Most people now know of the sad loss of Leslie Nielsen on Sunday. Pneumonia, in the end, rather than the much more likely banana peel, wheelchair, and eight flights of stairs. He was famous for roles in dozens of films and tv shows including The Naked Gun and Police Squad; and […]

Scott Brown’s new Senate seat in Massachusetts has an interesting history, and no, it’s not related to the Murdering Motorist but instead it reminds us of the proud heritage of the GOP: As the new senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, said: “It’s not the Ted Kennedy seat. It’s not the […]

Joseph Wiseman, the stage and screen actor who played the title role in “Dr. No,” the first James Bond film, has died at the age of 91. Based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name, “Dr. No” premiered at the London Pavilion in October 1962, the first entry […]

So where will you be on the 6-7th of June? TheEye will be in Normandy where 65 years ago to the day his uncle waded ashore on D-Day. Unlike the chaps whom George had only known for a short while (but it felt like a lifetime) he managed to make […]

TheEye and St Crispin were on the G&T’s for a decent percentage of yesterday and one-fingered blogging was just not practical afterwards. So TheEye is a day late recalling Anzac Day. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps were formed in 1915 and took part in one of Churchill’s not-so-good […]

My first post here is a serious one. One which puts my ordinary life into a different perspective. A perspective that generally renders me grumpy. Today though I am humbled. Warrant Officer 2 Gary O’Donnell, 40, of the Royal Logistic Corps, has won his second George Medal posthumously for “repeated […]