The Shaw Report: He's Playing Cluedo, I think

Lisa pays homage to Pauline Collins, the UK actress and star of Shirley Valentine has passed peacefully from Parkinsons. Lisa gave listeners a sneak peek into the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic and can you guess which toys have been inducted into the 2025 Toy Hall of Fame? Tune in to find out more.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sure Report on ninety six. Every Well sad to
share that beloved English actress Pauline Collins has died. Collins
family says she passed away peacefully at her care home
in London, surrounded by loved ones, after living with Parkinson's
disease for several years. Pauline is probably best remembered for

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her Oscar nominated role in The Wonderful Shirley Valentine?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Are you well? Who's wrong with that? Is a woman
three doors down talk to a microwave, talking to a microwave.
We've all lost.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
A mouth coming to That was a big hit. It
was a surprise hit. It was a surprising It was
a wonderful film. Pauline was married to fellow actor John Alderton,
with whom she frequently appeared on stage and screen. He's
still going, one of Britain's best known acting couples. They
start together in Upstairs, Downstairs. That was down to Nabbey
before down to naviy was down to Nabbey. Pauline Collins

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was eighty five. Now the very first train I love
for the upcoming Michael Jackson buyer, pick us out this morning.
It's just a brief teaser, but It shows us MJ's
actual nephew, Jaffar Jackson in the title role, que can
you lawyer the lights from you?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Please?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay, but remember in here keep those feet still, my man.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's cute.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
That's not cue from James Bond's that I would expect
is Quincy Jones. Michael, That's what It's called. Will be
out next April twenty fourth. It also stars near Long,
Miles Teller, and Coleman Domingo, who I love in the
role of Michael's father.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Jeheber Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Much anticipated. Speaking of upcoming movies, the third sequel to
Gremlin's has a release date November twenty twenty seven. Pencil
it in not only as Steven Spielberg attorney as Gremlin
three's executive producer, but Harry Potter director Christopher Columbus not
only discovered America, but he's on board two still.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
He's on board to direct the film.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
That hat a funny little hat. He actually wrote the
original Gremlin Gremlin script back in nineteen eighty four. And question,
without notice, Russ, which of these toys was your favorite battleship,
trivial pursuit or slime battleship? Me too, Yeah, I used

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to play Battleship with my brother.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
All three every time he'd look over the top. All
three are being inducted into the twenty twenty five Toy
Hall of Fame. You know, the idea behind Battleship dates
back to eighteen ninety. Apparently Russian officers played a similar
game during World War One before Milton Bradley created the

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version we know in nineteen sixty seven.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I think Putin's still playing it now? Is he in
the Kremlin?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I think.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Trivial Pursuit where is playing? He's winning, He's not doing
very good.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
He's playing cludo. I think someone in the in the
you know, in the parlor with a yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Next to a window. Trivial Pursuit was developed by two
Canadian journalists in nineteen seventy nine, where it evolved from
a board game to a television show and a video game.
Absolutely took the world by storm and Slime, everybody's favorite
bit of useless goo, was introduced by Mattel in nineteen
seventy six. I can still remember how excited I was

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the year I got it for Christmas? But why what
did we even do with it? What a marketing idea?
I can still smell it when I think about it,
But there was just something so satisfying about squishing it
through your fingers, and there was something so unsatisfying for
when Mum had to put her through the walk out

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hair anyway, congratulations with a chewing gum, apparently, I think
that

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I