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Happy 50th Birthday GAY LIBERATION FRONT : UK

    Fifty years ago, on 13 October 1970, the Gay Liberation Front was founded at the London School of Economics.  Two of its founders had being noticing the success of the US organisation and that inspired them to open a UK equivalent.  During their very short existence (it dissolved in 1973) this ‘grandfather’ of British … Continue reading

Happy 66th Birthday Julie Walters

Academy-Award nominated actress Julie Walters think she is a dying breed. Her recent comments that there are too many ‘posh actors’ today and very few working class ones like her coming through the ranks, caused a wee rumpus in the media, She certainly does have a point as over in the UK every new star … Continue reading

Happy 69th Birthday Marianne Faithfull

                                                                                                              … Continue reading

Happy 70th Birthday 007

  Even though this Welsh actor starred as 007 in two James Bond movies : The Living Daylights in 1987, and Licence to Kill in 1989, nobody can remember this particularly suave gentleman’s name.    It’s Timothy Dalton, and its his 70th Birthday today.  Happy Birthday 007.

Happy 70th Birthday Brenda Blethyn

No disrespect to Frances McDormand but in 1996 the Academy Award for Best Actress should have gone to Brenda Blethyn for her superlative performance as Cynthia Rose Purley the unforgettable, big-hearted cockney heroine in Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies. She had already picked up the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Cannes Best Actress Award for the role and in … Continue reading

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