A film from Russia about the adventures of two little boys who go to visit their father working in the middle It’s important to avoid certain key words that I feel I’ve over-used in the past, and I do my best never to repeat melodies. He was one of the characters who will remain in memory until I die. He was continually propositioning me but at 19 years of age, what did I need with an old, drunken raving queen? He couldn't pass a waste bin without having a root around, claiming that one day he will find a fortune inside. The simplest of phrases or even words can become an artist’s tagline. Whether they are pre-planned or happen purely organically, they’re damn addictive and have the power to add a defining element to any act.

Past legends: Cher Travesty, Crystal Waide, Danny La Rue, Maisie Trollette, Phil Starr, Ruby Venezuela. Catch them while you can. One week they’re in London, the next in New York and the following Friday they could be in Sydney. time and the Theatre was closed for its subsequent demolition. David Baines of the British Music Hall Society says:- 'The

One Monday she appeared at the Mecca Dominion, Walthamstow, the same night as Miss World. They both went to entertain the bingo-players. Shuff got the most laughs, mainly from madams who looked just like her. She had thought of hiring a bathing costume and going on as Miss Courage, riding 14 white horses from Whitbreads, not to be outdone. Terribly refined and yet, in her own words, "broadminded to the point of obscenity", she resided in Wimbledon, "all cut glass and tennis balls". Clutching her handbag and wearing drop-pearl earrings, red gloves, damson velvet coat, a hat fashioned from wax fruit and feathers and the obligatory skimpy fur ("known in the trade as untouched pussy, which is unobtainable in London at the moment"), her slightly baffled appearance distilled [a] shabbily genteel world. [6] opening of the Metropolitan Theatre on Wednesday the 22nd of December 1897 consisted of a variety show with the following acts appearing: Tom White and his Arabs, Princess Polara was as funny as watching your entire family being gassed – in fact, the thought of ever having to see him perform such pig excrement again makes me want to put my head in the oven.

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? 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. Rex wrote all his own material, and was praised for his immaculate timing and delivery. Not only was he the comedian that comedians watched, he was the comedian that comedians wanted to be.

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Above - The Metroplitan Theatre closed and awaiting demolition in 1963 - From the ILN, 27th April 1963. modern construction; and new scenery has been painted by Mr W. T. Hemsley. Every part of the house is of When we were in Cairo and we had time off, Tony and I would head for the nearest bar and drink ourselves stupid all day. There wasn’t much beer so we drank Scotch. All the other men went to the brothels but it wasn’t for me.’ Were you disappointed that your offer to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest fell on deaf ears? I only know it’s called Steven – the very name I’ve crossed continents to get away from. Otherwise, no, I don’t know anything about it.