading to their bus while talking to Clifford, their agent.
 
Ah, Richard Grant.
 
He’s a bigger deal in the UK than the US, but he has done a good share of roles in memorable films like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Age of Innocence, Gosford Park, The Iron Lady, Logan, and just recently, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker. But I will always remember him for being the one of the two main villains in a guilty pleasure of mine, and my brother in Hudson Hawk.
 
Both Villains Sucked In That Film.
 
But please don’t mention that film to him as he has complete disdain for Hudson Hawk and will completely insult you for liking that film, even if it is a guilty pleasure, as he considers it the worst film he has ever done. Now I understand it might be more that it was a disaster to work on than it was a disaster watching, which paints a lot more of an ugly picture for many actors (see Bob Hoskins with Super Mario Bros.) However, to be honest, when you have films like The Rise of Skywalker and this on your credits as well, I don’t think Hudson Hawk was the worst film he worked on, but that is just a personal opinion. I have rambled on enough on this subject, but let’s get back to the film.
 
Oh and we also meet Alan Cumming as Piers, a reporter who will be hounding the Spice Girls throughout the whole film.
 
He’ll Probably Be Mentioned In Future Inductions.
 
And Elton John shows up for his cameo.
 
Great Musician. “Still Standing” Is Definitely In My Top 10 Of Favorite Songs To Listen To.
 
Anyway, Piers was hoping to get an interview with them, but they walk by without even noticing him. They go outside where there is a crap ton of fans waiting for them.
 

They sign autographs and eventually head to their bus, which is driven by Dennis.
 
Ah, I See Meat Loaf’s Character Has The Same Name As My Little Brother.
 
The bus is being driven to their next location and we see the Spice Girls in each of their section of the main room, which is made to be completely made for their gimmick and they act like what they are supposed to be with Baby Spice acting like a kid, Posh Spice trying to be all fashionable, Ginger talking about horoscopes, Scary Spice making a complete mess looking for something, and Sporty Spice lifting a dumbbell because she likes sports.
 

Then they start roughhousing while Posh is still more concerned about what to wear.
 

Clifford goes on the PA on the bus to announce a press conference is coming up, which means they all need to smile and accept that they are going to be asked a lot of dumb questions. This press conference of course to announce a show that will be playing at Royal Albert Hall.
 
Oh, Hi….Jonathan Ross
 
Meanwhile, we meet a producer and a writer.
 
NORM!!!!! And Mark McKinney from Kids In The Hall.
 
The film producer named Martin Banfield wants their next movie to be starring the Spice Girls. The writer named Graydon thinks he has an idea of what the movie should be and says obvious stuff without saying what the plot is when Martin interrupts and says he loves it. Back on the bus, Clifford gets a phone call on his bus from his boss named Chief.
 
Chief Throughout This Movie Will Just Say Nonsensical Things That Sound Good When Said On Their Own, But Don’t Make Sense In Context Of What Is Going On In The Scene.
 
Oh And The Chief Makes A Vodka Martini That Is Shaken And Stirred. (Instead Of Shaken, Not Stirred That James Bond Likes)
 
Oh And I Forgot To Mention Deborah Is Here To And She Is Clifford’s Assistant.
 
The Spice Girls practice for their show while Piers tells his crew about the camera being the window to the soul and that he must be the main focus of all shots. The Spice Girls then meet their old friend Nicola, who is pregnant.
 

Nicola talks about feeling terrible while pregnant and of course, if you know any movie, that pregnancy will probably end in a birth before this film is through. Oh and of course, her boyfriend (and the baby’s dad) left her. By the way, Piers asks the manager Clifford about his idea of wanting to show the real Spice Girls and he is okay with that, as long as they remain on schedule. The Spice Girls then imagine themselves being pregnant.
 
Ah To Review This Film More Than 20 Years Later And Know They All Would End Up Having Kids.
 
The Spice Girls then have to go back to practicing for their gig at Royal Albert Hall. Then we go to the headquarters of the newspaper The Daily Event.


Obviously A Jab At The UK Newspaper The Daily Sun, Considering What Will Be Going On.
 
We then meet the paper’s top editor Kevin McMaxford.
 

He is of course tired of covering the Spice Girls and instead of you know, just not covering them anymore…he wants to break them up.
 
Oh And Kevin’s Assistant Brad Is Played By Jason Flemying, Who Starred In “Lock, Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels”
 
And as they are devising their devious scheme, it starts randomly raining on Brad.
 

Back on the bus, Ginger is beating Scary at chess and Scary just says screw the whole game. Meanwhile, at a restaurant, Martin and Graydon try to pitch a movie idea starring the Spice Girls to Clifford about them being five sisters trying to support an elderly grandmother and the way to break out of poverty is for Sporty Spice to become an Olympic Ski Jump Champion, but Sporty would need to overcome her fear of heights and snow. Clifford has the same reaction as I would.
 
Yeah, He Thinks It Stinks.
 
Graydon then pitches another idea involving crocodiles, but we need to move back to the Spice Girls so we don’t hear the whole pitch. They talk about how Baby Spice has a cute little smile which would allow her to get away with anything and just like that, we go to where Baby Spice has obviously killed someone and she gets away with it as Hercule Poirot fingers someone else for the murder.
 

Soon they talk about fish and Ginger Spice says the largest fish in the world is a manta ray.
 
Um….I Think The Whale Shark Would Like To Have A Word With You. Hell, I Knew That Years Before This Film Came Out.
 
They are tired of being stereotyped so they decide to switch looks at a photoshoot where they also pretend to be famous icons.
 
Hi Dominic West
 
Anyway, Ginger tries to be Sporty, Sporty tries to be Posh, Scary tries to be Ginger, Baby tries to be Scary, and Posh tries to be Baby.
 

Back at the Daily Event, Brad gets off the phone and tells Kevin that he hired the best spy reporter in the game in Damien. Kevin wonders where he is and Damien just shows up revealing that he also found some pictures of Kevin doing some naughty things.
 
None Of Them Were Of Anyone Doing The Time Warp Again Or Richard O’Brien Would Have To Sue.
 
Next up is them going to a publicity party where they get to meet several cameos for this film.
 
Like Jennifer Saunders Of Absolutely Fabulous Hanging With Posh Spice.
 
Scary Spice Hanging Out With Bob Geldof.
 
Oh, and she messed up Bob’s hair.
 
Dammit Scary, That Man Did Live Aid. Leave His Hair Alone.
 
I’m sure there is more that I missed, but honestly I have a decent excuse of living in the US so I don’t know as much about English Pop Culture than some other people. However, I am trying my best to point as many cameos out as possible.
 
Piers has been having trouble getting in, but is able to get in thanks to Nicola, who just lets him be with her. Nicola then asks all of the Spice Girls to be godmothers to the baby, which is also ironic more than twenty years later because I think several of the Spice Girls are godmothers to some of the Spice Girls’ kids.
 
Oh Hi, Neil Mullarkey Of The Comedy Store Players
 
Oh and Damien is doing some pretty good hiding.
 

During an interview, Ginger is asked if she likes boys and Ginger just sarcastically asks if the Pope is Catholic. Now normally, that would be the end of it as the answer would obviously be “yes”. But this is a comedy so Damien is able to use that quote and make the Spice Girls out to legit demand to know if the Pope is Catholic. And we have a Bishop who is interviewed and very upset by the idea that someone would ask if the Pope was Catholic.
 
Hi Richard Briers. He’s An English TV Legend
 
Clifford calls Chief about the backlash over the comments and Chief says something else non-sensical. Then, the Spice Girls head to Milan, Italy for a TV special. At rehearsal, they encounter a new problem as the director of this special wants his dancers present and in trunks.
 

Clifford is completely against this, but the director says these Dream Boys must be backup dancers to them.
 

Eventually a compromise is reached and the Dream Boys are backup dancers, but with assless pants to show their asses in speedos.
 

Then they head back to London. They go back on their bus and have to stop in the middle of the woods because they need to go to the bathroom as the bathrooms on the bus are broken. Dennis explains that it is hard enough to get a plumber if you stay in one place, but it gets even harder to get a plumber when you are moving around all the time. Clifford asks Dennis to fix them and he says while he loves the Spice Girls and will do anything for them, he won’t do that.
 
Of Course They Had To Get That Line In There.
 
The Spice Girls go deeper in the woods and soon, they come across a UFO.
 

Now, I’m sure you are all asking me why am I inducting this film about the Spice Girls touring around and random shenanigans going on. Well, I was thinking the same thing which is why it was not nominated for a long time until Cecil Trachtenberg of Good Bad Flicks did a video about this film and I got to learn this was here. You see, the reason Spice World is being inducted is that there are aliens who are Spice Girls fans.
 
Thanks, Cecil Trachenburg For My Nightmare. You Just Had To Mention This As I Was Blissfully Ignorant Of This And That Was Good. But Now, Here I Am Inducting This.
 
There is so much wrong with this scene. Like the aliens speaking in alien language and the Spice Girls understanding every word they are saying. Or the one alien wanting Posh to sign his belly which is a normal human belly under the costume. Or the first thing these aliens think of doing is grabbing Scary’s boob. This is so dumb and I can’t believe I have to talk about this. After the aliens leave, they try to tell Clifford about it and he doesn’t believe them of course. And finally, the worst part is, other than one scene later which I will get to later, this whole crap is never mentioned again. It’s basically a Big Lipped Alligator Moment of random insanity that is just pointless to the rest of the film and has no point in being there.
 
Clifford tells his assistant Deborah that he is going to stand up to the Chief and be assertive that the girls need the morning off. So he calls and the Chief says something nonsensical and of course, that is that. Clifford isn’t assertive at all and the girls get no breaks. The Spice Girls think they have the morning off, but Clifford has to break the news that they don’t. The Spice Girls aren’t happy, but they accept that although they pretend they don’t and then laugh when he believed them.
 
The Spice Girls then go to Dance Camp and it is basically a Boot Camp in a mansion for dancing headed by Mr. Step.
 
Hello, Michael Barrymore: Famous British TV Comedian And Presenter
 
It’s just pointless boot camp shenanigans that just get the Spice Girls in camo.
 
And Of Course Posh Has To Do All Of This In High Heels Because She Is The Fashionable One
 
That night, Damien comes up from out of the toilet.
 
I See Someone Saw Ghoulies
 
Unfortunately, his noises wake the Spice Girls up who decide to start exploring the mansion to see what that noise is. Ultimately, they all share the same bed because they are so scared by the noises. While talking, they all reveal that they have had nightmares about this live show at Royal Albert Hall. Of course, their worries are heard by Damien, who is under the bed.
 

And of course it becomes news on the next Daily Event.
 

Clifford is throwing knives at that paper and screams about how he hates that paper. He then confronts the girls and they tell him to chill out over it. They make fun of him for getting all worked up and he leaves in anger with Deborah behind him, hoping to calm him down. The Spice Girls meanwhile think that Clifford and Deborah should be an item and maybe that will calm Clifford down.
 
Then we go to Martin and Graydon trying another pitch to Clifford for a Spice Girls movie. A plane is hijacked by alien terrorists, the pilot having a computer disk that contains a virus that could destroy the world, and the Prime Minister has to call in the Spice Force 5.
 

Baby is the martial arts expert.
 

Sporty is Counter Espionage Agent
 

Scary is the explosives expert
 

Ginger being the master of disguise.


It's A-Me, A Bob Hoskins Cameo.

And Posh…..does something.
 
She Does Cat Noises, But It Is Never Specified If She Speaks To Animals As Graydon Gets All Hot And Bothered Talking About Her.
 
Clifford doesn’t seem to like this either and we then go to Piers who talks about two kid fans who just won time a trip around London with the Spice Girls.
 

The two kids hang with the Spice Girls and ultimately, the Spice Girls decide to ditch the bus and Clifford so they can take the girls on a speed boating trip.
 

Shenanigans ensue as they are being followed by Piers and his crew who are trying to document the whole thing in a crappy tugboat.
 

Of course, the boat nearly collides with a log and in the turn, the kids fall in the water.


The Spice Girls have to save the kids and sadly, this is all documented by Damien who was in the water as well.
 

Clifford freaks out over the whole thing and at Royal Albert Hall during practice, scolds them for their care-free attitude. This all leads to an argument where the Spice Girls leave and consider not showing up for the gig tomorrow. Clifford yells as he thinks he may have started the break-up of the Spice Girls.
 

At a bar, Clifford is trying to assure Chief that everything is fine. But Chief knows things aren’t fine and tells Clifford his job is on the line while saying non-sensical catchphrases. Of course, Damien is once again there and more news (especially one causing show issues) makes Kevin happy.
 

That night while in separate rooms, Ginger is watching a black and white movie that makes her cry thinking about the past and then we go to a long time ago.
 
How Long? Who Knows? But It Was A Very Long Time
 
The Spice Girls are at an old café with Nicola and all of them are drinking coffee. They try to ask him to put it on their tab for when they are rich and famous, but the owner of the café says no. Meanwhile, we see the other Spice Girls thinking about the same thing and we go back to the café owner thinking Jazz is due for a comeback. Yeah, still waiting on that one.
 
Anyway, the Spice Girls reveal a track from a demo tape they made, which is their first single. After the song, the café owner says he wants some more Jazz in the song.
 
Oh By The Way, That’s Bill Paterson AKA Mr. Jenkins From The Witches (1990)
 
Anyway, all the Spice Girls go to the same place and unfortunately, the building has been closed for a while. They also mentioned they used to live there in the upper rooms of the place and are sad about that it shows you that you can’t go back to the past. They wonder what ever happened to the café owner (and we will never find that out). They all decide to go get some chips.
 
Whole Spice Girls Problem Resolved
 
As they are eating, they wonder where their next single is going to go and then they imagine being in a sort of Pop Culture Court where they have been found guilty of “releasing a single that is as kicking as your previous records nor does it have such a wicked dirty fat baseline.”
 
Hey, Stephen Fry.
 
The sentence is having their next record enter the charts at 179 before dropping straight out the following week and furthermore, they are sentenced to having to appear on cheesy chat shows in Taiwan, talking about how they used to be famous. The judge then wants to call “Howtie And The Blowfish”. I am so sure that Stephen Fry came up with that entire bit on improv as he and Hugh Laurie were a great comedic duo at the time, before doing their own things and still being freaking famous. I recommend listen to some old “A Bit Of Fry and Laurie” episodes. I put 5 sketches as just a preview.
 



They regret how they have no time for their friends like Nicola and they go to her. Meanwhile, at a bar, Clifford has gotten completely drunk. Deborah comes in and she says that she prefers their situation than the girls as fame is such a fickle thing. Oh and Elvis Costello is the bartender.
 

Deborah talks about how they will end up drunk and probably have a night of passion that destroys their professional relationship. Clifford’s response to that is to have a grin and say, “Well, I’m up for it if you are”
 

Meanwhile, the Spice Girls have taken Nicola to a night club. The Spice Girls dance while Nicola watches. But of course, the baby might finally be deciding to come out. The Spice Girls stop dancing and try to take Nicola to a hospital. While waiting at the hospital, two parents ask the Spice Girls if they can help wake their son up, who is in a bit of a coma. After a few words, he wakes up.
 

The next day at Royal Albert Hall, we obviously see something happened between Clifford and Deborah and Clifford still feels bad. They still have no idea where the girls are. We go back to the hospital as the Spice Girls talk about how much pain it is to give birth…..in front of the woman who may give birth any time now. Scary gets a call from Deborah and tell her they are at the hospital with Deborah and they aren’t leaving. Then, we go back to Royal Albert Hall and Clifford cannot believe they may miss this show. Deborah tries to say it is loyalty and Clifford calls it insanity. He also thinks the girls are doing this to spite him and make him crack.
 
Oh back at the hospital, one of the nurses is leaving and admits she is going to see the Spice Girls show tonight….not noticing that the Spice Girls are right in front of her. Nicola then finally tells them to not wait for her and go do the show. Ginger gets a call from Clifford and tells him that she has no idea when they will be there as the world can wait. And we see Clifford saying…
 
Clifford: It Can’t Take This Long To Have A Baby!!!
 
Piers sees that Clifford is about to crack so he has his crew put a camera on Clifford and tries to get a word in from him. Clifford then spits on the boom mic, but is saved when Martin and Graydon come by and ask if Clifford has time as they have another pitch idea for a Spice Girls movie. Clifford decides that it might be a good idea to listen to this pitch since he is so stressed out. Meanwhile, Piers says on camera that obviously all hope for this show is surely dashed.
 
Back at the hospital, Nicola is in the process of giving birth and the Spice Girls are arguing. Posh Spice gets slapped (she asked for it) and Nicola finally gives birth to a baby girl.
 
Um….I Think That Baby Was Born A Few Days Ago And May Be A Boy.
 
Ginger then says “That is Girl Power” and of course because the baby is born, it is time for them to rush to the show. Oh, but first they run into Damien who was pretending to be a surgeon.
 
BUSTED!!!!
 
Damien starts running and the Spice Girls chase him. He runs into a gurney and hits his head on the wall. By the way, suddenly, we start hearing Graydon pitching this movie as it is happening. Graydon comes to and sees the Spice Girls looking at him and Damien realizes that as a tabloid reporter, he has been living a meaningless lie. Damien then decides to go after Kevin and print a story damaging his reputation.
 

So now the Spice Girls are rushing in their bus to get to Royal Albert Hall. They get to the bus and Dennis isn’t there. Because of this and not having much time, Posh decides she is going to drive the bus instead, leaving Dennis behind.
 

They have a high speed bus dash to get there. Graydon says that as they are going down Trafalgar and passes by Buckingham Palace, Prince William tells his grandmother Queen Elizabeth that he saw the Spice Girls passing by. By the way, we only get told this happens because as you know, the Royal Family don’t act much in actual movies. Then suddenly the Spice Girls are on top of the bus (for no other reason then “The Rules” as Martin says).
 
No Reason Other Than That Is “The Rules” In This Type Of Movie
 
But as all of this is going on, we see that Clifford is starting to get into this pitch and wants to know what happens next. Graydon says that two old nuns pull up in a mini-van right in front of them and Posh stops which puts all the Spice Girls back inside the bus.
 

The Spice Girls are then coming up on the Tower Bridge and the drawbridge is rising. But since the Spice Girls need to make this show, they jump from one half of the bridge to the other. Oh and we don’t see this part because it is way too expensive and we are only told it happens. Well, okay…..we do see it.
 
But Should This Really Freaking Count. Dear God, This Is 1997, Guys!!!!
 
Oh and then just as they think they are safe, they discover that there is a bomb on the bus.
 
Even Martin Is Like “What Bomb?”
 
Why is the bomb there is anyone’s guess, besides “Those are the rules”.
 
Oh Well…..Plot Hole
 
Martin grabs him and screams to stopping putting the Spice Girls in danger.
 

Graydon then says they get to the building and burst through that door right there. Because they didn’t burst through that door, Clifford now wants to strangle Graydon.
 

Suddenly, the legendary music that played while Rocky was running up the steps in “Rocky” plays as the Spice Girls get there and run up the steps. They get stopped by the cops for their reckless driving.
 

The Spice Girls send Baby to try and convince the officer that they are sorry and he buys it. In the dressing room as the crowd is chanting for Spice Girls, Clifford decides that he is going to go on stage and kill himself.
 
Oh, Piers & His Crew Are Documenting All Of This
 
The Spice Girls show up so Clifford doesn’t have to hang himself and the show goes on as planned. Clifford tells Chief that everything is under control and now we get the Spice Girls singing while the two movie makers and Clifford are dancing, saying they have a deal on the movie.
 

Oh and we see other cast members dancing too.
 

The credits play and we see them pretending like they are making the movie with actors now playing themselves. But before we end this scene, the Spice Girls decide to talk to us.
 

Oh and they helpfully inform us about the plot hole of the bomb. Not as to how it got there, but as to what happened to it. It of course explodes and we see it flash on the side with explosion sounds.
 

And that’s the end of this film.
 
This film cost $25 million to make and made $151 million in the box office. And it also did well in VHS sells. However, one year after this film was release, Ginger Spice would leave the Spice Girls, citing issues with the band and depression. She released solo albums under her real name Geri Halliwell and in the UK, they did fine, but nothing like the Spice Girls. The Spice Girls tried to soldier on without Ginger, but the time of fame died and their next album was met with lukewarm reception. After that, the Spice Girls went on hiatus for years and decided to have lives of their own before all of them (including Ginger) reunited in 2007 and sporadically reunite when every so often when they are not busy doing their own things.
 
Dominic West (who played the photographer) would get bigger roles and in 2002 would get his most known role as Det. James McNulty in The Wire. Naoko Mori (who played Nicola) would get her biggest role in 2006 as Toshiko Sato on the hit UK TV series Torchwood. Alan Cumming (who played Piers) would get his biggest role in X-Men 2: X-Men United as Nightcrawler. Hugh Laurie (who played Poirot) after the end of A Bit of Fry and Laurie would get his breakout role and most of us Americans would know him for as Dr. House on the TV show House. Kevin McNally (who played the policeman) would get his big break by being Captain Jack Sparrow’s friend Gibbs in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
 
Unfortunately, deaths do happen and this film sadly has people who are no longer with us. Hugh Cecil (who had an uncredited role as the person who got kissed by Baby Spice) passed away in 2004 at the age of 90. Richard Briers (who played the bishop) would suffer a cardiac arrest in 2013 at the age of 79 and die. Bob Hoskins (who played himself in a cameo) would sadly get Parkenson’s in 2011 and die from pneumonia 3 years later in 2014 at the age of 71. Roger Moore (who played Chief) would pass away at the age of 89 in 2017 due to cancer. Peter Sissions (who played a Newsreader) would leave us at the age of 77 in 2019.
 
Now my final thoughts on this film. I do not like this film. I goes nowhere way too many times and just does stuff to do stuff. The acting isn’t that great and the little effects that they have are bad (that bridge jumping scene although some would argue that was intentional). The only thing that saves this from being a film that makes me angry is the fact….that it looks like the cast is having fun with making this film. Just like with Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, if you really have a cast that seems to having fun with what they are doing, that stuff is infectious even in a bad movie like this. I guess the music can also become an earworm in your head as well. So not as bad as I remembered it or as I was dreading when I was made to induct this film.
 
That ends the Summer Of The Fan for 2020. So next month, I honor the great John Saxon by inducting one of his films which I am sure is a small consolation for the fact that I never got to pay him for his autograph at a horror convention the next time we saw each other. You all had 14 choices and let’s see which one you picked.


Ah, So John Saxon's Earliest Movie That Was Nominated Gets The Induction. 

3 comments:

  1. Speaking of Kevin McNally, his wife Phyllis Logan was part of the cast of Freddie as F.R.O.7, a film more derided than Spiceworld. She voiced the Loch Ness Monster - there is a musical number, but Barbara Dickson does the singing rather than Phyllis.

    Blimey,that film is naff. Ben Kingsley is in it as the main character, and I thought his film Harem was awful (connection - that co-starred Zohra Segal, who starred in Firm Friends with Billie Whitelaw, who voices Freddie's evil aunt Messina in F.R.O.7.).

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  2. To add to Spiceworld - Claire Rushbrook, who played Clifford's assistant, is still acting, having appeared in Doctor Who and also Home Fires with Clare Higgins of Hellraiser fame.

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  3. Sorry, reference the Clare Higgins bit, mixed it up with Homefront, a show she was in.

    Claire Rushbrook was in Home Fires but with Francesca Annis.

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