A Shroud of Thoughts

Ever since childhood I have been fascinated by English history. Among my favourite eras is that known as The Anarchy or The Nineteen Year Wi...

Foreword This is it. This is the 1500th post of A Shroud of Thoughts . Even after having maintained this blog for approximately six years...

Earlier this week among the big news reported about the Emmy Awards was that Top Chef won   in what many claimed was an upset. Two thoughts...

Billy Liar (1963) is a hard film to classify. It has the look of the British "kitchen sink" films that came before it, but it esc...

I have to admit that I did not watch the Emmy Awards last night. After all, they aired against both Leverage and Mad Men . From what I read...

Jackson Gillis, a television writer who wrote for shows ranging from The Adventures of Superman to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to Columbo to L...

Gloria Winters, who played Penny King on the series Sky King , passed on August 14. She was in her late seventies. The cause was complicatio...