Robert,
I would like a copy!
Laurel McKee in Seattle, WA
Do you still have my address?
What do I owe you?


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> From: "Robert Dahl" <rjd0309@...>
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> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:28:57 -0000
> From: "Robert Dahl" <rjd0309@...>
> Subject: Boys With Toys
>
> RITA IN NEW TV SHOWS DEPT --
>
>
> If you happen to have access to the BBC1 channel,
> you can tune in to
> see Rita guest-star in the TV series "New Tricks" on
> Monday, June 6,
> 2005.
>
> "New Tricks" follows the antics of three retired
> cops recruited to
> reinvestigate unsolved crimes. The cops have, for a
> variety of
> reasons, handed over their badges and accepted
> premature retirement.
> But their hunger to right the wrongs of the past is
> still strong, and
> they're willing to resort to the most unconventional
> methods if it
> means they can close a case.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/newtricks/
>
> "Series 2, Episode 5 - Attractive widow and probate
> assessor Elise
> Allen (Rita Tushingham) asks Halford (James Bolam)
> to find the
> rightful owner of a large, uncut red diamond, worth
> £15 million. She
> found the rare jewel in a flat rented by a man who
> died in 1982."
>
> Rita appeared on May 24th on the talk show, "The
> Paul O'Grady Show",
> in part to plug this upcoming "New Tricks" episode.
>
> I've made some friends in the UK over the past year
> in connection
> with collecting some of Rita's films, and these
> folks have been kind
> enough to record her current TV appearances for me.
> I will be happy
> to provide a DVD copy of Rita's "New Tricks"
> episode, and her "Paul
> O'Grady" appearance to any club member who would
> like one, just for
> the cost of the discs and postage.
>
>
> RITA IN OLD TV SHOWS DEPT --
>
>
> Thanks to the sharp eyes of one of my UK friends
> participating in my
> Rita Early-Warning System, her appearances this week
> in old episodes
> of "Bread" have been recorded for our viewing
> pleasure.
>
> Online documentation of "Bread" episodes is sketchy
> at best, and
> prior to this week's broadcasts, I only knew of two
> "Bread" episodes
> in which she guest-starred. It turns out that she
> appeared in no
> fewer than five episodes (4.09 - 4.13), which have
> been broadcast on
> the UKTV Drama channel this week. Paul and Linda
> McCartney guested
> in the final episode of the 1988 season, episode
> 4.13.
>
> A "Bread" DVD box set exists for Series 3 and 4, but
> it is woefully
> incomplete. A total of thirteen episodes from
> series 3 and 4 are NOT
> included in the set, including all of Rita's
> appearances. What were
> they thinking?
>
> Again, I will be happy to provide a DVD copy of
> Rita's "Bread"
> episodes to any club member who would like one.
>
>
> RITA'S KINDNESS TO FANS DEPT --
>
>
> As club founder Ken Toops has mentioned here before,
> the best place
> to find Rita stuff is on eBay. A lot of old
> back-issue magazines
> also turn up with Rita articles and interviews. She
> mentions a lot
> of movie projects that were in development at the
> times of those
> interviews. Many of those projects never made it to
> the screen. So
> what happened?
>
> I ended up with about twenty questions along those
> lines, concerning
> movie titles and projects that were unfamiliar to
> me. I included
> those questions in a fan letter to Rita last March.
> I had tracked
> down the address of her agent, who was kind enough
> to forward my
> letter on to Rita. (You can find this contact
> address in the Files
> section, under "Fan Mail Address".)
>
> Imagine my enormous thrill when I discovered an
> email message in my
> Inbox from Rita herself! Holy heart attack! It was
> Tuesday, April
> 26, 2005, at 09:36 a.m. (not that I would have any
> reason to
> remember). It was a day off from my usual 14-hour
> days working at
> the hospital.
>
> Her message was brief but very kind. In subsequent
> emails, she
> mentioned a little bit about her family and her busy
> schedule, which
> I took as an attempt on her part to be kind to a new
> fan, and to
> appear to be an ordinary, down-to-earth, "just plain
> folks" sort of
> person. Ordinary? Rita Tushingham?? I THINK NOT!
> However, I very
> much appreciated her kindness and her willingness to
> try to answer
> some of my questions. A very positive, delightful
> person.
>
> In my own mind, I had planned to be very cool, calm,
> and collected if
> ever contacted by her. Of course, that all went out
> the window
> immediately! I was effusive and enthusiastic in my
> replies, and I
> can only hope that Rita has become accustomed to
> cutting some slack
> to overly-effusive fans, or else she's going to
> think that I'm a
> complete nitwit! Oh well, if I had to go down in
> flames, at least I
> made an enormous crater upon impact!
>
>
> BOYS WITH TOYS DEPT --
>
>
> With this year's tax refund, I bought myself a
> multi-region DVD
> recorder. I suppose that I SHOULD have put the
> money into savings,
> but what fun would that be? I spent some initial
> learning-curve time
> transferring some of Rita's movies to DVD.
>
> Over the past year and a half, I've managed to
> collect quite a few of
> her movie and TV appearances. With all of these new
> "Bread"
> episodes, I probably have about 44 appearances now.
> I thought that
> it would be nice to share some of these with the
> club.
>
> I don't wish to infringe on any copyrights, so I
> won't make a copy of
> anything that can be purchased retail, but just for
> those cases where
> a retail DVD for that region does not exist.
> They're
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Laurel aka Francie



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