An exhausting - yet endlessly stylish - fitness regime.
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
Monday, 27 April 2015
Friday, 24 April 2015
Sunday, 19 April 2015
She knew...
"Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got."
She did.
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer, 19th April 1933 – 29th June 1967)
Friday, 17 April 2015
Sunday, 12 April 2015
Just rewards
“"All these years of waiting. I am so infinitely grateful to have this baby in my hands.
"Here I am creeping up to 90 and feeling like a million dollars because I'm in London in this magnificent hall with all you - my roots, where I began.”
Congratulations to Dame Angela Lansbury, who won her first ever Olivier Award (Best Supporting Actress, for her role as "Madam Arcati" in Blithe Spirit at the Gielgud Theatre last year) today at the grand old age of 89.
Olivier Awards official website
Thursday, 9 April 2015
Mystery guest of the day...
...it's none other than Our Princess Kylie Minogue as Marlene Dietrich!
Remarkable.
Check out dear Marky Mark's Shine One And On blog for more photos from lifestyle magazine Sorbet, for whom this photo-shoot was commissioned.
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
I want to leave them with something that they`ll remember
"In a cabaret, it`s almost like being in your living room with friends coming in to visit, and you want to give them the best you have, all that`s in you."
"My whole goal in life is to reach the person in some way. It may not happen on every song - it may happen with only one moment in a show. But I want to leave them with something that they`ll remember, that they were touched by."
Sad news. The death of Miss Julie Wilson [read my previous blog about her], on the eve of her icon Billie Holiday's centenary has left another yawning chasm in the pantheon of the great cabaret artistes.
In a 1987 interview, Miss Wilson named Holiday as her major influence. “No singer has ever moved me so much,” she said. “No one has ever had such pain and emotion in her singing. She is why I wear a gardenia in my hair every night.”
Writer Deborah Grace Winer in her book The Night and the Music called Wilson "the undisputed Queen of cabaret, the doyenne of the night chanteuses." Hers was a long road to that pinnacle in her career, however.
From her roots in Omaha, Nebraska, she emerged in the New York nightclub scene in the 40s, found stage fame in musicals in London's West End and on Broadway in the 50s and 60s (and appeared in couple of largely forgotten movies), then retired in the early 70s back to the Midwest to raise her family. It was not until the 1980s that Miss Wilson revived her cabaret career, and became the legendary performer of Sondheim, Porter and Weill standards so beloved of audiences at Michael’s, the Kaufman and the Algonquin. She had her comedic moments, too:
On Jack Paar's Tonight Show in the late '50s, guest host Arlene Francis discovered that Wilson was a yoga enthusiast and asked her to do a headstand.She will be very much missed. And her she is with her version of the Sondheim/Stritchy classic:
"I was wearing this exquisite, sequinned gown from Neiman Marcus, but I figured I had the situation under control"
"Well, while I'm on my head - live on national television - my skirt came falling down right over my head. And I was only wearing pantyhose! They immediately cut to a commercial."
I'll drink to that!
RIP Julie May Wilson (12th October 1924 – 5th April 2015)
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