Tony Klinger

There is a huge new problem hitting the big film studios presently.
When times were fat the studios had their old film libraries valued at huge multiples of the then considerable revenue streams and were consequently able to borrow huge sums of money using this asset as security. But now times are hard and the bankers [...]

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Last night on British television there was a program entitled “The Hottest Place On Earth”. It showed us a team of intrepid explorers visiting the Danaki Desert in northern Ehtopia to investigate the geology of the area and the amazing people who survive in this impossibly hostile environment.
This was followed on BBC 1 with a [...]

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This week has not gone as planned. The problem started when I went for a walk with my wife into the park. The sun was shining, the temperature appealing and there were a few precious minutes to enjoy the air. We went striding out to our next door neighbor, the River Lea in Lee Valley [...]

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It’s not a great name is it? Duxford sounds like some kind of medicinal laxative, and the Imperial part of the title contains echoes of some distant past when men came with a handlebar moustache and a firm jaw.
The museum is just off the M11 road between the Cities of London and Cambridge, fairly close [...]

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For my sins I once made a film called The Butterfly Ball. In my defense I was very young, in my early twenties and also very naive. I was working for a company owned by the rock group, Deep Purple and they owned the film rights to the music of Roger Glover. This was set [...]

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