It was the - gulp! - 80th birthday yesterday of one of our fave actresses here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Miss Brenda Blethyn, star of Vera, Little Voice, Pride & Prejudice and the magnificent Secrets and Lies:
Today, sharing the date with another varied selection of "names", including Nina Simone, Rue McClanahan, W. H. Auden, Alan Rickman, Léo Delibes, Sam Peckinpah, Kelsey Grammer, William Baldwin, Anaïs Nin, Douglas Bader, Anthony Daniels ("C-3PO"), Charlotte Church (who is 40), David Geffen, Andrés Segovia, Ranking Roger of The Beat, Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers, Christopher Atkins, James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers, Mark McManus (Taggart), and - erm - Robert Mugabe...
...it's the turn of another favourite actress (and friend-of-the-gays) to blow out [gulp, again] 80 candles on her cake - the multi-talented Tyne Daly, star of everything from Cagney and Lacey to Terrence McNally's Master Class [which we saw back in 2012]; she has won six Grammys, two Tonys, a Golden Globe, and has been inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Here, the lady sings a number that could well be my "theme song":
I hate nice
I hate lies
It's befriending a bitch you despise
When you just want to punch her
Indeed.
I want this as my theme song, too. I love Tyne Daly. And Brenda Blethyn.
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