Something of the Sepp Blatter about Georgey Graham, wasn't there

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Originally Posted by Burney

No, he said 'trigger'.

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To be sure, we always seem to be on about the Irish nowadays :-(

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

That was my thought as well. Obviously it's going to be hard to film such a peerless book but an honest try.

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Yes. Whatever happened to Alan Arkin? He was one of those chaps who was in everything in the 70s at one point and then sort of disappeared. Like Elliot Gould, George Segal and Richard Dreyfus.

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Originally Posted by Burney

Yes. Whatever happened to Alan Arkin? He was one of those chaps who was in everything in the 70s at one point and then sort of disappeared. Like Elliot Gould, George Segal and Richard Dreyfus.

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Don't know about the others, unless you mean "Adam" Arkin who was wonderful in Northern Exposure, but Gould was in Ocean's Eleven.

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Don't know about the others, unless you mean "Adam" Arkin who was wonderful in Northern Exposure, but Gould was in Ocean's Eleven.

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The bloke who plays Yossarian.

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Yes. Whatever happened to Alan Arkin? He was one of those chaps who was in everything in the 70s at one point and then sort of disappeared. Like Elliot Gould, George Segal and Richard Dreyfus.

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Elliot Gould's finest hour was in A Bridge Too Far. "Any of you boys built a bridge before? Let's haul a little ass!'

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The bloke who plays Yossarian.

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Ah, yes. Must be some relation?

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Elliot Gould's finest hour was in A Bridge Too Far. "Any of you boys built a bridge before? Let's haul a little ass!'

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George Segal was in Bridge at Remagen as the hard-bitten captain. He wasn't very convincing, if truth be told.

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Elliot Gould's finest hour was in A Bridge Too Far. "Any of you boys built a bridge before? Let's haul a little ass!'

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I liked his Philip Marlowe.

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

I liked his Philip Marlowe.

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I've never seen that. I like films about Elizabethan playwrights, I'll seek it out.

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George Segal was in Bridge at Remagen as the hard-bitten captain. He wasn't very convincing, if truth be told.

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Now I come to think of it, everyone's finest hour was in A Bridge Too Far.