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A Camp Advent Calendar?
Bette Midler (born 1st December 1945)Maria Callas (2nd December 1923 – 16th September 1977)Little Richard (born 5th December 1932)Agnes Moorehead (6th December 1900 - 30th April 1974)Zeki Müren (6th...
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A Camp Advent Calendar, part 2
Heino (born 13th December 1938)Patty Duke (14th December 1946 – 29th March 2016)Cindy Birdsong (born 15th December 1939)Sir Noël Coward (16th December 1899 – 26th March 1973)Paul Cadmus (17th December...
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Back then we had frolics and oom-pa-pah!
Party season is in full swing - or should that be "swish"?Byrd E Bath - Good Old Fashioned BallsNeedless to say - we have the whole 1964 album The Queen Is In The Closet, from whence this came, in our...
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The breath of night like death did flow beneath the sinking moon
Lines: The cold earth slept belowby Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe cold earth slept below; Above the cold sky shone; And all around, With a chilling sound,From caves of ice and fields of snowThe breath of...
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People I employ have the impertinence to call me Myrna Loy
As we (shockingly) failed to celebrate The Master Noel Coward's 120th birthday last week, I thought I'd make up for that fact by "rediscovering" some research I featured over at my other blog Give 'em...
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If music is no longer lovely
"There is never an evening when, somewhere in the world, the music and lyrics of Jerry Herman are not being sung by a lady in a red headdress, or a lady with a bugle, or a middle-aged man in a wig and...
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London's New Year's Fireworks 2020Track List:Calvin Harris – Let’s GoSigala & Becky Hill – Wish You WellMeduza – Piece of Your HeartEd Sheeran ft. Stomzy – Take Me Back To LondonAdam Port &...
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Even a Fool Learns to Love?
It is that annual "Diva Day", when we celebrate the birthdays of two eternal icons and Patron Saints here at Dolores Delargo Towers [one, gladly, still with us us, one forever missed] - Dame Shirley...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like today's birthday girl, Italian silent screen vamp Pina Menichelli!
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It's Momma Rose's birthday...
...all rise!Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, 16th January 1908 – 15th February 1984)
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Betty White Bread
It's Betty White Day again - the lady herself, one of our icons and eminent Patron Saints blows out 98 candles on her cake today!She really IS the best...Betty Marion White Ludden (née White; born 17th...
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La voce perduta
"The first note he sang was taken with such delicacy, swelled by minute degrees to such an amazing volume, and afterwards diminished in the same manner to a mere point, that it was applauded for full...
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The Blue Prince of Montmartre
"When I disappear, I want people to remember this place and say, this is where Michou gave people joy."The legendary Michou, for more than six decades the "Madame" presiding over his own Chez Michou...
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The gallery had borne her and brought her up, and she knew no other gods
On the 150th anniversary of her birth, I have found this fitting eulogy to the great Miss Marie Lloyd from The Guardian archive:In her early teens Marie Lloyd found that she had a gay, realist...
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This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like today's birthday girl, Mademoiselle Jeanne Aubert (whose 120th anniversary it is today)!
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No ordinary housewife
"My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.""You find out who your real friends are when you're...
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On International Women's Day...
...a Pantheon of our Patron Saints here at Dolores Delargo Towers!
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