Hey everyone! Been kind of quiet around here lately. Anybody got anything to say? Anybody know anything about the Wonka remake? (other than the good news that...
Hey, all! I joined the club about a week ago after finding a link to the main site on the official Dahl webpage (yes - they have a link in their "Links" ...
I've been in Australia on vacation for the past couple weeks, so if you've e-mailed me here or at my Dahl site you won't have gotten a reply yet. Please be ...
I thought some of you might be interested in knowing that the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square in London, England is currently holding an exhibit of ...
Thanks for reminding me, Mary! I've seen the signs myself but haven't remembered to go yet. A friend did see it, though, and highly recommended it. She even...
Neck is one of Roald Dahl's most understated stories. THe poor man finally gets his own back. THe tension is very palpable and at the end it's almost killing....
Excellent post, scritic. You're exactly right about "Neck." I sometimes get e-mails from students asking what actually *happened* in the story. I tell them -...
Recently I've been having some trouble getting to the official Dahl site, so I decided to go to the site of Kabel New Media, who designed it. Check this ...
You know, I've never been able to understand what exactly happens at the end of this story. What is the purpose of the entire subterfuge??<br> By the way, what...
My personal Dahl quickies are deffinitely "They Shall Not Grow Old", "Galloping Foxley", "The Hitchhiker", and "William and Mary".<br>Each one has its own ...
But what is purpose of the whole deception? This may seem like spoiling what seems to be a very entertaining story but I have pondered over this point a lot ...
It seems that the upcoming 30th anniversary DVD re-release of <a href="/movies/will.php">Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</a> will only...
Relax, it's not really happening. But I did get an e-mail from Kevin Karstens, who creates parody/imaginary film trailers for fun. He's hard at work on a new ...
If you live in the UK, you'll soon be able to buy Robertson's Jam in jars decorated with Roald Dahl characters. The company is retiring their old mascot,...
If ... you live in the U.S. and you're really dying to have a Dahl-Jar, how do I do it? <br><br>By the way, the story "Pig" by Roald Dahl is one of his most...
I was reading a book on some 007 movies recently and one of them had Roald Dahl as the writer!!<br> Is it the great man himself? What was he doing there ...
Yep, that was the man himself. He wrote the screenplay for the Bond film "You Only Live Twice." It was supposed to be based on Ian Fleming's book of the same ...
I had a long argument with a friend of mine recently. The Claude that Dahl mentions in all his country stories, was there somebody really like that?? ANd did ...
Actually there WAS a Claud. His name was Claud Taylor and he lived in Buckinghamshire near Roald in the 40's and 50's. From Jeremy Treglown's biography of ...
