Leicester have got Atleti.

[Viva Prat Vegas]

That was odd, though. Every impressionist on the telly in the 70s would do Jimmy Cagney, 30 years after his films were popular. It's the equivalent of impressionists today doing Patrick Swayze impressions.

Yes
They would also do Humphrey Bogart and talk about gin joints and blue eyesh

[Sir C]

Yes
They would also do Humphrey Bogart and talk about gin joints and blue eyesh

I wonder how much it was due to people's memories of wartime being so powerful and visceral; seeing Casablanca when it was released, at a time of heightened reality and preception, probably stayed with those people much more clearly than us seeing Star Wars.

[Burney]

I wonder how much it was due to people's memories of wartime being so powerful and visceral; seeing Casablanca when it was released, at a time of heightened reality and preception, probably stayed with those people much more clearly than us seeing Star Wars.

It's probably more to do with the fact that those old movies were repeated on pretty much constant hard rotation on the BBC in those days.