Yet another iconic figure, in the shape of Bo Diddley has passed through the veil to the great gig in the sky. Bo, who was 79 died yesterday of heart failure. He had both a stroke and a heart attack last year and had been in poor health since. Bo was *the* founding father of … More Vale Bo Diddley
On the subject of ‘entertainers’, we’d like to say happy birthday to Australian singer Kylie Minogue (a.k.a. the singing budgie) who has reached the ripe old age of 40. Bearing in mind the scare she had recently with developing breast cancer she will no doubt be relieved that she reached this anniversary without further problems. … More Singing Budgie bans big birthday bash.
News today that Dame Shirley Bassey is in hospital recovering from emergency surgery after experiencing stomach pains. Details are sketchy, obviously, but there is no suggestion at present that the 71 year old singing legend will not recover quickly. Shirley Bassey has been one of the UK’s best loved entertainers for the last half century … More Burley Shirley treated early!
For those of us of a ‘certain age’ one of the high spots of our young lives was the regular dose of comedy from “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In’ which was an extremely funny if bizarre US made comedy programme, which in style might be likened to a cross between the Goons and Monty Python! The … More Dick Martin dies aged 86.
The UK papers were awash a few days ago with the stirring words of the Duchess of York, a.k.a. Fergie as she defended the honour of her daughter the Princess Beatrice a.k.a. ‘chubby buns’ who is getting a lot of flak (she says) because of her size and shape, i.e. errr… cuddly (?). Well you’d … More Chubby buns?
I see Little Lily Allen is back in the news and not for her singing. Yet again the silly girl has given the photographers a field day by (unintentionally?) letting them take photos of her ‘going commando’, i.e. sans underwear. Stripping her top off in a pool was one thing. In these new shots she’s … More Lily Allen – again?
Bit of sad news might be in the offing for fans of Jodie Foster in that it appears she may be splitting from Cydney Bernard, her partner of 14 years only months after announcing they were a ‘couple’. Jodie has two children who are raised by the couple. Seems so sad if true, but as … More Jodie Foster splits from partner?
So this evening *I* went with the wife and youngest daughter to see a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at The Hills Grammar School (THGS). The eldest daughter was in the chorus singing her little heart out along with 19 others… and a great job they did, conducted by Owen Nelson who … More More on Joseph at THGS.
We’re off to the eldest daughters school tonight. She has a bit part in the chorus of the school production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The ensemble performed for the Junior School yesterday morning and gave the first of their two performances ‘to the public’ last night. The wife said she heard someone … More Jojo was a man who might have been a pharaoh…
Continuing on this theme of the daughters birthday, we come to the film we saw which was ‘The Spider Wick Chronicles’. I’ve not read the books, and haven;t seen any trailers for the films… so knew nothing of the plot and therefore what we were letting ourselves in for. Once we’d seen the film and … More Spiderwick Chronicles – film 2008
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