Not Many People Know That: Michael Caine's Almanac of Amazing Information (Coronet Books)

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But on the Moon, shadows are so dark that Neil Armstrong said he had trouble seeing where he was going.Caine starred in the 1969 comedy caper film The Italian Job as Charlie Croker, the leader of a Cockney criminal gang released from prison with the intention of doing a "big job" in Italy to steal gold bullion from an armoured security truck. was voted the second-funniest line in film (after "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" from Monty Python's Life of Brian), [49] and favourite one-liner in a 2003 poll of 1,000 film fans. In 1976, Caine appeared in Tom Mankiewicz's screen adaptation of the Jack Higgins novel The Eagle Has Landed as Oberst ( Colonel) Kurt Steiner, the commander of a Luftwaffe paratroop unit disguised as Polish paratroopers, whose mission was to kidnap or kill the then- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, alongside co-stars Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter and Donald Pleasence. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce.

The Spanish city thought the design was too ugly, so Gustave Eiffel pitched it to Paris instead, as a temporary landmark during its 1889 International Exposition. This is an entertaining book which I read awhile ago, before Michael Caine became famous again as Alfred in the Christopher Nolan Batman movies.

We’ve scoured the globe, delved into history, and peeked into the peculiar corners of science to bring you this compilation of weird, fun and crazy facts! Let’s have a look at the latest National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios, and see how they cater for the 100 TWh of energy storage recommended by the Royal Society. Caine took over the role when O'Toole left to make Lawrence of Arabia and went on to a four-month tour of the UK and Ireland.

I don't even know where to start; there's dozens of Caine's assertions which I am just itching to Google to see if they're true. Nikki was brought up and lived in Sheffield after her parents split up, I have no idea if she still lives in the area. Before he deigned to appear in humble gentlemen’s quarterlies such as The Chap, Michael Caine penned a series of amusing collections of nuggets of unusual information.In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson hated that Americans were tempted by hedonistic places like saloons and brothels. In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, Caine spoke of the impersonations and how everyone he meets quotes lines at him, to the point he quotes them quoting him. As the book is quite old, some of its facts are no doubt outdated (it was peculiar to read of Rudolf Hess spoken of in the present tense) and some others seem of dubious accuracy. I realised that's not a socialist country, it's a communist country without a dictator, so I left and I was never going to come back. Caine believes Endfield offered him, a Cockney, the role of an aristocrat because, being American, he did not have the endemic British class-prejudice.

Craig Ferguson ran segments on his show where he parodied Caine, usually while wearing a space suit. Thus if we have already had 16 week wind droughts in the relatively recent past then I would be looking for reliable storage capacity of roughly 2 x 16 weeks i.His trousers' zipper was undone, prompting the audience to laugh, which inspired him to pursue an acting career. In 2015, Caine co-starred in Matthew Vaughn's action spy comedy Kingsman: The Secret Service starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, and Samuel L. Caine's Harry Palmer character (with the glasses, the girls, and disregard for authority) was among the many British pop cultural influences for Mike Myers' Austin Powers films.