blossie33
trailer trash
She was quite posh wasn't she - parents were Polish nobility.
RIP Dennis Waterman
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surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Also - I had forgotten that she was married to Alfred Molina....
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Actually I think it's unfair to judge celebrities on an one-off encounter unless they are really vile...
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Not sure about the Polish nobility?
Born in Lambeth - her father was a builders estimator.
Sad she succumbed to Alzheimer's.....
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Ah - you must be referring to Rula Lenska and not Jill Gascoine....
Throbbing Angel
Well-Known Member
Thanks & Fucksake in equal measure
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
It's a blessing in disguise as it's probably shit anyway.Thanks & Fucksake in equal measure
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
I'm not convinced that TV was all posh people in the 60s/70s: Coronation Street, Steptoe, Till Death us do Part, On the Buses, The Rag Trade, all those Ken Loach dramas, Citizen Smith, Love thy Neighbour, Z Cars.
A lot of it was shit, mind you.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Out Of interest what programmes featured just posh people
I can't think of any....
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
The Good Life
Butterflies
Um. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?
tbf for every Good Life and Butterflies, there was a Likely Lads or Liver Birds, or an Alf Garnet thing.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I think you're drawing the line of posh in a different place then. I'm not talking Princess Anne I'm talking June Whitfield and Terry Scott etc etc. RP (a class thing) not regional accents. Unless that region was the Home Counties.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
you never watched eg monty python then
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I think I'd want to draw a distinction there between the likes of Terry and June that were set in comfortable suburbia and carried with them a bunch of comfortable suburban assumptions and something like Reggie Perrin, which was set in exactly the same comfortable suburbia but lampooned its assumptions. The latter had a value that the former did not.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
terry and june not based on a series of books written by a cambridge graduate afaik
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Or perhaps any of the programmes or comedy made by the 162 people listed on wikipedia from the Cambridge footlights crew.
Siouxsie
Fashionable objector with a uniform fetish
I liked To the manor born, that was full of posh people....well, to me they were posh in my overcrowded lane full of inbreds and metal rubbish playing
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the ones who weren't posh were the butt of jokes of the people who wereI liked To the manor born, that was full of posh people....well, to me they were posh in my overcrowded lane full of inbreds and metal rubbish playing
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
not to mention yes minister
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
The Footlights get the attention, but I think the cooperative "Associated London Scripts" had much more influence on what people actually watched on TV. It brought together encouraged and promoted writers such as Eric Sykes; Galton and Simpson, John Antrobus; Spike Milligan; Johnny Speight. Most of whom came from working class and lower-middle-class backgrounds. I also think organisations like Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop helped promote both popular working-class theatre drama and working-class actors strongly influenced British TV in the 60s sixties. The Theatre Workshop gave us: Barbara Windsor, Stephen Lewis, Yootha Joyce, Glynn Edwards (bar owner in Minder) Harry H. Corbett; and Nigel Hawthorne as the token middle-class luvvie.
If anything TV is more middle-class now than it was then. I, of course, am too snobby to actually watch television these days so that statement is probably nonesense.
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
There was a programme (prob 30;years ago) that asked whether life imitated art or vice versa with regard to cop shows. They interviewed several ex flying squad detectives who said that, after watching The Sweeney they would be sitting in plain clothes on a stake out, bottle of Johnnie Walker in the glove box and baseball bats in the boot…
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
How saddening - not cricket bats......
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
The remake is good and my mate plays Tripitaka. I strongly recommend it.
Was just coming on here to say.
I loved Minder and Sweenie. Gonna have to find them. somewhere.
My uncle looked a bit like Terry McCann in his younger years...
Teacher once told us she didn't like Waterman as she'd witnessed him being a drunken arsehole in a hotel she was staying at.
Anyway, RIP Dennis Waterman.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Drama school accent.The eyes didn't change much but what's with the accent?
Died of lung cancer apparently.
Yep. I was somewhat puzzled and disappointed at all the sympathy and respect for a blatant misogynist who was openly and unashamedly guilty of domestic violence.
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