Educating Rita (film) Educating Rita (film) Educating Rita is a British 1983 drama/comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play. The film stars Michael Caine, Julie Walters, and Maureen Lipman. It won multiple major awards for best actor and best actress and was nominated for three Academy Awards. Caine and Walters both won BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for best actor and actress. The British Film Institute ranked "Educating Rita" the 84th greatest British film of the 20th century. A Liverpudlian working-class young hairdresser Rita (Julie Walters) wants to better herself by studying
Blood Brothers (1995 album) fifth solo album, "Wasp". To date, "Blood Brothers" was the fifth time Shaun released new material on an album. David Cassidy (Shaun's half-brother), however, had released solo albums throughout the 1990s, and "Blood Brothers" represented his first musical-theatre album. Following "Blood Brothers", David (unlike Shaun) continued to perform as a headliner of musical theatre throughout the 1990s, including the Las Vegas shows "EFX" and "At The Copa". Petula Clark also continued to perform as a headliner of musical theatre, including an extensive tour of the musical "Sunset Boulevard". Blood Brothers (1995 album) Blood Brothers: The International Recording is a 1995