Kenny Everett was an extraordinary comic genius who started his professional life as the enfant terrible in early days of British pop radio in the 1960’s and after being constantly fired, ended up with his own outrageous TV Shows, the best of which was The Kenny Everett Video Show in 1978. They were all done, … Continue reading
To most Americans (and other non Brits) 89 year old Dame Patricia Routledge is best known as the social-climbing snob Hyacinth Bucket (that’s pronounced Bouquet) in the long running hit TV sit.com Keeping Up Appearances. There is of course a lot more to this the veteran classically trained actress than that. She was a … Continue reading
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who … Continue reading
Marianne Breslauer’s career as a photographer in Berlin in the Weimer Republic was cut short with the advent of World War 2, and in fact only lasted from 1927 -1938. Being Jewish she had trouble getting her work published in Germany so she emigrated to Amsterdam as the Nazis were gaining power, and then moved … Continue reading
The late and very great Kenneth Williams was a much loved British comic actor and comedian who was a mainstay of the classic ‘Carry On’ movies in the 1960’s and 1970’s. A wickedly funny and articulate man who was probably like the U.K.’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Although he was as camp as a row … Continue reading