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We had a Betamax, and the film I remember wearing out the most was 'Yellow Submarine'! (sort of aimed at adults I guess). I have no idea why as I can't stand it now. A bit later, I was into 'Barbarella' and 'The Thing'.
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I still believe we have our betamax somewhere! I remember the day the guy from the electrical shop came to replace it, sad times.
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I don't think I've ever seen Barbarella. I have a funny feeling that we might have had Yellow Submarine taped on betamax. Mum really did love taping things, still does. She has enough tapes of Barry Manilow appearances to fill a skip. I remember having to watch Sally Jesse Raphael for weeks, months for an upcoming appearance of the Manilow just so she could record it an add to her collection.
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Aliens Police academy Gremlins Poltergeist Nightmare on elm street All the hammer horrors Sure there are many more Edit Charles Bronson movies used to watch these with my dad every week end along with horrors with my mother. We would go to the local video rental store on Friday me and mother would choose some horrors and dad would get his westerns and Bronson movies Last edited by trebor8273; 8th August 2015 at 09:27 PM. |
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Loads really - Terminator, Aliens, The Thing etc etc. The ratings system was a concept lost on my parents, the only thing my mum objected to was sex scenes, where she'd cover my eyes up! |
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With all this Manilow talk you've reminded me of a disturbing childhood memory, also involving someone's mother. Mother in question belonged to my eight year old friend. She (mom) was a Barry Manilow obsessive. She was also known around our small town for being a bit... erm... 'histrionic'. One day friend and I were in his kitchen playing some weird game involving melting an action man's face when his mother burst through the door in complete hysterics, screaming that Barry Manilow had just been assassinated! We basically had to comfort her for two hours as she sat in a chair, head buried in hands, gibbering about how America had lost its one true hope for salvation to the Argentinians! (this was around the time of the Falklands war). She then made my friend stand on the window ledge whilst she hid behind a sofa, explaining that she wasn't ready to be interviewed by the journalists who were on their way to the house to ask her about what had happened to her mate Barry. "Son, could you please keep an eye out for them and send them packing? I'm too distraught to even contemplate receiving them." When my own mother came to collect me she dropped everything and acted completely normally. I'm not spinning an anecdote at the expense of someone's mental illness, as I don't think she was unwell in any 'classic' sense... she was very unpredictable but deliberate about what she did on this and other occasions, and was generally quite manipulative anyway. |
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My mum is on the obsessive side. She was in the fan club, there was a convention each year that she would attend before the UK fan club closed down. One year there was a fancy dress costume, she made a costume - it was a sheet of music.....I am in possession of this costume. When he was on tour in the UK she would got to London, Manchester, Sheffield, Cardiff I think, he was usually on two or three nights and she would go to them all, it wasn't a cheap hobby. One year she was sat in front of the Nolans. Incidentally she went to one of his concerts when she was 8 months pregnant with me. I came out early.....there's certainly a connection. Having said that I do love an odd Barry tune and unlike my mother I can actually remember the lyrics which unbelievably she can't!
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Sitting in front of the Nolans... stocking up for the Falklands nuclear holocaust! My friend (another one) filled an entire cellar full of water bottles, convinced that the world was gonna blow any day. Quite heavy thinking for a kid. That sheet music dress sounds cool. |
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Mum wasn't worried about survival, she was worried that she would never get to taste corned beef again. I'll have to remember to dig it out and take a photo.
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