Another day, another Patron Saint celebrates a landmark birthday. Today [sharing the day as she does with other luminaries such as "MegaBabs" Barbra Streisand, Bowie producer Tony Visconti, founder member of The Damned Captain Sensible, fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier, the late actress Jill Ireland, the tragic former Mrs Geldof Paula Yates and lauded Victorian author Anthony Trollope, among many others] the fantabulosa Miss Shirley Maclaine blows out 85 candles on her cake!
Here she is, in more innocent times, performing a mind-boggling dance routine all based upon - ahem - new-fangled laser technology. Baffling, but brilliant!
Many happy returns, Shirley MacLean Beaty aka Shirley MacLaine (born 24th April 1934)
What the...where was Alec Guinness and his fluoro-tube Robert Preston and his 76 trombones?
ReplyDeleteOh well, happy birthday,Shirl.
Mind-blowing stuff, eh? Jx
DeleteThat was probably quite hard to achieve in 1977!! It reminded me of the Binatone tennis game.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Ms Shirl!
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It is quite funny to think how "cutting-edge" all this was back then - yet by the '80s, lasers were a big feature in nightclubs. Indeed, the club my sister and I used to frequent was called... Lazers! Unfortunately, it was abandoned in the Noughties and burned to the ground just last year. RIP. Jx
DeleteMy old stomping ground burnt down as well - thankfully it wasn't next door to a church - and now it's been rebuilt as a Premier Inn.
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Beats me how many people they get staying at all these Premier Inns and Travelodges - they're popping up like a rash around North London! Jx
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