You can’t go wrong in choosing anything, and I love people who dodge all the gender-imperative rubbish that society torments us all with. I love the fact that he didn’t think that heterosexuality resolved anything at all, meaning, I assume, that he didn’t think it was enough just to be heterosexual. You read him and you are immediately convinced that the rest of the world is suffering a mass mental illness. I love writers like that. Thomas Hewitt-McManus (30 July 2006). Withnail & I: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Were Too Drunk to Ask. Lulu Press. p.34. ISBN 9781411658219 . Retrieved 3 April 2013. for the week ending Jan 6th 1894 - Kindly donated by Mr. John Moffatt. Details of the Acts in this programme can be seen in various parts below. This was a performer who played every circuit: music hall, concert party, gang show, variety, pantomime, gay, drag, working mens’ club, and was present at the birth of the New Wave alternative comedy scene. She stormed every one of those gigs with their wildly disparate audiences, but in just 50 years went from national treasure to oblivion.

for in the matter of entertainment, and the Met, as their local variety temple is called, has for many years applied the discoeuvrement so necessary to every class of the dwellers in this great metropolis. It’s confusing because heroin and cocaine and opium are natural plants, so they must be here for a reason, and one loosely assumes to aid the human race. They are also a base ingredient in most major painkillers, so we obviously need them. The ‘War On Drugs’, I think, should be a war on modern medicine because it’s largely to blame for all forms of cancer. Every pill that you take does you some damage. Even pills that you take for cancer actually kill you before the cancer does. It’s interesting how most people are now on some form of prescribed psycho-drug, yet the world is unhappier than it’s ever been. We – I ought to point out that I’m a South London boy – could also have done with you in Brazil. Why were England such a godawful failure at the World Cup? Present day high campers: Adora Dix, Baga Chipz, Bette Rinse, Ceri Dupree, Candy Slag in Drag, Crystal Candyfloss, Dame Vesta Bules, Davina Sparkle, Dame Julie Paid, Drew Christie, Dolly Diamond, Lady La Rue, Maisie Trollette, Miss Jason, Titti La Camp, Tiffaney Wells, The Duchess, Saucy Sophie. You’ve been making the case against animal cruelty for a long time – the latest musical manifestations being ‘The Bullfighter Dies’ and ‘I’m Not A Man’. What are your thoughts on the progress PETA and Greenpeace have made in pushing this agenda?Well, it’s not surprising considering the number of hospitals I’ve been rushed into in the last 18 months. It all seems to have hit me at once, which I expect is just the way it goes. Acute fever, a bleeding ulcer, food poisoning, Barrretts Oesophagus... it’s hardly believable. The worst was in June in Boston when I was hospitalised with acute fever. I was delirious for six hours... talking absolute nonsense and unable to stop. I’ve never been so frightened in my life. Then of course you get bitchy comments for having to cancel shows. The hospital actually gave me a heroin-based medication to calm me down. But, so what? I’ve been in so many hospitals lately that there’s hardly any point in me leaving. time and the Theatre was closed for its subsequent demolition. David Baines of the British Music Hall Society says:- 'The Having gotten into the habit of wearing his full drag costume beyond the theatre bounds, Rex always wore it to the pub and even to BBC radio recordings. He was enthralled by the drag world and its clubs, and befriended a young drag artiste called Danny Carole who was working in a revue called Men Only at the nearby Irving Theatre Club. Danny did well and later changed his surname to LaRue. Vinny’s venomous summary – If ever you encounter this hellish tranny trog, prepare yourself for an evening as tedious and hopeless as the search for Samantha Fox’s IQ. This act is a coprophile’s dream. During the 1980s, artists such as Reg Bundy who began his Cabaret 'life' as part of the triple Act "The Disapointer Sisters", performed his alter ego Regina Fong on Tuesday nights, attracting a following of "Fongettes". [10] Top drag acts such as Adrela and Lily Savage also appeared at The Cap during the eighties.

He played cameos in the Marty Feldman film, Every Home Should Have One, 1970, and Tony Palmer’s television documentary about music, All You Need Is Love, 1977. A 1978 radio interview has just been unearthed in which John Lydon accuses Jimmy Savile of being “into all kinds of seediness that we all know about but aren’t allowed to talk about”. What were your impressions of Jimmy Savile? Bruce Seton, Brian Johnston, Victor Silvester, Raymond Baxter, Peter West and may the best man win! Above - Jill Millard as 'ALADDIN' in the pantomime finale of Revudeville 317 at Christmas 1960 - Courtesy Jill Millard Shapiro.

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In this film a man whose wife has disappeared is suspected by his sister-in-law of having murdered her. I love being with the band. We get on so well, and at the end of each day we’re happy just to sit in each other’s company and talk and talk and talk and be silly. It’s better than professional therapy. The highlights for me are always the hard cities such as Sao Paulo or Belo Horizonte or Bogota or Guadalajara. There’s a lot of affection for me in places of struggle, and I understand why. We have the same identifications... the same clothes, in fact.