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Post by aubrey on Mar 20, 2017 18:51:43 GMT
There's a woman on The Fall site who, when she feels the rest of us are getting a bit laddish, keeps posting a photo of Rudy taken by Richard Avedon, in which he is not dancing but just standing with his arms by his side. If you search "nureyev avedon" in Google images you'll see the one I mean. Very arresting. Some people there object (I don't know why). I think it would go against this board's code of conduct. But go on: I doss you (as we used to say in Gainsborough). No padding there, or at any time.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 21, 2017 8:51:03 GMT
Sarah Jane Morris (born 21 March 1959, in Southampton, England) is an English singer of pop, jazz, rock and R&B and a songwriter.  She has done a hell of a lot, but I know her as the Chorus in Peter Hammill and Chris Judge Smith's opera of The Fall of the House of Usher. Here she is pondering the role of the chorus, and describing Montresor's journey to the House: So, during the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day
in the autumn of the year,
when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
he had been passing through
a singularly dreary tract of country
'till he found himself,
as the shades of night drew on,
within view of the melancholy house of UsherAnd if you can listen to this without wanting to carry on and hear the rest, well, I don't know... |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 21, 2017 9:18:22 GMT
Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 10:47:38 GMT
James Martin Pacelli McGuiness. 23 May 1950 to 20th March 2017
Comments on his life? None from me.
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Post by ARENA on Mar 22, 2017 9:35:09 GMT
Ehmmmm......... Continuing with our theme of remembering people on the day they were born. John Thomas "Jocky" Wilson (22 March 1950 – 24 March 2012) was a professional darts player from Fife, Scotland. After turning pro in 1979 he quickly rose to the top of the game, winning the World Professional Darts Championship in 1982, then again in 1989. A contemporary and rival of Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson and John Lowe, Wilson won many titles in his career.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 22, 2017 9:42:29 GMT
 (It's not the character's birthday; but the "male soft focus" shadowing effect is all Shatner's. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 10:08:06 GMT
Ehmmmm......... Continuing with our theme of remembering people on the day they were born. John Thomas "Jocky" Wilson (22 March 1950 – 24 March 2012) was a professional darts player from Fife, Scotland. After turning pro in 1979 he quickly rose to the top of the game, winning the World Professional Darts Championship in 1982, then again in 1989. A contemporary and rival of Eric Bristow, Bob Anderson and John Lowe, Wilson won many titles in his career. Well that's me told. |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 22, 2017 10:16:19 GMT
[/quote]Well that's me told.
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I'm sure you know to keep political comments in the Grumblaria
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Post by ARENA on Mar 23, 2017 8:55:28 GMT
Alexander Walker (23 March 1930 - 15 July 2003) was a film critic, born in Portadown, Northern Ireland. He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and the University of Michigan, and worked for the Birmingham Post in the 1950s, before becoming film critic of the London Evening Standard in 1960, a role he held until his death in 2003.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 24, 2017 9:04:40 GMT
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and libertarian socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses.  |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 25, 2017 7:21:45 GMT
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age".  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 25, 2017 8:43:28 GMT
Sir David Lean, CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984); for bringing Charles Dickens' novels to the silver screen with films such as Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948)  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 26, 2017 8:58:29 GMT
Frederick John Westcott (26 March 1866 – 18 September 1941), best known by his stage name Fred Karno, was a theatre impresario of the British music hall. Karno is credited with inventing the custard-pie-in-the-face gag. During the 1890s, in order to circumvent stage censorship, Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue. Cheeky authority-defying playlets such as "Jail Birds" (1896)  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 27, 2017 7:34:19 GMT
Michael York, OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson; 27 March 1942) is a British actor. York was born in Fulmer, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the son of Florence Edith May (née Chown), a musician; and Joseph Gwynne Johnson, a Llandovery born Welsh ex-Royal Artillery British Army officer and executive with Marks and Spencer department stores.  |
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Post by ARENA on Mar 28, 2017 7:31:35 GMT
Dame Flora McKenzie Robson, DBE (28 March 1902 – 7 July 1984) was an English actress, renowned as a character actress, who played roles ranging from queens to villainesses. Robson was born in South Shields, County Durham of Scottish descent to a family of six siblings.  |
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