Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86. Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterStephen Linard, the Blitz Kid fashion designer who made clothes for David Bowie, Boy George and Spandau Ballet, died on March 10, aged 64, after enduring painful cancer during recent months. David Johnson remembers the life and career of the man he knew: The press called them the New Romantics and the Blitz Kids, declaring the Eighties the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe wonderfully talented Marc Pilcher whose tragic and untimely death has shocked us all, cannot just become another covid statistic. Marc, passed away after a battle with Covid-19 on Sunday 3rd October 2021. Last month, Marc Elliot Pilcher won the award for Outstanding Period And/Or Character Hairstyling during the 2021 Creative Arts Emmys for his work on Bridgerton. Despite … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatter Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWith genius comic actors sometimes pictures are so much better than words, so to mark the death of the gloriously funny Gene Wilder here are clips of two of queerguru’s favorite performances of the great man who gave us such joy. Naturally both are from Mel Brooks movies. Thank you so much