The Bearded Trio

Getting old isn’t all that much fun, for the most part. Nothing works like it did or is supposed to. We yearn for the days of our youth while cursing the sudden and stubborn limitations of age, even if, during one of those days of youth, we fancied ourselves as old. However, with age comes an ever-expanding memory and well of experience. The filing cabinets of our minds are continuously getting filled with new people, events and things we bear witness to.  One part of aging I have come to embrace is watching public figures - in this case, actors - move from relative obscurity to front-of-line in the public consciousness. We see these actors go from “how do you pronounce that Matthew guy’s last name again?” to seeing them win Academy Awards for their work.  In the case of director Steven Spielberg, his films have had a knack for casting actors at the early stages of their careers, just before major breakthroughs. In each of these roles, you can see the talent, charisma and craf...

Get Your Bids In Prop Store have done it again and announced their annual live auction of film and TV memorablia.  There are plenty of Steven Spielberg interest here with props from Hook, Saving Private Ryan and Back to the Future.  Lucasfilm collectors will also be eager to bid on lots from Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and Labyrinth.  Who wouldn't want to tinker with Jareth's crystal ball?  We have the full press release below and details on how you can register. Film & TV memorabilia worth in excess of £4.4 million ($5.6 million) will be auctioned by Prop Store in a two-day auction on 1st & 2nd December 2020   Bids can be placed online or by phone from anywhere in the world Last year’s UK auction saw a Radio-Controlled Hero Ghost Trap from GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) sell for an astonishing £186,900 Prop Store  – one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies has today announced it is to hold its annual live auction of film and TV me...

Tasting of  "peanut butter and chocolate-flavored crispy, sweetened 2-grain cereal". The cereal pieces came in the shapes of the capital letters "E" and "T" to spell everyone's favourite alien. It was said the reason for the flavour was to emulate Reese's Pieces sweets which of course was used in the 1982 Steven Spielberg directed movie.  Here's some more photos along with a retro TV commercial.

Steven Spielberg's Cancelled Alien Game Surfaces With New Footage It's no secret that Steven Spielberg is a gamer and has dipped his talented hands into the world of gaming in the past such as Boom Bloxs and The Dig.  Well, thanks to a documentary on YouTube about the video game company, Arkane Studios who brought us gaming greats such as Prey and Dishonored, we get to see some unseen footage on a game that Steven Spielberg had an involvement in.  It was in the mid-2000s and the game had a code-name of "LMNO."  The game didn't get off the ground and didn't even have a proper name but the concept was intriguing. It was going to be an open-world cross-country road trip with a friendly alien as your sidekick who had special powers.  An interesting and original idea and a huge shame it got cancelled.  The story was actually Steven Spielberg's idea.  He had the script and wanted to make the game and a movie.  The game would have seen your character ...

There are five differences in the two pictures below.  Can you find them?  Two are quite subtle.  Good luck! The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Williams and a whole lot more.

10 Celebrities with moggies I love cats.  Ask anyone who knows me and they will tell you I'm at my happiest when I'm sat in my favourite chair, watching my favourite Spielberg movie and my Bengal cat by my side.  Today on Twitter I noticed the word '#Caturday" trending so this inspired me gave me a purrfect opportunity to post something to do with the feline kind.  Anyway, here are ten pictures of celebrities that are in some way related to The Bearded Trio and at least one cat in the photo. Have I missed any obvious ones?  Let me know and I'll add them here. 1 - Steven Spielberg preparing for the best shot on the set of The BFG. 2 - Kitty cuddles with Stanley Kubrick  3 - Michael J. Fox with a worried looking cat.  Probably wondering where Einstein is. 4 - Welsh legend, Anthony Hopkins and a cute ball of fur.  5 - Casual cat with a startled looking Drew Barrymore 6 - Samuel L. Jackson with a mother fudging cu...

Making of Back to the Future Doc, Doc! Great Scott!  What else was I going to open with?  This is heavy perhaps?  Okay, that's enough of the Back to the Future puns.  You might have guessed that I'm a bit of fan of the time-travelling movie which was released in 1985 and thank goodness it's executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, it gives me an excuse to post about the classic movie.  Anyway, here's a 25 minute making of video which goes into quite some detail on how the movie came about, the casting process and how the movie became the cult classic we love today. The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Williams and a whole lot more.

Watching Skies: Star Wars, Spielberg and Us.  A loving ode to a VHS galaxy not that far, far away As Solo, Ready Player One and Stranger Things prove the retro might of VHS era cinema, Watching Skies – Star Wars, Spielberg and Us is a universal and affectionate tale about the pop cultural remembrances stuck in all our R2 unit’s memory systems. Like many a British kid in an ‘80s world of VCRs, Reagan and Atari, Mark O’Connell wanted to be one of the kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Superman and Star Wars weren’t just changing cinema – they were making lasting highways into our childhoods, toy boxes and video stores like never before. In this energetic and insightful memoir-through-cinema, Mark O’Connell flies a gilded X-Wing through a universe of bedroom remakes of Return of the Jedi, close encounters with Christopher Reeve, sticker album swaps, a honeymoon on A...

Spielberg Set To Direct His First DC Universe Movie We have some breaking news tonight as we hear that Steven Spielberg is set to step into the realm of the DC Universe and direct Blackhawk.  What's more the screenplay will be by long time Spielberg collaborator, David Koepp. DC's Statement on the new Blackhawk Spielberg collaboration Here's what DC has to say on the amazing news: Fresh on the heels of Ready Player One (which features cameo appearances by Batman, Harley Quinn, Batgirl and more), Steven Spielberg is ready to dive into the DC Universe proper with Blackhawk, a just-announced feature film from Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures based on the classic DC series about a squadron of WWII-era pilots. Blackhawk, which Spielberg is hoping to direct, will be his first featured centered around characters from the DC Universe. In announcing the film, Warner Bros. Pictures Group Chairman Toby Emmerich said, “We are so proud to be the s...

Check out this video of Martha's Vineyard where Steven Spielberg's Jaws was shot and used as Amity Island in the movie. After our time in Boston, my family travelled to Martha's Vineyard, the Massachusetts island which provided the location for Amity Island in Steven Spielberg's Jaws. Follow me across the island as I share some of its most colorful places! Catch the outtro to get a look at my visit to Newport, Rhode Island, where I toured Alva Vanderbilt's Marble House mansion! The Bearded Trio - The Site For Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, John Williams and a whole lot more. THE BEARDED TRIO ON FACEBOOK THE BEARDED TRIO ON TWITTER THE BEARDED TRIO ON GOOGLE+ THE BEARDED TRIO ON PINTEREST CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON STEVEN SPIELBERG CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON GEORGE LUCAS CLICK HERE FOR FACTS ON JOHN WILLIAMS