Oh, Sweet Youth

Totty of the Day. This day, or any day.

"He had such sweet nipples!" Yes, our beloved "Tired Old Queen at the Movies" Steve Hayes is at it again - taking on Tennessee Williams's often overlooked 1957 movie adaptation Sweet Bird of Youth [starring the gorgeous Paul Newman, Miss Geraldine Page, Miss Shirley Knight, and the gruff Ed Begley] in his own indomitable way...

Tired Old Queen at the Movies - Sweet Bird of Youth

"Well, this much I do remember: That I like bodies...

...to be silky-smooth, hard gold."

Amen, sister!

Oh, Big Daddy...

One hundred years ago today the gay dramatist and writer, author of many of Elizabeth Taylor's finest screen roles, Tennessee Williams was born.

Over at the Dolores Delargo Museum of Camp, he is our latest exhibit...

As befits a centenary year, Tennessee Williams revivals are popping up on stages across this country (as well as the US) - not least two of his previously never staged works I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays and A Cavalier For Milady, both at the tiny Cock Tavern Theatre pub in Kilburn, of all the unlikely places.

Read more in the Evening Standard

It is probably too much to expect a new big London staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, nor Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - and I am not sure the West End is ready for either after Debbie Allen's last attempt at the latter closed prematurely - but we can live in hope!

Marlon Brando - A Streetcar Named Desire

Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof