Lewis Gilbert film versions of Willy Russell's plays "Educating Rita" (1983) and "Shirley Valentine" (1989). Gilbert also directed the film "Stepping Out" (1991). Gilbert was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 Birthday Honours for services to the film industry. In 2001, Gilbert was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute, the highest accolade in the British film industry. In June 2010 he appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme "Desert Island Discs". In it he said that his 1970 film "The Adventurers" was a disaster, and that he should never have made it. On
The Valentine Brothers which reached no. 28 on the R&B chart. Their final album, "Picture This", was released in 1987. Billy Valentine also performed in the 1980s on the soundtracks of the films "Champions Forever" and "The Five Heartbeats", before joining the show "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" in Los Angeles in the late 1990s. He has also worked as a demo recording artist and songwriter, and as a singer in Los Angeles clubs. Since 2004 he has sung on the soundtrack of the hit TV series "Boston Legal". The Valentine Brothers The Valentine Brothers were an American recording act in the