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Guy nearby has a vintage Gran Turismo. I like how he just rides it around and parks it on the street like a normal car.
The final batch of 26 Guy Arab V in the Lancashire United fleet had "F" suffix registrations, as did Manchester's first Mancunian double deckers - a world apart!
278 picks up at the Farnworth Market stop followed by a former Leigh Corporation lowbridge (6903) Leyland Titan PD3A on loan from GMT to Swinton Depot to cover for a vehicle shortage
A broadside view of Duple bodied Guy Arab, new in 1943 to Plymouth Corporation and now preserved as Alexander Fife RO671.
Lathalmond, 29th September, 2018.
“I’m self-employed; I sell self-published poetry. I’ve been doing it for about three years. It started a few years ago. I suffer from chronic fatigue and I wasn’t getting anywhere with my doctor. I wasn’t prepared to have their tests and take their medication. I use alternative healing methods and it works for me, but they wouldn’t recognise it. He wouldn’t provide me with a sick note, and I couldn’t do 35 hours of job search because of my condition. I wasn’t able to get an allowances and they said I was on my own. I knew that I had to find another way to make a living. And the thing that I’ve always been most appreciated for has been my poetry.
I’ve been writing poetry for thirty years. I remember writing one of my first pieces at school. We had to write about Guy Fawkes. The teacher liked what I had written and they got me to read it in front of the whole school in assembly. I really enjoyed that; it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. I knew from then on that performing was something I could do.
During my teens, I was inspired by punk poets like Ian Dury and John Cooper Clarke. A lot of the punk lyrics were quite poetic, and the music was simple but effective. So with school friends we started messing around with instruments and creating rhythms and sounds. Years later, these friends have gone on to become renowned musical artists themselves. A few of them are in a band called ‘Sentimentalists’ and they use a lot of my work as lyrics.
We’re all doing well artistically, just not financially.”
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. D 424. Photo: Warner Bros.
Handsome American leading man Guy Madison (1922-1996) appeared in 85 films, on radio, and on television. In the 1940s, he started as a fresh-faced dreamboat. He became a hero to the Baby Boom generation as James Butler Hickock in the television series Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951-1958). After the Hickok series ended, Madison became a star of European cinema.
Guy Madison was born in 1922 as Robert Ozell Moseley in Pumpkin Center, California, and was reared in nearby Bakersfield. His father was a machinist on the Santa Fe Railroad. His younger brother, Wayne Mallory, would later become a Western actor too. As a young man, Robert worked as a telephone lineman but entered the Coast Guard at the beginning of the Second World War. While on liberty one weekend in Hollywood in 1944, he reportedly attended a Lux Radio Theatre broadcast and was spotted in the audience by Helen Ainsworth, an assistant to Henry Willson. Willson was the talent agent for producer David O. Selznick at the time. Selznick wanted an unknown sailor to play a small but prominent part in the Home Front morale-booster Since You Went Away (John Cromwell, 1944), and promptly signed Robert Moseley to a contract. Selznick and Willson saw major heartthrob material in the blond, boyishly handsome sailor. They concocted the screen name Guy Madison (the 'guy' girls would like to meet, and Madison from a passing Dolly Madison cake wagon). Later, Willson would do the same for such other handsome film hunks as Rock Hudson (born Roy Scherer), Tab Hunter (Arthur Kelm), and Troy Donahue (Merle Johnson). Madison filmed his three-minute bowling-alley sequence with Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker in Since You Went Away on a weekend pass and returned to duty. The film's release brought an avalanche of fan letters (43,000 pieces) for Madison's lonely, strikingly handsome young sailor, and at war's end, he returned to find himself a star-in-the-making. Madison was signed by RKO Pictures in 1946 and began appearing in romantic comedies and such dramas as Till the End of Time (Edward Dmytryk, 1946), starring Dorothy McGuire as a war widow, uncertain whether she should or could make a second start with Madison. Despite an initial woodenness to his acting, Madison grew as a performer, studying and working in theatre. However, his career seemed to evaporate by the end of the 1940s.
Guy Madison was the subject of numerous beefcake photographs while building a film persona. He played leads in a series of programmers, such as the American Civil War film Drums in the Deep South (William Cameron Menzies, 1951), before being cast as legendary U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok in Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, with Andy Devine as the trusty and funny sidekick Jingles. The show ran on television from 1951 to 1958 and on the radio from 1951 to 1956. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok made Guy Madison a household name and earned him a new crop of fans, especially among children. Soon, Madison's visage began appearing on cereal boxes, toys, and other promotional items. Sixteen feature films were released by Monogram Pictures between 1952 and 1955 that consisted of combined episodes of the series. His popularity as Hickok led to a starring role in the 3-D film The Charge at Feather River (Gordon Douglas, 1953), whose success gave him a new lease on life in Hollywood. He was cast as a tight-lipped action hero in Westerns like The Command (David Butler, 1954) and The Last Frontier (Anthony Mann, 1955) with Victor Mature. He was the executive producer of the Western Reprisal! (George Sherman, 1956) in which he played a half Indian who poses as white.
After the Hickok series ended, Guy Madison found work scarce in the U.S. and traveled to Europe. There he made around 90 films. He first found work in Rome in Peplums like La Schiava di Roma/Slave of Rome (Sergio Grieco, Franco Prosperi, 1961) with Rosanna Podestà, and Rosmunda e Alboino (Carlo Campogalliani, 1961) opposite Jack Palance. He became a popular star of the European cinema after successes as the Karl May Western Old Shatterhand (Hugo Fregonese, 1964) opposite Lex Barker, and made a surprising number of popular Spaghetti Westerns in the mid to late 1960s. These included 7 winchester per un massacre/Payment in Blood (Enzo G. Castellari, 1967) with Edd Byrnes, and I lunghi giorni dell'odio/This Man Can't Die (Gianfranco Baldanello, 1968), with Rik Battaglia. He left Italy in 1970 and temporarily settled in Texas, later returning to Los Angeles. In Hollywood, he appeared mainly in cameo roles, such as in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (Michael Winner, 1976). His last film appearance was in Red River (Richard Michaels, 1988) with James Arness and Ty Hardin. But this TV movie didn't compare with the 1948 classic by Howard Hawks on which it was based. Later that year, Madison was in a serious auto accident that damaged his lungs. A variety of health problems limited his work in later years, and he died from emphysema in 1996. He was 74. Guy Madison married his first wife, beautiful and haunted actress Gail Russell, in 1949. Russell's alcoholism helped bring an end to the marriage in 1954. From 1954 till 1964, he was married to model and actress Sheila Connolly, with whom he had four children, Bridget, Dolly, Erin, and Robert. His best friend was actor Rory Calhoun who was later named 'godfather' to Madison's eldest daughter Bridget.
Sources: David Shipman (The Independent), William Grimes (The New York Times), Bridget Madison (Guy Madison Offical Site), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Brian J. Walker (Brian's Drive-in Theater), Terry (Gay Influence), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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