A table for four, sir?
"Table Des Joyes""Trone Salon Secret" armchair"Trone Salon Secret" armchair detailI.Must.Have.These...From an article by Michael Reynolds in Wallpaper magazine, October 2013:As the Wehrmacht...
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"Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains." - Tim Curry (70 years old today)"Don't dream it, be it!" - Frank N. FurterTimothy James "Tim" Curry (born 19th April 1946)
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Where he led, others followed.RIP Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson, 7th June 1958 – 21st April 2016)
View ArticleCounting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine
Four hundred years on from the Bard of Avon's untimely death at the age of 52, the debate continues about the Great Man's true nature - and the mystery of to whom he dedicated his greatest works - not...
View ArticleA lovely way of earning the pennies
And so, farewell Mr Barry Howard - most famous for his portrayal of the waspish Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in BAFTA-award-winning 80s telly series Hi-De-Hi.His was a long career in entertainment, mainly...
View ArticleFuck it, jump for joy!
She's seventy years old, you know..."I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.""You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to...
View ArticleThis weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...
...like Miss Hedy Lamarr in Samson and Delilah! One should always have feathers to hand in hot weather, I feel.
View ArticleXylo-madness
It comes in rainbow colours!Just because...Here's Vesta!Born Audrey Grimaldi of circus family fame.A talent to be reckoned with.
View ArticleOn the Jukebox this Eurovision week
If these don't illustrate why a vote for Britain to leave Europe may be a good idea, nothing will...
View Article"It's Lacroix, sweetie.""I love it!"
You want colour? He uses lots. Patterns? Several in one garment. Accessories? More, more, more..!M Lacroix, the idol of the catwalks (and of Edina Monsoon) is 65 years old. Many happy returns,...
View ArticleI pull up my big girl g-string, follow my path, and move on
"Do you think I would have lasted 48 years if I really gave a flying fuck what people think? I pull up my big girl g-string, follow my path, and move on.""I’ve always taken risks and never worried what...
View ArticleIt's been so lonely without u here
"As the last woman standing of the 80s superstar triumvirate born in the US Midwest in the summer of 1958 (the other, of course, being Michael Jackson), perhaps Madonna really was Prince’s only true...
View ArticleThe most expensive drag queen in the UK
As the faboo Television Heaven site put it:For 25 years Stanley Baxter produced the type of television spectacular that Morecambe and Wise could only afford to put on as part of their Christmas...
View ArticleThis weekend I am mostly dressing casual...
...like Miss Lilyan Tashman, in her dress designed by Erté to look like a perfume bottle!And why not?
View ArticleMadness is genius
Marilyn would have been 90 years old.“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” “Imperfection is...
View ArticleAn outsider doing his own thing
From an article by Ben Walters in Run-Riot online magazine:"Andrew Logan occupies a strange position, in many ways an outsider doing his own thing, but not without institutional or establishment...
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A small sample of the "unseen" photos of David Bowie by his long-term favourite lensmen Denis O'Regan, Chalkie Davies and Tony McGee (who Paul and I met when we went along last week; a fascinating man)...
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