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The opposite end of the scale:

Chloë Grace Moretz born February 10, 1997 in Atlanta, Georgia)

 is an American actress and model. She began her acting career in 2004 at the age of seven, and received her first award nomination the following year for The Amityville Horror. Her other film credits include (500) Days of Summer, The Poker House, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, Let Me In...





(She was too conventionally pretty for Let me In, I thought. Still good, though.)

Nicholas Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.

For over thirty years he has been releasing, to marginal commercial and critical success, albums on labels in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. In his lyrics and his other writing he makes seemingly random use of decontextualized pieces of continental (mostly French) philosophy, and has built up a personal world he says is "dominated by values like diversity, orientalism, and a respect for otherness." He is fascinated by identity, Japan, Rome, the avant-garde, time travel, and sex.

In December 1997, he contracted acanthamoeba keratitis in his right eye due to a contact lens mishap sustained whilst on holiday in Greece, causing loss of vision on that side.[4][5] Although his sight subsequently improved following surgery, he has suffered lingering effects from the infection since, causing him to often be photographed in an eyepatch, very dark glasses, or squinting.

His cousin is musician Justin Currie, the lead singer and songwriter of Del Amitri.




About 20 years ago I found a box of cassettes on top of one of the rubbish bins on our estate. I used most of them as blanks, but there were two - one pre-recorded, one home - that I kept. I don't know why. The pre-recorded one had a sleeve that showed Momus to look like an 80s pop singer, someone like Nick Kershaw, and I didn't play either for a good two years.

Then when I did - I started with the home recorded tape, a compilation - it was a revelation: catchy, funny, witty, clever, wise, sometimes blasphemous (God is a tender pervert) with simple but effective backing: my first thought was that he was like a mixture between The Pet Shop Boys, The Divine Comedy, and Jake Thackray.

I played the pre-recorded one as soon as I could: which turned out to be the next day, while making my way down Edgeware Road from the Bell Street market, along Oxford Street, and down through Soho to Piccadilly. It was a memorable journey: and every time I come to one of the points on the journey I am reminded of the song that was playing at that point: How Do You Like My Sister? at Marble Arch, The Guitar Lesson outside HMV, and Shaftsbury Avenue as I came out on - yes - Shaftsbury Avenue.

I went as soon as I could to buy more of his records, and got the album Tender Pervert as the first - I was gratified to see that there were many more in the rack.

But when I went back a couple of weeks later to get another they were all gone - deleted by Sony (he has since put them all on his website for free download - illegally, since he doesn't own the rights). I eventually picked them up second hand or through downloads.

This is one of the songs on that first tape:





It uses the same chords as Charles Aznavor's Yesterday When I was Young:



 

Fred Emney was born in Prescot, Lancashire, the son of Blanche (née Round) and Fred Emney, a music hall entertainer. His great-uncle was the actor Arthur Williams. Emney junior grew up in London and was educated at Cranleigh School.

He made his film debut in 1935, having previously worked in music hall. He became a familiar figure to screen audiences, usually playing the "posh fat bloke", usually gruff and invariably wearing a monocle. During the 1950s, he had his own television show which featured sketches and deft piano pieces often composed by him. Some were released on record. He had a short spell as straight man to puppets Pinky and Perky.

Valentine Charles Parnell (14 February 1892 – 22 September 1972), known as Val Parnell, was a British television producer and theatrical impresario. Parnell was born in London on Valentine's Day in 1892. He began his theatrical career at age 13 by working as an office boy for a music-hall circuit. By 1945 he had become Managing Director of the Moss Empires music hall and variety circuit.

Wasn't he a band-leader, at one time?

Evelyn Renée O'Connor (born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, producer, writer and director, known for the role of Gabrielle on the television series Xena: Warrior Princess.




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(Kevin McCarthy)