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The Beatles albums

1. Help
2. Rubber Soul
3. Revolver
4. Sgt. Pepper
5. Abbey Road
6. White Album
7. A Hard Day's Night
8. With the Beatles
9. Magical Mystery Tour (with bonus)
10. Please Please Me

Top Ten Michael Caine performances...

1) Alfie
2) Zulu
3) Educating Rita
4) The Cider House Rules
5) The Quiet American
6) The Italian Job
7) The Ipcress File
8) Get Carter
9) Hannah and Her Sisters
10) Jaws: The Revenge Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

My Top Ten Loony Lefties
1 Bernie Grant (untouchable at the top, wibble, wibble)
2 Tony Benn (great consistency throughout long loony career)
3 Ken Livingstone (lost incredibility with office, but not that much)
4 Eric Heffer
5 Claire Short
6 Dennis Skinner
7 Michael Foot RIP
8 Derek Hatton (down the list cos he soon sold out)
9 Glenda Jackson
10 (the young) Peter Hain Edit for Tim Walker

I love Caine in that Woody Allen film.
I used to hate him for some reason, but seeing that made me start liking him.

Peter Hain a lefty loony? I'd agree with the loony part, but he abandoned his left-wing credentials many years ago (see Jack Straw for further information).

Hain is the politician I dislike the most, maybe perhaps he has an air of such pompous indignation whenever anyone suggests that the government might not always be completely honest. Plus, he can't seem to answer any question without somehow crowbar-ing in the fact that he campaigned against apartheid in South Africa. (I hope Mandela sent him a thank you note for Hain single-handedly securing his release, btw.)

Quote: zooo @ March 22 2010, 11:58 AM GMT

I love Caine in that Woody Allen film.
I used to hate him for some reason, but seeing that made me start liking him.

It was almost the first time he'd ever played a vulnerable character, perhaps that's why? :)

Ah, perhaps!

Caine's best film performance - Sleuth. He even has the beating of Olivier at his most campy.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ March 22 2010, 11:57 AM GMT

10 (the young) Peter Hain Edit for Tim Walker

That's more like it. ;)

Quote: Tim Walker @ March 22 2010, 11:51 AM GMT

Top Ten Michael Caine performances...

1) Alfie
2) Zulu
3) Educating Rita
4) The Cider House Rules
5) The Quiet American
6) The Italian Job
7) The Ipcress File
8) Get Carter
9) Hannah and Her Sisters
10) Jaws: The Revenge Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Where's The Man Who Would Be King or Pulp? Quiet American, excellent choice though.

Not seen 'Pulp'. 'The Man Who Would Be King' is an excellent film, but I don't think Caine has to stretch many acting sinews in it.

Both those have great Caine performances as indeed does Kidnapped, Too Late the Hero, The Muppet Xmas Carol. I've had this discussion with people on other sites and several agreed that although he's been in some rotten films, he's hardly ever given a rotten performance, or not been one the film's major highlights. He is our greatest film actor bar no one.

Well, this is one of the problems with the format of Top Ten lists, you can't include everything!

Don't blame me! I'm out of control! The whole freakin' system's out of control!!

Top 10 UK Right-Wing Nutters (in no particular order):

1. Oswald Mosley
3. His wife
3. Melanie Phillips
4. Norman Tebbit
5. Peter Hitchens
6. The Daily Express
7. Tony Blair
8. Lord Haw Haw
9. Nick Griffin
10. Carol Voderman

Nick Griffin, right wing? Have you seen the BNP's policies?

Anyone else got the Get Carter DVD on Warner Bros Iconic Films? Check out the Caine trailer - priceless! 'I'm sorry I can't be with you in Newcastle tonight, but I'm playing Elizabeth Taylor's husband...' Ha ha! 2nd only to the great clip where he says he and Terrence Stamp have a lot of young ladies back to their flat, 'So if you've got any pretty young daughters...' The bloke's a LEGEND.

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