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And the Tony goes to ????
Looks like Broadway is going to be packed with iconic Divas next year, as following hot on the news that Bette Midler will be starring in Hello Dolly, comes the announcement that the Chicago Goodman Theatre’s summer sold-out hit War Paint will be reopening in NY next April. The musical is based on the true…
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1960’s Teenage Heartthrob Bobby Vee dies aged 73.
Bobby Vee the clean-cut all American pop singer who was a teenage idol and heartthrob in the 1960’s who died yesterday couldn’t have been more worlds apart than the androgynous singer Pete Burns who also passed away this week. Vee was just 15 years old when got his first break and answered an advert for musicians…
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Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57
Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday after a massive cardiac arrest. He was 57 years old. Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘. Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they…
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Don Whitman’s 1950’s Beefcake Photographs
Don Whitman was one of the leading exponents of male physique photography back in the days when censorship and society in general expected the models to keep a modicum of decency in their poses. When he left the Navy after WW2 in 1947 he started the Western Photography Guild which remained active for the next…
