One thing is certain Sir Michael Caine is still very much a busy actor even only because Christopher Nolan does employ him on a very regular basis, most famously as Alfred the butler in the Dark knight trilogy. No," said Chris in what I would come to recognise as his hallmark quiet-but-authoritative manner. "I want you to read it now. I'll wait until you're done and you can tell me yes or no." The Name of the Game • 2. Cherry • 3. Get Some • 4. The Female of the Species • 5. Good for the Soul • 6. The Innocents • 7. The Self-Preservation Society • 8. You Found Me Flawless, а последно го гледах в Going in Style. Това по никакъв начин не пречи да заобичам тази книга, дотолкова, че още в самото начало на слушането я купих на хартия за близък. Така де, хубавите книги трябва да имат твърдо материално присъствие в домовете ни! Приземен, духовит, невземащ се на сериозно, от тези, на които им викат „свежари“ и на 20, и на 80 годишна възраст. От много старата школа – тази на купонната система, евакуацията от бомбардировки, лишенията и жилавостта на работническата класа. Кокни акцентът е бонус. Очилата също. Hollywood legend and British national treasure Sir Michael Caine, now 85, shares stories from screen and stage alongside some of the lessons and skills that life has taught him.

This isn’t so much a biographical retelling of his chronological life as it is pearls of wisdom/words of advice quotes exemplified with stories from his experiences. In present day, Starlight hails down a car and asks for help to get Hughie to a hospital. The man then threatens Butcher with a gun and Starlight uses her powers to push him away, accidentally killing him. They get in the car and drive Hughie to a hospital. He gets the care he needs, but will be laid up for a couple of days. Butcher and Annie bond as they agree that neither is good enough for Hughie I don't have to introduce Michael Caine to anyone, I hope. He is a brilliant actor and I always admired him in his roles through his whole career from "Zulu" to "Interstellar". He is simply one of the best actors I have ever seen in a movie. And I am really glad that he wrote "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off". Michael comes across as a hard-working, decent chap who feels grateful to have had such good fortune in his career and with his family. I was looking for something pleasant and this was a perfect audiobook for that. The Minis featured in the climactic chase were 1275cc Austin Mini Cooper S models. Production took place just as the manufacturer, the British Motor Corporation was preparing for the introduction of the Mk2 Mini, which was launched just before the film's public release. The Minis used were 1967 Mk1 models, fitted with future-dated 1969 G-suffix number plates to match the year of the film's intended release, despite that any 1969-registered Mini would be a Mk2, not a Mk1. BMC provided six new Minis (two of each colour) to the production at cost price. A further 25 were bought on the secondhand market via BMC's agent in Switzerland. Ten of these secondhand cars were Cooper S models and the remainder were standard 848cc models which were modified to various degrees to match the genuine 'star cars' as required for filming. All 16 Mini Coopers were destroyed or rendered unroadworthy in the course of filming, along with nine of the replica cars, leaving six 848cc replicas surviving intact. These were abandoned in the film crew's storage unit in Turin when filming concluded and their subsequent history is unknown.

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Field, Matthew. (2001). The making of The Italian job. Martin, Troy Kennedy, 1932-2009. London: B.T. Batsford. ISBN 0713486821. OCLC 48972127. I came to Blowing the Bloody Doors Off with a prejudice; Michael Caine has been one of my heroes for years due to his onscreen versatility and interviews I've watched. Intelligent, gracious, erudite, courteous, generous.

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MacGyver: 103 (Thief of Budapest)". TV.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 10 April 2008 . Retrieved 4 January 2009. This was an absolutely charming memoir by actor Michael Caine. I listened to this on audio, which Michael read himself, and it was a delight. I especially enjoyed his stories of how he got his start acting and the life lessons he's learned along the way. Vincent Canby, writing at the time of the film's release, felt that the caper film had been made before and much better as well. He complimented the film's technological sophistication, only criticising what he saw as an "emotionally retarded" plot. Canby also expressed concern that Coward's appearance in the film, although intended to be kind, "exploits him in vaguely unpleasant ways" by surrounding his character with images of the royal family, which had not knighted him at the time. A contemporary review in Time magazine felt that the film spent too much time focusing on the film's caper as opposed to building the characters; it also criticised the car chases as "dull and deafening". [33]

Lots of insights into life (not just the movie industry) from someone who's lived a long, difficult life and always come out smiling. Honest and compelling (and infinitely quotable), an excellent read. After leaving for Italy, Croker and some of his crew split off from the others while en route to Turin, to avoid raising suspicion. However, the small group soon encounter the Mafia waiting for them in the Alps, led by their boss Altabani, who destroys their cars. Croker narrowly manages to talk his way out of getting murdered. His crew infiltrate the Turin traffic control centre later that night, whereupon Peach replaces one of the computer's magnetic tape data storage reels with a duplicate designed to sabotage Turin's traffic control system on the day of the heist. The next day, as the gold arrives and the crew prepare for the heist, Croker sends Lorna to Geneva to protect her and the plan. At the same time, Peach absconds from the crew, and is later arrested for molesting a woman on a tram. A-Train has lunch with The Deep and Alastair Adana at the Church of the Collective. Alastair calmly threatens A-Train to stay and join the church, telling him that he knows about his past. Alastair convinces him too that he can help him stay in The Seven. He tells him that he needs to let The Deep tell him his "truths", aka how he felt anger towards him for most of his career. A-Train reluctantly agrees. At the Sage Grove Center, The Boys meet out front and put on nurse scrubs to sneak in. Starlight makes a hole in the fence for them to get in while Butcher, Starlight, and Hughie agree to stakeout the place. They sneak in successfully. Billy then aims his rifle a Starlight's head but ultimately refuses to pull the trigger again. Starlight then incites an argument with Butcher by asking why he hates Supes so much. She then incites him further by comparing him to Homelander, but before the two can continue they are interrupted with the arrival of Stormfront, who flies into the center. MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko kill a guard and break into the surveillance room. There, they see video screens monitoring residents, aka Supes in the making. MM, Frenchie, and Kimiko bring Lamplighter to Grace Mallory in a stolen ambulance. Lamplighter tells her that he wanted to come to see her. He tells her to shoot. Frenchie intervenes and begs Mallory to spare his life. Which she reluctantly does.Since 2000, there have been two remakes of the film. The first was released in 2003 and also called The Italian Job, set in Los Angeles and starring Mark Wahlberg as Charlie Croker. It features Donald Sutherland as John Bridger, played as more of a father figure to Croker. It employs the updated Mini Cooper for a chase towards the end. An official Bollywood remake of the 2003 film, called Players, was released in 2012. [35] The artwork Hang On A Minute Lads, I've Got A Great Idea by Richard Wilson on the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England. A portion of the car chase was filmed as a dance between the Minis and police cars with a full orchestra playing " The Blue Danube" inside Pier Luigi Nervi's Palazzo Esposizioni, usually used for the Turin Motor Show (and now a hospital library). [11] In 1999, it was ranked No. 36 on the BFI Top 100 British films by the British Film Institute. In November 2004, Total Film named The Italian Job the 27th greatest British film of all time. [28] In 2011, it was voted the best British film in a poll of film fans conducted by Sky Movies HD. [29] The line "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" by Caine was voted favourite film one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans. [30] One of the most discussed end scenes in film, what happened to the coachload of gold teetering over the edge of a cliff, has been debated in the decades since the film was released. [31] [32] There is something about Michael Caine's voice and delivery that I can't get enough of. He is a joy to listen to and doesn't appear to have lost any poise despite being 85 years old the year this book was released. If you're going to read this book I highly recommend doing it on audiobook. Andreeva, Nellie (28 September 2016). " 'The Italian Job' Drama Series Inspired By Movies Set At NBC From Paramount TV". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Business Media. Archived from the original on 27 October 2016 . Retrieved 23 October 2016.

Bhushan, Nyay (23 November 2010). "India to Remake 'The Italian Job' ". The Hollywood Reporter. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018 . Retrieved 11 July 2018. London 2012 Olympic Games end with a party". Channel 4 News. Channel 4. 13 August 2012. Archived from the original on 13 August 2012 . Retrieved 13 August 2012.National treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, insight and skills life has taught him, all with his fabulous storytelling."— Prima From the Publisher By extension: To exceed some form of convention, norm, or expectation by a wide margin, to the point of obliterating those expectations and redefining the conceptual space. When The Boys and Starlight follow a lead to Vought's mysterious Sage Grove Center, they find one of Vought's darkest secrets - and someone even darker from their past. Meanwhile Homelander and Stormfront's relationship deepens. At last Michael Caine reveals ending to the Italian Job". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019 . Retrieved 19 August 2019.