RIP Robert Redford, gorgeous man that you were!
It's another snippets post, dear reader:
- An icon gets his own museum news: David Bowie’s personal archive (consisting of 90,000 items!) has now opened to the public at the V&A's new East Storehouse in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park near Stratford.
- Nuns on the run news: Three Austrian nuns ran away from their care home and broke into to the convent they had been forced to leave because "they were homesick".
- Ham it up, you got to ham it up news: A trailer video for The Importance Of Being Earnest, starring Olly Alexander and Stephen Fry(!), has been released, ahead of its transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre in the West End tomorrow:
- Cozy teatime show bloodbath horror news: Fans and former contestants of the long-running Channel 4 early-evening word-game show Countdown, gathered at a meet-up in Blackpool, were horrified when one former champion knifed a rival whom he accused of cheating! It's like a plot from Midsomer Murders...
- Cheating tossers news: Several competitors at the World Stone Skimming Championships were disqualified after it was discovered that their stones had been artificially modified and enhanced. Oh, the shame of it.
- You could be sitting on a national treasure's loo news: Much-loved TV gardener and makeover programme host Alan Titchmarsh has put his country house and garden up for sale. Worth going for a nose around, even if you don't actually have £4 million to spare...
- And finally: It's the centenary today of the very lovely musical theatre and cabaret singer, Sondheimite and comedienne Miss Dorothy Loudon! Here's my favourite of hers:
And the weather? Grey. Very grey.
These nuns! You have to watch them I tell you.
ReplyDeleteI agree - turn your back, and they're off! Jx
DeleteOh. The studly Robert Redford, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Dorothy Loudon. My day is made.
ReplyDeleteWe aim to please, dear Mitchell! Jx
DeleteApparently his favourite word was POSSIBLE
ReplyDeleteWhose? Robert Redford, David Bowie, Stephen Fry or Alan Titchmarsh..? Jx
DeleteI never knew how I had longed for a hairy blonde until Robert Redford came into my baby gay life.
ReplyDeleteIn my baby gay life, it was Paul Newman who gave me that tingle... Jx
DeleteBlondische blondines :)
ReplyDeleteRobert Redford und David Bowie sind Legenden.
Ich hab 2013 die wunderbare Bowie-Austellung in London gesehen,
für uns Berliner ist er einer von uns.
(vvs)
The David Bowie is... exhibition was utterly magnificent! Now all those items that we were privileged to see in the exhibition are permanently available to view in East London. At any time. Fantabulosa! Jx
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ReplyDeleteDorothy Loudon, David Bowie, Olly Alexander, Stephen Fry, Alan Titchmarsh's house and a Handbag!
Can't wait to see 'The Importance Of Being Earnest' and I think we should buy Alan Titchmarsh's 17th-century Manor Farm House.
If we could afford Alan Titchmarsh's house, I imagine we would be able to afford shipping the entire cast to perform The Importance of Being Earnest in our stately ballroom... Jx
DeleteIf you could also find the coin for my airfare....pretty please?
DeleteIf our numbers come up on the Euromillions, who knows..? Jx
DeletePS. I thought the 'Countdown' was fun in a Mad Bizarre way.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn’t make that up!
I'm sure it wasn't fun for the poor bloke who got stabbed by that nutter, but yes - it appealed to my sick sense of humour, too! 🤣 Jx
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