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Comment on Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady by jackal

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:32:59 +0000

Thanks for the comment, and the info - anything extra is always of interest.

Comment on Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady by cstiffl1

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:32:01 +0000

thank you so much for making this page. some information i can lend you is Jean grew up in (what was then known as) Mapleton, Ohio a suburb of canton, oh and she graduated from East Canton High School. the reason I know this is because that is where I graduated from. I still live in East Canton and I have always been interested in Jean Peters being the only famous person from our very small high school. I always remember looking at her graduating class photo on the walls at the school feeling a sense of pride. I will try to find out more information or facts from her childhood.

Comment on “WAR is our imperative!” by jackal

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:04:13 +0000

Yep, I think ‘very good two-parter’ sums it up nicely. I enjoyed it maybe more than most because I loved seeing Forbes back as Cain on the one hand, and the second storyline was heavy on Starbuck and Apollo - my favourite characters (especially when taken as a bickering pair). Funny thing about Tricia Helfer in this - I found her far more attractive as Gina than I ever did when she was all dolled up as Baltar’s ‘Six’.

Comment on “WAR is our imperative!” by mtanner

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:53:58 +0000

I agree; I did find some of the narrative a bit too muddled, like one scene was a flashback to a flashback and it just seemed confused. I enjoyed it but I don’t think it was all that much better than, say, a very good two-parter.

I really liked Cain, though, more than some of the BSG regulars. She was quite compelling. I like Tricia Helfer a lot too (well, naturally…!) and was pleased to see her turn up as Gina because I was intrigued by her brief appearance before. Would have liked a bit more of Baltar and Roslin but I understand they’re not really a part of this story and yes, the ending was a bit cheesy.

Comment on Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady by jackal

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:20:10 +0000

Good point you make there - I vaguely remember reading about Cramer and Moore marrying later, now that you mention it. One of those funny cases of changing partners, like Gable/Harlow & Powell/Lombard. I did also find a mention of Stuart Cramer quietly landing in a top job at a Hughes-run company after he divorced Peters, but it wasn’t backed up by anything else so I left it out of the piece.

Comment on Jean Peters: biography of a forgotten leading lady by clydefro

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:28:50 +0000

Very interesting reading - thanks for putting this together. I only know her mostly from Pickup on South Street, but she’s obviously great in it (and strikingly good-looking). Even though I have it on DVD, it’s been awhile since I’ve watched Niagara. Now I’ll have to fit that in the schedule soon.

Given how anxious everyone would have been to find out about her life with Hughes, it’s admirable that she never put out an autobiography tell-all. It doesn’t seem that she capitalized on their relationship, unlike my impression of Terry Moore. The same Stuart Cramer also married both women, as well, right? Very strange, if that’s the case.

Comment on Christopher Lee at the Oxford Student Union by Daniel Stephens

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:20:29 +0000

Great stuff, sounds like quite an evening!

Comment on Christopher Lee at the Oxford Student Union by primus

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:21:47 +0000

Wow - would loved to have been there! Thanks for the write up, Jackal.

Comment on Will Peter Falk don the raincoat one last time? by jackal

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:01:07 +0000

Thanks. I hadn’t heard about that recent interview - I know he was in the UK recently, but I managed to completely miss all his media appearances, which was clever of me. Hopefully this new movie gets off the ground while Falk is still on good form …

Comment on Will Peter Falk don the raincoat one last time? by Cal

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:35:01 +0000

Columbo was one hell of a great series, and I’m slightly gutted that it appears to be too high-brow for today’s audience. It would be great to see the guy again. However, I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but he does seem to be having problems nowadays - he was being interviewed in London recently and apparently thought he was somewhere else (LA, I think).